Credits: 3; Prereq: basic knowledge of photography or instructor permission.
Uses photography and film as tools and products of social science. Ways of describing, analyzing and presenting behavior and cultural ideas through visual means. Student projects and laboratory work with visual anthropology. (WR)
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Continuation of mid-twentieth century art (ARH 4453). Main movements in international art since about 1970 to the present. Focus is on the theory and various expressions of Post-Modernism. (H and N)
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Survey of major technical, stylistic and critical directions in photography, 19th century on. (H and N)
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
An introduction to time-based art practice including performance, installation, sound and visual media.
ART 3959C Video Art: Production and Post-Production
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
An exploration of video with an emphasis on editing and building a personal vocabulary through the electronic image.
Credits: 6; Prereq: refer to the department.
Focus on the completion of larger scale student directed projects with a special emphasis on pre-production planning and advanced editing techniques.
Credits: 6; Prereq: refer to the department.
Advanced work in computer-mediated art including animation and interactive works in both the physical and virtual domain with a special emphasis on the completion of larger scale student-directed projects.
EME 4200 Production and Utilization of Educational Media
Credits: 4.
Study of educational production and utilization concepts. Experience will be gained in using media hardware and producing media in instructional/informational situations.
EME 4401 Integrating Technology in the Early Childhood Curriculum
Credits: 3; Prereq: EME 2040.
Prepares early childhood majors to effectively use technology in teaching and learning.
Credits: 4.
An examination of the movies as a mode of storytelling, with emphasis upon the difference between verbal and visual narration, and relation to contemporary thought and values.
ENG 3115 Introduction to Film: Criticism and Theory
Credits: 4.
An introduction to the principal theoretical and critical issues raised by the first century of the cinema.
Credits: 4.
History of the film from its beginnings to the introduction of sound.
Credits: 4.
History of the film from sound to the present.
ENG 4110 Film Genres, Directors, and Periods
Credits: 4.
A variable topics course concentrating on film genres (e.g., documentary, the musical, melodrama, the western, film noir), specific directors or major periods in cinematic history.
Credits: 4.
A critical and historical study of films and videos by and about people of color in the Americas, Africa, Australia and Europe.
Credits: 4.
A variable content course for the in-depth study of film genres, notable film directors and other significant subjects related to film.
Credits: 4.
A study of the roles and function of women in mainstream and alternative cinema, including study of feminist film criticism and theories of gender.
Credits: 4; can be repeated with a change in content up to 12 credits; refer to the department.
A variable content course for study of the films of one or more of the historically important national cinemas (e.g., American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese).
Credits: 4; Prereq: refer to the department.
A seminar on the independent and experimental uses of small-format film and video production.
ENG 4139 Television and Electronic Culture
Credits: 4.
Explores the development of new modes of thought, forms of art, popular culture, and social practices based on electronic technology (video and computers).
Credits: 4 to 8; can be repeated with change in content up to 8 credits. Not for credit in the major.
A critical, theoretical and historical study of French cinema. Topics will be announced. Content can include key directors, 1930s cinema, nostalgia and masculinity in 1980s films, World War II cinema, Colonial and Postcolonial cinema. The class is open to French majors and non-majors and is taught in English.
(H and N)
Credits: 4.
An introduction to the role of women in German film from Weimar to the present on both sides of the camera. Basic concepts in feminist film theory will also be covered.
GET 4293 New German Cinema 1945 to Present
Credits: 4.
An introduction to New German Cinema from its inception in the 1960s to its demise and its subsequent legacy, both in filmmaking and criticism.
IDS 4906 Interdisciplinary Thesis Research
Credits: 1 to 12. Coreq: refer to the department.
Research for thesis. (WR)
Credits: 4 to 8; can be repeated with change in content up to 8 credits.
A critical and historical study of Italian film and directors. Topics may vary. (H and N)
Credits: 4.
Introduction to the formal and historical features of Japanese film that have given it a unique position in film history. Course emphasizes formal and critical analysis as well as the intellectual stakes of studying non-western film.
Credits: 3.
An examination of the revolutionary experimentalist aspects of modern and contemporary culture, such as cubism, surrealism, structuralism and conceptualism.
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
A consideration of the use and technique of color photography. Cameras, films and darkroom developing techniques are covered.
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Fundamentals of photography, operation of the camera and developing, printing, and enlarging. Principles of photography as a means of personal expression.
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Studio methods and techniques in creating still images using electronic digital technology.
Credits: 6; can be repeated for credit. Prereq: refer to the department.
Use of the camera as a medium of individual creative expression. Experimental projects in black and white and color photography.
TPA 3217 Introduction to Lighting and Sound
Credits: 4.
Introduction to electricity and technical skills basic to lighting and sound technology.
TPP 3103 Acting 2 - Analysis and Application
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Experimentation with scripted material: scene study, analysis, audition and performance.
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Practical application of theoretical concepts of directing applied to scene study.