2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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FMST 1321 - EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNISM AT THE MOVIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
After the 1917 revolution in Russia, Lenin famously said: “to us film is the most important of all the arts.” Communists were to use cinema for propaganda purposes, in order to carry out massive state-wide campaigns aiming to bring radical social change. However, Soviet avant-garde filmmakers were also concerned with revolutionizing filmmaking itself. Some three decades after Lenin’s remarks, the leaders of the countries of Eastern Europe which had become “Soviet satellites” after World War II, attempted to use censorship and control over the arts and cinema to produce effective propaganda for their own political campaigns. Writers, artists, and filmmakers were coveted allies of these new communist regimes that came to power in the 1940s. Again, however, filmmakers and actors did not always toe the Party line. Some were able to use film to craft complex works with subtle messages portraying aspects of daily life as it was experienced by ordinary people under the new regimes. Films that we will watch and analyze, released in Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Czechoslovakia in the decades before the fall of communism in 1989 managed to depict, evoke, and criticize “really existing communism.” This course will trace the history of East European communism and of East European film-making from 1944 to 1990, acquainting students with examples from an exceptional body of cinematographic work together with the broad outlines of East European history. Students will learn to “read” films from 20th century Eastern Europe in their cultural, political, and historical context. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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FMST 1331 - JEWS AND THE AMERICAN CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to: the prominent roles 0f Jews in the American cinema (as producers, directors and performers); the manner in which issues of Jewish identity (including the negative aspect of ethnic stereotypes) and topics such as anti-Semitism and the holocaust have been treated in the American cinema; and the way in which film genre intersects with issues of Jews in American film (e.g. Comedy and so-called “Jewish humor”, the appeal to Melo drama in the social problem film, etc.).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1340 - U.S. LATINO FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The major purpose of the course consists of illustrating and analyzing the role of the audiovisual media film (fiction and documentary) and video (and television, to a certain degree) for an understanding of the socio-cultural and conceptual status that Latina/o identities have acquired in today’s society. Thematically, the course will focus on themes of modernity vs. tradition in U.S. Latino culture. The course uses a selection of audiovisual materials which is fairly innovative in its variety. Chicano films and videos will constitute the major part of the material.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1341 - LATIN AMERICAN FILM & MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the study of Latin American film and media by both engaging in critical viewing/reading of Latin American film and media production, as well as an exploration of relevant topics and theoretical frameworks. We will engage with questions of film and representation, art and politics, and culture and economy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1346 - DRUGS, MONEY AND VIOLENCE: NARCO-CULTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the complex, multi-layered, and often contradictory world of transnational narcotics traffic particularly as it is configured in and through contemporary Latin American cinema. Departing from the contention that the relations between drug trafficking networks, governmental responses to the drug trade, drug production and consumption, are not clear and transparent as depicted in dominant discourses exemplified by the narrative of the War on Drugs, this course analyzes narco-culture not as a simplistic response centered merely on the idolization of drug lords or drug culture, but as a dynamic creative current that tries to make sense of the complexity and violence of the world of drugs. Why do official narratives of capitalist enterprise disavow the capitalist foundation of the drug trade? How are discourses of security and protection ironically embodied in violent militarized actions and neo-imperial ventures? How does the criminalization of certain cultural practices and symbols - particular languages, dress codes, music - relate to the racialization and sexualization of certain peoples and bodies? Moreover, how can we understand the (global) commercial success of narco-culture as exemplified by recent mainstream media and popular culture? In this course, we will address these questions by engaging in close reading/viewing of contemporary Latin American films that center on representations and (re)productions of narco-culture. These primary works will be examined in conjunction with secondary readings that discuss topics relevant to our analysis of narco-culture, such as globalization, neoliberal capitalism, immigration, femicides, cultural appropriation, and racial and gender construction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1350 - FILM DIRECTORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course that changes topics every term; please see the Topic title and/or Class Notes for the specific director. This course looks at the mode of production of films and works to understand the interweaving contributions of directors, producers and screenwriters. It will also consider less personal forces—social climate, studio style, genre and audience taste. It examines the films of particular directors for signs of personal style, theme, or personal preoccupation. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1352 - ORSON WELLES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the screen career of Orson Welles. In considering his films, the course explores the evolution of Welles’ cinematic style; the thematic concerns of his work; the ideological implications of his fictional universe; and his contribution to the development of American narrative cinema. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1355 - HITCHCOCK’S FILMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will look at the development of Hitchcock’s cinema as a way of touching upon issues central to the study of film as a cultural force; the relationship between art and entertainment; the social origins of suspense and fear; the role of the director in creating a film’s meaning; the role and function of genre and cross-generic influence. We will closely look at films from all phases of Hitchcock’s career and examine what their style, tone, and subject matter reveal about the powers of cinema and Hitchcock’s influence on a new generation of directors. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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FMST 1357 - THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course aims to discover the extent to which Kubrick’s films are unified in style and theme. We will explore their sources in other films, reputed novels and short stories. Special attention will be paid to themes commonly found in Kubrick; a satirical view of society, the links between violence and sexuality, etc. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1360 - SPIKE LEE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Spike Lee’s films, videos, and TV work have been both provocative and groundbreaking, challenging the structures of American filmmaking at the level of production, reception, and film style. Including feature films, documentaries, music videos, and mini-series, his work has a diversity that discourages the restrictive labels of African-American director or independent director. This course will cover most of this body of work in terms of Lee’s cinematic style and cultural concerns, and also in terms of the cultural debates his work has triggered or participated in. By the very nature of these films, a Spike Lee course has to engage with much more than directorial style and vision alone, and will thus also be an opportunity to consider various approaches to the study of film. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1410 - FILM AND POLITICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines film production, economics and forms of representation as reflections of political attitudes. We will study a variety of narrative and non-fiction films which reveal differing political points of view, ranging from those that legitimize the dominant culture to those which criticize, if not challenge, dominant attitudes. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, Writing Requirement Course
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FMST 1411 - FILM AND LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine film’s convergence with, and divergence from, the literary arts. From this discussion will emerge an understanding of film’s debt to literary models, as well as its own unique and innovative contributions to narrative, poetic and essay form.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, Writing Requirement Course
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FMST 1411 - FILM AND LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Cinema has enjoyed a close relationship with literature, borrowing from literary source texts and forms. Yet this relationship is not uncomplicated, nor is it unidirectional: the cinema offers new possibilities for novelistic source texts, poses interesting problems for literature’s authors and readers alike and provokes a reconsideration of age-old debates of the divide between words and images. Thus this course examines film’s convergence with, and divergence from, literary forms. Poised at the intersection of the study of film and the study of literature, it enables us to explore what is most unique — and perhaps most interesting — about each of the media as we consider their overlap. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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FMST 1412 - CINEMA AND VIDEO GAMES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces a comparative study of cinema and video games, exploring the historical, cultural, aesthetic, technological and industrial intersections between these two media forms. Combining film screenings with game plays, we will try to understand how cinema and video games inform, influence and converge with each other, as well as how the interrelations between these two media may have affected visual cultures at large. We will focus on race, gender, and ethical issues of visual representations in both cinema and video games, discussing the political questions of identity, power and representation in popular culture. The class also intends to provide students with analytical frameworks in film and media studies to guide their critical interpretations of the technology, history, and forms of video games. Through writings of game designers, film scholars and media theorists, we will consider the foundational role of the discipline of film studies in the formation of critical game studies. Students will be introduced to some key theoretical questions and concepts, such as realism, affect, hypertext, interactivity, post-humanism, media convergence and participatory culture, which are crucial for understanding the technological, cultural and social conditions of both cinema and video games in the digital age.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1412 - CINEMA AND VIDEO GAMES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces a comparative study of cinema and video games, exploring the historical, cultural, aesthetic, technological and industrial intersections between these two media forms. Combining film screenings with game plays, we will try to understand how cinema and video games inform, influence and converge with each other, as well as how the interrelations between these two media may have affected visual cultures at large. We will focus on race, gender, and ethical issues of visual representations in both cinema and video games, discussing the political questions of identity, power and representation in popular culture. The class also intends to provide students with analytical frameworks in film and media studies to guide their critical interpretations of the technology, history, and forms of video games. Through writings of game designers, film scholars and media theorists, we will consider the foundational role of the discipline of film studies in the formation of critical game studies. Students will be introduced to some key theoretical questions and concepts, such as realism, affect, hypertext, interactivity, post-humanism, media convergence and participatory culture, which are crucial for understanding the technological, cultural and social conditions of both cinema and video games in the digital age.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1415 - FILM CENSORSHIP AND AMERICAN CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course considers some of the most important censorship battles in American history. As the first mass medium to pose a serious threat to the cultural hegemony of the genteel middle class, the movies initiated both a debate about the place of media in our society and a series of struggles over the control of commercialized leisure. This course seeks a deeper appreciation of the complexities of contemporary media politics through an engagement with the history of motion picture regulation. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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FMST 1416 - GENDER AND FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines and questions aspects of gender and sexuality in international cinema. While the course considers the intersectional realities affecting masculinity and femininity on-screen, it will also consider who is behind the camera and ideas of “authentic” representation. Attention will also be paid to the social and historical context in which these films were made, in an attempt to understand the relationship between art and ideology. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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FMST 1420 - THE STAR SYSTEM AND THE MOVIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will deal with all aspects of the phenomenon of stardom in film: the production of stars, film acting, and fandom. This is not a course on any particular star, but we will use case studies of individual stars for our weekly focus. We will draw on film examples from the old Hollywood studio system as well as from post-studio films and popular culture. A particular emphasis of the course will be gendered differences between star images. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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FMST 1421 - GLOBAL STARDOM AND CELEBRITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the analysis of the “star text” of individual stars/celebrities, which involves the interrelationship of screen-mediated roles, off-screen appearances and information, publicity material, and cultural context. Students will research a specific star/celebrity as a nexus of global circulation and fandom, while addressing some core methodological questions: what is the difference between star biography and star analysis? How do we read the “star/celebrity text” in different local contexts and ideas about the public and the private? How does stardom presume and shape norms of identity pertaining to gender, sexuality, social class, race/ethnicity, bodily norms, and other cultural values? This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1440 - FILM SOUND
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, we will shift the way we think about films and learn to listen to films, using the language and tools of audio analysis to analyze the aural environment produced by films. Topics include the history of film sound, the relation of sound and image, aural and visual pleasures, sound and narrative meaning, soundscapes and theories of shock and modernity, the aesthetics of analog and digital sound in cinema, the ‘realism’ of recorded sound, film sound and space, sound in documentary cinema, and culturally specific theories of sound. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1450 - TOPICS IN FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course that changes topics every term; please see the Topic title and/or Class Notes for the specific focus. Explores selected issues in the production, reception, themes, or theory of film. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1508 - TELEVISION ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies television as a visual medium, an industry, and as a cultural force by examining the forms television programming takes and the way these structures influence viewer response. We will examine specific television genres from longstanding series types (sitcoms, cop shows, serials, etc.) to the gendered forms of “quality” television. This is a Critical Studies course with Production elements and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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FMST 1510 - ANIMATION STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of animation, both American and international. Providing an understanding of animation’s history, technologies, and stylistic possibilities across national and international boundaries, the course will consider early animators through to contemporary uses of digital technologies with their fully realized characters inhabiting three-dimensional space. It will also have a thematic organization, focusing at times on specific techniques (e.g., cel animation) and styles (e.g., abstract). This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FMST 1520 - FILM COMEDY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys film comedy from the silent period through the contemporary moment. It focuses on major comic performers and directors as well as on comic forms, traditions and their relation to politics. In addition the course considers a number of comedy subgenres, such as slapstick, romantic comedy, gross-out comedy, and the buddy film. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1522 - FILM MUSICAL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the musical as an example of a popular art in the age of mass culture, looking at the aesthetics and history of this genre as it relates to the culture that produced it. We will be looking at musicals with the goal of analyzing and understanding our reactions, and those of the mass audience. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1523 - FILM WESTERN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the meaning of the Western to a mass audience. More specifically we will explore the genre’s popularity, the way it represents the past, the concept of the mythic hero, changes in the genre from 1939 to 1981, and the contributions to the genre of specific directors. Every effort will be made to connect changes in the Western to new concepts of America.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1523 - FILM WESTERN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the meaning of the Western to a mass audience. More specifically we will explore the genre’s popularity, the way it represents the past, the concept of the mythic hero, changes in the genre over time, and the contributions of specific directors. We will consider how the Western adapts to changing concepts of America. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1525 - HORROR FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the kinds of narratives produced, the ways producers and directors have developed the genre, and the ways horror film exploits social attitudes and values to generate audience involvement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1525 - HORROR FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will investigate the key films and critical discussions surrounding the horror genre from its silent film beginnings to the present. We will use horror as a lens to ask wide-ranging questions about spectatorship, theory, history, aesthetics, and politics that have shaped and continue to transform film and media studies. This course examines horror subgenres, the ways that producers and directors have developed the genre, and the ways horror film exploits social attitudes and values to generate audience involvement. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1526 - THE WAR FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will consider stable and changing elements of the war film genre, while remaining attentive to specific cultural moments, beginning with World War I. Although the main emphasis of the course will be on the war film as genre, part of the semester will be devoted to documentary and non-fiction approaches to war in cinema. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1527 - SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the development of science fiction as a cinematic form, its relationship to genres such as horror and melodrama, its structure, images and style. We attempt to trace linkages between the films and social, political, scientific and aesthetic attitudes within the culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1527 - SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the development of science fiction as a cinematic form, its relationship to genres such as horror and melodrama, its structure, images and style. We attempt to trace linkages between the films and social, political, scientific and aesthetic attitudes within the culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1530 - FILM NOIR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the notion of ‘film noir’ in a trans-national and trans-medial context. We will examine the classic films noir of the period 1941-1958 (e.g. Double Indemnity, The Killers and The Naked City), the films considered to be ‘neo-noir’ since the 1970s (e.g. Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Fight Club and Memento), and the international films described as ‘global noir’ from Japan, Hong Kong, Europe, and many other places throughout the world (e.g. Better Tomorrow, Branded to Kill, Sonatine, and Oldboy). We will also explore how the generic modes and conventions of film noir have been incorporated into other media such as comics, animations, and video games (e.g. Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, LA Noir and Heavy Rain). We will look at these films and media objects from the perspective of film art and history, of their relationship to wider socio-cultural contexts, and of their exploration of gender and sexuality. The course will explore debates as to whether film noir is a style, a genre, an idea in criticism, or a marketing category. We will examine the roots of film noir in German expressionism and hard-boiled detective fiction. We will examine the work of significant directors of these films, in both Hollywood and beyond, including Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, Guy Ritchie, Takashi Beat, Seijun Suzuki, John Woo, Johnnie To, and Park Chang-wook.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1530 - FILM NOIR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the notion of ‘film noir’ in a trans-national and trans-medial context. We will examine the classic films noir of the period 1941-1958 (e.g. Double Indemnity, The Killers and The Naked City), the films considered to be ‘neo-noir’ since the 1970s (e.g. Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Fight Club and Memento), and the international films described as ‘global noir’ from Japan, Hong Kong, Europe, and many other places throughout the world (e.g. Better Tomorrow, Branded to Kill, Sonatine, and Oldboy). We will also explore how the generic modes and conventions of film noir have been incorporated into other media such as comics, animations, and video games (e.g. Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, LA Noir and Heavy Rain). We will look at these films and media objects from the perspective of film art and history, of their relationship to wider socio-cultural contexts, and of their exploration of gender and sexuality. The course will explore debates as to whether film noir is a style, a genre, an idea in criticism, or a marketing category. We will examine the roots of film noir in German expressionism and hard-boiled detective fiction. We will examine the work of significant directors of these films, in both Hollywood and beyond, including Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, Guy Ritchie, Takashi Beat, Seijun Suzuki, John Woo, Johnnie To, and Park Chang-wook.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1531 - CULT FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will interrogate the criteria by which a film is identified as cult. A cult movie is not made; a film only becomes cult through the consumption patterns of an audience. This course explores how the nature of cult viewership shifted in response to technological innovation: at first VCRs, then DVDs, and now the internet. This course also looks to how cult has shifted now that unavailable films or banned films are increasingly accessible due to shifts in new media and the dominance of internet commerce (international shopping, eBay, bootlegs, downloads). This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1532 - SUPERHEROES ON FILM AND TELEVISION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores a wide range of issues relevant to the superhero genre in popular media, including: the origins of the genre; various cultural critics’ responses to it; the intersections between superhero narratives, audiences, and the cultural and historical contexts that produce them; and the ever-changing form and structure of the genre itself. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1535 - WESTERNS AND SAMURAI FILMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A focus on the critical comparative study of two filmic genres—the samurai representing Japanese cinema and the Western representing American cinema. The course demonstrates the analytical processes of the film leading to its structural unity; shows the significance of both genres with respect to the history of Japanese, American and European cinema; compares approaches to films of different countries and provides the overall benefits of approaching films from an intercultural standpoint.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1540 - DOCUMENTARY FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the nature and impact of the non fiction film, its changing forms, strategies for movies, and claims to veracity and objectivity. It is concerned with identifying types of documentary, the “motives” of such films, their audience and the problems posed by “documenting reality.” This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1546 - EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the development of experimental cinema beginning in Europe in the 1920s with dada and surrealist films by Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel and others, and continuing in the U.S. and elsewhere after World War II. The films, many of which are non-narrative and some of which are “abstract”, will be examined for the ways in which cinema is used for the filmmakers’ personal expression. Consideration will be given to the artistic and cultural contexts in which the films were made, and comparisons will be made with other media, especially painting and sculpture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1548 - AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the development in the U.S. Of independently produced film as an art form, and the filmmaker as an artist, from World War II to the present. Filmmakers to be considered include Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Baillie, Hollis Frampton and others. An examination will be made of the relationships between the films studied and other forms of modern art, such as “abstract expressionism”, “structuralism” and “postmodernism”. This course does not include “independent” Hollywood and other commercial feature filmmaking.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1549 - INDUSTRIES AND FESTIVALS: FILM AND MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores how film industries have shaped contemporary production, exhibition, and distribution practices with focus on the role of film festivals in the film industry. We will examine festival history, theory, and methods to learn how festivals have impacted industry history and how festivals are produced and executed. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II for the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1550 - TOPICS IN GENRE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course that changes topics every term; please see the Topic title and/or Class Notes for the specific focus. This course considers genres that are not commonly offered. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1585 - CINEMA AND REVOLUTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course investigates the relationship between Black power era, Black American cinema, and the third cinema movement, which are traditionally understood to be distinct movement/moments only loosely related through overlapping politics. In the course, our primary focus will be third world and Black American film making, and the postcolonial, pan-national and militant theoretical texts and movements that influenced the directors. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
