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Please check the Class Schedule or contact the program for specific course availability for each semester:
MSTU 4000 Core seminar in communication, computing and technology
Required for incoming students. Meets with MSTU 6600. Discussion of critical issues, reading of key works, development of project in Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education, presentation of work in progress, conversations with leaders in the field. Special fee: $30.
Instructor: Shawna Bu Shell
MSTU 4005 Equity, ethical and social issues in educational technology
Addresses a wide range of issues concerning equity and access, including differential gender, racial, and ethnic uses of computers. Examines legal and ethical issues in students' use of technology with an emphasis on improving access and use of technology for all students. Special fee: $30.
MSTU 4008 Information technology and education
Analytic overview of the uses of information technology in instruction. Examination of psychological and practical impact of information technology on our culture and its educational institutions. Special fee: $30.
MSTU 4010 Theories of communication
A broad, multidisciplinary survey of contemporary perspectives on communication. Topics include: definitions, models and theories of information processing, history of media change, cross-cultural communication, interpersonal communication, and the uses and effects of mass media. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Frank Moretti
MSTU 4012 Film as art: Introductory
Film as 20th century art, emphasizing form and style. Analysis of feature-length and short films of different nations, styles, themes, and genres. No previous experience in film analysis needed. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 4016 The history of communication
A comprehensive survey of the history of communication, tracing the development of the dominant modes of transmitting knowledge, from speaking to writing, from printing to the electronic media. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Frank Moretti
MSTU 4018 Design and communication in modern culture
How have practices of abstract reasoning, the pursuit of formalism, and conceptualizing the structure of complex phenomena affected modern design and communication? Readings and class discussions explore this question, using examples drawn from architecture, fine art, graphics, typography, photography, advertising, industrial design, formal organization, process control, transportation, information theory and management, and major media of communication. Special fee: $35.
MSTU 4020 Social and Communicative Aspects of the Internet
Examines: (1) social communicative practices as synergistic, (2) how space, time and social networks evolve and interact and what this implies for the design and use of technology. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Charles Kinzer
MSTU 4022 Telecommunications, distance learning, and collaborative interchange
Introduction to the use and educational implications of telecommunica-tions, distance learning, and collaborative interchange using telecommunications, particularly the internet and the World Wide Web. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Thane Terrill
MSTU 4023 Cinema as cross-cultural communication
Analyzes how films explore culture. Discussion of the film as well as the cultural messages portrayed. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 4024 Television and the Development Of Youth
A comprehensive survey of the socializing and educational effects of television viewing during childhood and adolescence. Within a developmental framework, emphasis is placed on reviewing and critiquing research involving the effects of both formal features of television (e.g., cuts, pans, pace) and the various types of television programs on viewers’ comprehension, behavior, attitudes, and beliefs. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 4028 Technology and Culture
An exploration of the impact of technology broadly defined upon cultural evolution as currently discussed in anthropology and related disciplines. Special fee: $35.
MSTU 4029 Managing educational technology resources
For educators involved in the planning, implementation, and maintenance at the building/campus level. Students learn how to apply educational technology to achieve educational objectives and to manage interpersonal relations in the process. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Thane Terrill
MSTU 4030 Computer applications in education
Hands-on experience learning a variety of computer applications, focusing primarily on word processors, spreadsheets, and database managing. Students create their own educational applications. No computer background assumed. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 4031 Programming I
Communicating with computers and humans through programs. Uses a graphic language to formalize the concepts behind software structure and a current, widely used implementation language such as Java to construct representative applications. Co-requisite: MSTU 4032. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 4032 Programming I laboratory
Corequisite: MSTU 4031.Concentrated time to reinforce programming concepts through practice. Lab is led by instructor or teaching assistant. Attendance is mandatory. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 4035 The computer as an instructional aid
A presentation of research and issues surrounding the use of computing in schooling. Cognitive and social effects of computers on students are investigated and strategies are developed for integrating computing into the curriculum. Special fee: $30.
