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This course explores the sonic elements of film and media studies, and encourages a form of deep and attentive listening in students. Analyzing film, television, music, sound art, and the newer platforms for sound media, it teaches students the tools for sound analysis as well as the basics of sound theory. This course is designed to allow a deeper sonic appreciation of the media created that is created with the ears in mind, even more than the eyes. In this way, it works to "fill in" what is often missing from an education in media studies - a focus on the other sense of the audio-visual media we experience every day. Lab fee: $50 Counts toward 300 or 400-level critical studies requirement.