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Film History & Form
10 001 | CCN: 31250
Instructor: Emily Catherine West
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 9:30am - 10:59am
This course serves as an introduction to narrative cinema, from its 19th-century prehistory to its cultural life in the 1930s. We will consider the rise of early film, the development of cinematic narrative, the development of national... More -
Senior Capstone Seminar: Reading Photography
105 001 | CCN: 31281
Instructor: Anton J Kaes
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M 2:00pm - 3:59pm
This seminar explores the medium of photography from various angles: as a new way of seeing the world, as an instrument for documenting private and public life, and as a modern art form that has gained... More -
Documentary Forms
125 | CCN: 31258 | 31259
Instructor: Jeffrey Skoller
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 5-6:30pm; Screening W 5-7pm ... More -
Documentary Forms
125 001 | CCN: 31258
Instructor: Jeffrey A. Skoller
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 5:00pm - 6:29pm
This course will focus on topics in documentary cinema, television, video, photography, and/or new media. ... More -
Nordic Television and its Global Remakes
145 - 001 | CCN: 31264 | 31266
Instructor: Mark Sandberg
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 2-3:30pm; Screening: Tu 4-6pm ... More -
Japanese and Transnational Asian Film and Media
145 - 002 | CCN: 31265 | 31268
Instructor: Miryam Sas
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 12:30-2pm; Screening: Tu 2-4pm How do the images and sounds and spaces of film and media shape the way we think about about our place in the world, about... More -
Media Technologies: Digital Game Studies
155 | CCN: 31270 | 31271
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: MW 3:30-5pm; Screening: M 5-7pm This class offers a broad introduction to the phenomenon of video games, focusing primarily on U.S. histories and cultural practices. We will investigate the relationship... More -
Media Technologies
155 001 | CCN: 31270
Instructor: Jacob R Gaboury
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M, W 3:30pm - 4:59pm
This class offers a broad introduction to the phenomenon of video games, focusing primarily on U.S. histories and cultural practices. We will investigate the relationship between play and games, learn how to analyze and practice basic game... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre: Genre and Media in Chinese Popular Culture
171 - 001 | CCN: 31272 | 31274
Instructor: Weihong Bao
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: MW 9:30-11am; Screening: M 11-1pm ... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre: Romantic Comedy
171 - 002 | CCN: 31273 | 31275
Instructor: Emily West
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 11-12:30pm; Screening: Th 2-5pm ... More -
Special Topics in Film Genre
171 001 | CCN: 31272
Instructor: Weihong Bao
Location: Internet/Online
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 -
Special Topics in Film Genre
171 002 | CCN: 31273
Instructor: Emily Catherine West
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Although its lovers are legion, romantic comedy is frequently considered to be without value: a “low” cultural form that, like horror or science fiction film, provides pleasures that are simple at worst and guilty at best because... More -
Special Topics in Film Auteurism – The Cinema of Tennessee Williams: The Writer as Auteur
172 | CCN: 31276 | 31277
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: MW 12:30-2pm; Screening: M 2-5pm ... More -
Introduction to Screenwriting
180 001 | CCN: 31278
Instructor: J Mira Kopell
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TH 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 will workshop outlines... More -
Advanced Screenwriting
181 | CCN: 26731
Instructor: J. Mira Kopell
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: Th 1-4pm Film 181 is designed for the writer with screenwriting experience. Students will develop and write a portion of a feature length, narrative screenplay or one of more episodes... More -
Advanced Digital Video
186 001 | CCN: 25859
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU 9:00am - 3:00pm
This advanced studio course is designed for students who have mastered basic skills and concepts involved in digital video production and are interested in further investigating critical, theoretical, and creative research topics in digital video production. ... More -
Film & Media Theory
20 | CCN: 24464 | 24465
Instructor: Mary Ann Doane
