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Harvey-Mudd College

ASAM086 HM-01: Social Documenation/Asian-Amer

  • Instructor: Staff
    • Friday; 1:15-4:00 p.m.
    • Room 2421, Shanahan Center
    • Elective

Viewing of films and other documentary forms by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) for critique and discussion. Basic instruction in use of digital video technology to document social issues relevant to Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Community-project. HSA Writing Intensive: See your HSA advisor

MS 173 HM-01: Exile in Cinema

  • Instructor: Balerio, Isabel
    • Tuesday/Thursday; 8:10-9:25 p.m.
    • Room 2465, Shanahan Center
    • Media History or Media Theory

A thematic and formal study of the range of cinematic responses to the experience of exile. Exile is an event, but how does it come about and what are its ramifications? Exile happens to individuals but also to collectivities. How does it effect a change between the self and society, homeland and site of displacement, mother tongue and acquired language? This course examines how filmmakers take on an often painful historical process through creativity. Among the authors to read are Aime Cesaire, Edward Said, George Lamming, V. S. Naipaul, Med Hondo, and Hamid Naficy; films to be viewed focus on Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

MS 179H HM-01: Experiments: Digital Worldbuilding/Special Topics in Media Studies

  • Instructor: Beavers, Isabel
    • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-3:45 p.m.
    • Room 2465, Shanahan Center
    • Intermediate/Advanced Production

This is a worldbuilding course centered around individual project development. We will learn a series of skills in digital modeling, animating games, and installation. Students will spend the semester developing a capstone project that will be exhibited on campus at the end of the semester. Class time will involve demos and individual project meetings with course instructor. Students are expected to practice project and time management and to work independently.

MUS 067 HM-01: Film Music

  • Instructor: Alves, Bill
    • Friday; 1:15- 4:00 p.m.
    • Room B480, Shanahan Center
    • Elective

This course is an exploration of the history and aesthetics of the use of music in cinema, primarily the Hollywood film from the so-called silent era to the present. (We will not cover musicals, documentaries, or short films.) The course will include the development of skills of listening analysis and writing about music in the context of narrative film. No background in music or film history is required.