Undergraduate Film
Undergraduate Film
2026 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.
WRITING ABOUT FILM AND MEDIA
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.
VISUAL STORYTELLING
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.
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.
GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND RACE IN FILM
FILM 366
This course introduces students to the long-standing yet ever-evolving ways in which films represent the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class in America. Practice critically viewing films, constructing arguments about cultural transmission through visual media, and posing ethical questions regarding the past, present, and future of cinematic representation.
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.
SCREENWRITING
FILM 376
Practical experience in writing scripts for cinema and/or television, with special emphasis on the creative, theoretical, and critical processes.
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.
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.
INDEPENDENT STUDY
FILM 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member. Repeatable.