Courses / Undergraduate

Fall 2023

  • Film History & Form

    10 001 | CCN: 24518

    Instructor: Anne Nesbet

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm

    This course will focus on the development of film art, technology, and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... More
  • Documentary Forms

    125 001 | CCN: 26599

    Instructor: Deniz Göktürk

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm

    This course will focus on topics in documentary cinema, television, video, photography, and/or new media. ... More
  • Experimental and Alternative Media Art

    135 001 | CCN: 24528

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: M, W 11:30am - 12:59pm

    This course is a survey of the history and aesthetics of experimental and alternative media forms and practices situating them in relation to the larger art historical, social and intellectual contexts from which they arise. ... More
  • Media Technologies – Digital Game Cultures

    155 001 | CCN: 31089

    Instructor: Jacob R Gaboury

    Location: Dwinelle 188

    Date and Time: TU, TH 10:00am - 11:29am

    This class offers a broad introduction to the phenomenon of video games, focusing primarily on Western U.S. histories and cultural practices. We will investigate the relationship between play and games, learn how to analyze and practice basic... More
  • Special Topics in Film

    170 001 | CCN: 24532

    Location: Dwinelle 188

    Date and Time: M, W 8:00am - 9:29am

    Selected topics in the study of film. ... More
  • Special Topics in Film – Bodies in Contemporary Horror

    170 002 | CCN: 26986

    Instructor: Daniel Cuong O'Neill

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: M, W 10:00am - 11:29am

    The course explores how horror cinema unsettles the integrity of the human body by rearticulating the relations between viewers and the screen; the spectacle and the networked; the spectral and the virtual. We will raise questions... More
  • Special Topics in Film Genre – The Politics of the Melodramatic Mode

    171 001 | CCN: 24690

    Instructor: Dolores McElroy

    Location: Dwinelle 188

    Date and Time: TU, TH 2:00pm - 3:29pm

    “Melodrama” is a contested term. In popular culture, it is often understood as pejorative: one might call something “melodramatic” in order to dismiss it as “over-the-top,” “extra,” or perhaps clichéd. In film studies, “melodrama” has often indicated... More
  • Special Topics in Film Genre

    171 002 | CCN: 31091

    Instructor: Weihong Bao

    Location: Dwinelle 188

    Date and Time: M, W 9:30am - 10:59am

    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
  • Introduction to Screenwriting

    180 001 | CCN: 23249

    Instructor: J Mira Kopell

    Location: Dwinelle 226

    Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 11:59am

    Students explore the art and craft of developing and writing a feature-length, narrative screenplay. Each writer pitches story ideas, develops a plot outline and completes a portion of their screenplay. All students workshop outlines and... More
  • TV Writing

    182 001 | CCN: 24048

    Instructor: J Mira Kopell

    Location: Dwinelle 226

    Date and Time: TH 9:00am - 11:59am

    This intermediate screenwriting class explores the art and craft of developing and writing serialized narrative scripts. In the first half of the course students simulate the creative and collaborative process of a TV writers’ room by... More
  • Intermediate Moving Image Production

    185 001 | CCN: 23248

    Instructor: J Mira Kopell

    Location: Dwinelle 135

    Date and Time: TU, TH 1:00pm - 3:59pm

    Intermediate Moving Image Production will provide critical and technical skills to develop different forms of creating moving image. The course will do more emphasis on non-fiction, and autoethnographic or hybrid forms of storytelling, but the student can... More
  • Special Topics in Media Production

    187 001 | CCN: 33078

    Location: Dwinelle 135

    Date and Time: 12:00am - 12:00am

    This course investigates special topics in, and special technologies of, media production: e.g., experimental film, documentary film, digital special effects, etc. This is a hands-on studio course designed for students who have mastered the basics of media... More
  • Intermediate Film Writing

    193 001 | CCN: 31092

    Instructor: Alex Creighton

    Location: Dwinelle 226

    Date and Time: M, W 9:30am - 10:59am

    Moving-image media are compelling sites of cultural work. Writing about motion pictures poses peculiar challenges – and offers distinct pleasures – for students in disciplines across the university. Yet it is unusual for a course that analyzes... More
  • Film and Media Theory

    20 001 | CCN: 21484

    Instructor: Emily West

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am

    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

    30 001 | CCN: 24524

    Instructor: Dolores McElroy

    Location: Dwinelle 188

    Date and Time: M, W 2:00pm - 3:29pm

    The goal of this course is to focus on particular issues in film aesthetics as a way to understand the relationships between film, culture, and politics. Film Aesthetics familiarizes students with some of the major technological and... More
  • Television Studies

    45 001 | CCN: 24526

    Instructor: Emily West

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: TU, TH 8:00am - 9:29am

    This course will focus on the industrial, technological, and aesthetic history of television. ... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus

    R1A 001 | CCN: 21444

    Instructor: Sam Jackson

    Location: Social Sciences Building 80

    Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am

    Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus

    R1A 002 | CCN: 25298

    Instructor: Nicholas Vila Byers

    Location: Dwinelle 263

    Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am

    Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Trans Cinema’s Oppositional Practices

    R1A 003 | CCN: 25411

    Instructor: Isaac Arland Preiss

    Location: Dwinelle 134

    Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm

    The term “transgender tipping point” has been used to describe the upswell, in the twenty-tens, of gender variance in mainstream media. But visibility, for transgender people and other subjugated groups, has never been unproblematically associated with political... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus

    R1B 001 | CCN: 24049

    Instructor: Osarugue Otebele

    Location: Dwinelle 134

    Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am

    Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement. ... More