Honors seminar examining the intersection of race, sports, and media in everyday U.S. popular culture (film, TV, advertising, gaming, social media) and political culture. Materials fee.

Restriction: Campuswide Honors Collegium students only.

(IV and VII ).

Introduces the language and techniques of visual and film analysis. Teaches students to analyze the moving image; emphasize framing, camera movement, and sound; and conveys how editing produces meaning, reproduces historical ideologies, fosters or disrupts narrative, and cues spectators.

Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement.

(IV)

History of broadcast media from the radio era to the present day, including social, political, institutional, and audience analysis as well as methods of visual and aural analysis of these media.

Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement.

(IV)

The study of digital media, computer-mediated communication, and Internet cultures, from historical and theoretical perspectives.

Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement.

(IV)

The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from its invention to the adoption of synchronous sound. Includes early exhibition, developments in narrative and editing, the formation of the studio system, and avant-garde film movements. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from the 1930s through the 1960s. Includes the Hollywood studio system, propaganda films, Italian neorealism, post-war Japanese cinema, and the French New Wave. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from the late 1960s to the present. Includes New Hollywood and independent U.S. films, ethnic cinemas, postcolonial cinemas, East-Asian new waves, and digital filmmaking. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A and FLM&MDA 101B. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Survey of major directions in film and media theory. Various theories of mass culture, realism, auteurism, semiotics, feminism, cultural studies, and theories of other media, with an emphasis on developing the student’s ability to analyze and articulate a theoretical argument. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A and FLM&MDA 85B and FLM&MDA 85C and (FLM&MDA 101A or FLM&MDA 101B or FLM&MDA 101C). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Seminar focusing on issues in film and media production and editing. Reading and exercises to understand aspects of film and media production (montage, sound, film movement, directing, and mise en scène), and how ideology works in tandem with style.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A and FLM&MDA 85B and FLM&MDA 85C and FLM&MDA 120A and (FLM&MDA 101A or FLM&MDA 101B or FLM&MDA 101C). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Critical approaches to the serial productions we call "genre" films such as westerns, weepies, musicals, horror films, and others; televisual genres, such as sitcoms, drama, comedy, news, docudrama, police; Internet categories, such as chat-rooms, listservs, Web pages.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

What relations do sound, image, and story assume in film, television, video, and Internet narratives? In what ways do these media interact with and borrow from each other and traditional story-telling media? How have the new media explored non-narrative strategies.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Theoretical and analytical discussions of visual media authorship, focusing on case studies of directors, producers, scriptwriters, and film, video, and digital artists.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Introduction to the technique and format of the screenplay, with a particular focus on its three act structural elements: coverage, treatment, and 60 beat outline. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Exercises in the development of screenplays, with emphasis on formal and structural considerations of character development. Students work with the hero structure and other character development methodologies, such as method acting. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 117A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Continuation and intensification of work initiated in 117B. Students complete a full-length screenplay. Concentrates on both practical and technical concerns, addressing pragmatic and aesthetic questions in intensive small-group discussions. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 117B. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Introduction to the technique and format of the television screenplay. Focuses on character, storytelling, structure, and scene development; culminating in a one-hour drama series treatment and first act of the pilot.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85B. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Intermediate-level screenwriting class exploring the one-hour television drama format. Students write and workshop an original pilot, continuing work started in 118A, and finish a complete draft of the pilot script.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 118A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Introduction to the basic apparatus of video/film production. The elementary essentials of production, including the use of camera and lenses, lighting, editing, and sound. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Students work on individual and group projects, utilizing skills and insights introduced in Film and Media Studies 120A. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 120A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

As film and video are collaborative media, students form production groups and ultimately produce final 10-15-minute film/video projects. Materials fee.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 120B. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Investigation of media representations of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States. Topics include media images of and by one or more minority groups in the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians.

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Writing on cinema, television, and/or digital culture, emphasizing identification of reliable sources, close readings, addressing academic, professional, and/or popular audiences. Requires at least 4,000 words of assigned composition.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A or FLM&MDA 85B or FLM&MDA 85C. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Restriction: Film and Media Studies Majors only.

