Lower-Division

FILM 10 Professional Topics in Film, Television, and Digital Media

Taught by a working professional, lectures and workshop provide students with career-related information and insight into a specific profession in film, television, and digital media. Students research various aspects of a film, television, or digital media profession.

Credits

2

Instructor

Rebekah Leekley

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared film and digital media majors and minors.

FILM 20A Introduction to Film Studies

An introduction to the basic elements, range, and diversity of cinematic representation and expression. Aesthetic, theoretical, and critical issues are explored in the context of class screenings and critical readings. If space allows, restrictions may be lifted after priority enrollment.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared film and digital media majors and film and digital media minors. Students pursuing the minor may contact the instructor for a permission code.

Quarter offered

Fall, Summer

FILM 20B Introduction to Television Studies

Introduction to the basic forms of televisual presentation, including differing narrative structure from movies and situation comedies to soap opera, plus modes of direct discourse in news, advertising, sports, music, television, and other genres. Alternative forms and modes in electronic media, such as independent video art and documentary, public television, cable, and electronic networks are explored, with their potential for expressing cultural diversity set in relation to social, cultural, and political conditions. If space allows, restrictions may be lifted after priority enrollment.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared film and digital media majors and film and digital media minors. Students pursuing the minor may contact the instructor for a permission code.

Quarter offered

Spring

FILM 20C Introduction to Digital Media

Introduces fundamental features of digital media and examines the immense visual, social, and psychological impact of the digital revolution on our culture. Topics include the concepts and forms of the digital hypertext interface, Internet, and web, and the impact of digital media on conceptions of the self, body, identity, and community. If space allows, restrictions may be lifted after priority enrollment.

Credits

5

Instructor

Warren Sack

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared film and digital media majors and film and digital media minors. Students pursuing the minor may contact the instructor for a permission code.

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 20P Introduction to Production Technique

Introduction to the production processes of visual/aural, time-based, creative work. Students work on a range of creative projects: performed, written, photographed, and created digitally. Assignments emphasize imaginative problem-solving, collaboration, visualization, and critical media literacy. 

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to proposed and declared film and digital media majors.

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Spring, Summer

FILM 80A The Film Experience

Students learn to understand how films reach the public through a collaborative, industrial, and artistic practice; how films work in a narrative sense; how they construct meanings for viewers; and how their formal techniques construct different possibilities for meaning and interpretation.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Fall

FILM 80M Understanding Media

Introduces students to contemporary concerns, issues, and topics of media and media criticism. With an emphasis on visual analysis, students develop conceptual tools to think critically about photography, cinema, television, video, and print journalism.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 80S Special Topics in Film and Digital Media

Study of selected aspects of film, television, and/or digital media. Includes weekly screenings and historical/theoretical readings.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Fall, Spring

FILM 80T Technothrillers

Examination of recent films classified as thrillers that approach technology (computers, robotics, biotech, the Internet, etc.) through suspense, anxiety, and paranoia. It will also address how technologically produced popular culture negotiates attitudes toward technological change.

Credits

5

Instructor

Soraya Murray

General Education Code

PE-T

FILM 80V Video Games as Visual Culture

Through aesthetic, medium-specific and critical theories of electronic games, course introduces histories, ideas, and debates that inform critical game studies. Themes include: games and cinema; race, class, gender, sexuality and representation; visual/cultural studies approaches; topical issues in games.

Credits

5

Instructor

Soraya Murray, The Staff

General Education Code

PE-T

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 80X Sex in the Cinema

Examines the historical representation of sexual difference, orientation, and politics in film and video using cultural studies, political and economic historiography, and feminist and queer theory and paying special attention to intersections of U.S. political movements with filmmaking and reception.

Credits

5

General Education Code

IM

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

DANM 250F Film, Moving Image Installation, and Curatorial Lab

Workshop investigating moving and still images to create visual and sonic languages for production, exhibition and installation. Core faculty Mark Nash and Isaac Julien invite students to participate in ongoing projects as well as present and discuss their own work. Established artists, film makers and curators are also invited to present their work to the group. (Formerly offered as Research Group: Isaac Julien Studio Lab.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FILM 250F, HISC 250F

Instructor

Isaac Julien

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

KRSG 2 Power and Representation in Media

Introduction to media representations and their consequences for individuals and communities. Assignments emphasize dialogic and collaborative processes of critical reflection on media materials. Materials in a variety of media address struggles for representation, justice, and agency--especially relative to race, gender, citizenship/documentation, and communities of diaspora--in terms of media frameworks and the dialogues they foment.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

FILM 2

Instructor

Chad Noyes

General Education Code

PR-E

Quarter offered

Winter

SOCD 293 Studies and Practice for Social Documentation, Filmmaking, and New Media

This thematic, graduate-level, hybrid, production/critical studies course provides opportunities to learn specific technical skills while engaging in the analysis and critical interpretations of cinema, social documentary, animation, art, television, and new media. Technical topics may include animation; motion graphics; interactive web media; and installation, editing, cinematography, and sound.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FILM 233

Instructor

Susana Ruiz

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students in social documentation. Graduate students from other programs may enroll by permission of the instructor.

Quarter offered

Winter