Note about overlapping courses
While some PMA instructors will allow students to enroll in classes that overlap, not all do. If your proposed Spring 2027 schedule includes overlaps, please consult with the faculty in question before enrolling so that you can adjust your enrollment plans if necessary.
PMA 2401 Industry Immersions
Instructor: Kristen Warner
Class Schedule: TR 12:20pm - 2:00pm (2 credits)
Intensive, real-world experiences that bridge classroom learning with professional practice. This course is a structured, credit-bearing experiential learning course that provides substantive academic and professional preparation for students enrolled in the Cornell in Los Angeles program. While the course includes industry excursions, its credit hours are also earned through the rigorous intellectual and professional work students complete before, during, and after those site visits. This course requires students to apply that knowledge in real-world contexts through guided engagement with studios, creative executives, industry networks, and cultural institutions central to contemporary performance and media.
Enrollment limited to: Cornell in Los Angeles program students.
PMA 3350 Intermedia World-Making
Instructor: Danielle Russo
Class schedule: TBA
PMA 3462 Film Genres: The Basketball Film
Instructor: Samantha N. Sheppard
Class Schedule: W 11:15am - 1:45pm (3 credit)
This course is a film genres courses dedicated to the basketball film. It provides a cultural and transmedia history of the sport and genre.
PMA 4412/6412 Media Metaphors
Instructor: Mendi Obadike
Class Schedule: T 11:15 am - 1:45 pm (4 credits)
This course focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between media technologies and society, approaching media not as a set of technologies but as a set of practices, infrastructures, and struggles over meaning and power. Central to the course is a practice of reading one thing and/as another. We will read media objects in terms of their visual, aural, spatial, or informational registers, but also as sites of mediation structured by systems of power and difference. Throughout the course, we will think with artists and/as theorists, attending to arguments made through artistic gestures and to the creative, at times deeply experimental practices of scholars whose need and ability to hold two ideas in various forms of relation to one another mirrors an artistic practice.
PMA 4702/6702 Performing Queer Masculinities
Instructor: Karen Jaime
Class Schedule: TR 12:20 pm - 2:15 pm (4 credits)
In this upper-level undergraduate/graduate seminar, students will analyze the survival strategies employed by people (of color) assigned female at birth as they perform versions of queer masculinities—on stage, on screen, in literature, in visual culture, and in everyday life.