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English Composition
	ENGCMP 1906 - PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: WRITING, EDITING, OR PR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course offers an exciting opportunity for students who have taken at least a couple of PPW or Writing courses: Professional Experience at Sampsonia Way, the literary journal of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. http://www.sampsoniaway.org The PPW program is teaming up with City of Asylum to produce the magazine. The course is for responsible students who are interested in writing for this journal or running social media to promote the journal. The team will work with a teacher who will serve as managing editor and also faculty member in charge of the project. The group will learn about writing, editing, and PR while producing the online literary magazine. You can also expect to learn more about free speech and social justice while working with writers who are under threat in their home countries. Weekly meetings on campus will focus on learning about the context for the work, learning good practices for professional writing, editing, and PR, reading work by writers in exile, and workshopping your articles for publication. Interviews for articles will be in-person or via Skype. Expect to spend 10-12 hours a week working on this project. You will also need to attend class. A monthly meeting will be held at City of Asylum on the Northside (easily accessible by bus). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Writing Requirement Course
	ENGCMP 1910 - BRIDGE SEMINAR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Capstone Course, Writing Requirement Course
English Film Studies
	ENGFLM 0355 - VISUAL LITERACY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is an online course. Visual literacy is an emerging area of study which deals with the growing importance of visual culture in our contemporary world and how we interpret what is seen. This course will emphasize the process of critically viewing specific media artifacts and provide tools to students that will allow them to comprehend and evaluate information presented by a variety of forms of visual media, including television, video, film, photography, and the internet. 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: Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a basic course on the visual arts that offers the student abroad introduction to the medium of film. As part of this overview, the class will consider such issues as: the process of contemporary film production and distribution; the nature of basic film forms; selected approaches to film criticism; comparisons between film and the other media. 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.
	ENGFLM 0401 - INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course develops skills to interpret visual culture in contemporary life. Using a wide variety of media, including film, television, advertisements, fashion magazines, museum exhibits, comic books, painting, graffiti, video games, the web, and photography, the course focuses on understanding how conceptions of visuality, gender, race, and politics shape definitions of high and low culture as well as questions of knowledge and being. 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.
	ENGFLM 0520 - FILM THEORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course is designed as a survey of film theory as a historical practice. Film Theory gives students both a firm grasp on the major topics of film theory from its origins to new media, and an understanding of how those theories developed in relation to their historical contexts. 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENG 0102 or ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 0530 - FILM ANALYSIS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces students to the art of the cinema, and to the techniques for its formal and iconographic analysis. It examines the nature of shot composition and visual framing, the use of color, the role of lighting as a pictorial element, the potentials of camera movement, the modes of editing and the nature of image/sound montage. It also introduces students to dominant cinema forms—narrative, experimental, documentary, etc.—And connects the cinema to visual arts (like painting and sculpture). Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Childrens Literature, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 0532 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM GENRES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course surveys major film genres, which may include Westerns, musicals, horror, film noir, screwball comedy, etc. We will trace the history of film genres from the studio era to the present, including European transformations. The course seeks to relate film genres to the culture that created them. 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Film Studies, Writing Requirement Course
	ENGFLM 0540 - WORLD FILM HISTORY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course both introduces students to techniques of film analysis and acquaints them with major works and movements in international cinema. The course pays particular attention to the evolution of film narrative and visual style through landmarks in film development—European avant-garde films, British documentary, Italian neo-realism, etc. This is a Critical Studies course and is a required course for the Film and Media Studies major and minor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
	ENGFLM 0570 - INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 In this course we will look at how new media — ranging from television, computers, digital image production, video games, to social media platforms and smart phones — have begun to supplant the social and cultural prominence of film and other traditional media. We’ll look at how these media work: at the history and theory of their development, at the changes they have brought about in a broader media culture, and at their social status and significance (e.g., The place they occupy in culture, the kinds of interactions they make possible). This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: Letter Grade Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 0585 - TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course considers how we learn new technologies by looking at the treatment of the body in cinema and television, as well as animation, sports, gaming, and VR. In addition to analyzing media examples, students will experiment with low-tech and high-tech adaptations of optical toys and smart phone cinema to explore how movement and the body have been imagined in science and entertainment. This is a Critical Studies course with Production 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 Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 0590 - FILMMAKING: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces filmmaking practices as related to cinematic expression, aesthetics, criticism, and ethics. Working in groups, students will produce short film projects. All aspects of production are viewed as a creative extension and continuation of the film writing, directing, and producing process. Through lectures and a range of readings, the class will explore craft, aesthetic, production and storytelling issues. This is an introductory Production course 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 Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 0712 - CRITICAL MAKING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 The Maker movement is an emerging social and media form that is at once highly networked and post-digital. Making is situated at the intersection of social media, the online gift