Film (FILM)

FILM100
Language of Cinema

Description: Introduction to the analysis of images and sound in film.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:Film Studies
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM177
The Holocaust in Literature and FilmCrosslisted with JUDS 177

Description: Experience of Jews in Europe from 1933-1945. Issues of racism and religious prejudice and assumptions about humanism, tolerance and progress.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

FILM200
Introduction to Film History

Description: Historical survey of film, from the invention of the photographic image in the 19th century to the present day, covering a wide range of styles and themes and a diverse array of films from around the world. Weekly film screenings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM211
Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in FilmCrosslisted with WMNS 211

Description: Introductory overview of theories of gender and sexuality in relation to film.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity

FILM219
Film Genre

Weekly film screenings.

Description: Various film genres, such as Gothic, the Western, and film noir, from their inception in the early 1900s to the present day.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM239
Film Directors

May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.

Description: Films of one director or a small group of directors. Weekly film screenings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM244
Introduction to Ethnicity and FilmCrosslisted with ETHN 244B

Description: Samples film representations of people across lines of ethnicity. Topics include identities and inter/intra-relations of power and the interrogation of the socio-cultural, historical, and political dynamics at work within films at the time of production.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

FILM269
Film Period

May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.

Description: Intensive examination of artistic movements and major directors in an important historic period of film. Examples: Russian film of the '20s, the French New Wave, Hollywood in the '30s. Weekly film screenings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 5 Humanities

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 5 Humanities

FILM291
Special Topics In Film

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE:

FILM311
Intermediate Studies in Gender and Sexuality in FilmCrosslisted with WMNS 311

Prerequisites: 3 hours FILM or 3 hours WMNS

Description: Studies in contemporary film theory and criticism informed by feminist, queer, and transgender theories. Weekly film screenings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 9 Global/Diversity

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity

FILM344
Intermediate Studies in Ethnicity and FilmCrosslisted with ETHN 344

Prerequisites: 3hrs FILM or 3hrs ETHN

May be repeated once for credit with a different topic and different instructor.

Description: Construction of ethnic identities in film and TV and the impact of such images on American culture.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Groups:CAS Diversity in the US

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

FILM349
National Cinemas

May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.

Description: Films produced in one country, seen in their aesthetic and historical context. Examples: Italian cinema since World War II, Japanese cinema, Australian cinema.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM373
Film Theory and Criticism

Description: Study of particular film theories and methods of applied criticism for the intermediate or advanced student with previous film study experience. Weekly film screenings.

This course is a prerequisite for: ENGL 471

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM399
Undergraduate Thesis

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

FILM399H
Honors Undergraduate Thesis

Prerequisites: Permission.

Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

FILM413
FilmCrosslisted with FILM 813

May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.

Description: Study of specific critical and historical film theory and approaches to film history using more difficult texts (both as films and as readings) for the students, to create an intense immersion into more complex films and critical readings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM439
Film DirectorsCrosslisted with FILM 839

May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.

Description: Intensive study of the films of one director or a small group of directors, with emphasis on an auteur approach. Weekly film screenings.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:6
Grading Option:Graded with Option
Course and Laboratory Fee:$30
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM459
Writing For FilmCrosslisted with FILM 859

Description: Development of screenplays.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option
ACE Outcomes: ACE 7 Arts

Credit Hours:3

ACE:ACE 7 Arts

FILM462
Feminist Media StudiesCrosslisted with COMM 462, WMNS 462

Description: Explores how messages conveyed by television, film, stand-up comedy, and social media shape viewers' ideas and attitudes about feminism and contribute to both normative and emerging cultural beliefs about gender and sexuality.

Course details
Credit Hours:3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded
Offered:SPRING

Credit Hours:3

ACE:

FILM491
Special Topics in Film

Description: Topics vary.

Course details
Credit Hours:1-3
Max credits per semester:3
Max credits per degree:3
Grading Option:Graded with Option

Credit Hours:1-3

ACE: