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FILM R1A The Craft of Writing - Film Focus 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse with a film focus. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 2 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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FILM R1B The Craft of Writing - Film Focus 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
Intensive argumentative writing stimulated through selected readings, films, and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Previously passed an R1A course with a letter grade of C- or better. <BR/>Previously passed an articulated R1A course with a letter grade of C- or better. <BR/>Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature and Composition. <BR/>Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. <BR/>Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English

Requirements this course satisfies: Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 4 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Final exam not required.

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FILM 10 Film History & Form 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course will focus on the development of film art, technology, and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Examines the development of film art, technology, and industry from the media environments and visual cultures of the late 19th century to the international conversion to synchronized sound cinema in the early 1930s.

Student Learning Outcomes: Acquire a conceptual vocabulary necessary for the examination of the relationship between film technology and adjacent media practices (photography, the panorama, vaudeville, etc.).
Acquire new informational content about the development of cinematic technologies within the media environment of late 19th-century visual-cultural and popular scientific interest in optical experiments.


Develop the analytic skills necessary to perform socio-historically grounded formal interpretation of film texts.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture, 1-1 hours of discussion, and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture, 2.5-2.5 hours of discussion, and 0-6 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FILM 20 Film and Media Theory 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
This course is intended to introduce undergraduates to the study of a range of media, including photography, film, television, video, and print and digital media. The course will focus on questions of medium "specificity" or the key technological/material, formal and aesthetic features of different media and modes of address and representation that define them. Also considered is the relationship of individual media to time and space, how individual media construct their audiences or spectators, and the kinds of looking or viewing they enable or encourage. The course will discuss the ideological effects of various media, particularly around questions of racial and sexual difference, national identity, capitalism, and power.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture, 0-1 hours of discussion, and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture, 0-3 hours of discussion, and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FILM 25 Introduction to Digital Video Production 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
The objective of this class is to provide a basic technical foundation for digital video film production while emphasizing the techniques and languages of creative moving image media from traditional story genres to more contemporary experimental forms. Training will move from pre-production-scripting and storyboarding, through production, including image capture, lighting and sound recording, to post-production with non-linear digital editing programs such as Final Cut Pro and editing strategies and aesthetics. The course will consist of lectures/screenings, discussion/critique, visiting artists, and production workshops in which students produce a series of exercises and a final project.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Film 25A

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-4 hours of lecture and 2-4 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 6-8 hours of lecture and 7-8 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: Film and Media 26

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FILM 25A The History of Film 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Summer 2019 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2019
From the beginnings through the conversion to sound up until World War II era. In addition to the development of the silent film, the course will conclude with an examination of the technology of sound conversion and examples of early sound experiments.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week
8 weeks - 6-6 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FILM 25B The History of Film 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018
The sound era from World War II to present time.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Film and Media 25A

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week
8 weeks - 6-6 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FILM 30 Film Aesthetics 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course will focus on topics in the history, theory and aesthetics of sound cinema.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Examines the signifying strategies of selected cinema movements from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. Familiarizes the students with the major technological and aesthetic innovations of the past 80 years which have given rise to the cinema as we know it today.

Student Learning Outcomes: Acquire a conceptual vocabulary to describe and analyze the formal strategies of films and the way they construct meaning.
Develop tools for analyzing the way film texts not only provide entertainment, but also produce cultural meanings and generate modes of experience (for example, of race, class, gender, sexuality, nation) and of social interaction.

Foster students’ awareness of the aesthetic, economic, social and political contexts in which sound cinema developed and the impact which cinema had, in turn, on nations, cultures, and historical events.
Give students a clear sense of some of the major movements in sound cinema (including classical and post-classical Hollywood cinema, documentary, Italian Neo-Realism, the French New Wave, Third Cinema, Political Cinema of the 1960s-‘70s, and film in the era of global multimedia) and how those movements intertwined with critical, theoretical, and popular responses to the medium.
Introduce students to the theoretical frameworks that have shaped thinking about the cinema.

Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for FILM 30 after completing FILM 25B. A deficient grade in FILM 30 may be removed by taking FILM 25B.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-6 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FILM 35 Digital Media Studies 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course will focus on introductory topics related to the field of digital media studies.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Examines the ways in which digital media first developed and have come to shape our engagement with contemporary culture, with a particular focus on aesthetics, form, and politics.

Student Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, analyze, and describe themes in contemporary media and digital culture.
2. Acquire a conceptual vocabulary necessary for the examination of digital media technology and to understand the advantages and limits of that approach.
3. Understand the influence of digital media technologies on contemporary culture, including digital software, hardware, platforms, and interfaces.
4. Develop the research tools for advanced undergraduate writing on film and media in the area studied in the course

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-6 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Alternative to final exam.

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FILM 39 Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 2 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester. Enrollment limits are set by the faculty, but the suggested limit is 25.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final Exam To be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.

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FILM 45 Television Studies 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course will focus on the industrial, technological, and aesthetic history of television.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Examines how technological developments, industrial structures and practices, and cultural contexts determine the form and content of televisual texts.

Student Learning Outcomes: Acquire conceptual vocabulary necessary for examining the mutual influence of media practices and cultural values.
Acquire new informational content about the major phases of television history with emphasis on how changes in industrial practice influence form and style.
Develop the analytic skills necessary to produce historically-grounded readings of televisual texts that demonstrate critical insights into the relationship between cultural context, narrative, and aesthetics.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of lecture and 0-3 hours of laboratory per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5-7.5 hours of lecture and 0-6 hours of laboratory per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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FILM 50 Introduction to Film for Nonmajors 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Summer 2017 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
An introduction to film art and film technique for students who are interested in exploring the history and aesthetics of cinema but do not intend to major in film. The course traces the development of world cinema from the first films of the 1890s to the 1970s, drawing on examples from American, European, Asian, and Third World cinema.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture and 3 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Film and Media/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.