Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of English

FILM 120 Introduction to Film

(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.
3

Corequisites

FILM 121

Course Attribute

LAA1-Arts&Hum-Arts&Expression and GT Arts

FILM 121 Screening For Film 120

Required once per week screening time to complement Film 120.
0

Corequisites

FILM 120

FILM 210 History of Film I

(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.
3

Corequisites

FILM 220

FILM 211 History of Film II

(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.
3

Corequisites

FILM 221

FILM 220 Screening For Film 210

Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 210.
0

Corequisites

FILM 210

FILM 221 Screening For Film 211

Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 211.
0

Corequisites

FILM 211

FILM 230 Introduction to Filmmaking

This hands-on course introduces students to the basics of the short-film production process: from scripting, development, shooting, editing, to marketing.

3

Offered

Generally offered Fall Annually

Course Fee

Course Fee Required

FILM 310 Film Theory and Criticism

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.
3

Prerequisites

FILM 120 with a minimum grade of D-

Corequisites

FILM 311

FILM 311 Screening for Film 310

Required once per week film screening time to complement FILM 310.
0

Corequisites

FILM 310

FILM 320 Special Topics in Film

(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.
3

Corequisites

FILM 321

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course is repeatable with a maximum of 9 credit hours

FILM 321 Screening For Film 320

Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 320. S/U graded.
0

Corequisites

FILM 320

FILM 330 Studies in a Genre or Director

(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.
3

Corequisites

FILM 331

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course is repeatable with a maximum of 9 credit hours

FILM 331 Screening For Film 330

Required once per week film screening time to complement FILM 330.
0

Corequisites

FILM 330

FILM 350 Advanced Filmmaking

A hands-on course in advanced visual and aural storytelling through the medium of cinema.
3

Prerequisites

(FILM 230 or ENG 229 with a minimum grade of D-)

Course Fee

Course Fee Required

FILM 379 Film and Literature

This course considers the relationship between literature and film, including the aesthetic and commercial processes of adaptation and media convergence.

3

Offered

Generally offered Spring - Check with department/school for next offering

Course Attribute

Variable Title Course

Repeatable Status

ST - Repeatable under different subtitles and course is repeatable with a maximum of 6 credit hours

FILM 400 Teaching Film

This course introduces methods of teaching and using film in the classroom. It emphasizes theories of film pedagogy and includes actual classroom practice.
3

Prerequisites

FILM 120 with a minimum grade of D-

Corequisites

FILM 401

FILM 401 Screening for Film 400

Required once per week screening time to complement FILM 400.
0

Corequisites

FILM 400