| FMST 102-01 |
Fundamentals of Digital Film Production
Instructor: Salim Makhlouf
Course Description:
This course provides instruction in the basic aesthetic and technical aspects of digital film production, including writing, producing, directing, shooting, lighting, recording and mixing sound, and editing. Students will learn to harness digital tools while focusing on their roles as storytellers. Each participant will write and direct a video, rotating through various crew positions as they carry out exercises designed to deepen their knowledge of the different elements of moviemaking. Ultimately, students will collaborate in teams on short movies, which will be screened at the final class.
Offered spring semesters.
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04:30 PM-05:45 PM, MW
BOSLER 314 |
| FMST 210-01 |
Ancient Worlds on Film
Instructor: Scott Farrington
Course Description:
Cross-listed with CLST 140-01. An introduction to ancient Greek and Roman history and civilization (excluding mythology) through viewing popular films about this period and reading the historical and literary sources on which those films are based. The course focuses on the stories of remarkable men and women from antiquity, what those stories reveal Greek and Roman values and ideas, and ways to apply those insights critically to our own time.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 311 |
| FMST 210-02 |
Modern German Film
Instructor: Antje Pfannkuchen
Course Description:
Cross-listed with GRMN 213-01.
This course includes weekly film screenings on Tuesdays at 7pm in Bosler 280.
This course will focus on German films in their cultural and historical context. Students will study selected films and develop a critical framework for viewing and analyzing them. When appropriate, Austraian and Swiss films will also be included. Topics may be early German Cinema, the New German Cinema, or post-unification films. Filmmakers may include Volker Schlondorff, Alexander Kluge, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, or F.W. Murnau, and may cover films such as Run Lola Run, Goodbye, Lenin, Head On, and The Lives of Others. Prerequisite: 202, if offered in German, or permission of the instructor.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 310 |
| FMST 210-03 |
Arab Cinema: Women and Sexuality, Politics and Revolution
Instructor: Magda Siekert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with MEST 200-01 and WGSS 201-07.. This course introduces students to Arab society and culture through an exploration of Arab cinema, which has a long and rich tradition. Students will watch a representative selection of Arab films from across the Arab world that reflect the many challenges and narratives in the region. Through the films, we will explore Arab societies and cultures, especially women and sexuality, politics and revolution, and the role of religion and tradition in shaping public discourse and imagination on taboo topics including LGBTQ issues. In addition to weekly film viewings and discussions, we will read critical film and culture theory and analysis as they apply to Arab cinema. The class will be conducted in English and all films will have English subtitles.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 104 |
| FMST 210-04 |
Programming Alternate Futures: Chinese and American Science Fiction and Sci-Fi Films
Instructor: Nan Ma
Course Description:
Cross-listed with EASN 205-02. This course explores the world of science fiction literature and its visual adaptations, focusing on renowned works by Chinese and American authors from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, all in English. Through analyzing these literary texts and their corresponding film and TV interpretations, the students will gain insights into the two nations' societal and geopolitical dynamics. We will cover themes such as the new Cold War, power struggles within and between different political systems, environmental crises, technological rivalries, and the interplay between scientific advancements and ideological constructs. By comparing the perspectives presented in science fiction narratives, particularly those originating from the contrasting contexts of China and the U.S., learners will delve into the diverse literary and cinematic devices employed by SF writers and film directors. Ultimately, this course aims to foster a deeper understanding of SF literature and film as mass-media fields for conducting thought experiments. Those experiments question, challenge, and break through human cognitive and ethical limits toward both the outside universe and the inner psyche, while reevaluating the benefits and costs of doing so with reference to the contemporary world.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 108 |
| FMST 210-05 |
Masculinity, Sex and Power in Action-Adventure Movies
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 210-04.
American popular culture is full of action-adventure stories, from kids shows to Hollywood blockbusters to the nightly news. This course will explore the patterns and conventions of action-adventure as a popular American film genre with the goal of understanding the deeper cultural work performed by action-adventure narratives. Through critical reading, viewings and class discussion, we will examine what action-adventure films can teach us about evolving understandings of masculinities, gender, race, class, violence, war, and politics at various historical moments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 110 |
| FMST 220-01 |
Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Andy Bale
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 221-01. An entry-level course in black-and-white photography emphasizing theory, history, and practice. Students learn how to create images, use cameras, develop film and make prints using conventional darkroom processes. Students will also be introduced to Photoshop as well as the basics of scanning and digital printing.
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09:30 AM-11:30 AM, TR
GDYRST 101 |
| FMST 220-02 |
Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Andy Bale
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ARTH 221-02. An entry-level course in black-and-white photography emphasizing theory, history, and practice. Students learn how to create images, use cameras, develop film and make prints using conventional darkroom processes. Students will also be introduced to Photoshop as well as the basics of scanning and digital printing.
