Shaylynn Lynch Lesinski's research areas include representations of gender in film and television, specifically depictions of the active female body onscreen and representations of birth in media. Her work considers the corporeal and affective qualities of popular media representations, as well as their pedagogical and epistemological potential to reinforce specific structures of power and control. She also explores how these meditated messages inform cultural and ideological structures for individuals within the American media system.
CMCI 1040 - Foundational Concepts and Creativity in Communication, Media, Design and Informat
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024 / Spring 2025
Provides first-year students with an understanding of key principles and practices used in the fields of media, communication and information. Develops insight into processes of storytelling, conversation, information, design and images as foundational to learning in communication, media, design and information, and supports students in learning to use creativity and multiple modes of expression to produce projects relevant to a range of disciplines across the college. Formerly CMCI 1040.
CMDI 1040 - Foundational Concepts and Creativity in Communication, Media, Design and Informat
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Provides first-year students with an understanding of key principles and practices used in the fields of media, communication and information. Develops insight into processes of storytelling, conversation, information, design and images as foundational to learning in communication, media, design and information, and supports students in learning to use creativity and multiple modes of expression to produce projects relevant to a range of disciplines across the college. Formerly CMCI 1040.
CMDI 2030 - Thinking Across Disciplines in Communication,Media, Design and Information
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Fall 2025 / Spring 2026
Engages key principles and practices in the fields of communication, media, design and information. Emphasizes the analyses of new and old media, information technologies, verbal and visual literacies, communicative interactions and cultural practices through process-based learning and hands-on projects utilizing multiple modes of expression. Enhanced, one-semester version of the introductory CMDI course for transfer students to CMDI. Requires a grade of C- or better to count toward degree. Formerly CMCI 2030.
CMDI 3000 - Special Topics in CMDI
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Fall 2025
Investigates special topics in communication, media, design and information at the upper-division level. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Formerly CMCI 3000.
MDST 1002 - Introduction to Social Media
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Introduces students to network structures and principles, the technology and infrastructures that allow them to flourish, and the cultures that grow up through and around them. Explores how social media enables community, how it assembles and empowers agents of change and how design informs individual and group behavior.
MDST 4871 - Special Topics
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Spring 2024 / Spring 2026
Special Topics. May be repeated up to 15 total credit hours.
