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Seminar in Emerging Media and Technology

Society is driven, in part, by digital technology. The skills and techniques used in these fast-paced digital systems requires nimble and up-to-date skill sets. To prepare our students for an ever-changing world, the School of Emerging Media and Technology offers a seminar course with a rotating list of timely topics including but not limited to mobile applications, content management systems, data visualizations, and cutting edge development frameworks.

Students at both the undergraduate and graduate level are permitted to take any of the School of Emerging Media and Technology's seminar courses. Prior to registering, interested students should speak with their academic advisor to discuss the course and how it would fit in their degree program. Please refer to the list of courses to view course prerequisites.

Upcoming Seminar Topics

Fall 2026 - Qualitative Research Methods in Design Technology

This class provides an introduction and overview of applied qualitative research methods in a User Experience Design (UXD) context. Content will be designed for undergrad and graduate students. Broadly, students will be introduced to fundamentals of qualitative research and how to 鈥渢hink鈥 qualitatively. Students will also consider ethics and the research process, including how tools like AI can be responsively incorporated. Finally, students be introduced to tactics for managing challenging situations with participants who may behave surprisingly as well as get some field experience with humans and digital environments.

Questions? Contact the School of Emerging Media and Technology at emat@kent.edu.

EMAT 40095 (CRN 18481) - Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
EMAT 50095 (CRN 18482) - Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
 

Previous Seminar Topics

Application Security and Compliance

This class will begin with an overview of security from one of the industry鈥檚 foremost authorities on cyber security.  A review and understanding of cyber security and privacy regulations will leave the student with a solid foundation that the role that risk and trust play in keeping data safe.  The bulk of the course will focus on the application and information development process to ensure that cyber security and privacy regulations, controls, and standards are designed into the solution. This course will equally highlight the pitfalls of failing to design security and privacy into the tools we use to conduct our daily business.

Children's Literature in Augmented Reality

How can augmented reality be used to create innovative new forms of children's literature? In this course, students will respond to this design challenge by collaborating with a co-scheduled Design Innovation course to create an original augmented reality storytelling platform using the Unity Gaming engine. Students will draw on Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy archive, housed in the Reinberger Children's Library, for inspiration and will have the unique opportunity to publicly share their final projects in the context of the Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Literature for Youth.

Renowned authors and educators Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy are viewed as paragons for promoting bilingual education and social justice. The Alma Flor Ada and F. Isabel Campoy Collection of Multicultural Literature at the Reinberger Children's Library Center represents the combined efforts of their lifetime of work dedicated to promoting peace, cultural awareness and social justice.

Embedded Robotics and Web Control

This course is an exploration of programming applications in an embedded environment using various microcontroller functions. Students will learn the relationship between hardware and web interfaces while completing a robotics project.

Ethics and Emerging Technologies: AI, Privacy and Bias

Bias in AI systems has real-world impacts and perpetuates existing inequalities and injustices. Ensuring privacy protects individuals鈥 rights and freedoms and is essential for building trust in AI systems.

In Ethics and Emerging Technologies: AI, Privacy and Bias, you will challenge yourself to make ethical decisions that are essential to the design and development of technologies that will change the world.

Linux and Container Infrastructure

In this seminar, students will receive a hands-on introduction to aspects of Linux command line, shell scripting, cloud computing, Linux system administration, and containers.

Today's applications run on complex layers of computing infrastructure. Understanding these different components will help the students reason about and troubleshoot applications and the infrastructure underlying them.

Finally, students will learn how to work with existing containers, create new containers, and deploy containers. The growth of Docker and Kubernetes have made containers a standardized application packaging and deployment mechanism, and thus it is important for students to learn these aspects to be successful in their future careers.

Smart Devices

This emerging media & technology seminar course seeks to provide an investigative and experiential learning environment, in which students learn about the platforms and technologies behind Smart Devices, from edge devices to core cloud services through research and hands-on activities. Topics covered include background in 鈥淚nternet of Things鈥 (IoT), physical sensing, platforms, and security. The course culminates with small teams of students developing a Smart Device and connecting it to a cloud-based IoT service.