MSTU 4036 Hypermedia and education
Introduction to hypermedia products and programming and their role in education. Four-point registration is for hypermedia programming lab. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Craig Bolotin
MSTU 4037 Computers and the uses of information in education
This course examines how computers can structure and present information, evaluates current educational software that uses information, and considers the design of software for integrating information applications into education. Prerequisite: MSTU 4030 or equivalent computer experience. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Howard Budin
MSTU 4039 Video games in education
Provides students with tools they will need to understand, analyze and build games. Focus is on gaining an understanding of rules, interactivity, play, social interaction, and all other factors that go into making an innovative and fun game. Primary focus is on the basic language of games: game play and game design. Course also addresses games from an educa-tional perspective. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Jessica Hammer
MSTU 4049 Technologies and literacies
An examination of the relationship between computers and the writing process. The course explores the effect of electronic text on traditional notions of text, literacy, and communication. Assumes no computing experience. Lab fee: $30.
Instructor: JoAnne Kleifgen
MSTU 4050 Virtual schools and virtual schooling
This course examines the different models of the K-12 virtual school and virtual schooling experience in the United States and internationally. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Susan Lowes
MSTU 4052 Computers, problem solving, and cooperative learning
Considers how computers may be used to promote cooperative learning in problem solving for students throughout the curriculum, focusing on the use of simulations, databases, programming, and problem solving software. Course content will include active participation in cooperative learning using computers as well as background work in educational theory as it relates to problem solving and cooperative learning. Special fee: $30.
Instructor: Howard Budin
MSTU 4080 Television and video applications in education
The role of media literacy is explored as a means to understand our popular culture and foster critical autonomy in young people. Emphasis is placed on critiquing educational television programs and video and using them effectively in the classroom. Special fee: $35.
MSTU 4083 Instructional design of educational technology
The nature of instructional technology, systems approaches to planning, managing, and evaluating instructional processes and materials. Emphasis is on instructional design. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Xiaodong Lin
MSTU 4085 New technologies for learning
A survey of technologies such as multimedia and telecommunications applied to learning and research, with full demonstrations and critical discussion by experts. Includes discussion of implications for educational change. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Robert Taylor
MSTU 4086 Text understanding and design
Explores ideas about how people understand textual materials and learn from them; then applies these ideas to the design of instructional text. Students design instructional materials for topics of interest to them. Special fee: $35.
MSTU 4133 Cognition and Computers
This course explores ideas about cognition and knowledge representation and how they relate to the use of computers in instruction. Students select a subject area, learn to represent knowledge from it so that it can be implemented in a computer instructional system, and use the knowledge representation to characterize the cognitive prerequisites and consequences of learning to use computers. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: John Black
MSTU 4134 Cognition and Computers:Lab
Permission required. Corequisite: MSTU 4133. Special fee: $25.
Instructor: Xin Bai
MSTU 4901 Research and Independent Study
Permission required. For master's students only. Students propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted. Conference hours are arranged.
Instructor: Howard Budin
MSTU 4902 Research and Independent Study
Permission required. For master's students only. Students propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted. Conference hours are arranged.
Instructor: Howard Budin
MSTU 4903 Research and independent study
Permission required. For master's students only. Students propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted. Conference hours are arranged.
MSTU 4904 Research and Independent Study
Permission required. For master's students only. Students propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted. Conference hours are arranged.
MSTU 5000 Possibility of virtual worlds
Explores possibilities of virtual worlds for gaming and education. Through readings and theoretical discussions of identity construction, positioning and social aspects of virtual and traditional communities, participants explore how virtual environments may support teaching, learning and how virtual communities are affecting people's lives. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Charles Kinzer
MSTU 5005 Case-based teaching in electronic environments
Focuses on theory related to designing, developing, and using multimedia case methodology in education. Students are encouraged to examine educational case methodology within their interest area. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Charles Kinzer
MSTU 5020 Computer mediated communication
Analyzes characteristics of such computer-mediated communication systems as networked multimedia, electronic mail, bulletin boards, and computer conferencing and situates these systems in the context of the emerging national information infrastructure. Students will participate in online communication systems. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Brenda Lopez Ortiz
MSTU 5025 Researching technology in educational environments
This course is designed as an overview of research designs and methodologies for students who are interested in researching the uses of technology in education, including both face-to-face and online/distance learning environments. The course looks at the theoretical bases for, and practical implementation of, different quantitative and qualitative research approaches, methodologies, and instruments. It is structured around a series of hands-on case studies, in which students design research studies, revise existing instruments, and analyze previously collected data for technology-related projects in classrooms and online. Students are encouraged, but not required, to come with a research project in mind. Special fee: $30.
Instructor: Susan Lowes
MSTU 5030 Intelligent computer-assisted instruction
Prerequisite: MSTU 4133. Participants study ideas about the representation of knowledge, models of the learner, and teaching strategies that have been developed in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology, as well as develop and test intelligent computer-assisted instruction materials for topics of interest. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Xin Bai
MSTU 5031 Programming II
Prerequisite: MSTU 4031 or a solid basic knowledge of programming. Applies programming to significant problems using Java or C++ to construct salient applications. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 5035 Technology and Metacognition
This course explores how theories of learning, development and cognition can shape the design of instruction. Readings cover a range of instructional theories and highlight the underlying influences of those theories. Although the course includes a brief survey of historical trends in the field, the primary course focus is on current and emerging theories of instruction, such as distributed and dynamical views of cognition and learning. Students are encouraged to present and discuss their research interests and projects as they relate to the focus of the course. Special fee: $45.
MSTU 5191 Educational Video Production I
Practical studio and field production experience of educational video programs, with special concern for realizing educational purposes through directing, scripting, staging, camera operation, lighting, and sound design. Special fee: $50.
Instructor: Mario Riccobon
MSTU 5192 Educational Video Production II
Permission required. Practical studio and field production experience of educational video programs, with special concern for realizing educational purposes through directing, scripting, staging, camera operation, lighting, and sound design. Special fee: $50.
Instructor: Mario Riccobon
MSTU 5194 Models of human-computer interaction
This course explores the psychological and educational literature on human-computer interaction and learning. What is the role of human-computer interaction in learning and teaching with new educational technologies? What are the key formats and attributes of human-computer interaction with electronic media? These and other questions are studied by discussing current theory and research and by evaluating state-of-the-art media projects. Special fee: $35.
MSTU 5201 Fieldwork
Permission required. Opportunity for qualified students, individually or in small groups, to develop and pursue projects in schools, community agencies, business organizations, and communication facilities. Stu-dents in their first term of study are generally not accepted. Conference hours are arranged.
Instructor: John Black
MSTU 5510 Topical seminar
Permission required. Periodically under this course number, various faculty and staff members offer courses on important topics in communica-tion, computing, or instructional technology and media which will be announced at least one semester in advance. Topics may vary each semester and may include any of the following: art, music, and technology; their symbiotic interplay; assessing the impact of technology in our schools; database driven website development; educational technology research; gender, communication, and digital technology; media and education; research metho-dologies; social and emotional learning and digital technology; technology and school change; technology, education, and public policy; technology, inquiry, and culture; writing technology. Special fee: $30-50.
Instructor: Paul Acquaro
MSTU 5515 New media teaching and learning
Permission required. This course provides students with experience in the development of new media projects and a forum for discussing the implications for new media on education, particularly in higher education. The course involves a fieldwork component. Special fee: $35.
MSTU 5555 Technology and the emergence of a global curriculum
This course deals with the impact of technology on human society over the ages, how technology in particular is shaped by, and in turn shapes, the vision informing a specific culture and its curriculum, and how the global sharing of technology is inexorably contributing to the emergence of a common global curriculum. Uses its own website, www.tc.columbia.edu/~global. Special fee: $35.
Instructor: Robert Taylor
MSTU 5606 Readings in communication theory and social thought I
Each week during the academic year, participants in this course will read and discuss important work in the literature of Communica-tion. These works all consider how the conditions and constraints of human interaction affect culture, public discourse, and the historical quality of life. The aim is to acquire a thorough grounding in how thinkers have addressed a basic problem in the study of communication over the past century and a half. Completion of written work for the colloquium is part of the certification requirement for doctoral candidates in the Communication program, and it can serve as the culminating project required for completion of the Master of Education degree in that program.
Instructor: Robert McClintock
MSTU 5607 Readings in communication theory and social thought II
Each week during the academic year, participants in this course will read and discuss important work in the literature of Communica-tion. These works all consider how the conditions and constraints of human interaction affect culture, public discourse, and the historical quality of life. The aim is to acquire a thorough grounding in how thinkers have addressed a basic problem in the study of communication over the past century and a half. Completion of written work for the colloquium is part of the certification requirement for doctoral candidates in the Communication program, and it can serve as the culminating project required for completion of the Master of Education degree in that program.
