Electives
The following courses are approved for the program. Not all are given in any one year. Please consult the Schedule of Classes each semester.
Course # | Course Name | Instructor |
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AMST 35a | Hollywood and American Culture | Doherty |
AMST 36b | Television and American Culture | Doherty |
AMST 129a | From American Movie Musicals to Music Videos | Mandrell |
AMST 131b | News on Screen | Doherty |
AMST 136a | Planet Hollywood | Doherty |
AMST/MUS 55a | Music in Film | Musegades |
ANTH 26a | Communication and Media | McIntosh |
ANTH 130a | Filming Culture: Ethnographic and Documentary | Alvarez Astacio |
COML/ENG 70b | Environmental Film, Environmental Justice | Irr |
ENG 27b | Classic Hollywood Cinema | Morrison |
ENG 30b | American Film Auteurs of the 1970s | Irr |
ENG 61b | Philosophical Approaches to Film Theory | Flesch |
ENG 70a | The Birth of the Movies | Staff |
ENG 128a | Race and US Cinema | Morrison |
ENG 147a | Film Noir | Flesch |
ENG 177a | Hitchcock’s Movies | Morrison |
ENG 180b | Romantic Comedy/Matrimonial Tragedy | Sherman |
FA 8a | Intro to Video Art | Staff |
NEJS 182a | Jewish Life in Film and Fiction | Fishman |
THA 155a | Icons of Masculinity | Holmberg |
Courses in Non-American Cinema
Course # | Course Name | Instructor |
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AAAS 102a | African Cinema | Staff |
AAPI/WGS 137b | Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene | Doolan |
CHIN 130b | China on Film | Wang |
ENG 20a | Bollywood | Anjaria |
ENG 170a | The Globalization of Nollywood | Diouf |
FREN 141b | Intro to French Cinema | Voiret |
GER 103a | German Culture through Film | Von Mering |
HBRW 170a | Hebrew through Israeli Cinema | Staff |
HISP 162b | New Latin American Cinema | Rosenberg |
HISP 192b | Latin American Global Film | Rosenberg |
HISP 193b | Topics in Cinema | Staff |
HIST 131a | Hitler's Europe in Film | Kelikian |
HIST 170a | Italian Films, Italian Histories | Kelikian |
IGS 160a | Asian Gangsters: Contemporary Crime Cinema | Singh |
JAPN 135a | Screening National Images: Japanese Film and Anime in Global Context | Fraleigh |
RECS 150a | Russian and Soviet Cinema | Powelstock |
RECS 152a | Russian Science Fiction | Powelstock |
SAS 130a | Film and Fiction of Crisis | Singh |
SAS 150b | Love, Sex, and Country: Films from India | Singh |
Courses in Creative Aspects of Film Production
Course # | Course Name | Frequency | Instructor |
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COSI 65a | Introduction to 3-D Animation | Usually offered every third year | Hickey |
ENG 67a | Art of the Screenplay | Usually offered every year | Weinberg |
ENG 79a | Directed Writing: Beginning Screenplay | Usually offered every third year | Weinberg |
ENG 129b | Understanding the Screenplay: A Workshop | Usually offered every fourth year | Coroniti or Weinberg |
ENG 139b | Intermediate Screenwriting | Usually offered every second year | Weinberg |
FILM 110a | Film Production I | Usually offered every year | Weinberg |
FILM 110b | Motion Picture Editing | Usually offered every year | Staff |
MUS 107a | Introduction to Electro-Acoustic Music | Usually offered every second year | Chasalow |
THA 50b | Sound for Theater, Film and Television | Usually offered every second year | Wilson |
THA 52b | Fundamentals of Lighting | Usually offered every year | Staff |
THA 125a | Acting for the Camera | Usually offered two consecutive second years with a third-year hiatus | Doyle |