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ARHI141A PO-01: (Re)present Africa: Art, Hist, Film

Instructor: Jackson, Phyllis J.

  • Tuesday; 1:15-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 110, LeBus Court
  • Media Theory

Seminar centers on independent African films to examine (re)presentations of the people, arts, cultures and socio-political histories of Africa and its Diaspora. Course critically examines the cinematic themes, aesthetics, styles and schools of post-independence African and African Diasporic filmmakers. Letter grade only.

ART 021 PO-01: Foundations of 2D Design

Instructor: Allen, Mark

  • Monday/Wednesday; 9:35-12:05 p.m.
  • Room 215, Studio Arts
  • Introduction to Production

Foundations of 2D Design is a hands-on introduction to the principles of visual design.

ART 021 PO-02: Foundations of 2D Design

Instructor: Allen, Mark

  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-3:45 p.m.
  • Room 215, Studio Arts
  • Introduction to Production

Foundations of 2D Design is a hands-on introduction to the principles of visual design.

MS 049 PO-01: Intro to Media Studies

Instructor: Long, Andrew C.

  • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
  • Room 10, Crookshank Hall
  • Introduction to Critical Studies

Introduction to Media Studies. Presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Read theory, history and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. Same course as SC 49.

MS 049 PO-02: Intro to Media Studies

Instructor: Boyer, William Douglas Bahng

  • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
  • Room 1163, Estella Laboratory
  • Introduction to Critical Studies

Introduction to Media Studies. Presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Read theory, history and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. Same course as SC 49.

MS 049 PO-03: Intro to Media Studies

Instructor: Klioutchkine, Konstantine

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 22, Mason Hall
  • Introduction to Critical Studies

Introduction to Media Studies. Presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Read theory, history and fiction; view films and television programs; and write research and opinion papers. Same course as SC 49.

MS 050 PO-01: Introduction to Film

Instructor: Wynter, Kevin

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-2:30 p.m.
  • Room 10, Crookshank Hall
  • Introduction to Critical Studies

One of three gateway courses to the Media Studies major, this course introduces film and video from aesthetic, historical, and political perspectives. Students learn the basic categories necessary to comprehend formally the filmic image: cinematography, mise-en-scene, and editing. Students study the history of genres and film movements and engage the theory and politics of filmic representation. Same course as LIT 130 CM.

MS 072 PO-01: Representing Britain

Instructor: Long, Andrew C.

  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30 p.m.
  • Room 08, Crookshank Hall
  • Media History

This course is about the intertwined representation of immigration, race, and class in post-World War II Britain, a tracing which gives us insight into the present Brexit moment. Specifically, we will address how these issues were represented and understood separately and then together from the arrival of the passenger ship the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948 followed by immigration from South Asia, the Troubles of Northern Ireland, all the way to the Parliamentary Brexit vote of 2020. We will discuss and analyze films, literature, pop music, and television from this near 60-year period, though we will build towards and follow from Britain in the 1970s.

MS 092 PO-01: Principles of Television Study

Instructor: Engley, Ryan

  • Monday/Wednesday; 11:00-12:15 p.m.
  • Room 08, Crookshank Hall
  • Media History or Media Theory

Television is now at the forefront of political and aesthetic culture in a way that used to be reserved strictly for film, literature, and visual art. Seizing this contemporary moment of TV’s (seemingly) widespread culture legitimation, this course examines the historical development of television study, focusing on concepts such as: flow, immediacy, genre, platform, narrative complexity, liveness, ideology, and bingeing. Letter grade only. Prequisites: MS49, MS50, or MS51.

MS 102 PO-01: Cinematography

Instructor: Cecchet, Alessia Lupo

  • Friday; 1:15-4:00 p.m.
  • Room Q120, West Hall, PZ Campus
  • Media Theory or Intermediate/Advanced Production

In this theory/practice course, students will learn to analyze and assess the use of cinematography in film while at the same time they will learn the fundamentals of exposure, camera lenses and sensors, framing and composition, lighting and rigging. Students will practice their critical thinking through the screening of feature-length and short form films and the reading of academic works, while at the same time they will learn how to interact and control light through a hands-on approach. Students with limited knowledge on cameras, lights, and lenses are strongly encouraged to enroll.

MS 135 PO-01: Romantic Comedy

Instructor: Engley, Ryan

  • Monday/Wednesday; 2:45-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 207, Crookshank Hall
  • Media History or Media Theory

The complexity and formal sophistication of the romantic comedy film genre is often overlooked. While a historical tendency has viewed romantic comedies as light, thoughtless escapes, this course will trouble this evaluation. Examining classic and contemporary romcoms alongside theories of comedy, this course will investigate how romantic comedies stage unique sites for desire, social fantasy, and subjectivity to meet. The course will explore theories of comedy from thinkers such as Henri Bergson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud, Umberto Eco, and Alenka Zupan?i? as students watch films primarily from the peak of the Screwball Comedy era (1930s-40s) and its renaissance in the 1980s-2000s.

MS 140 PO-01: Screening Violence

Instructor: Wynter, Kevin

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00 p.m.
  • Thursday; 7:00-10:00 p.m.
  • Room 10, Crookshank Hall
  • Media History

The focus of this course is on representations of violence on screens and its widespread consumption. Through a range of theoretical texts and in conjunction with detailed analysis of select films and media, this course examines and debates the various, competing accounts of depicting, disseminating, and consuming images of violence. How did the omnipresence of scenes of violence on screens become a transnational phenomenon? Why does it have the power to move, excite or titillate us? What is our responsibility to images of violence, if any? These are some of the questions we will address as we chart the history of screening violence from early film and media to the present. Letter grade only.