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FMST 1610 - TEEN FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will look at a type of film that has been prominent in Hollywood and international cinema since 1955: the youth film or teen film or teenpic. The teenpic has been variously defined as films targeted at a teenage market and as films about teenagers (and sometimes both). In considering the teenpic as a genre, we will attempt to break it down into subgenres such as the juvenile delinquent film, the teen musical, the teen horror film, nostalgic teen films, postmodern youth cult films, African American teen films, “girl” teenpics, and LGBTQIA+ teenpics. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1615 - CHILDREN AND MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary children’s media from social, cultural, and historical perspectives, with a focus on media in the United States produced by and for children ages 0-13. Video games, the internet, and emerging digital and portable technologies for communicating and consuming media are often tailored specifically to children, who, as “digital natives,” are increasingly early adopters of new technologies. This course asks how children’s media fits into contemporary debates about children’s role in families, schooling, and the public sphere. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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FMST 1630 - PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course is intended to provide a thorough familiarity with the history of photography from its development in the 19th century to the present day, and to link that history to major trends in the history of modern art, such as realism, impressionism, cubism, surrealism, abstract art, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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FMST 1650 - TOPICS IN FILM GENRE AND THEME
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course that changes topics every term; please see the Topic title and/or Class Notes for the specific focus. This course seeks to provide a forum for new issues that might arise in the area of film genre and/or the thematic of film representation. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1655 - TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course that changes topics every term; please see the Topic title and/or Class Notes for the specific focus. This course deals with issues related to contemporary cinema. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1699 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for Film and Media Studies majors and can be taken only when all other major requirements are satisfied. It will focus on issues of film history (either as an historical survey or through an examination of particular themes and/or problems that have arisen in the critical literature). The class will be organized as a seminar, and will involve considerable writing and/or class presentation on the part of students. This Category II course is a required capstone in the Critical Studies track of the Film and Media Studies major.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Film Studies, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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FMST 1715 - MOCKUMENTARY: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The mockumentary - a fictional film made to “look like” a documentary - became popularized as a term to describe a distinct genre in coverage of Rob Reiner’s 1984 film This is Spinal Tap. Since then, the genre has evolved to treat a variety of subjects through a range of styles - including straightforward hoaxes, social parodies, and sharp criticisms of nonfictional form. In addition to readings, lectures and discussions, students in this class will produce short mockumentary projects. Previous production experience is not required. This is a Production course with Critical Studies elements and counts for Category III towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1720 - VISITING FILMMAKER: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course allows students to experience the full process of making a professional micro-budget feature, experimental, or documentary film. Students work on a visiting filmmaker’s film from conception to final shooting, while learning about the different jobs/tasks/departments needed to realize a completed work. This is a Production course and counts for Category III towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1750 - CREATIVE PRODUCTION WORKSHOP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Creative Production Workshop is a projects-based course in which students will research, define, schedule, budget, and workshop their own independent projects. In a collaborative learning environment, students develop and produce original digital projects while conducting critical investigations into their role as participants in and products of digitally mediated culture. The primary goal of the course is to design and execute a self-directed, self-designed, 14-week creative project. This process can be broken down into a series of smaller goals: Students will gather and create materials for the preliminary (treatment) stage of a project; conduct creative research to develop a project design; define the goals of a project and the areas of study; identify and address technical/logistical issues of the project; organize project materials; schedule and plan use of time; create a written description of a project; and make an oral/visual presentation of their project at different stages of its development. The methods of instruction will include discussion of assigned readings, in- and out-of-class viewings of assigned films, production instruction in the film editing lab, and workshop-style peer review and feedback at all stages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1750 - CREATIVE PRODUCTION WORKSHOP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Creative Production Workshop is a projects-based course in which students will research, define, schedule, budget, and workshop their own independent projects. In a collaborative learning environment, students develop and produce original digital projects while conducting critical investigations into their role as participants in and products of digitally mediated culture. The primary goal of the course is to design and execute a self-directed, self-designed, 14-week creative project. This process can be broken down into a series of smaller goals: Students will gather and create materials for the preliminary (treatment) stage of a project; conduct creative research to develop a project design; define the goals of a project and the areas of study; identify and address technical/logistical issues of the project; organize project materials; schedule and plan use of time; create a written description of a project; and make an oral/visual presentation of their project at different stages of its development. The methods of instruction will include discussion of assigned readings, in- and out-of-class viewings of assigned films, production instruction in the film editing lab, and workshop-style peer review and feedback at all stages.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1765 - VIRTUAL REALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Can there be more than one reality? Is there even one? What relationship do the senses and the mind bear to the physical environment? From the dawn of human society, no topic has been more fiercely debated than the nature of reality. In narrative, philosophy, and media, virtual reality has always been with us. This course dives deep into the rabbit hole of the real and the virtual, an adventure that includes philosophy, literature, film, and, of course, VR headsets aplenty! In addition to exploring the history of the real and the virtual, we will consider the relationship of virtual reality to the body, to space, to human gesture and communication, and to code. We will also explore the role of the imagination and creativity in the generation of new worlds. You will learn to think historically, theoretically, and critically about VR. You will have the option of either writing critical papers or creating your own virtual environment or game as your final project. This course assumes no prior experience with VR or coding, but those skills can optionally be put to use in final projects. Come prepared to question your reality!
