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1900  Film Festival Workshop (3)
   Students attend Sundance Film Festival in Park City veiwing movies and seminars. This course may be repeated for credit.

2200  Introduction to Film (4) Fulfills Humanities Exploration.
   Basic course in film aesthetics. Introduction to elements of film to increase appreciation, perception, and understanding.

2240 Diversity in American Film (4)
   An introduction to issues of diversity in American movies, 2240 takes a comprehensive view of the industrial, sociological, and aesthetic factors that have shaped and continue to shape filmic representations of race, class, gender, sexuality, and physical ability. By examining the cinematic history of various cultural groups, the class will demonstrate how diversity functions as an element in the films Hollywood produces and the public consumes.

2300  Survey of Videogame Theory and Design (3) Cross listed as FA 2300.
   Students of the course take a critical look at the artistic, but also the cultural, economic and social aspects of this expressive medium. We will examine several aspects of video games and gaming through a variety of theoretical lenses. We will delve into the artistic and design aspects of gaming, while exploring the historical, cultural, and societal issues concerning video games. We will cover the growing interest in game theory by academics as well as industry. Finally, we will uncover the technology itself and explore the legal issues of intellectual property and content regulation in our networked world.

2730  Production for Video Artist (4)
   Meets with FA 3730. This is an introductory course in video production. Students learn the fundamentals of videography from an artistic as well as technical point of view, including preproduction shooting and editing.

3100  Introduction to Documentary Studies (3) Cross listed as COMM 3100, ENGL 3100, ARCH 3100.
   A survey course on the documentary from an interdisciplinary perspective. Topics include: constructing the narrative, the photographic documentary, the film documentary, and architectural and scientific documentation.

3200  Two Dimensional Experimental Animation (4)
   Meets with FA 3200. This course is designed to help students establish an aesthetic and evolve a for that speaks of a personal vision. The spirit of this hands-on course is exploratory. Students are offered an introduction into the aesthetic, techniques, and historical evolution of experimental media.

3210  American Film and Culture (4) Fulfills Fine Arts or Humanities Exploration.
   Development of dominant narrative patterns in American cinema from silent films to the present, with particular attention to how these films reflect values and ideas in American art and culture.

3220  Cinematic Visions (4)
   Cross-cultural similarities and differences examined through works of an American, a European, and an Asian director. Relationship between national temperament and individual creativity analyzed.

3310  History of Film (4) Fulfills Fine Arts Exploration.
   A history of the cinema from the silent period up to the 1950s. Meets with FILM 5550.

3320  History of Film (4) Fulfills Fine Arts Exploration.
   Cinema history from the 1950s to the present. Meets with FILM 5570.

3350  American Political Film (4) Fulfills Fine Arts Exploration.
   Examination of key works of American cinema which deal with critical conflicts in American politics and the American social system. Topics to be studied include electoral politics and political decision making, activism and dissent, politics and the media, and politics in relation to issues of war, race, ethics, and social justice. Consideration will be given to the way cinematic techniques are used to argue and to raise questions about conflicting points of view.

3710  Film Production I (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Meets with FILM 6710. Introduction to basic film-making techniques using dramatic and documentary forms. VHS video and digital editing equipment provided.

3720  Sound for Film and Video (4)
   This course will address the aesthetics and techniques of constructing good quality audio tracts for both film and video. It will examine sound as its own aesthetic medium, how it compliments the visual and how it works as a counterpoint to the image on screen. Topics covered will include location recording, foley technique, automatic dialog replacement, audio sweetening, etc.

3730  Introduction to Professional Video Production (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   This is a professional video production course for the student looking to have experience with sync sound and professional editing techniques within a light industrial video format.

3750  Cinema of the Developing World (4) Fulfills International Requirement.
   Examines specific periods in the film history of World Cinema from a cultural and/or historical perspective.

3755 The Foreign Eye: Exilic, Diasporic, and Border Cinema (4)
   From its earliest days cinema has been the result of cross-border cooperation and the movements of its practitioners. In addition, some of the most perceptive cinematic images of societies have been made by those excluded or marginalized by such societies of foreign to them. Thus ex-patriot filmmakers have been significant parts of many national film industries-both those they join and those from which they hail. The goal of this class is to explore film making traditions and styles from a number of diverse cultures, as they interact with each other in the context of exiled and diasporic film makers.

