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Undergraduate Film

2025 Spring 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.

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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.

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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.

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STAGE PLAYS AND FILM

FILM 354

In this course, students will study stage plays as well as the ways in which screenwriters and filmmakers adapt those plays for the big screen. Repeatable with change in topic.

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TEXT AND IMAGE

FILM 356

This course is a theoretical and practical study of story-based visual media and how audiences understand what they see. It introduces principles of narrative and traces how these have changed (or not changed) through the evolution of both the media we consume and the nature of our media consumption. Primary materials include comics, tv, film, and video games.

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TOPICS IN FILM STUDIES

FILM 358

This course considers important issues in Film Studies not fully addressed in regular film courses. Topics offered will be of particular social and academic importance. Repeatable with change of instructor.

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DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION PRACTICUM

FILM 362

In this advanced production course, students will collaborate in small teams to develop, plan, film, and edit short documentaries that feature an issue directly impacting the local community, either on campus or in the southern Wisconsin region.

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QUEER CINEMA

FILM 374

In Queer Cinema, students will deploy analyses of gender and sexuality that respond to the possibilities and limitations of the medium. Queer Cinema is appropriate for any student who wishes to learn how to apply complex theories of gender representation and sexual identity to the analysis of visual narratives.

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SCREENWRITING

FILM 376

Practical experience in writing scripts for cinema and/or television, with special emphasis on the creative, theoretical, and critical processes.

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FILM THEORY

FILM 485

In this course, students will learn how film theory developed, study the work of major film theorists, and analyze specific films using sophisticated theoretical lenses. Topics will vary.

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INTERNSHIP IN FILM

FILM 493

Practical experience working for an employer in film or media production or presentation, collaboratively supervised by a faculty member and a representative of the employer.

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INDEPENDENT STUDY

FILM 498

Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable.