Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO FILMMAKING AND EDITING

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces the student to filmmaking in general through specific techniques of digital video production. The emphasis in this class will be the medium as a means of effective storytelling through the creaft of filmmaking. All aspects of production will be discussed, including preproduction and postproduction. Core topics will include the basic principles and operation of digital video cameras, lighting instruments, and audio recording gear; concepts and practical use of nonlinear digital editing gear, planning and scripting using applications of various filmmaking techniques; and delivery of a finished project.

Long Title: HISTORY & AESTHETICS OF FILM

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Introduction to the art and aesthetics of film as an artifact produced within certain social contexts. Includes style, narrative, mise-en-scene, editing, sound, and ideology in classical Hollywood cinema, as well as in independent, alternative, nonfiction, and Third World cinemas.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN FILM &VIDEOTAPE MAKING

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Study of problems in film and film production. Topics may vary. Please consult with the department for additional information. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the expressive possibilities of documentary production using digital systems. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor.

Long Title: FILMMAKING I

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Dramatic film production class that requires the making of one digital video and one 16mm film. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor.

Long Title: FILM FORM

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Viewing, analysis, and discussion of modern and classic films. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor.

Long Title: MODALITIES OF CINEMA

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will survey the range of organizing principles of cinema- the differing and combative ways cinema arranges its images and sounds. We will look at classicism, modernism, postmodernism and many other modes. The films will range from early silent pictures, to experimental shorts, to commercial blockbusters.

Long Title: GLOBAL CINEMA

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: This course introduces students to cinema as a global enterprise. It explores the relationship between nations, identities, races, concepts, and genres. It inquires into the question of globalization as it relates to the motion picture audience, corporations, and the commerce of ideas. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN FILM & VIDEOTAPE MAKING

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Study of problems in film and film production. Topics may vary. Please consult with the department for additional information. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: ADVANCED FILMMAKING

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Advanced documentary production using digital camera and editing systems. Continuation of FILM 327. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor.

Long Title: FILMMAKING II

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Laboratory

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Completion of one major film project by each student, using either video or 16mm film. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor.

Long Title: FILM GENRE: THE WESTERN

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of the essential American film experience spanning all the years of U.S. cinema, with emphasis on the western and its mythic function in society. Space in studio classes is limited. Registration does not guarantee a place in class. The class roster is formulated on the first day of class by the individual instructor.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON FILM AUTHORSHIP: THE NEW HOLLYWOOD

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 4

Description: Focuses on issues of authorship in film and television. Presents a structuralist and post-structuralist reading of the films of Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Arthur Penn. Their films will be seen in the context of the social issues of the 1960s through the 1990s.

Long Title: SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN FILMMAKING

Department: *Visual and Dramatic Arts*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 6

Description: Study of advanced problems in film and film production. Topics may vary. Please consult with the department for additional information. May be used in awarding transfer credit. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.