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  • Film and Media Studies
    College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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    ANT 3390 Visual Anthropology
    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. Projects and laboratory work with visual anthropology. (WR)
    ARH 4471 Late Twentieth Century Art
    Credits: 3. Prereq: ARH 2051, and art major or art history minor.
    Continuation of mid-twentieth century art (ARH 4453). Main movements in international art since about 1970 to the present. Focuses on the theory and various expressions of Post-Modernism. (H and N)
    ARH 4710 History of Photography
    Credits: 3. Prereq: ARH 2051, and art major or art history minor.
    Surveys major technical, stylistic, and critical directions in photography from the 19th century to the present. (H and N)
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    ART 3842C Performance and Installation
    Credits: 3. Prereq: ART 2701C or ART 2702C.
    Explores the complex relationships among object, body, site, space, and architecture using various visual media in the creation of installation and performance art.
    ART 3959C Video Art
    Credits: 3. Prereq: DIG 2131C, DIG 2282C and junior-level digital media major.
    Explores video with an emphasis on editing and building a personal vocabulary through the electronic image.
    ART 4630C Video Art: Advanced Projects
    Credits: 3. Prereq: ART 3959C.
    Focuses on the completion of larger scale student-directed projects with a special emphasis on pre-production planning and advanced editing techniques.
    ART 4631C Computer Art: Advanced Projects
    Credits: 6
    Advanced work in computer-mediated art, including animation and interactive works in both the physical and virtual domain, with special emphasis on completion of larger scale student-directed projects.
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    EME 4200 Production and Utilization of Educational Media
    Credits: 4.
    Studies educational production and utilization concepts. Experience gained in using media hardware and producing media in instructional/informational situations.
    EME 4401 Integrating Technology in the Elementary Curriculum
    Credits: 3; Prereq: EME 2040.
    Prepares elementary majors to effectively use technology in teaching and learning.
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    ENG 3113 The Movies as Narrative Art
    Credits: 4.
    Examines movies as a mode of storytelling by emphasizing the difference between verbal and visual narration, and relation to contemporary thought and values.
    ENG 3115 Introduction to Film: Criticism and Theory
    Credits: 4.
    Introduces the principal theoretical and critical issues raised by the first century of the cinema.
    ENG 3121 History of Film, Part 1
    Credits: 4.
    History of film from its beginnings to the introduction of sound.
    ENG 3122 History of Film, Part 2
    Credits: 4.
    History of film from the introduction of sound to 1960.
    ENG 3125 History of Film, Part 3
    Credits: 4.
    History of film from 1960 to the present.
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    ENG 4110 Film Genres, Directors, and Periods
    Credits: 4; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits.
    Variable topics concentrate on film genres (e.g., documentary, the musical, melodrama, the western, film noir), specific directors or major periods in cinematic history.
    ENG 4130 Race and Ethnicity in Film
    Credits: 4.
    Critical and historical study of films and videos by and about people of color in the Americas, Africa, Australia and Europe.
    ENG 4133 Film Studies
    Credits: 4; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits.
    Variable topics provide in-depth study of film genres, notable film directors, and other significant topics on subjects related to film.
    ENG 4134 Women and Film
    Credits: 4.
    Studies the roles and function of women in mainstream and alternative cinema, including study of feminist film criticism and theories of gender.
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    ENG 4135 National Cinemas
    Credits: 4; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits.
    Variable topics study of the films of historically important national cinemas, such as American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese.
    ENG 4136 Film and Video Production
    Credits: 4; can be repeated with change in content up to 8 credits.
    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 the electronic technology of video and computers.
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    FRT 3520 French Cinema
    Credits: 4 to 8; can be repeated with change in content up to 8 credits.
    Critical, theoretical and historical study of French cinema. Topics will be announced. Content may include key directors, 1930s cinema, nostalgia and masculinity in 1980s films, World War II cinema, and Colonial and Postcolonial cinema. Open to French majors and non-majors and is taught in English. (H and N)
    GET 4291 Women and German Cinema
    Credits: 4.
    Introduces the role of women in German film from Weimar to the present on both sides of the camera. Also covers basic concepts in feminist film theory.
    GET 4293 New German Cinema 1945 to Present
    Credits: 4.
    Introduces New German Cinema from its inception in the 1960s to its demise and its subsequent legacy, both in filmmaking and criticism.
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    IDS 4906 Interdisciplinary Thesis Research
    Credits: 1 to 12. Coreq: refer to the department.
    Research accommodation for thesis. (WR)
    ITT 3521 Italian Cinema
    Credits: 4 to 8; can be repeated with change in content up to 8 credits.
    Critical and historical study of Italian film and directors. Topics may vary. (H and N)
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    JPT 3391 Introduction to Japanese Film
    Credits: 4.
    Introduces the formal and historical features of Japanese film that have given it a unique position in film history. Emphasizes formal and critical analysis as well as the intellectual stakes of studying non-western film.
    LIT 3362 The Age of the Avant-Garde
    Credits: 3.
    Examines the revolutionary experimentalist aspects of modern and contemporary culture, such as cubism, surrealism, structuralism, and conceptualism.
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    PGY 3410C Photography: Color
    Credits: 3. Prereq: PGY 2441C, PGY 2442C, and junior-level art major.
    Consideration of the use and technique of color photography. Covers cameras, films, and darkroom developing techniques.
    PGY 3444C Photography: Black and White
    Credits: 3. Prereq: PGY 2441C, PGY 2442C, and junior-level art major.
    Fundamentals of photography, operation of the camera and developing, printing, and enlarging. Principles of photography as a means of personal expression.
    PGY 3820C Photography: Digital
    Credits: 3. Prereq: DIG 2131C, PGY 2441C, PGY 2442C, and junior-level art major.
    Studio methods and techniques in creating still images using electronic digital technology.
    PGY 4420C Advanced Photography
    Credits: 6; can be repeated with a change in content. Prereq: PGY 3410C, PGY 3421C, PGY 3444C, PGY 3820C, and senior-level art major.
    Use of the camera as a medium of individual creative expression. Experimental projects in black and white and color photography.
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    TPA 3217 Introduction to Lighting and Sound
    Credits: 4.
    Introduces 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.
    TPP 3311 Directing
    Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
    Practical application of theoretical concepts of directing applied to scene study.
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