3760  Film and Culture (4)
   Examines specific periods in film history from cultural studies perspectives.

3770  American Film: 1950s to 1960s (4)
   Cinema in relation to social change in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s.

3780  American Film 1960s-1970s (4)
   Cinema in relation to social change in the United States from the mid-1960s through the 1970s.

3790  Special Topics I (1 to 5)
   A variety of topics in film are covered relating texts to the culture that produced them.

3880  Acting for TV and Film (4)
   This course is designed to explore the ways actors create realistic, imaginative portrayals for film and television. During the process of memorizing and performing monologues and scenes, students will discover how to find objectives, overcome conflicts and learn the simplicity of acting in front of the camera.

3910  Video Editing Theory and Certification (4)
   This hands-on course introduces students to the primary feature set and basic interface of Apple's Final Cut Pro using Apple Certified Curriculum (FCP 200), and provides short projects that teach basic film editing and video montage techniques. This course is also preparation for the test to become a Level 1 Certified End User of Final Cut Pro, which will be administered at the end of the class.

3915  DVD Authoring and Certification (4)
   Students will have a detailed look into creative applications of DVD authoring using Apple's DVD Studio Pro using Apple Certified curriculum (DVDSP 101). Projects will include creating fully functional DVD interface designs and master disks. This course is also preparation for the test to become a Level 1 Certified End User of DVD Studio Pro, which will be administered at the end of the class.

3930  Undergrad Research Project (1 to 4)

4200  Screenplay/Drama Structure (4)
   Everything you need to know about writing a great screenplay.

4210  Film Genres (4) Prerequisite: FILM 2200 or 3210.
   Explores film types, e.g., the Western film, horror film, science fiction film, etc. Repeatable when topics vary.

4220  Director(s) (4) Prerequisite: FILM 2200 or 3210.
   Explore the oeuvre of a particular film director or directors in depth and detail.

4230  Education Theory and Practice for Film Studies (4)
   Beginning with a broad understanding of contemporary moving images, including film, video, animation, game, and web design. This course introduces current education theory for Film Studies and explores the role of moving images in current educational practices. Key concepts in media education, such as issues of representation, capitalization, globalization, identity formation, and power and visual pleasure, etc. are integrated into student's production of moving images. Further, this course pays attention to the issues and debates of media/visual literacy, critical and playful pedagogies, and the use of media and moving images in classrooms.

4240  Themes and Movement (4)
   Explore a movement (e.g. French New Wave) or a theme (e.g. Dreams and Cinema) in film.

4250  Prose To Screenplay (4) Fulfills Upper Division Communication/Writing.
   Read and view dozens of short stories. Adapt two stories for screen including one of your choice.

4280  Experimental Film Survey (4)
   History and survey of the animated and avant-garde film. Not a production course.

4330  Directing Actors for Film (1 to 3)
   Techniques for communicating with actors to enhance performance during shooting.

4340  Film and Television Acting (4)
   Techniques of film and television acting for dramatic roles, commercials, etc.

4350  Advanced Film and Television Acting (4)
   Continuation of FILM 5340/THEAT 5340.

4370  Documentary Video Production (5)
   An intense course in Documentary Video Production that requires each student write and produce a professional television magazine format documentary suitable for broadcast, crew projects produced by their classmates, read a textbook and take a final exam.

4375  Film and the Law: Courtroom Drama (4) Fulfills Diversity.
   A study of major courtroom dramas from 1950 to the present. Movies will be analyzed aesthetically and as expressions of American society's quest for fairness and equality in the application of the law.

4470  Direct and Shoot Dialog on Location (4) Prerequisite:  FILM 3710.
   This is an intense course in directing and videography that explores screenwriting, producing, shooting, and editing location dialogue scenes. Students work in teams to produce two complete scenes.

4500  Beginning Animation (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   In this introductory production course, students explore various traditional animation techniques, such as line animation, cel animation and claymation.

4510  Intermediate Animation (4) Prerequisite: FILM 4500.
   In this intermediate production class, students continue to explore traditional techniques, and learn to combine them with live action and computer generated artwork, using 2D computer animation applications.

4520  Screenwriting I (4) Fulfills Upper Division Communication/Writing.
   Development of a narrative screenplay; script format, character development, dramatic construction, dialogue, and other storytelling skills.

4530  Screenwriting II (4)
   Writing the feature-length screenplay or teleplay.

4540  Screenwriting III (4) Fulfills Upper Division Communication/Writing.
   Revision of feature-length screenplay or teleplay.