Instructor: Robert McClintock
MSTU 5814 Work conference
Permission required. Occasional brief conferences convened by Communication, Computing, and Technology on subjects of special interest. special fee: 35$
Instructor: Shawna Bu Shell
MSTU 6031 Multimedia educational projects
Permission required. Team approach to developing computer-based educational software using hypermedia, authoring languages, and programming languages. Some background in instructional design recommended. Special fee: $50.
Instructor: Robert Taylor
MSTU 6201 Advanced Fieldwork
Permission required. Extended opportunities for students who have completed MSTU 5200.
Instructor: John Black
MSTU 6202 Advanced Fieldwork
Permission required. Extended opportunities for students who have completed MSTU 5200.
MSTU 6203 Advanced Fieldwork
Permission required. Extended opportunities for students who have completed MSTU 5200.
MSTU 6204 Advanced Fieldwork
Permission required. Extended opportunities for students who have completed MSTU 5200.
MSTU 6401 Internship
Permission required. Prerequisite: basic courses in the student’s specialization, evidence of competence in the internship area, and prior arrangement with cooperating institution. Internship in schools, colleges, Teachers College facilities such as the Microcomputer Resource Center, community agencies, business organizations, and communication facilities. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
Instructor: John Black
MSTU 6402 Internship
Permission required. Prerequisite: basic courses in the student’s specialization, evidence of competence in the internship area, and prior arrangement with cooperating institution. Internship in schools, colleges, Teachers College facilities such as the Microcomputer Resource Center, community agencies, business organizations, and communication facilities. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
MSTU 6403 Internship
Permission required. Prerequisite: basic courses in the student’s specialization, evidence of competence in the internship area, and prior arrangement with cooperating institution. Internship in schools, colleges, Teachers College facilities such as the Microcomputer Resource Center, community agencies, business organizations, and communication facilities. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
MSTU 6404 Internship
Permission required. Prerequisite: basic courses in the student’s specialization, evidence of competence in the internship area, and prior arrangement with cooperating institution. Internship in schools, colleges, Teachers College facilities such as the Microcomputer Resource Center, community agencies, business organizations, and communication facilities. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
MSTU 6532 Seminar in cognitive science
Permission required. In-depth discussion and critique of research proposed and conducted by others and by students in the class. Topics vary from term to term. Course is for advanced students who are designing and conducting their own research projects; they may take the course as many times as they like. Special fee: $45.
Instructor: Xiaodong Lin
MSTU 6600 Colloquium in Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education
Continuous participa-tion required of certified doctoral students. Discussion of critical issues, reading of key works, formal proposal of dissertation topics, presentation of work in progress, conversations with leaders in the field. Special fee: $30.
Instructor: Charles Kinzer
MSTU 6901 Research and independent study in communication, computing, and technology in education
Permission required. For doctoral students only. The participating student will propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
Instructor: Shawna Bu Shell
MSTU 6902 Research and independent study in Communication, Computing, and Technology in Education
Permission required. For doctoral students only. The participating student will propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
MSTU 6903 Research and independent study in communication, computing, and technology in education
Permission required. For doctoral students only. The participating student will propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
MSTU 6904 Research and independent study in communication, computing, and technology in education
Permission required. For doctoral students only. The participating student will propose a program of independent research or project development to a faculty member. Students in their first term of study are generally not accepted.
MSTU 7501 Dissertation seminar
Permission required. Presentation of dissertation proposal for approval by a sponsoring committee. Student arranges one two-hour meeting with his or her sponsoring committee.
Instructor: Howard Budin
MSTU 7502 Dissertation seminar
Permission required. Presentation of dissertation proposal for approval by a sponsoring committee. Student arranges one two-hour meeting with his or her sponsoring committee.
MSTU 7503 Dissertation seminar
Permission required. Presentation of dissertation proposal for approval by a sponsoring committee. Student arranges one two-hour meeting with his or her sponsoring committee.
MSTU 8900 Dissertation advisement
Advisement on doctoral dissertations. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. See section in this bulletin on Continuous Registration for Ed.D. degree.
Instructor: Howard Budin
