https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-09-21T14:55:10+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2017-10-14T15:34:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/global_media_literacy?rev=1507995256&do=diff Global Media Literacy Take a collaborative tour of the global media environment. This course unveils the hidden ways in which our media lives intersect with people an economies in distant places. Understand the ways in which politics, cultures, business models, and conflicts shape the media we encounter—and those we don't. text/html 2026-08-27T17:39:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/disruptive_entrepreneurship?rev=1787852388&do=diff Disruptive Entrepreneurship MDST 2011 Disruption has become a hallowed achievement in contemporary business culture. What, exactly, do entrepreneurs, investors, and Internet evangelists mean by the word? What have been the great disruptions of our time, and who wound up disrupted? text/html 2017-01-12T18:23:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/religion_in_american_life?rev=1484245420&do=diff Religion in American Life: Discovering the Past, Encountering the Present What this class is about Religion is omnipresent, so to speak, and it influences our society in immense ways. Yet we are often taught not to think, discuss, or even notice it. This course will teach the opposite lesson. Together we will learn about the power, diversity, and creativity of religion in the history of the United States of America. We will study text/html 2019-11-04T22:52:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/scholarly_sources?rev=1572907937&do=diff Scholarly sources When “scholarly sources” or “peer-reviewed articles” are expected for an assignment, this has a specific meaning. It means a certain class of journals or books, generally published through academic presses, that employ certain methodologies to ensure that publications are vetted by the academic community. Such publications have a level of prestige and reliability in academic discourse greater than that of journalism, raw data sets, or other research data. Scholarly articles ar… text/html 2015-12-11T00:22:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/syllabus_of_questions?rev=1449793353&do=diff A Syllabus of Questions Instructor * Who is in charge here, and why? * What do we need to know about the instructor? * What is the instructor's role in the course? Overview * What did I think I was signing up for? * Why did I sign up for this course? text/html 2025-08-18T15:50:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/internships?rev=1755532254&do=diff Internships This page provides a general outline of what I expect for a successful student internship that I supervise at CU Boulder. The details will be worked out on a case-by-case basis. Learning objectives * Identify a critical, scholarly perspective that can inform a work experience text/html 2026-01-09T20:17:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/media_activism?rev=1767989847&do=diff Media Activism and Public Engagement MDST 5002 Depending on whom you ask, media-powered activism can sound like either a silver bullet or a lost cause. It's often both at the same time and more in between. Through examining the strategies and tactics of movements, past and present, we'll discover how media can shape social change and how we can become more savvy media practitioners ourselves. text/html 2017-10-14T15:35:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/media_and_the_public?rev=1507995357&do=diff Media and the Public In this class, we will learn about what it means to be a mediated public by becoming one and reflecting on our practice. As we discuss critical and primary readings on media, democracy, and the public sphere, the class will undergo a process together. We will cultivate our own public sphere, setting rules and adjusting them as we go. The midterm and final projects are short exercises in established genres of media intervention. text/html 2026-08-21T16:36:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/future_histories_of_technology?rev=1787330194&do=diff Future Histories of Technology MDST 2046 This course explores how visions of the future have shaped the development of technology, and how technologies shape visions of the future in turn. It reveals how claims over the future organize power relations and constrain imaginations. Coursework takes the form of a creative workshop, where students make original multimedia artifacts and engage in constructive critique with one another.