MS 148D PO-01: Powers of Pleasure

Instructor: Friedlander, Jennifer

  • Thursday; 1:15-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 08, Crookshank Hall
  • Media Theory

This course interrogates John Fiske’s contention that “pleasure may be the bait on the hook of hegemony, but it is always more than this; it always involves an element that escapes the system of power.” With this claim in mind, we will: 1) evaluate key arguments in the field regarding pleasure’s complicity with dominant ideological frameworks–particularly with regard to normative views of gender, race, class and sexuality; 2) consider ways in which the critique of pleasure itself may collude with patriarchal, racist, clasist and heteronormative systems of thought; and 3) explore the possibilities for pleasure to undermine established systems of power. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: MS 049 PO, MS 050 PO, and MS 051 PO.

MS 149T PO-01: Seminar: Critical Studies- Core Theories in Media Studies

Instructor: Friedlander, Jennifer

  • Tuesday; 1:15-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 08, Crookshank Hall
  • Media Theory

An overview of core traditions in Critical Media Studies through in-depth engagement with key texts. This course serves as preparation for the Senior Seminar by consolidating a foundation in critical theory. Areas of focus include the following: The Frankfurt School, The Chicago School, Pragmatism, Structuralism and Post-Structuralism, Semiotics, Feminist Theory, Queer Theory, Psychoanalytical Theory, Postcolonial Theory, and Critical Race Theory. Prerequisites: MS 049 PO, MS 050 PO, or MS 051 PO, and one upper level theory class (MS 147 PO – MS 149 PO). May be repeated once for credit.

MS 190S JT-01: Senior Seminar

Instructor: Cecchet, Alessia Lupo

  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-2:30 p.m.
  • Room 2161, Andrew Bldg
  • Capstone

Senior Seminar. Jointly-taught seminar designed for senior majors. Review of key issues/theories in media studies.

MUS 096B PO-01: Electronic Music Studio

Instructor: De Araujo Santas, Igor Seiti

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-2:30 p.m.
  • Studio, Thatcher Music Bldg
  • Elective

Laboratory course designed to continue developing electronic compositions using techniques of analog and digital synthesis. Permission of instructor required. Prerequisite: MUS 096A PO

RUST110 PO-01: Russian and East European Cinema

Instructor: Rudova, Larissa V.

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 2:45-4:00 p.m.
  • Room 11, Mason Hall
  • Elective

A survey of Russian and Eastern European film from Soviet to post-Soviet times. Focus on the most innovative films and directors from Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia (and its successor states), Hungary, and former Yugoslavia in their relation to social, cultural, and political discourses. The course includes such topics as the communist past and its aftermath, aesthetics and ideology, historical memory, migration, human trafficking, ethnicity, and gender. Film genres, styles, and basic notions of film theory.

SPAN105 PO-01: Spanish Film

Instructor: Cahill, Paul H.

  • Monday/Wednesday/Friday; 10:00-10:50 a.m.
  • Room 04, Mason Hall
  • Elective

Spanish Film: Tradition and Transgression. Explores a selection of representative Spanish cinematic production and highlights the tension between tradition and transgression. Class discussions situate these films within their socio-historical context as well as within the context of the development of Spanish film and the Spanish film industry. Emphasis on gender, aesthetics and politics. Prerequisite: 44 or 50. Letter grade only.

THEA001A PO-01: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Giles, Timothy Paul

  • Monday/Wednesday; 10:00-12:30 p.m.
  • Room 130, Seaver Theatre
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA001A PO-02: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Giles, Timothy Paul

  • Monday/Wednesday; 1:15-3:45 p.m.
  • Room 122, Seaver Theatre
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA001A PO-03: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Knox, Jill

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-12:05 p.m.
  • Room 130, Seaver Theatre
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA001A PO-04: Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals

Instructor: Staff

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 1:15-3:45 p.m.
  • Room 130, Seaver Theatre
  • Elective

Basic Acting: Tools & Fundamentals. This introductory course explores the fundamentals of voice, movement, relaxation, text analysis, characterization and sensory and emotional-awareness exercises. Course material includes detailed analysis, preparation and performance of scenes.

THEA002 PO-01: Introduction to Theatrical Design

Instructor: Bransky, Amelia

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-10:50 p.m.
  • Room 200, Seaver Theatre
  • Elective

This course is an introduction to the design process for a wide range of performance-based productions including theatre, dance, opera, and film. Readings, discussions, and writing are supplemented by creative projects, interviews with Designers in each field and attendance at live performances when possible.

THEA012 PO-01: Intermediate Acting

Instructor: Klein, Talya

  • Tuesday/Thursday; 9:35-12:05 p.m.
  • Room 122, Seaver Theatre
  • Elective

This course continues the investigation of the tools and techniques explored in the Beginning Acting class. Students will delve into scene study, improvisation, and Stanislavski-based analysis techniques as well as deepen the connection between the truth of their emotional life and how it is expressed vocally and physically. May be repeated twice for credit. Letter grade only. Prerequisites: THEA 001A PO or THEA 001G PO.