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1 Classes That Count Towards the Film and Media Studies Major ART AND ART HISTORY DEPARTMENT: UUDG FM Introduction to Film Production Friedland, ART 0/15 ---W--- 1:00PM 4:00PM This class will introduce students to the fundamentals of filmmaking pre-production, script writing, directing, cinematography, sound recording, editing and distribution. Through the creation of their own films and through the careful analysis of the work of experienced filmmakers, students will explore a variety of stylistic approaches including documentary, experimental, and narrative filmmaking, with an emphasis on low budget, independent digital video production. Written and creative assignments will emphasize presentation and execution of ideas, professionalism, and collaboration. UUDG FM Special Topics: Film and Media Studies Radio Production STAFF ART 0/15 ---W--- 6:00PM 9:00PM This course will provide students with an introduction to radio production. It will cover various forms of radio including radio documentaries, PSAs, stingers, bumpers, imagers, drops, & vox pops, etc. Students will advance their skills in interviewing, audio storytelling strategies, microphones, audio editing, radio business, and funding strategies. Through the creation of their own radio material, students will gain practical and analytical skills and will be evaluated on participation, written work and creative projects. UUDG FM Special Topics: Film and Media Studies STAFF ART 0/15 -M :00PM 4:00PM This course introduces students to the history and analysis of different forms of media including, radio, television, video games and the Internet. Students will gain an understanding of why media is so pervasive in society and how to properly read and decode it. They will also analyze the artistry and technique of media production from radio plays of the 1920s to present day interactive media art. Students will be evaluated on participation, written work and creative projects. UUDG FM400 S1 Senior Reflective Tutorial Friedland, ART 0/15 --T---- 6:00PM 9:00PM This course offers the senior major the opportunity to embark on a field-based project aligned with their particular concentration. The project will be decided upon in conjunction with their advisor, and might take the form of an internship with a film or media-based firm, an independent production project, and/or an in-depth research project. In addition to spending a minimum of 100 hours on independent work for the project, the student will be responsible for meeting with their advisor on a weekly basis, completing a series of multimedia journal entries documenting their work, and composing a final paper linking their project experience with the theoretical/academic background gained over the course of their studies within their particular concentration and capstone courses. Senior standing is required. Co-requisite FM490. UUDG FM490 S1 Capstone Course: Film Theory Friedland, ART 0/ R-- 6:00PM 9:00PM

2 This course provides a critical, historical, and global survey of the major questions, concepts, and trends in film theory. We will examine how the study of film has been influenced by various social, cultural, political, ethical, and economic theories and how our identities help to shape and are shaped by the moving image. Possible areas of exploration include: authorship, class, gender, psychoanalysis, race, realism and spectatorship. This course will also look ahead towards future trends of media making, interaction, and analysis. Senior standing is required. Co-requisite FM400 Film Photography I- 4 sections Fundamental techniques and principles of 35mm film photography. Craft (camera know-how, film developing, and printing) and content (what to put on film) and their relationships in visual communication. Weekly Lab work is required outside of class period. Students will be provided with a "starter kit" of film and paper, but camera (manually operated 35mm film camera with a fixed lens of 50mm) is responsibility of the student. Offered fall and spring semesters and summer session. UUDG AR Film Photography I Schneir, S ART 0/12 -M :00AM 1:00PM UUDG AR Film Photography I Schneir, S ART 0/12 -M :40PM 5:40PM UUDG AR Film Photography I Reonegro ART 0/12 ---W--- 6:00PM 9:00PM UUDG AR Film Photography I Reonegro ART 0/12 --T---- 6:00PM 9:00P AR130 Digital Photography- 2 sections An introduction to the basic techniques and aesthetics of digital photography including cameras, tools, printing and on-line imaging. UUDG AR Digital Photography Mauro, P ART 0/14 --T---- 2:40PM 5:40PM UUDG AR Digital Photography Mauro, P ART 0/14 --T---- 6:00PM 9:00PM Advertising Art I:Graphic Design- 2 sections The student will create graphics using the Macintosh computer. The making of websites, animation, and print products will demonstrate the knowledge of software concepts and design principles; the use of type, page layout color, digital imaging, and motion. Projects will reflect the student s personal interests and will form the beginning of a digital portfolio. Offered fall and spring semesters.

3 UUDG AR Advertising Art I:Graphic Design Needle ART 0/14 -M-W--- 2:40PM 4:10PM UUDG AR Advertising Art I:Graphic Design Needle ART 0/14 -M-W--- 4:20PM 5:50PM. UUDG AH Contemporary Art, Theory, and Criticism Morowitz ART 0/25 -M :00PM 4:00PM This course familiarized students with contemporary art practice, debates in art theory and criticism and the most important issues facing the artist today. We will examine the work of diverse artists in the context of larger social, political, economic and aesthetic issues. In addition, we will look at issues such as the role of the museum today, censorship and the impact of the internet on contemporary art making. The works of important contemporary critics and theorists are explored ENGLISH DEPARTMENT UUDG EN291(W)-ILC 7A Special Topics: English Topics/World Culture/Cinema (I) Thomas, S. ENGL 0/6 --T-R-- 2:40PM 4:10PM This course will engage with world cinema by watching and analyzing the movies and television of different cultures. It may address issues of ethnicity, race, gender, nationality, international relations, and/or the question of globalization. It will comparatively analyze the movies for two or more countries, or focus on transnational political movements in cinema cultures such as "third cinema" and "pan-africanism. UUDG EN Special Topics: English Screenplay Writing STAFF ENGL 0/18 --T-R-- 1:00PM 2:30PM This course will introduce students to film and television screenplay structure. Students will analyze the work of accomplished screenwriters in different genres (comedy, drama, horror, adaptation etc) and will learn to apply this analysis to their own screenplay writing. They will learn about character construction, narrative arch, story telling strategies, and proper screenwriting form. Students will be evaluated on their participation, creative writing (screenplays) and analytical writing. THEATER AND SPEECH DEPARTMENT: UUDG TH Script Analysis Ruff THEA 0/24 --T-R-- 2:40PM 4:20PM An introduction to dramatic theory, structure, analysis and theatre literature. Students will read one to two plays weekly and participate in class discussion.

4 UUDG TH Acting for the Camera Sgambati B THEA 0/14 --T-R-- 1:00PM 2:30PM This course offers an introduction to on camera performance in film and television. Students will participate in monologue and scene work based on age and type, and will learn the fundamentals of adapting their own acting technique and experience to the specific demands, protocols,and technical challenges of filmed media, from the audition process to the final shoot. Class content will include monologue and scene rehearsal and presentation, an introduction to the process of on-camera production and discussion of the professional film and television industries. Out of class time will be required for the preparation of scenes and monologues MODERN LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND LITERACTURES DEPARTMENT: UUDG IT357(W) 01 Italian Cinema (I) Sorrentino MDNL 0/20 ---W--- 6:00PM 9:00PM From neorelist drama to the spaghetti western, from screwball comedy to underground horror film, Italian cinematic imports have inspired American films, In addition, Italian films paint a fascinating portrait of Italian society as it has evolved over the course of the 20th century. This course will examine landmark works of Italian films as both works of narrative art and as products of a rich and ever-chaning culture. Issues of gender, class, religion, and politics will be addressed. MUSIC DEPARTMENT MU 291 Special Topics: Music in Film Schulenberg ---T- R-- 11:20am to 12:50pm This course provides an introduction to the use of music in film and related media, considered broadly. It is open to any student and does not require previous study of music. It fulfills one unit of the Arts (general education) requirement, and it also can be counted as an elective for those with a major, minor, or concentration in Music. This includes Arts Adminstration majors taking the Music option. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS GOV Feminist Film Moynagh, P POLS 1/25 --T-R-- 2:40PM 4:10PM This course brings together the study of feminist theory with the interpretation of film from a gendered analysis. We will read several classic and contemporary works in feminist theory which will give us some critical tools for analyzing many different kinds of films. We will discuss whether or not the films can be regarded as feminist and what is at stake in making such judgments.

5 ILCs ILC 5: Art and Advertising in the Music Business AA 421 & AR 203 This intermediate learning community will explore the roles of promotion, marketing and distribution of music. Topics to be explored include the roles of personal managers, agents, and attorneys. The negotiation and structure of the record deal will be discussed, along with issues relating to music publishing agreement, merchandising and the use of music in films. Using these principles of promotion, students will create websites that feature specific performers. Students will consider color, type and image content and how these visual concepts promote artists in the music industry. AA 421-ILC The Business of Music Price Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:20 12:50 AR 203-ILC Advertising Art I: Computer Design Needle Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 2:30 ILC 7: Remembering Colonialism and Slavery, Imagining the Future of Africa EN 291 (W) and HI 242 (I) Historians, artists, and filmmakers have examined the past in order to imagine an alternative way forward. This class will study the different ways that Americans, Africans, Caribbeans, and Europeans have raised questions about the past in order to make sense of their present and to work toward a better future. EN 291(W)-ILC Topics in World Cultures and Cinema: Sankofa Thomas Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:40 4:10 HI 242-ILC Modern Africa: History, Memory, and the Bitter Legacy of Slavery and Colonialism (I) Traoré Mondays and Wednesdays 2:40 4:10 EN 291 (W) Topics in World Cultures and Cinema: Sankofa Dr. Steven Thomas Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:40 4:10 The word Sankofa in the Akan language of Ghana means reach back and get it. Symbolized by a bird with its head turned around to take an egg off its back, the heart-shaped image suggests a metaphor for the importance of having an honest historical consciousness in order to fly forward. Sometimes it is translated as, it is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. The symbol has been adopted by New York City s African Burial Ground National Monument and by Washington D.C. s Museum of African American History and Culture. It is also the title of one of the most controversial dramatic movies about the memory of slave revolt by the Ethiopian-American director Haile Gerima.

6 This class will feature films from around the world that aim to think about the relationship between past, present, and future. We will watch films from Italy, England, the Netherlands, Curaçao, Cuba, Nigeria, Senegal, and other countries in the world, as well as the United States of America, that investigate the history of Africa s connection to Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. We will watch films about several topics, including recent movies about the transatlantic slave trade, about anti-colonialist struggle in the 1960s and 70s, and the about the recent media arts movement called Afro-Futurism. ILC 12: Team-Taught: Holocaust Drama on Stage and in Media TH 103 or HI 291 How have the atrocities of the Holocaust and its long-term consequences been represented on stage and screen? No one work or group of works can hope to encompass the range of meanings and implications of the brutality and inhumanity of those years, but individual works can offer unexpected perspectives and insights into the conditions that made them possible, some of what those who suffered or resisted experienced, and the psychological and political reverberations that continue to this day. The scripts and videos of plays, television dramas and films to be viewed and analyzed will include: Cabaret, The Diary of Anne Frank and its reinterpretation in the play Compulsion, Ghetto, Playing for Time (TV movie set in Auschwitz), Incident at Vichy (play set in France), Korczak and the Children (set in the Warsaw ghetto), A Shayna Maidel, The Action Against Sol Schumann, and The Deputy. Students will have opportunities to meet creative contributors (actors, writers, directors) to several of these works. The ILC will involve elements of script analysis and public performance. Open to all students regardless of major. TH 103-ILC Script Analysis Sweet Fridays 11:30-2:30 HI291-ILC Special Topics: Holocaust Drama Weintrob Fridays 11:30-2:30