Our understanding of the world is shaped by the news we read, watch, and listen to. But what happens in the face of a monumental paradigm shift, when the lexicon of legacy media—collapsing from breakneck technological changes like Artificial Intelligence and hyper-polarization—becomes one we no longer credibly trust to tell the stories that shape society? "The Future of Journalism" course will explore the unorthodox ways artists, journalists, and technologists disseminate vital stories as we encroach on a post-news world. From non-fiction storytelling efforts like community journalism theatre to puppetry and music-led news reporting in the Global South, transnational investigations employing non-journalist citizens to large-scale interactive art installations that tell the stories of geopolitical crises, students will study the rich landscape of innovating case studies and practitioners working globally to disseminate essential stories that challenge the status quo of decline and mistrust. The class will consist of weekly reading assignments followed by an independent project where students will envision an answer to the question: what is the future of journalism?

Elective

Graduate Thesis Communications II is a studio course run in parallel with our sibling studio course which focuses on completing your thesis. Together, we will spend the spring semester finishing the thesis and thesis book that you proposed at the end of Graduate Thesis Communications I. We continue to think about writing as a design tool and as a communication tool. For this course, we put more emphasis on the communication aspect. Together, we will continue to refine and strengthen the manner by which you explain your thesis to yourself and others. We will think about audience, voice, structure, and form. We will explore different ways of communicating the same idea in different contexts and mediums (visual, oral, written). We will examine how to share our work and with whom. At the end of the course, you will have a complete thesis.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate Industrial Design Students.

Major Requirement | MID Industrial Design

Graduate Thesis Communications II is a studio course run in parallel with our sibling studio course which focuses on completing your thesis. Together, we will spend the spring semester finishing the thesis and thesis book that you proposed at the end of Graduate Thesis Communications I. We continue to think about writing as a design tool and as a communication tool. For this course, we put more emphasis on the communication aspect. Together, we will continue to refine and strengthen the manner by which you explain your thesis to yourself and others. We will think about audience, voice, structure, and form. We will explore different ways of communicating the same idea in different contexts and mediums (visual, oral, written). We will examine how to share our work and with whom. At the end of the course, you will have a complete thesis.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate Industrial Design Students.

Major Requirement | MID Industrial Design