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1770 - DIGITAL STUDIO: IMAGING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Digital Studio: Imaging is a studio designed to immerse students in the investigation of digital art practices. Emphasis will be on the history and aesthetics of art and digital technology, including screen-based imaging practices, creative coding, and digital fabrication. Throughout the course, you will acquire and enhance technical skills, but the emphasis will be on the use of the computer as an art-making tool for your creative expression. Thoughtfulness, experimentation and curiosity is encouraged.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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FMST 1775 - DIGITAL STUDIO: VIDEO
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced studio designed for students to intensely experiment and explore the moving digital image in an art context. Students will explore the concepts and skills involved in working with digital video, from pre to post-production. Each student will propose and undertake a final, self-designed project during the final four weeks of the term. Major effort, time, research, imagination, productivity, and involvement are expected throughout the term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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FMST 1777 - DIGITAL STUDIO: ANIMATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced course designed for students to intensely experiment and explore the moving digital image in an art context. Students will explore the concepts and skills involved in working with digital animation - from pre to post-production. Each student will propose and undertake a final, self-designed project during the final four weeks of the term. Major effort, time, imagination, productivity, and involvement are expected throughout the term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (SA 0110 and 0180) or ENGFLM 0590 or FILMST 0001 or FMST 0800
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FMST 1817 - LIGHTING FOR MOTION PICTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course allows students from both the film and video disciplines to expand their aesthetic boundaries by overcoming technical limitations. Students will learn theories of lighting to create a particular emotional, psychological, or physiological effect in the viewer, and will participate in lighting and shooting a variety of situations in class. Differences between lighting for film and video, light metering, and various lighting tools are among the topics covered. Contemporary film examples will be examined and discussed in class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1828 - PHOTOGRAPHY 3
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers advanced Photoshop techniques. Learn to make complex selection and color correction, texture maps, advanced layering and masking principles. Learn to make custom color profiles along with essentials of digital color management. Emphasis is on the development and exploration of a personal vision and the creation of a digital portfolio.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1846 - FILMMAKING 3: STORY TO SCREEN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Building on your experiences in Filmmaking 1 and 2, you will continue to develop your style as a filmmaker while creating more ambitious work and improving your technical skills. Demonstrations cover HD video cameras and lenses, advanced lighting and sound techniques, creating a pre-production binder, and advanced post-production workflows using Adobe Creative Cloud software. In addition to creating short projects in class, significant outside work is required, as you will take a short film from concept to a polished final version.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0601 or ENGFLM 1497 or SA 1380 or FMST 0845 or FMST 1193 or FMST 1775
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FMST 1852 - DIRECTING ACTORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the communication between directors and actors and how a director’s vision translates into playable action on the screen. Class sessions will provide examples and practical experience in successful director/actor collaboration. Students will learn how to judge a good performance and will practice directing techniques that lead to better performances by actors. It is a laboratory class and students will direct each other. The format combines hands-on exercises, taping, screening and lecture. Grading is based on exercises, homework, taped scenes and participation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1855 - DIRECTING MOTION PICTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course addresses some of the basic problems of designing and directing scenes for motion pictures. Some of the problems discussed are the relationship of film to reality, the meaning of cinematic techniques, continuity, shot selection, cut selection and visualization techniques. The format is a combination of lecture, screening and interactive group exercises. Extensive outside work is necessary.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1860 - ELEMENTS OF SCREENWRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore developing character-based stories in the screenplay form. Students will be exposed to a variety of readings, including original screenplays, related prose, and texts which reinforce basic tenets of good story telling. Students will write a completed 1st Act for a 3 to 5 part screenplay, building from idea to outline with particular attention to structure and character development.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1862 - INTERMEDIATE SCREENWRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced course will help you develop your feature film idea into a full treatment. Weekly discussions and writing assignments focus on creating the plot, scene, sequences, setting, and subplots. By the end of the semester, you will have completed a scene-by-scene treatment of your original work. Considerable outside work is required. Grading is based on weekly assignments, the quality of the written treatment and class participation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0560 OR FMST 0700 OR ENGWRT 1132 OR FILMST 1132 OR FMST 1860 OR ENGFLM 1499 OR FMST 1194 OR ENGWRT 0520
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FMST 1865 - WRITING THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Episodic stories can be traditional TV sitcoms or drama series, serialized narratives meant to be binged on streaming networks, independent web series, even stories told through a series of Snapchat stories. As different as they are structurally, they all have similar challenges - the writer must create a rich, interesting world and populate it with compelling characters in order to keep an audience watching from episode to episode. In this course students with basic screenwriting skills will apply those skills to the creation of an episodic series, from pitching the series through developing the story arc to writing the pilot episode.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1870 - ACTING FOR THE CAMERA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for actors who would like to improve their craft by better understanding the differences between acting for the stage and acting for the camera. The course will describe and demonstrate the contrasts between stage and screen acting in specific shooting scripts and follow that with appropriate script study, character analysis and exercise in film acting techniques. Each class will include lecture, videotaped examples of performances for analysis and critique and the practical experience of working in front of the camera.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1875 - SOUND FOR MOTION PICTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will enable students to convert sound to a digital analog, recording, processing, storing and mixing sounds to varied effects in relation to visual media. Particular emphasis will be placed on the special requirements of sound for narrative film: intelligibility in voice reproduction, achieving and maintaining synchronism, and the relationship between voice, music, sound effects and story.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0500 or 0601 or FMST 0845
