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Department of Cinema & Media Arts

Courses

Core Courses for the Major

  • 1500: Fundamentals of Film and Video Production introduces students to technologies and techniques of filmmaking. Topics include digital video cameras, staging and lighting, sound recording, post-production sound, and image editing. This course is offered on a graded basis only. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 1600: Introduction to Film and Media Studies introduces students to stylistic tendencies and narrative strategies, genres, and theoretical approaches within film and media. Topics include ive-action cinema, animation, experimental cinema, television, and computer-generated moving images. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2240: Narrative Filmmaking focuses on fictional media production. Topics include the art and practice of scripted storytelling for cinema, television, and digital media. Offered on a graded basis only. Not open to students who completed CMA 3891-01 offered fall 2022. Prerequisite: 1500. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2250: 16mm Filmmaking focuses on camera operation, lighting, non-sync sound design, and film pre-production for 16 mm and celluloid film. Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite 1500. [3] (No AXLE credit)

 

  • 2260: Digital Production Workshop explores digital cinematography, sound design, and editing. The workload includes individual and group projects. Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite 1500. [3] (No AXLE credit)

 

  • 2270: Documentary Filmmaking addresses nonfiction media production. Topics include the history, theory, practice, and ethical considerations of nonfiction modes. Offered on a graded basis only. Not open to students who completed CMA 3891-02 offered spring 2022. Prerequisite: 1500. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2280: Alternative Media Modes explores genres, styles, and techniques outside of the dominant modes of media-making. The course places emphasis on media production. Offered on a graded basis only. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2300: Film and Media Theory offers a historical overview of the major analytical and critical approaches to the study of film as an aesthetic and cultural form. The course also addresses contemporary perspectives on cinema, video, and new media.  [3] (P)

 

  • 2301: Race in Film and Media studies racialization through cinema and modern media’s infrastructures and aesthetics. It explores the mbrication of race and audiovisual culture in wider cultural contexts, such as the histories of capitalism, the Civil Rights movement, and questions of gender and sexuality. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2302: Global Queer Cinema explores the aesthetics and circulation of queer cinema in different national and transnational contexts. It also addresses the impacts of queer cinema and theory in relation to globalization, diaspora, and transnational politics. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2370: Film and Media Aesthetics addresses such media forms as cinema, television, and digital media, offering advanced historical, cultural, and textual analysis. Topics include form, genre, movements, style, and technology. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 2400: History of World Cinema offers a survey of world film history from 1895 to the present. Topics include key films and filmmakers, as well as the historical, aesthetic, national, and political contexts of films and film movements. [3] (HCA)

 

  • 4961 or 4962: Senior Seminar offers students advanced readings and research in film and/or advanced exploration of independent filmmaking, portfolio assembly, and professionalism. Offered on a graded basis only. Prerequisite:1600 and senior standing. [3] (No AXLE credit)