(3 lecture, 1 film screening) Learning to analyze film and appreciate film as art by looking at a variety of styles, genres, and ideological directions in Hollywood and non-Hollywood films.
FILM 121
Required once per week screening time to complement Film 120.
FILM 120
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) A survey of film history from its beginnings to 1945, focusing on cinema's development from aesthetic, social, technological, and economic perspectives. Includes selected issues in film theory.
FILM 220
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) A survey of cinema from 1945 to the present day. This course will study innovations in technology and production as well as formal developments in narrative, editing, cinematography, and sound.
FILM 221
Required once per week screening time to complement
FILM 210.
FILM 210
Required once per week screening time to complement
FILM 211.
FILM 211
A historical survey of film theories and criticism, including formalist and structuralist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theory. Genre theory and theories of spectator-ship and audience response will also be considered.
FILM 120: with minimum grade of D-
FILM 311
Required once per week film screening time to complement
FILM 310.
FILM 310
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) This course will allow students to study a particular area of film criticism, history, or theory, or consider a specific national cinema.
FILM 321
Required once per week screening time to complement
FILM 320.
FILM 320
(3 lecture, 1 film screening) An introduction to key theories and methods of analysis in genre studies or auteur theory, focusing on a particular genre or a particular director.
FILM 331
Required once per week film screening time to complement
FILM 330.
FILM 330
This hands-on course introduces students to the basics of the short-film production process: from scripting, development, shooting, editing, to marketing.
FILM 120: with minimum grade of D-
This course introduces methods of teaching and using film in the classroom. It emphasizes theories of film pedagogy and includes actual classroom practice
FILM 120: with minimum grade of D-
FILM 401
Required once per week screening time to complement
FILM 400.
FILM 400