(Ib)

Introduction to critical, theoretical, and scholarly understandings and analyses of television, which offer in-depth analyses of television programming, audience reception practices, and industry strategies of address.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85B. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Advanced analysis of the technologies, texts, theories, and cultures of computers, video games, networks, or platforms.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85C. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Considers the forms, ideologies, consumption, and marketing of popular entertainment and technologies. May focus on cultural studies methods, transnational approaches, and synergy between media.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Focuses on the production, theories, and meanings of sound recordings, music, and/or audio technologies. Topics may include the cultures of popular music and audio devices, music television, and theories of film sound.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Explores the dynamics of address, interpretation, and appropriation between film and media texts and their viewers. Topics may include reception studies, fandom, audience-defined modes of production, demographics, spectatorial pleasure, and historical approaches to audiences.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Examines nonfiction and/or experimental cinemas and media, such as documentary, the historical avant-garde, video art, and activist media. Students consider the specific aesthetics and ideologies of forms distinct from narrative feature films.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

National schools, period styles, or cultural movements beyond U.S. cinema, as defined by national borders or by geographic regions, such as Latin America. May be approached from a comparative perspective.

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Analyzes the multinational production, circulation, and reception of film and media texts beyond singular national borders or specific geographic regions. Topics may include transnational co-productions, exports, and diasporic reception.

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Explores the modes of production and distribution, aesthetics, and contexts that have shaped cinema in the United States. Topics may include classical Hollywood, American independent cinema, or periods such as 1970s cinema.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Advanced seminar focusing on special topics in television and new media. Past examples have included courses on media marketing and brand identity; television and sound; game theory; and other issues related to popular culture, broadcast media, and new media technologies.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85B or FLM&MDA 85C. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Special issues concerned with film and media history, theory, and criticism.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Integrates critical analysis, historical, and theoretical methods with creative projects to illuminate film and media production and industries. May include courses in adaptation, writing television, media activism, writing the short film, performance studies, and movie title sequences.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 85A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Focuses on special topics in production. Culminates in final 6-10-minute group film projects. Topics include producing, acting, and/or directing in short films, experimental films, documentaries, television, and other media.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 120A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Focuses on special topics in screenwriting. Topics include adaptation, alternative screenwriting, writing the first feature, act two construction, and rewriting.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 117A or FLM&MDA 118A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Interdisciplinary approaches to special issues concerned with film and media history, theory, and criticism.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Professional internship in the film, broadcast, and/or digital media industries designed to provide students with closely supervised professional experience to enhance their understanding of media from industrial, historical, and critical perspectives. Journal and final report required.

Grading Option: Pass/no pass only.

Repeatability: May be taken for credit 3 times.

Restriction: Upper-division students only.

Creative project in screenwriting, filmmaking, videomaking, or Web or internet design intended to provide advanced production and creative writing training beyond the Film and Media Studies 117A-B-C or 120A-B-C series. Final project required.

Prerequisite: (FLM&MDA 85A and FLM&MDA 117A and FLM&MDA 117B and FLM&MDA 117C) or (FLM&MDA 120A and FLM&MDA 120B and FLM&MDA 120C). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Recommended: FLM&MDA 101A.

Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times as topics vary.

Restriction: Upper-division students only.

Directed reading and research under supervision of a faculty member in topic areas not covered by regular course offerings. Final research paper required.

Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement.

Restriction: Upper-division students only.

Examines canonical texts and explores current directions in film studies.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Examines canonical texts and explores current directions in television studies.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Examines canonical texts and explores current directions in digital media and game studies.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Approaches to film and media studies historiography.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Approaches to the study of power and culture in relation to film and media.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Offers a focused examination of a key film and media studies methodology.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Students learn best practices for teaching film and media studies.

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Students learn best practices for film and media studies professionalization.

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Students learn best practices for film and media studies professionalization.

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Students learn best practices for film and media studies professionalization.

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Studies in selected areas of film and media studies. Topics vary each quarter.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Integrates critical analysis, historical, and/or theoretical methods with creative projects. Topics vary each quarter.

Repeatability: Unlimited as topics vary.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Directed reading on a specific topic agreed upon by student and instructor.

Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Directed reading in preparation for the preliminary exam.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 285A and FLM&MDA 285B and FLM&MDA 285C and FLM&MDA 286A and FLM&MDA 286B and FLM&MDA 286C

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Research and writing of the dissertation prospectus.

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Offered spring quarter each year and taught in a workshop format. Assists students with the preparation and revision of the dissertation prospectus.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 285A and FLM&MDA 285B and FLM&MDA 285C and FLM&MDA 286A and FLM&MDA 286B and FLM&MDA 286C

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Research and writing of the dissertation.

Prerequisite: FLM&MDA 298

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times.

Restriction: Graduate students only.

Limited to Teaching Assistants.

Grading Option: Satisfactory/unsatisfactory only.

Repeatability: May be repeated for credit unlimited times.