4550  Advanced Screenwriting (1 to 4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Capstone screenwriting workshop for advanced screenwriting students.

4600  16mm Film Production (5) Prerequisite: FILM 3710.
   Meets with FILM 6600. A course in motion picture production using 16mm film technology. Teaches cinematography and editing methods as students produce their own short film.

4610  Advanced Film Production I (5) Prerequisite: FILM 4480.
   Techniques of professional film production introduced in year-long sequence course. Equipment provided; however, students must assume film and processing costs.

4620  Advanced Film Production II (5) Prerequisite: FILM 4610.
   Techniques of professional film production. The course focuses on film sound, editing, and shooting leading to a completed 16mm film.

4630  Film Post-production I (3) Prerequisite: FILM 4620.
   For advanced students who already have a film project in the works, the course covers all the necessary steps for completion to a final film

4640  Film Post-production II (3) Prerequisite: FILM 4630.
   Conforming, sound mixing, and printing of 16mm film.

4650  Film Post Production III (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   This course is designed for advanced students who already have a film project in the works. The course covers all the necessary steps (conforming/A&B rolling, sound mixing, and printing) leading to the completion of a 16mm film.

4700  Computer Animation I (4) Prerequisite: Understanding of computer graphic or moving images applications.
   This course provides an introduction to techniques of three-dimensional computer graphics, as well as fundamental concepts and philosophy of animation. The techniques include 3D modeling, digital lighting and shading, and basic animation. While Maya is the primary software to complete course assignments, this class features a combination of studio activities, critiques, readings, writings, and discussions related to animation and digital media.

4710  Computer Animation II (4) Prerequisite: FILM 4700.
   This course is designed for students who seek an understanding of Maya character animation. Beginning with story development and character design, students will learn character modeling, shading, rigging, and animation by using the 3D animation software Maya. Focusing on students? individual projects, Computer animation II have components of lectures about fundamental concepts of character animation, hands-on lab demonstrations, course discussions about animation theory, and studio critiques. All students are expected to create an animation short independently at the end of the semester.

4720 Contemporary Animation: The Simpsons to South Park (4)
  Contemporary Animation will survey episodes form four animated shows: The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy and Futurama. Several issues including, but not limited to, family, death, politics, religion and sexual and ethnic identity will be critically examined in the contest of these animations.

4730  Documentary Film Survey (4)
   History and survey of documentary film in terms of styles, techniques, and themes. Not a production course.

4740  Animation Film Survey (4)
   History of animated film. Not a production course.

4750  Game Development: Historical and Traditional Genres (4) Cross listed as FA 3750. Prerequisite: FILM 3710 and instructor's consent.
   This course examines several aspects of video games and gaming through a variety of theoretical lenses. This course will serve as an introduction to game design and survey the many roles behind video game development, both amateur and professional. Students will study the fundamentals of game design theory and incorporate them into 2D gaming projects. Students should be familiar with image editing and other basic computer skills. Students will assume various roles as they work in teams to make fully functional video games.

4760  Game Development: Contemporary and Alternative Genres (4) Cross listed as FA 3760. Prerequisite: FILM 3710 and instructor's consent.
   Students of this course will examine contemporary and alternative development techniques and processes of video games, moving beyond commercial gaming to map the realm of user and community created content such as mods, and web games, as well as alternative uses form video games that include edutainment, military, health and political games. Students will explore the various industry roles in videogame development cycles, providing students the opportunities to enact those roles in teams, creating video games together.

4800  Animation Project I (1 to 4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   This is an advanced level course, which allows students to work on an independent animated project, using the technique of their choice.

4810  Animation Project II (1 to 4) Prerequisite: FILM 4800.
   This is an advanced level course, in which students take their independent animated project to completion.

4870  Film Theory (4)
   This course explores rapid changes of film and moving images in global visual culture. Situated in cultural theories and media studies, this course examines contemporary issues of media convergence, representation, globalization, visual simulations, identity and subjectivity, and gender and sexuality.

4910  Independent Research Project (1 to 4)
   Individual Projects in Film Studies Research.

4930  Independent Research (1 to 4)

4960  Individual Projects: Film Production (1 to 4) Prerequisite: FILM 5610 and 5620 and 5630.
   Individual projects in 16mm film or professional video.