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 3:30-5pm; Screening W 12-2pm This course introduces students to theories and methods in the scholarly study of audiovisual media, including photography, television, film, video, and digital media. Throughout the... More -
Digital Media Studies
35 | CCN: 31257
Instructor: Jacob Gaboury
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: MW 11-12:30pm This course is an introduction to digital media: how it came to be, where it is going, and how we can engage with it critically and creatively. Over... More -
Film Honors Thesis
H195 005 | CCN: 33954
Instructor: Juan Nicolas Pereda Rodriguez
Date and Time: 12:00am - 12:00am
Students in the honors program are to take H195 for a letter grade to complete a senior honors thesis. Although the production of a film may be part of the preparation of the thesis and the film... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A - 001 | CCN: 31220 | 31227
Instructor: Jessica Ruffin, Jonathan Mackris
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: MW 5-6:30pm; Screening: W 6:30-8:30pm The shutdown and shelter-in-place orders issued around the globe to stem the tide of Covid-19 forced a reckoning in how we think about space. Spaces... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus / Media, Power, & Resistance
R1A - 002 | CCN: 31222 | 31228
Instructor: Patrick Harrison,
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 11-12:30pm; Screening: Th: 5-8pm Media are the infrastructure of social life. In the digital age, more than ever before, the tools we use also use us: they condition the... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A - 003 | CCN: 31224 | 31229
Instructor: Chi Li
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuThu 12:30-2pm; Screening: W 3-6pm ... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus / Across Borders: Latin American Representations, Migrations, and the Multicultural Experience in International/Global/Transnational Perspectives
R1A - 004 | CCN: 31225 | 31230
Instructor: Jennifer Alpert
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 2-3:30pm; Screening: Tu 3:30-6:30pm In an increasingly globalized world, conceptual frameworks of borders and our paradigms for defining cinema’s regional and cultural origin and belonging are becoming further problematized.... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus / Stardom, Spectatorship, and Difference
R1A - 005 | CCN: 31226 | 31231
Instructor: Dolores McElroy
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 3:30-5pm; Screening: W 6-8pm This class is designed to introduce students to college-level academic writing in the humanities. The primary goal is to develop the core skills and techniques... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 001 | CCN: 31220
Instructor: Jessica Ruffin, Jonathan Daniel Mackris
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: M, W 5:00pm - 6:29pm
The shutdown and shelter-in-place orders issued around the globe to stem the tide of Covid-19 forced a reckoning in how we think about space. Spaces of labor, rest, community, and learning collapsed and intermingled. Even as the... More -
The Craft of Writing – Film Focus
R1A 002 | CCN: 31222
Instructor: , Patrick William Harrison
Location: Internet/Online
Date and Time: TU, TH 11:00am - 12:29pm
Media are the infrastructure of social life. In the digital age, more than ever before, the tools we use also use us: they condition the way we perceive, represent, think about, and relate to the world around... More -
The Craft of Writing 2 – Film Focus / The Mexican Horror Film
R1B - 001 | CCN: 31232 | 31238
Instructor: Katherine Guerra, Annie Felix
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: MW 5-6:30pm; Screening: W 6:30-8:30pm ... More -
The Craft of Writing 2 – Film Focus / Whose Poor Taste? Creating and Contesting Values on Screen
R1B - 002 | CCN: 31233 | 31240
Instructor: Lida Zeitlin Wu, Caleb Murray-Bozeman
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 11-12:30pm; Screening: Th 5-8pm When Tommy Wiseau’s low-budget independent drama The Room debuted in 2003, critics lampooned it as “one of the worst movies ever made.” Since its release... More -
Drawn Together: Crafted Worlds of Animation
R1B - 003 | CCN: 31234 | 31241
Instructor: Lisa Jacobson, Derek Price
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 12:30-2pm; Screening: W 3-6pm Film is famously built on an optical illusion: a series of still images quickly flit by, engaging your brain to fill in the gaps before... More -
The Craft of Writing 2 – Film Focus
R1B - 004 | CCN: 31235 | 31244
Instructor: Stephan Boman
*This course will be taught via Remote-Synchronous instruction. Lecture: TuTh 2:3:30pm; Screening Tu 3:30-6:30pm ... More