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01:30 PM-03:29 PM, TR
GDYRST 101 |
| FMST 220-03 |
Storytelling Across Media
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 101-05. As human beings, we encounter stories everywhere: not only in literature, comic books, and film; but also in our myths and religions, our personal and national histories, our career plans, and our politics-even our everyday conversations. Almost all aspects of social life, in fact, depend upon storytelling, a fact that has led some theorists to suggest that the ability to create and understand stories is one of the defining features of human beings as a species. But how does storytelling work? What are its underlying rules and structures? And how do stories differ across different media? This course will introduce students to the study of storytelling (sometimes called narratology) through the examination of stories in multiple media, including literature, film, and video games.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| FMST 220-04 |
Storytelling Across Media
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ENGL 101-06. As human beings, we encounter stories everywhere: not only in literature, comic books, and film; but also in our myths and religions, our personal and national histories, our career plans, and our politics-even our everyday conversations. Almost all aspects of social life, in fact, depend upon storytelling, a fact that has led some theorists to suggest that the ability to create and understand stories is one of the defining features of human beings as a species. But how does storytelling work? What are its underlying rules and structures? And how do stories differ across different media? This course will introduce students to the study of storytelling (sometimes called narratology) through the examination of stories in multiple media, including literature, film, and video games.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| FMST 320-01 |
Dickinson Wears Prada
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with ITAL 323-01.
Note: Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.
Additional Time Slot: Wed. 11:30-12:30 pm for FLIC Students in Bosler 310.
In Italian culture, fashion plays a vital role in enabling individuals to construct, sculpt and express their identities. This course examines Italian fashion as a cultural dimension, an industry, and an indicator of social change. We will analyze fashion "texts," such as ads, pictures, feature films, documentaries, television shows, fashion shows, magazines, and literary pieces to investigate the fashion universe from multiple critical perspectives (including history, semiotics, culture, ethnicity, and gender). A specific section will be devoted to explore sustainable fashion. This course is taught in Engiish. It can be taken on its own or as part of the spring 2024 mosaic, "Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation: Fashion through the lens of History, Culture, Gender, and Race."
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| FMST 320-02 |
Advanced Screenwriting
Instructor: Khris Baxter
Course Description:
Cross-listed with CRWR 316-01. Permission of instructor required. Creative writing at the advanced level in genres other than poetry and fiction. Prerequisite: introductory course in appropriate genre.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
BOSLER 213 |
| FMST 500-01 |
Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio, Amy Farrell, Regina Sweeney
Course Description:
Cross-listed with WGSS 500-01, HIST 500-01, AMST 500-01 and ITAL 500-01. Permission of Instructor Required. Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic.
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03:00 PM-04:30 PM, M
BOSLER 222 |
| Courses Offered in ARTH |
| ARTH 221-01 |
Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Andy Bale
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-01. An entry-level course in black-and-white photography emphasizing theory, history, and practice. Students learn how to create images, use cameras, develop film and make prints using conventional darkroom processes. Students will also be introduced to Photoshop as well as the basics of scanning and digital printing.
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09:30 AM-11:30 AM, TR
GDYRST 101 |
| ARTH 221-02 |
Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Andy Bale
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-02. An entry-level course in black-and-white photography emphasizing theory, history, and practice. Students learn how to create images, use cameras, develop film and make prints using conventional darkroom processes. Students will also be introduced to Photoshop as well as the basics of scanning and digital printing.
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01:30 PM-03:29 PM, TR
GDYRST 101 |
| Courses Offered in CLST |
| CLST 140-01 |
Ancient Worlds on Film
Instructor: Scott Farrington
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-01. An introduction to ancient Greek and Roman history and civilization (excluding mythology) through viewing popular films about this period and reading the historical and literary sources on which those films are based. The course focuses on the stories of remarkable men and women from antiquity, what those stories reveal Greek and Roman values and ideas, and ways to apply those insights critically to our own time.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
DENNY 311 |
| Courses Offered in ENGL |
| ENGL 101-05 |
Storytelling Across Media
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-03. As human beings, we encounter stories everywhere: not only in literature, comic books, and film; but also in our myths and religions, our personal and national histories, our career plans, and our politics-even our everyday conversations. Almost all aspects of social life, in fact, depend upon storytelling, a fact that has led some theorists to suggest that the ability to create and understand stories is one of the defining features of human beings as a species. But how does storytelling work? What are its underlying rules and structures? And how do stories differ across different media? This course will introduce students to the study of storytelling (sometimes called narratology) through the examination of stories in multiple media, including literature, film, and video games.