4970  Film Acting Project (1)
   Advanced instruction in acting for the camera by acting in student film productions.

4999  Honors Thesis/Project (3 to 4)
   Restricted to students in the Honors Program working on their Honors degree.

5290  Advanced Film Animation (4) Prerequisite: FILM 3190
   Production of computer animation films and videos.

5800  Special Topics in Film (0.5 to 4)
   Variable subject matter covering a wide spectrum of problems and issues bearing upon the cinematic/cultural matrix.

6010  Introduction to Graduate Studies (0.5)

6210  Graduate American Films and Culture (4)
   Development of dominant narrative patterns in American cinema from silent films to the present, with particular attention to how these films reflect values and ideas in American art and culture.

6230  Education Theory and Practice for Film Studies (4)
   Beginning with a broad understanding of contemporary moving images, including film, video, animation, game, and web design. This course introduces current education theory for Film Studies and explores the role of moving images in current educational practices. Key concepts in media education, such as issues of representation, capitalization, globalization, identity formation, and power and visual pleasure, etc. are integrated into student's production of moving images. Further, this course pays attention to the issues and debates of media/visual literacy, critical and playful pedagogies, and the use of media and moving images in classrooms.

6250  Cinema of the Developing World (4)
   Meets with FILM 3750. Examines specific periods in the film history of World Cinema from a cultural and/or historical perspective.

6260  Film and Culture (4)
   Examines the cinema of a specific country or region outside of the United States.

6275 Film, Dream, and Memory (4)
   The birth of the cinema and of Freud's theory of dreams took place within a few years of each other, a century ago. The magical, dream-like potential of the cinema was recognized early, and films have long been concerned with the presentation of the unreal ofr subconscious. In addition, the recording of remembered events has become the standard way of giving characters a past and their lives the kind of realist coherence we have come to expect in narrative film. This course explores the depiction of these phenomena at specific moments in the history of the cinema.

6280  Graduate Experimental Survey (4)
   History and survey of the animated and avant-garde film. Not a production course.

6330  Graduate Directing Actors for Film (1 to 4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Meets with FILM 5330. Techniques for communicating with actors to enhance performance during shooting.

6370  Graduate Documentary Video Production (5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   An intense course in Documentary Video Production that requires each student write and produce a professional television magazine format documentary suitable for broadcast, crew projects produced by their classmates, read a textbook and take a final exam.

6420  Film Theory (4)
   This course explores rapid changes of film and moving images in global visual culture. Situated in cultural theories and media studies, this course examines contemporary issues of media convergence, representation, globalization, visual simulations, identity and subjectivity, and gender and sexuality.

6470  Direct and Shoot Dialog on Location (4) Prerequisite: FILM 3710 and instructor's consent.
   This is an intense course in directing and videography that explores screenwriting, producing, shooting, and editing location dialogue scenes. Students work in teams to produce two complete scenes.

6500  Graduate Animation I (4) Prerequisite: FILM 6710 and instructor's consent.
   Meets with FILM 4500. In this introductory production course, students explore various traditional animation techniques, such as line animation, cell animation and claymation.

6510  Graduate Animation II (4) Prerequisite: FILM 6500.
   Meets with FILM 4510. In this intermediate production class, students continue to explore traditional techniques, and learn to combine them with live action and computer generated artwork, using 2D computer animation applications.

6520  Graduate Screenwriting I (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Development of a narrative screenplay, script format, character development, dramatic construction, dialogue and other storytelling skills.

6530  Graduate Screenwriting II (4) Prerequisite: FILM 6520 permission from professor.
   Writing feature-length screenplay or teleplay.

6540  Graduate Screenwriting III (4) Prerequisite: FILM 6530 and permission from professor.
   Revision of feature-length screenplay or teleplay.

6550  Graduate Advanced Screenwriting (1 to 4) Prerequisite: FILM 6540 and permission from professor.
   Fourth semester screenwriting course.

6560  History of Film (4)
   A history of the cinema of the silent period up to the 1950s. Meets with FILM 3310.

6570  History of Film (4)
   Cinema history from the 1950s to the present. Meets with FILM 3320.

6600  Graduate 16mm Film Production (5) Prerequisite: FILM 3710.
   Meets with FILM 4600. A course in motion picture production using 16mm film technology. Teaches cinematography and editing methods as students produce their own short film.

6610  Graduate Advanced Film Production I (5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Techniques of professional film production.