economy, and a participatory, interventionist engagement with one’s physical environment. Drawing on open source ideals and innovation structures -the free sharing of code to enable collaborative development - making has become an attempt to democratize material culture through networked access to tools. MakerSpaces and MakerHubs have become critical nodes in efforts to materialize the virtual gift economy of the Internet. In this course we will engage the intellectual and practical roots of this new medial and social form and engage in our own critical making projects, utilizing scanning, modeling, and 3D printing technologies. We will begin by looking at the history and philosophy of open source software development, and then the political, social, cultural, and technological developments that have together given rise to critical maker culture. We will then learn some of the basic tools of scanning, modeling, and 3D printing. After initial modeling and printing assignments, students will form groups and develop collaborative final projects that involve materializing complex conceptual relationships from a topic of your choice and in a medium of your choice. The aim of this course is to “close the circuit” between creative conceptual production, social networking, and materialized object relationships. Critical making is about critically engaging and creatively remaking the world around us. By the end of the semester, you will become a critical maker! This is a Critical Studies course with Production 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 Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 0812 - MEDIA/ECOLOGY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 From the late twentieth century to the present, ecology as a scientific discipline and set of cultural narratives has risen to the forefront of knowledge production as a way to study and understand complex biological systems, their environments, and their internal dynamics. During the same period, media systems have grown exponentially in complexity until they too have begun to exhibit some of the behaviors of ecological systems, including self-organization, feedback, evolution, and emergent properties. The term “media ecology” captures both this new, nonlinear systems approach to understanding media itself as well as the intersection between natural ecosystems and the technological assemblages with which they are intertwined. This course will explore both media that interface with natural ecosystems and works that engage contemporary media systems at different scales. The secret life of information, contagious media, and the post-natural ecologies of our present and future will challenge us to conceive of Media and Ecology as a single coupled system: the emblem of our contemporary environment. Students will have the option to produce collaborative media projects that explore the themes of the course. These can take the form of simulations, games, network graphing, film or video projects, local ecosystem analysis and/or visualization, or the mapping and analysis of a media ecosystem that interfaces with the environment. 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
	ENGFLM 1190 - BRITISH FILM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the status of British film as a national cinema. It examines the forms and styles indigenous to British cinema; the relationship of British cinema to British social reality; the changes in film language, production and forms as they relate to the development of British 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies, West European Studies
	ENGFLM 1192 - IRISH FILM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Irish Film will consider what it means to think about films in terms of being a national cinema or part of the transnational cinema during the global Hollywood era. We will also consider how the UK and USA imagine Ireland as well as what effect Irish cinema has had on other cinemas due to immigration and the increasing visibility of Irish directors, locations, and actors in the international industry. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category II towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor, and also counts for the Irish minor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ENGFLM 1226 - 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.
	ENGFLM 1290 - AMERICAN FILM 1 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the development of American film from 1895 to 1939. Though the course will emphasize the evolution of American film style and genre, attention will also be paid to the history of the American film industry, and the relationship between Hollywood cinema and the broader cultural context of American society. The course will provide the student with the historical and aesthetic background with which to better appreciate the American cinema of today and yesterday. 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: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1291 - AMERICAN FILM 2 Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course explores the development of American film from 1940 to the present. The course examines the evolution of American film style and genre, the history of the American film industry, and the relationship between Hollywood cinema and the broader cultural context of American society. 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: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1390 - CONTEMPORARY FILM Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 Surveys international film from 1970 to the present and the major film movements of the period. It also demonstrates the stylistic and cultural interrelationships between the international film schools. This is a Critical Studies course and counts for Category I towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
	ENGFLM 1391 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1400 - 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
	ENGFLM 1410 - BOLLYWOOD AND INDIAN CINEMA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will offer an overview of various Indian cinema traditions in their historical, aesthetic, and cultural contexts. Students will learn how to analyze Indian films from the 1920s to the present in terms of formal techniques, narrative conventions, and viewing contexts and also in terms of broader historical contexts such as colonialism and the independence movement. The history and formal conventions of Mainstream Bombay Cinema will be counterpointed with other kinds of Indian 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: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis Course Attributes: Asian Studies, DSAS Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1420 - TRANSNATIONAL EAST ASIAN CINEMAS Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This survey course comparatively studies the forms and histories of East Asian cinemas in the context of transnationalism, post-colonialism, regionalism, and globalization. This course, therefore, will explore the transnational connections among different film cultures in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. 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 Cross-Cult. Awareness General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1460 - 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
	ENGFLM 1470 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1471 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1472 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Film Studies, West European Studies, Writing Requirement Course
	ENGFLM 1473 - 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
	ENGFLM 1476 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1479 - 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.
