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Each subject lists prerequisites, level, offered terms, units, repeatability, and instructor assignment in a formal catalog structure. Click any department heading to open its full landing page.

Electronic Music and Dance Culture (EDM)

EDM.210 Foundations of Electronic Music Culture

Prereq: None

U (Spring)

3-0-9 units

Genres, venues, scenes, and the institutions that produce electronic music.

Staff
EDM.315 Festival Systems and Crowd Dynamics

Prereq: EDM.210

U (Summer)

2-4-6 units

Site design, crowd flow, harm reduction, and the rituals that hold a festival together.

Staff
EDM.402 Advanced Rave Studies Seminar

Prereq: EDM.315 or permission

U (Fall)

3-0-9 units

Senior seminar producing original scholarship on rave history, ethics, and scenes.

Diane Okafor

Digital Identity and Visual Culture (IGG)

IGG.120 Introduction to Digital Self-Presentation

Prereq: None

U (Fall)

3-0-9 units

Profile anatomy, image as language, audience, and the in-between of authenticity and performance.

Staff
IGG.280 Platform Aesthetics and Algorithms

Prereq: IGG.120

U (Spring)

2-4-6 units

Feed mechanics, recommender systems, and the visual conventions platforms reward.

Staff
IGG.410 Influencer Systems Capstone

Prereq: IGG.280 + senior standing

U (Fall, Spring)

3-3-9 units

Capstone studio designing and defending a working influencer system.

Zara Ahmed

Contemporary Influence and Social Capital (ITG)

ITG.150 Trends and Cultural Adoption

Prereq: None

U (Fall)

3-0-9 units

How a trend moves through a population — early signal, tipping point, mainstream, and back-burner.

Staff
ITG.300 Networked Popularity Systems

Prereq: ITG.150

U (Spring)

2-4-6 units

Reciprocity, peer validation, and the small loops of attention that decide visibility.

Staff
ITG.420 It-Girl Seminar

Prereq: ITG.300 or permission

U (Fall)

3-0-9 units

Senior seminar on the It-Girl as a recurring cultural figure across decades.

Margaux Castellan

Hybrid Aesthetics and Soft Power (SBG)

SBG.200 Feminine Aesthetic Blending

Prereq: APP.204 or FEM.101

U (Winter)

2-4-6 units

Studio combining contrasting feminine signals — soft and structured, tailored and easy.

Celeste Park
SBG.310 Confidence Signaling and Presentation

Prereq: SBG.200

U (Spring)

2-2-8 units

Voice, pace, eye line, posture, and the non-verbal cues that decide how a room reads a person.

Staff
SBG.405 Soft Baddie Thesis Studio

Prereq: SBG.310

U (Fall, Spring)

3-3-9 units

Capstone thesis studio producing a sustained body of work in garments and writing.

Faculty committee

Alternative Culture and Subcultural Studies (ALT)

ALT.101 Introduction to Alternative Subcultures

Prereq: None

U (Fall)

3-0-9 units

Punk, goth, emo, hardcore, and the way each scene organizes belonging, dress, and dissent.

Staff
ALT.260 Style, Music, and Identity

Prereq: ALT.101 or RHT.118

U (Spring)

2-3-7 units

How alternative scenes weld music, dress, and identity into a single language.

Staff
ALT.390 Advanced Alt Expression Workshop

Prereq: ALT.260

U (Summer)

2-4-6 units

Workshop building and defending a sustained personal alt expression.

Nia Brennan

Rave and Festival Identity Studies (RBG)

RBG.220 Rave Participation and Ritual

Prereq: None

U (Summer)

3-0-9 units

The rave as participatory ritual — what people do there, why, and the unwritten code.

Staff
RBG.330 Festival Aesthetics and Expression

Prereq: RBG.220

U (Spring)

2-4-6 units

Visual language of festivals — fits, color, glitter, mesh, utility — across a multi-day cycle.

Staff
RBG.415 Field Study: Live Event Immersion

Prereq: RBG.330 + permission

U (Summer)

2-6-7 units

Capstone field study built around two approved live events.

Sasha Reyes

Digital Subculture and Online Expression (EGRL)

EGRL.140 Intro to E-Girl Aesthetics

Prereq: None

U (Fall)

3-0-9 units

Visual motifs and references — anime, scene, alt, K-pop — and how they assemble into a look.

Staff
EGRL.275 Platform Performance and Persona

Prereq: EGRL.140

U (Spring)

2-4-6 units

Short-form video, persona consistency, posting cadence, and what platforms reward.

Staff
EGRL.430 Advanced E-Culture Studio

Prereq: EGRL.275 + senior standing

U (Fall, Spring)

3-3-9 units

Capstone studio producing a sustained body of work, defended with a written thesis.

Mei Sato