6620  Graduate Film Production II (5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Techniques of professional film production. Focuses on film sound, editing and shooting leading to a complete 16mm film.

6630  Graduate Post Production I (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   For advanced students who already have a film project in the works.

6640  Graduate Post Production II (1 to 3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Conforming, sound mixing, and printing of 16mm film.

6650  Graduate Producation Project (3) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   This course is designed for advanced students who already have a film project in the works. The course covers all the necessary steps (conforming/A&B rolling, sound mixing, and printing) leading to the completion of a 16mm film.

6660  Graduate Cinematography (5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   This advanced single semester course covers the fundamentals of cinematography and film editing. Production originates exclusively on 16mm film.

6710  Graduate Film Production I (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Meets with FILM 3710. Introduction to basic film-making techniques using dramatic and documentary forms. VHS video and digital editing equipment provided.

6720  Graduate Film Production Project (1 to 4)
   Individual projects in film/video production for graduate students.

6730  Graduate Documentary Film Survey (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   History and survey of documentary film in terms of styles, techniques, and themes. Not a production course.

6740  Graduate Animation Film Survey (4)
   History of animated film. not a production course.

6750  Graduate Computer Animation (4) Prerequisite: Understanding of computer graphic or moving images applications.
   This course provides an introduction to techniques of three-dimensional computer graphics, as well as fundamental concepts and philosophy of animation. The techniques include 3D modeling, digital lighting and shading, and basic animation. While Maya is the primary software to complete course assignments, this class features a combination of studio activities, critiques, readings, writings, and discussions related to animation and digital media.

6755 The Foreign Eye: Exilic, Diasporic, and Border Cinema (4)
   From its earliest days cinema has been the result of cross-border cooperation and the movements of its practitioners. In addition, some of the most perceptive cinematic images of societies have been made by those excluded or marginalized by such societies of foreign to them. Thus ex-patriot filmmakers have been significant parts of many national film industries-both those they join and those from which they hail. The goal of this class is to explore film making traditions and styles from a number of diverse cultures, as they interact with each other in the context of exiled and diasporic film makers.

6760  Advanced Graduate Computer Animation (4) Prerequisite: FILM 4700.
   This course is designed for students who seek an understanding of Maya character animation. Beginning with story development and character design, students will learn character modeling, shading, rigging, and animation by using the 3D animation software Maya. Focusing on students? individual projects, This course is designed for students who seek an understanding of Maya character animation. Beginning with story development and character design, students will learn character modeling, shading, rigging, and animation by using the 3D animation software Maya. Focusing on students? individual projects, Computer animation II have components of lectures about fundamental concepts of character animation, hands-on lab demonstrations, course discussions about animation theory, and studio critiques. All students are expected to create an animation short independently at the end of the semester.

6770  Sound for Film and Video (4)
   This course will address the aesthetics and techniques of constructing good quality audio tracts for both film and video. It will examine sound as its own aesthetic medium, how it compliments the visual and how it works as a counterpoint to the image on screen. Topics covered will include location recording, foley technique, automatic dialog replacement, audio sweetening, etc.

6780  Introduction to Professional Video Production (4) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   This is a professional video production course for the student looking to have experience with sync sound and professional editing techniques within a light industrial video format.

6790  Graduate Film Festival Workshop (3)
   Students attend Sundance Film Festival in Park City, viewing and analyzing movies and seminars.

6800  Workshops and Seminars (0.5 to 5)
   Short classes in advanced film making and criticism.

6870  Studies in Film Theory and Criticism (4)
   Various topics in film theory and criticism are covered.

6900  Internship (1 to 5) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
   Credit for student working in film/video industry.

6910  Video Editing Theory and Certification (4)
   Meets with FILM 3910. This hands-on course introduces students to the primary feature set and basic interface of Apple's Final Cut Pro using Apple Certified Curriculum (FCP 200), and provides short projects that teach basic film editing and video montage techniques. This course is also preparation for the test to become a Level 1 Certified End User of Final Cut Pro, which will be administered at the end of the class.

6930  Independent Research (1 to 4)

6950  Graduate Research Project (1 to 4)

6960  Individual Projects: Film Production (1 to 4)

6980  Faculty Consultation (1 to 5)

6990  Continuing Registration for MFA (3)

7870  Seminar: Film (4)
   Advanced studies in film authorship, national cinemas, aesthetic movements, and aesthetic theory.

7990  Continuing Registration (0) Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.