	ENGFLM 1480 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1481 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1482 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Film Studies, Writing Requirement Course
	ENGFLM 1483 - 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, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1485 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
	ENGFLM 1487 - 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, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1489 - 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
	ENGFLM 1490 - POLITICAL MEDIA: FILM AND POWER IN THE 20TH CENTURY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a study abroad course taught at the Pittsburgh-London Film Program. This class examines the way media has been constructed and used by elite institutions to advance broad and specific goals for the management of populations and the establishment of political and economic conditions beneficial to those institutions. It also looks at the use of media by progressive and radical groups to challenge those conditions and institutions, beginning in the early twentieth century and expanding in the era of digital media. It includes particular focus on cinema and imperialism, making use of the resources in London and online at the Colonial Film Project. 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.
	ENGFLM 1493 - CITY MADE STRANGE: LONDON ON SCREEN IN HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a study abroad course taught at the Pittsburgh-London Film Program. This course aims to explore the deep funds of strangeness and otherness that permeate London’s places and spaces, through examining films and television series that show the city as a brimming reservoir of past and future shocks. The course will examine science fiction, horror and noir/neo-gothic cinema and television from all eras, with a particular emphasis on works that take London itself as a major part of their story. 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 Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1495 - CITY SYMPHONY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a study abroad course taught at the Pittsburgh-London Film Program. The city has been an integral part of the filmmaker’s vocabulary since cinema’s genesis in the late nineteenth century. The urban environment and the craft of film grew up together in the twentieth century, seasoned by various convergences of technology, one notable one in the 1920s and another over the last fifteen years. This course bridges these two periods, drawing on history and theory to interrogate the form of the city symphony film essay, and develop an urban filmmaking practice that allows students to gather and formulate their own reflections on London. The course is made up of two strands, City Symphony and Urban Scavenger, taught by the same team in double sessions. Students will be strongly encouraged to bring ideas from one to the other, and to combine critical analysis with practical filmmaking. 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
	ENGFLM 1497 - URBAN SCAVENGING Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a study abroad course taught at the Pittsburgh-London Film Program. This course will give students a critical look at the writing, development, and production of film in the 21st century. Using case studies and examples from the masters of filmmaking in both the United States and the United Kingdom, students will gain in-sight into the nature of production, the economics of making a film, and the potential avenues through which film can be distributed to an audience. This is a Critical Studies course with Production 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 Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1499 - INDUSTRY INSIDER: FROM SHOWRUNNER TO FINAL CUT Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a study abroad course taught at the Pittsburgh-London Film Program. This course will give students the opportunity to learn about screenwriting from a professional screenwriter and producer. The scope of the course will take students through the process of writing for screen based on the very simple stages of concept, story, outline, draft, and the revision and development process. Students will also learn about the pitch process and be given opportunities to practice the pitch based on their own individual stories. This is a Production course and counts for Category III towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Seminar Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ENGFLM 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
	ENGFLM 1610 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1613 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1615 - 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, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1670 - GLOBAL ANIME Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces the arts, history, and culture of Japanese animation (anime) in a global context. We will focus on analyzing the forms and idioms of anime in relation to changing technological conditions and the media environment. Students are expected to relate the aesthetic and cultural characteristics of anime with their own experience of digital technologies, and to expand their interest in anime to wider theoretical questions about techno-culture and new media. 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
	ENGFLM 1671 - MAKING THE DOCUMENTARY Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a production course in which students will research, define, and schedule their own projects. The class covers all stages of producing a documentary from the idea through development, preproduction, production and postproduction and will examine the fundamentals of the art of documentary making: artistic identity, point of view and storyteller, form and style, and light and sound etc. Students will develop and produce original documentary short film in a collaborative learning environment, working in small groups (of two or three students). They will write, develop, and shoot their own short documentary project (8 to 10 minutes). While those interested in writing or filmmaking will find practical uses for their skills in this course, students from all disciplines - writing, science, film studies, or general liberal arts - are welcomed, and will find benefit in the acquisition of skills for presenting, representing, and persuading via sound and image. No filmmaking experience is necessary. 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 Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1672 - 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
	ENGFLM 1680 - 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 Course Attributes: SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1681 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1683 - 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, Film Studies, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
	ENGFLM 1684 - 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
	ENGFLM 1685 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1688 - 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1694 - THE AUSTRALASIAN NIGHTMARE Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This is a study abroad course taught at Pitt in Sydney. The classic American horror is derived from a gothic heritage, an inheritor of a European context and its tropes; the falling apart of civilization through wars, disease, economic collapse, and a deconstruction of society. The horror that the current, post 9/11 generation has produced is inherently different; it plays upon central themes that pull from an Australasian context, driven from the horror films of Australia, Japan, and Korea. These films have been made and distributed outside of an American context but then repackaged to the west in remakes and revisits that awaken an American audience to themes of horror that are decidedly non-European in identity. This course will examine these films, comparing and contrasting European and Australasian tropes for horror as well as their reflection and impact on society. 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: Letter Grade Course Attributes: Study Abroad
