Courses / Summer Session

Summer 2023

  • Global Media: Transmedial Asia

    145 | CCN: 15206

    Location: 188 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm

    This course will focus on topics in national, transnational, and global cinema, television, photography, and/or new media. ... More
  • Media Technologies

    155 | CCN: 13489

    Instructor: Caleb Murray-Bozeman

    Location: 188 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 10am-12:30pm

    This course will focus on the history, theory, and experience of old and new media technologies. ... More
  • Special Topics in Film: Film and Labor

    170-001 | CCN: 15479

    Instructor: Sean Lambert

    Date and Time: T, W, TH, 1-3:30pm

    From 1895’s first ever film, Workers Leaving the Factory, to contemporary films like Sorry to Bother You, Atlantics and American Factory, cinema has long held a fascination for workers and labor. This fascination extends beyond the visual:... More
  • Be/longing: Cinemas of Migration and Immigration

    170AC | CCN: 15707

    Instructor: Emily West

    Location: 142 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm

    This course examines contemporary scholarship and films about the migrant or immigrant experience in the US, with a focus on how they visualize and narrativize the idea of belonging. Our first week will be an “orientation” week... More
  • Special Topics in Film Genre: Mockumentary

    171-001 | CCN: 14467

    Instructor: Osarugue Otebele

    Location: 188 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 10am-12:30pm

    The study of films as categorized either by industry-identified genres (westerns, horror films, musicals, film noir, etc.) or broader interpretive modes (melodrama, realism, fantasy, etc.). ... More
  • Special Topics in Film Genre: California Noir

    171-002 | CCN: 15482

    Instructor: Miles Taylor

    Location: 142 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 12:30-3pm

    In this upper-division course, we will be looking at noir and neo-noir films set in California, paying special attention to the role of paranoia in these narratives. Tracing it back to the hardboiled detective novels of James... More
  • Pitch to Production

    176 | CCN: 13476

    Instructor: J. Mira Kopell

    Location: 142 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 9am-12pm

    Students are introduced to the basic concepts, terms and principles of producing so that they can effectively and efficiently develop their own project proposal and financial strategy. Unit topics include creating a “pitch” proposal/package, methods of fundraising/financing... More
  • Entertainment Law

    177 | CCN: 15609

    Location: Online

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 3:30-5pm

    The practice of entertainment law in the United States lies at the intersection of a number of legal disciplines, among them Constitutional law, tort law, copyright law, and trademark law, and applies those disciplines to the world... More
  • Film & Media Professions

    178 | CCN: 13478

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm

    This course is designed to give those interested in film and media careers an introduction to the wide range of professional possibilities that exist in the Bay Area and beyond. Centered around a series of 10–12 guest... More
  • Film and Media Theory

    20 | CCN: 15880

    Instructor: Jonathan Mackris

    Location: Online

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 1-3:30pm

    This course is intended to introduce undergraduates to the study of a range of media, including photography, film, television, video, and print and digital media. The course will focus on questions of medium “specificity” or the key... More
  • Film Aesthetics

    30 | CCN: 15203

    Instructor: Dolores McElroy

    Location: 188 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 2-4:30pm

    This course will focus on topics in the history, theory and aesthetics of sound cinema. ... More
  • Television Studies: Television and the American Family

    45 | CCN: 14466

    Instructor: Emily West

    Location: 142 Dwinelle

    Date and Time: TU, W, TH, 9-11:30am

    This course introduces students to the field of television studies and focuses on developing skills in three areas: formal analysis, ideology critique, and genre study. Our first unit focuses on texts that describe and model these three... More
  • Introduction to Moving Image Production

    85 001 | CCN: 15918

    Instructor: Lázaro Gonzalez

    Location: Dwinelle 30

    Date and Time: T, W, TH, 9am-4pm (Lecture: 9am-12pm; Lab: 1-4pm)

    Under the principles of collaboration and “learning by doing,” this course will provide a basic technical foundation for digital media production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative moving image media from traditional story genres to... More