On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Neil Malamuth wrote:

Hi Tim:

We need to finalize your teaching schedule for next year. You will be released from teaching in the Fall and teach a total of three courses over the course of the Winter and Spring courses. One of these will be the CS 160 courses. Regarding the other two, what would you prefer? Ideally, these would include a "new media" component and/or focus. Your quick reply would be much appreciated.

Warm regards, Neil

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Groeling <tgroelin@weber.ucsd.edu
To: Neil Malamuth <nmalamut@ucla.edu
Cc: jbitar@ucla.edu, dye@ucla.edu
Subject: Re: teaching

Neil-

In addition to the CS 160 class, CS 161 (Electoral Politics: Media and Elections) looks to be a good fit, as does 197T (Technology in Communication). Also, I'd be interested in proposing a class targeted specifically at examining computer-mediated communication. Here's an abstract for the proposed class, which I think might fit as a 197 class:

With the rapid introduction and evolution of the internet, communication between individuals has taken on many new forms that blur the distinctions between "mass" and "interpersonal" forms of communication. This course will explore the manner in which computer-mediation has altered patterns of communication, using case studies of such examples as Instant Messaging, e-mail, web publishing, asynchronous discussion, Usenet discussion, and peer-to-peer sharing of information.

Let me know if this is what you had in mind.

-Tim

From: Francis F Steen <steen@commstds.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:20:48 -0700 (PDT)
To: Tim Groeling <groeling@commstds.ucla.edu>
Subject: Winter course

Hi Tim,

I'm thinking of offering a course on Mass Communication and New Technology in the winter quarter. Neil mentioned that you're teaching a course that sounds somewhat similar; do you have details I could look at?

Best,
Francis

Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:13:24 -0700
From: Tim Groeling <groeling@ucla.edu>
To: Francis F Steen <steen@commstds.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Winter course

So far, I'm still pretty early in the development of the course. My hope was to have the Winter portion of the course deal more with the development of "traditional" communication technology, and then deal with computer-mediated communication in much more detail in a separate class.

I'd love to get together sometime and compare notes. What's your time horizon on this?

-Tim