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01:30 PM-02:45 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| ENGL 101-06 |
Storytelling Across Media
Instructor: Greg Steirer
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 220-04. As human beings, we encounter stories everywhere: not only in literature, comic books, and film; but also in our myths and religions, our personal and national histories, our career plans, and our politics-even our everyday conversations. Almost all aspects of social life, in fact, depend upon storytelling, a fact that has led some theorists to suggest that the ability to create and understand stories is one of the defining features of human beings as a species. But how does storytelling work? What are its underlying rules and structures? And how do stories differ across different media? This course will introduce students to the study of storytelling (sometimes called narratology) through the examination of stories in multiple media, including literature, film, and video games.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
EASTC 411 |
| Courses Offered in GRMN |
| GRMN 213-01 |
Modern German Film
Instructor: Antje Pfannkuchen
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-02.
This course includes weekly film screenings on Tuesdays at 7pm in Bosler 208. This course will focus on German films in their cultural and historical context. Students will study selected films and develop a critical framework for viewing and analyzing them. When appropriate, Austraian and Swiss films will also be included. Topics may be early German Cinema, the New German Cinema, or post-unification films. Filmmakers may include Volker Schlondorff, Alexander Kluge, Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, or F.W. Murnau, and may cover films such as Run Lola Run, Goodbye, Lenin, Head On, and The Lives of Others.
Prerequisite: 202, if offered in German, or permission of the instructor.
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10:30 AM-11:45 AM, TR
BOSLER 310 |
| Courses Offered in ITAL |
| ITAL 323-01 |
Dickinson Wears Prada
Instructor: Nicoletta Marini Maio
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 320-01.
Part of the Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation Mosaic. Additional Time Slot Wednesday 11:30-12:30pm for FLIC Students in Bosler 310.
In Italian culture, fashion plays a vital role in enabling individuals to construct, sculpt and express their identities. This course examines Italian fashion as a cultural dimension, an industry, and an indicator of social change. We will analyze fashion "texts," such as ads, pictures, feature films, documentaries, television shows, fashion shows, magazines, and literary pieces to investigate the fashion universe from multiple critical perspectives (including history, semiotics, culture, ethnicity, and gender). A specific section will be devoted to explore sustainable fashion. This course is taught in English. It can be taken on its own or as part of the spring 2024 mosaic, "Fashioning the Body, Shaping the Nation: Fashion through the lens of History, Culture, Gender, and Race."
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, TR
BOSLER 314 |
| Courses Offered in MEST |
| MEST 200-01 |
Arab Cinema: Women and Sexuality, Politics and Revolution
Instructor: Magda Siekert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-03 and WGSS 210-07. This course introduces students to Arab society and culture through an exploration of Arab cinema, which has a long and rich tradition. Students will watch a representative selection of Arab films from across the Arab world that reflect the many challenges and narratives in the region. Through the films, we will explore Arab societies and cultures, especially women and sexuality, politics and revolution, and the role of religion and tradition in shaping public discourse and imagination on taboo topics including LGBTQ issues. In addition to weekly film viewings and discussions, we will read critical film and culture theory and analysis as they apply to Arab cinema. The class will be conducted in English and all films will have English subtitles.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 104 |
| Courses Offered in WGSS |
| WGSS 201-04 |
Masculinity, Sex and Power in Action-Adventure Movies
Instructor: Charity Fox
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-05.
American popular culture is full of action-adventure stories, from kids shows to Hollywood blockbusters to the nightly news. This course will explore the patterns and conventions of action-adventure as a popular American film genre with the goal of understanding the deeper cultural work performed by action-adventure narratives. Through critical reading, viewings and class discussion, we will examine what action-adventure films can teach us about evolving understandings of masculinities, gender, race, class, violence, war, and politics at various historical moments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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03:00 PM-04:15 PM, MR
DENNY 110 |
| WGSS 201-07 |
Arab Cinema: Women and Sexuality, Politics and Revolution
Instructor: Magda Siekert
Course Description:
Cross-listed with FMST 210-03 and MEST 200-01. This course introduces students to Arab society and culture through an exploration of Arab cinema, which has a long and rich tradition. Students will watch a representative selection of Arab films from across the Arab world that reflect the many challenges and narratives in the region. Through the films, we will explore Arab societies and cultures, especially women and sexuality, politics and revolution, and the role of religion and tradition in shaping public discourse and imagination on taboo topics including LGBTQ issues. In addition to weekly film viewings and discussions, we will read critical film and culture theory and analysis as they apply to Arab cinema. The class will be conducted in English and all films will have English subtitles.
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01:30 PM-04:30 PM, W
DENNY 104 |