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FMST 1880 - DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will cover advanced video technology and professional techniques of videography. Emphasis will be placed on high image quality and meeting broadcast specifications for video and audio. Professional-quality video cameras will be covered extensively.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1883 - EXPERIMENTAL CAMERA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This will be a workshop course dealing with a variety of techniques utilizing the camera as a tool for visual information outside of its normal use and function. The course will look at the history of cameras and the many image making devices that were invented to date.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1885 - BROADCASTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Broadcasting introduces students to television production through academic and hands-on experience, utilizing the University of Pittsburgh’s new state-of-the-art television studios and equipment. In addition to students learning how to produce a live broadcast event for collegiate teams and a news broadcast, guest lecturers will talk about the industrial realities of the profession. Students will understand how to format and make a show rundown, apply graphics, utilize replay, work a television camera, comprehend audio application and mixing, produce and direct live events and news broadcast, as well as gain experience in front of the camera as news anchors, reporters and on-air talent for live events.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1886 - BROADCASTING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The unique and dynamic Broadcasting 2 course will utilize every aspect of the state-of-the-art Pitt Studios, offering students a challenging and stimulating curriculum. Students will produce a Live Event Show Open (incorporating all pre-production elements), a Newscast, and a Podcast, incorporating video and animation marketing support. Students’ projects will be crewed by classmates.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FMST 1885 or FILMST 1001
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FMST 1890 - THE BUSINESS OF BROADCASTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Business of Broadcasting teaches students how business is incorporated into every form of television broadcasts, including newscasts, documentaries, live event, magazine, interview, Network series, social media and streaming services, from ethics, copyright, “back of house” (payroll, crew call, work-flow) to social media. This is a Category III course that combines critical studies and production elements. It counts for the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1893 - HUMAN INTEREST STORIES FOR BROADCAST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Human Interest Stories for Broadcast will teach students how to present and tell a compelling story about a person, place, or thing in the confines of television broadcast, streaming, or social media platform. Writing techniques for television, research techniques, interview techniques, adding graphics, mixing sound and music, video, tracking and voice-over will be required for the feature packages ranging from :45 seconds in length to 3:00 minutes in length. This is a Category III class that combines critical and production elements. This course counts for the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1900 - INTERNSHIP IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Working in consultation with faculty, advanced students wishing to pursue careers in film and media have the opportunity to work with independent media artists or production companies. This course offering is designed to give students valuable experience in their chosen field of study outside the college and classroom environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Undergraduate Internship
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FMST 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Under certain circumstances students may elect to study film and media on an independent basis. Such independent study will be closely supervised by a faculty member and will entail the writing of a proposal prior to beginning the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1904 - UTA IN FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Undergraduate Teaching Assistants are arranged with individual faculty members and require special permission. A range of credit hours and grading options are available.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FMST 1921 - FILMMAKING 4: CAPSTONE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a capstone course in motion picture production. Each student will have the option to create an individual project of their choice, which can be any genre of narrative, documentary, or experimental. Students who choose to work on their own personal project should be prepared to pitch the project to the class and the instructor during the first class session. Through script workshops, preproduction reviews, and critique of rough cuts, the instructor will mentor you through the filmmaking process. Depending on class size, students may have the option to instead work together on a collaborative project, with different students filling the roles of producer, writer, director, and editor, and taking on multiple roles in the production crew. This course is a requirement for Film and Media Studies students taking the Production Track.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (FILMST 1600 or FMST 1846) and (ENGWRT 0560 or FMST 0700 or FILMST 1132 or FMST 1860)
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FMST 1930 - INTERNSHIP IN FILM AND MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Internships can be taken for credit with special permission from the Internship Coordinator in Film and Media Studies. One internship can count for Category III towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BUSFIN 1030 - INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides a survey and analysis of the problems and tools of financial decision-making by individuals and firms. The firm’s role in the market system and the nature of its objective with reference to the welfare of investors and society is also treated. An analysis of the implications of this role to decisions regarding choice among alternative investment projects and capital budgeting decisions as well as an introduction to the structure of capital asset prices and the implications for financial policies of firms and individuals are also included.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (BUSACC 0030 or BUSERV 1920 or CDACCT 6030 or MGMT 0022 or BUS 0115 or ACCT 0201) and (STAT 1000 or 1100 or MGMT 0024 or STAT 1040 or ECON 0204 or STAT 1131); PROG: College of Business Admin; LVL: So, Jr or Sr
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BUSFIN 1031 - INTRODUCTION TO FINANCE HONORS + 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: Restricted to College of Business Admin Students Only.
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BUSFIN 1311 - CORPORATE FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Investigates the investment and financing decisions of firms from the perspective of the corporate manager. The pedagogical format combines conceptual and case analyses so as to provide both a theoretical and practical foundation. Specific topics to be considered include the following: capital budgeting, cost of capital determination, capital structure decisions and dividend policy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, FInance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1316 - ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines a variety of applied topics in corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, leasing, pensions, short term financial management, and the use of derivatives in corporate finance.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1311; PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1321 - INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Emphasizes the development of tools required for investment decision-making. Reviews various financial instruments, examines their historical performance for evidence of risk return trade-off, presents basic portfolio theory and its implications for diversification, discusses the capital asset pricing model, and empirical estimation of beta riskiness. Other topics include mutual fund performance and the theory of efficient markets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1326 - EFFICIENCY OF CAPITAL MARKETS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers a central issue in finance: the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The EMH states that security prices reflect all relevant information and implies that investors cannot earn excess profits. Evidence in support of the EMH and contrary to it is studied. The implications of efficiency impact all financial managers and individuals in their financial decisions. Topics include: what actions can a financial manager take to maximize shareholder wealth, why do prices fluctuate, and technical versus fundamental analysis. The course focuses on valuation methods like DCF and CAPM.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1327 - RISK MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines financial risk management from the perspective of the corporate manager. The overarching goal is to learn about why and how managers can create value for shareholders by way of risk management. In doing so, we will explore different sources of financial risk faced by managers and how these risks can be measured, quantified, and managed. The first part of the class focuses on the basics of forwards and options. The second part focuses on applications, including Monte Carlo simulation techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1328 - CAPITAL MARKETS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an in-depth analysis of stock and bond valuation. The analysis of bonds covers bond pricing principals, the term structure of interest rates, and fixed income portfolio management. The analysis of stocks focuses on earnings and dividend-based valuation models, and a discussion of “value investing” and indexing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1329 - FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1331 - FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis of the behavior of financial intermediaries in the capital market. The performance of capital markets and examination of the role of regulations of financial markets, and the effects of decision-making by individuals and firms are covered. Sources of short-term and long-term financing will also be analyzed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRADE ‘C’); PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1341 - INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course applies the principles of finance to international issues in financial management. It deals in topics such as the valuation of foreign subsidiaries, estimating the cost of capital of foreign investments, investing in foreign multinational firms, the correlation of returns across international security markets, hedging foreign exchange risk, and the use of foreign securities markets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’) and 1311 and 1321; PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
Course Attributes: Global Studies
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BUSFIN 1345 - MARKETS AND TRADING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course gives participants a broad understanding of the operations of various financial markets with special focus on liquidity, market structure and trading. The course concentrates on the ops of exchanges, trading systems and broker-dealer intermediaries. Students will be exposed to range of issues regarding the formulation of trading decisions and market structure design and regulation. Simulation software will be used to provide experience making tactical trading decisions in different market structure environments. Students will manage equity portfolios using OTIS.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRADE ‘C’) and 1311 and 1321; PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1347 - MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS AND CORPORATE STRUCTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the major structural transactions that corporations experience from an internal perspective, based on sound financial analysis conducted with an understanding of corporate governance, firm strategy, law, accounting, and organizational behavior. Particular emphasis will be on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and include topics in venture capital, initial public offerings, buyouts, divestitures, and bankruptcy. Readings, case study analysis, and active class discussion are emphasized. Teams of students will put the M&A process into practice by searching out and analyzing potential target firms for a major corporation and presenting their analyses and recommendations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1311 and 1321; PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1351 - FINANCIAL MODELING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course applies economic theories to solve various problems in financial management and investments. Using a hands-on approach in building financial spreadsheet models, the student will gain knowledge of numerical and graphical practices. These include but are not limited to asset return calculations, portfolio theory, index models, and the capital asset pricing model, option pricing models, bond pricing and investment performance analysis. MS excel is the primary tool to implement these financial models, however the course will also make use of statistics and probability.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRADE ‘C’) and 1311 and 1321; PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1355 - VALUATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the topic of value: what it is, how to measure it, and how to use it to guide managerial decisions. This is done by accomplishing three objectives: 1) provide students with a conceptual framework for thinking about value; 2) provide students with tools for estimating value and measuring value creation and destruction; and 3) teach students how to apply valuation models in different settings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1311 and 1321; PLAN: Accounting, Finance, General Management, Global Management, Marketing, Business Information Systems, Human Resources Management, Supply Chain Management, Undeclared CBA majors
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BUSFIN 1360 - REAL ESTATE FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 1.5
Maximum Credits: 1.5
This course provides an introduction to real estate with a focus on the valuation and financing of real estate. The following topics are expected to be covered as the course focuses on income producing properties: economic theory of real estate, valuation technique (including pro-forma cash flow projections), financing strategies, risk analysis, taxation, and the securitization of real property interests. No prior knowledge of the industry is required, but students are expected to rapidly acquire a working knowledge of real estate terminology and real estate markets. Classes are conducted in a standards lecture format with discussion required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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BUSFIN 1365 - VALUATION 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a continuation of valuation 1.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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BUSFIN 1380 - GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the history and development of the global economy. It will examine the structure and principal operations of the global financial system. In doing so it will explore the impact of these operations in terms of trade, financial assets, capital movements and economic growth, putting into evidence the new global processes and its impact especially over the Brics and European markets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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BUSFIN 1390 - FINANCE INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The finance internship provides business credits for project assignments that augment a professional finance work experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD ‘C’); PLAN: Finance (BSB)
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BUSFIN 1395 - FINANCE INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
An independent study course for students desiring to pursue in greater depth a specific set of finance issues or problems to which they have been introduced in other finance courses. The course involves directed reading and research under the guidance of a full-time faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BUSFIN 1030 (MIN GRAD: ‘C’); PLAN: Finance (BSB)
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FR 0001 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce the student to the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language. From the outset, students learn to use the spoken language and begin to work on good pronunciation, while at the same time developing the listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FR 0002 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces the students to the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language. From the outset, students learn to use the spoken language and begin to work on good pronunciation, while at the same time developing the listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills. This course is a logical continuation of elementary French 0001.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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