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240S. Technology and New Media: Academic Practice. How information technology and new media transform
knowledge production in academic practice through hands-on work. Critique of emergent digital culture as it impacts
higher education; assessing impact of integrating such tools into scholarly work and pedagogical practice. Modular
instruction with guest specialists assisting with information technology tools and media authorship theory. Topics may
include: web development, information visualization, time-based media, databases, animations, virtual worlds and
others. Theoretical readings; hands-on collaboration; ongoing application to individual student projects. Knowledge of
basic web development, personal computer access recommended. Instructor: Szabo. 3 units. C-L: Art History 240S,
Visual Studies 250BS
250S. Critical Studies in New Media. New media technologies examined from a transdisciplinary perspective; how they
compare with, transform, and remediate previous media practices. Instructor: Lenoir. 3 units. C-L: Literature 261S, Art
History 250S, Visual Studies 250AS
260S. Information Archeology: Studies in the Nature of Information and Artifact in the Digital Environment.
Interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of artifact and evidence, information and knowledge embedded in structured
and unstructured digital data. Critical analysis, research and technology labs focus on societal and technological
implications of data warehousing, Internet archives, analog to digital conversion, data recovery, and identity theft and
management. Instructor: Staff. 3 units. C-L: Art History 285S
265S. Emergent Embodied Interface Design. 3 units. C-L: see Visual Studies 265S; also C-L: Film/Video/Digital 201S
266S. The Human as Electrochemical Computer - Toward a New Computational and Aesthetic Paradigm. 3 units. C-
L: see Visual Arts 266S; also C-L: Film/Video/Digital 202S
270. Body Works: Medicine, Technology, and the Body in Early Twenty-first Century America. Influence of new
medical technologies (organ transplantation, VR surgery, genetic engineering, nano-medicine, medical imaging, DNA
computing, neuro-silicon interfaces) on the American imagination from WWII to the current decade. Examines the
thesis that these dramatic new ways of configuring bodies have participated in a complete reshaping of the notion of
the body in the cultural imaginary and a transformation of our experience of actual human bodies. Instructor: Lenoir.
3 units. C-L: Literature 262, Philosophy 270
291. Special Topics in Information Science + Information Studies. Topics vary per semester. Information science and
studies areas as understood historically, thematically, and in contemporary cultures. Theoretical readings coupled with
hands-on work with technology and new media applications. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
291S. Special Topics in Information Science + Information Studies. Seminar version of ISIS 291. 3 units.
294. Theories of the Image. 3 units. C-L: see Literature 294
391. Special Topics in Information Science & Information Studies. Topics vary per semester. Information science and
studies areas as understood historically, thematically, and in contemporary cultures. Theoretical readings coupled with
hands-on work with technology and new media applications. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program (Certificate
Program)
Professor Slotkin, Director of Graduate Studies
The Duke University Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program (ITEHP) provides students with
the theoretical and practical bases for research and teaching in toxicology. This interdepartmental program brings
together graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty members from a variety of scientific disciplines to
address toxicological and associated environbmental health problems from their molecular basis to clinical and
environmental consequences. The ITEHP includes participation of faculty members from the Departments of
Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Chemistry, Neurobiology, Pathology, Pharmacology, and the Nicholas School of the
Environment and Earth Sciences including the Duke Marine Laboratory. Among the principal areas of concentration
in the program are neurotoxicology and neurological disease, epigenetics, genetic toxicology, cancer, developmental
toxicology and children’s health, environmental exposure and toxicology, and pulmonary toxicology and disease.
Duke faculty members have a variety of collaborative research efforts and student rotations are available with
scientists at the nearby laboratories of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the CIIT
Centers for Health Research, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Application to the program can be made in two ways. If your primary interest is Toxicology, then you may apply
for admission directly through the Integrated Toxicology and Environmental Health Program, indicating "Toxicology"
as your primary admitting unit on the standard graduate school application. Students admitted directly into the Integrated
Toxicology and Environmental Health Program affiliate with a department depending upon their choice of research
mentor. Students with a primary interest in a departmentally based field may also apply to the Integrated Toxicology
and Environmental Health Program by indicating "Toxicology" as the secondary field on the graduate school
application. The primary field should indicate the specific graduate department in Arts and Sciences, the School of
Medicine, or the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. There is no difference in the eventual degree
granted through either mechanism; both routes result in a PhD granted by a specific department, with certification in
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