Undergraduate Film
Undergraduate Film
2024 Fall Term
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VISUAL CULTURE IN AMERICA
FILM 110
This course explores the history and enduring significance of visual culture in America. Themes the course will explore include the role of technology in visual culture, modern consumerism, cinematic representation, and the postmodern digital collage of contemporary culture.
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
FILM 258
This course introduces some of the most recognizable storytelling modes and stylistic conventions documentary filmmakers have developed for shaping particular perspectives on the information they represent. Students will analyze how these modes and conventions suggest truthiness, enhance emotional impact, and shape social commentary.
GENDER AND FILM
FILM 266
Students will learn to critically view, consider, and describe films, with special attention to representations of sexuality and gender. The course will include instruction in gender theory and methods for deploying gender analysis in the context of film studies.
CRITICAL WRITING IN MULTIMEDIA CONTEXTS
FILM 272
This course will teach students to conceptualize, structure, and produce analytical writing in multiple forms within digital contexts. Since such contexts are often multi-modal--layered with visual images and sound--instruction will include the analysis and appropriation of the visual and auditory in critical writing.
FILM GENRE
FILM 350
Film Genre examines the conventions, development, and cultural contexts of a rotating selection of film genres, with a focus on the stylistic innovations, recurrent themes, and varying interpretations of representative films and/or filmmakers. Repeatable with change of instructor.
LITERATURE AND FILM
FILM 352
This course examines the complex cultural work of adapting literature to film. Through critical analysis of narrative fiction - short stories, novels, plays, graphic novels - and the films they inspire, students will investigate the history, narrative, conventions, iconic elements, and cultural significance of literary adaptations to film. Repeatable with topic change.
DOCUMENTARY PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
FILM 360
Students will plan, research, schedule, and manage a complex rhetorical project in the form of a documentary film. This project-based course highlights living documentation and project management principles, honing skills in research, analysis, integrative project design, argumentation, and team building.
SCREENWRITING
FILM 376
Practical experience in writing scripts for cinema and/or television, with special emphasis on the creative, theoretical, and critical processes.
CINEMA AUTEURS
FILM 483
In Cinema Auteurs, students will learn to analyze film in international contexts. The course will either focus on a director whose work crosses national and language boundaries or compare two established film directors, one working in English and one working in another language. Repeatable with topic change.
INDEPENDENT STUDY
FILM 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable.