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

    Instructor: Jaimie Rachel Baron

    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
  • Global Media – Global Queer Cinema

    145 001 | CCN: 26486

    Instructor: Iggy Cortez

    Location: Dwinelle 142

    Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm

    This course explores how queer cinema is mutually articulated with the contested notion of the global. In what ways does queerness help us to imagine a different world order? And how might post-colonial critique, critical race theory... More
  • Media Technologies – Digital Game Cultures

    155 001 | CCN: 31089

    Instructor: Jacob 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 – Cinema and Wonder

    170 001 | CCN: 24532

    Instructor: Jaimie Rachel Baron

    Location: Dwinelle 188

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

    Many who first encountered cinema in its early days were filled with wonder at the sight of moving images of the “real,” at the unprecedented capture and preservation of “time itself.” Although we have become habituated to... 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

    This class covers a century of popular genre and media in China across Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. We will study a few popular genres—musical, martial arts, comedy, animation—but also explore the broad horizon of media such... 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

    This intermediate film production course explores the process of making narrative shorts. Students will write, pre-visualize, direct and edit three short films and act as cinematographer and assistant director for three of their classmates’ projects. ... More
  • Intermediate Moving Image Production

    185 002 | CCN: 25302

    Instructor: Lazaro Gonzalez Gonzalez

    Location: Requested General Assignment

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

    Intermediate Moving Image Production will provide critical and technical skills to develop different moving image creation forms. The course will emphasize non-fiction and autoethnographic or hybrid forms of storytelling, but the student can choose any cinematographic genre... More
  • Special Topics in Media Production – The Essay Film

    187 001 | CCN: 33078

    Instructor: Private: Tijana Petrović

    Location: Dwinelle 135

    Date and Time: M 12:00pm - 2:59pm

    “Unlike the documentary film, which presents facts and information, the essay film produces complex thought – thought that, at times, is not grounded in reality but can be contradictory, irrational and fantastic.” – Nora Alter, from ‘The... More
  • Intermediate Film Writing

    193 001 | CCN: 31092

    Instructor: Private: 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 B45X

    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 – How “Big Data” Became Big

    R1A 004 | CCN: 31043

    Instructor: Joseph Coppola

    Location: Dwinelle 134

    Date and Time: M, W 6:30pm - 7:59pm

    “Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Black Art/Film Aesthetics

    R1B 001 | CCN: 24049

    Instructor: Osarugue Otebele

    Location: Dwinelle 134

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

    Since and prior to Stuart Hall’s critical 1993 essay “what is this Black in Black popular culture,” the question of Black aesthetics has been central to Blacks critical thought. Broad in its own sense, the concept of... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big

    R1B 002 | CCN: 25300

    Instructor: Joseph Coppola

    Location: Social Sciences Building 180

    Date and Time: TU, TH 3:30pm - 4:59pm

    “Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – How “Big Data” Became Big

    R1B 003 | CCN: 25413

    Instructor: Joseph Coppola

    Location: Social Sciences Building 80

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

    “Big Data” is both our present and future. It’s allegedly the new oil, the new resource to be extracted, and the key to unlocking cutting-edge decisions in government, business, and culture. If you’ve ever used a spam... More
  • The Craft of Writing – Film Focus – Film and the Environment

    R1B 004 | CCN: 31051

    Instructor: Booth Wilson

    Location: Evans 5

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

    Films have provided some of the most memorable, emotionally compelling images of nature that circulate in popular culture and an important means for environmental activism. To a greater extent than written media, cinema also directly affects the... More