Upcoming Courses

Highlighted courses for Summer 2024

ENGFLM 0400/FMST 0120 (6 Week 1) - Intro to Film

This is an entry-level course on the visual arts that offers the student a broad introduction to the medium of film. As part of this overview, the class will consider such issues as: the process of contemporary film production and distribution; the nature of basic film forms; selected approaches to film criticism; comparisons between film and the other media. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.

Arts Gen Ed

Synchronous Online: T Th 6-9:50,
Instructed by Daniel Witkin


ENGFLM 0540/FMST 0170 (6 Week 1) - World Film History 

This course both introduces students to techniques of film analysis and acquaints them with major works and movements in international cinema.  The course pays particular attention to the evolution of film narrative and visual style through landmarks in film development--European avant-garde films,  British documentary, Italian neo-realism, etc.  This is a Critical Studies course and is a required course for the Film and Media Studies major and minor. **We will pay special attention to the historical relationship between film and politics and additionally stress the question of film genres.**

History and Arts Gen Ed 
- required for FMS major and minor 

Synchronous Online: M W 6-9:50
Instructed by Rahul Kumar


ENGFLM 1390/FMST 1275 (6 Week 1) - Contemporary Film 

Surveys international film from 1970 to the present and the major film movements of the period.  It also demonstrates the stylistic and cultural interrelationships between the international film schools. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.

Arts and W Gen Eds

Synchronous Online: T Th 12-3:50
Instructed by Eli Boonin-Vail


ENGFLM 0530/FMST 0150 (6 Week 2) - Film Analysis

This course introduces students to the art of the cinema, and to the techniques for its formal analysis.  It examines the nature of shot composition and visual framing, the use of color, the role of lighting as a pictorial element, the potentials of camera movement, the modes of editing and the nature of image/sound montage.  It also introduces students to dominant cinema forms--narrative, experimental, documentary, etc.  This is a Critical Studies course and is a required course for the Film and Media Studies major and minor.

Arts Gen Ed 
 - required for FMS major and minor

Synchronous Online: M W 12-3:50
Instructed by Vuk Vukovic


ENGFLM 0570/FMST 0505 (6 Week 2) - Intro to New Media

In this course we will look at how new media -- ranging from television, computers, digital image production, video games, to social media platforms and smart phones -- have begun to supplant the social and cultural prominence of film and other traditional media. We'll look at how these media work: at the history and theory of their development, at the changes they have brought about in a broader media culture, and at their social status and significance (e.g., The place they occupy in culture, the kinds of interactions they make possible). This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.

Arts Gen Ed 

In Person: T Th 6-9:50
Instructed by Evgeniia Ivanilova