	ENGFLM 1695 - 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
	ENGFLM 1696 - FILM NOIR Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course will explore film noir from its classical period 1941-1958 (e.g. Double Indemnity), to contemporary films considered to be ‘neo-noir’ since the 1970s (e.g. Taxi Driver, Blade Runner, Fight Club, Memento, etc.), and the international films described as ‘global noir’ from Japan, Hong Kong, Europe, and many other places throughout the world. 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. 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: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1699 - 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 will trace linkages between the films and social, political, scientific and aesthetic attitudes within the culture. 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: Film Studies
	ENGFLM 1703 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
	ENGFLM 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. The primary goal of the course is to design and execute a self-directed, self-designed, creative project in a collaborative environment. This process can be broken down into a series of smaller goals, including: pre-production, treatment, pitching, project design, and peer workshopping. 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
	ENGFLM 1752 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Children’s Literature, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
	ENGFLM 1760 - CINEMA AND VIDEO GAMES Minimum Credits: 3 Maximum Credits: 3 This course introduces a comparative study of cinema and video games, exploring their historical, cultural, aesthetic, technological and industrial intersections. Combining film screenings with game plays, we will try to understand how cinema and video games inform, influence and converge with each other. We will focus on race, gender, and ethical issues of visual representations in both cinema and video games. 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
	ENGFLM 1790 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
	ENGFLM 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY Minimum Credits: 1 Maximum Credits: 6 The independent study option permits students to design courses of their own with approval of a department faculty member. Students are required to submit a proposal to a faculty member; usually, this faculty member is one that the student has worked with before and is comfortable with the subject matter of the study. Specific forms for requesting faculty approval are available in the department advising office. The forms require a description of the project, a list of the requirements and readings that the student and the faculty sponsor have agreed upon, the signature of the faculty sponsor, and the signature of the department adviser. A student must have earned at least 6 credits in film studies courses and the study proposed must not duplicate the content of regularly offered courses. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Independent Study Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
	ENGFLM 1904 - UTA IN FILM 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
	ENGFLM 1920 - 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 Requirements: PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP (0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006) Applies to all WRIT Courses Course Attributes: Capstone Course, Film Studies, Global Studies, Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
	ENGFLM 1930 - INTERNSHIP IN FILM 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 Course Attributes: Film Studies
English Language Institute
	ELI 0001 - ELI: ONE COURSE Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 The ELI offers English classes in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. Eli students register for ELI 0001 when they are taking only one ELI course in any given semester. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Clinical Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0002 - ELI: TWO COURSES Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 The ELI offers English classes in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. Eli students register for ELI 0002 when they are taking only two ELI courses in any given semester. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Clinical Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0003 - ELI: THREE COURSES Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 The ELI offers English classes in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. Eli students register for ELI 0003 when they are taking only three ELI courses in any given semester. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Clinical Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0004 - ELI: FOUR COURSES Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 The ELI offers English classes in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. Eli students register for ELI 0004 when they are taking only four courses in any given semester. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Clinical Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0005 - ELI: FIVE COURSES Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 The ELI offers English classes in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. Eli students register for ELI 0005 when they are full-time ELI students in any given semester. Full-time students always register for five courses. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Clinical Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0006 - ELI: SIX COURSES Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 The eli offers English classes in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and grammar at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, high intermediate, and advanced. Eli students register for ELI 0006 when they are taking six courses in any given semester. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Clinical Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0007 - PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH PROGRAM Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 This is an intensive, 6-week program for international students planning to attend graduate programs in the US. Students must already be accepted to a US graduate program or have a TOEFL 550/80 IBT score. Classes meet for five hours a day, four days a week. Class content will help students develop both language and academic/professional skills, including giving oral presentations, developing reading and listening strategies and understanding the educational culture of us graduate schools. Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0021 - LISTENING LEVEL 2 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0022 - SPEAKING LEVEL 2 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0023 - READING LEVEL 2 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute0
	ELI 0024 - WRITING LEVEL 2 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0025 - GRAMMAR LEVEL 2 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0031 - LISTENING LEVEL 3 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0032 - SPEAKING LEVEL 3 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0033 - READING LEVEL 3 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0034 - WRITING LEVEL 3 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0035 - GRAMMAR LEVEL 3 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0041 - LISTENING LEVEL 4 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0042 - SPEAKING LEVEL 4 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0043 - READING LEVEL 4 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0044 - WRITING LEVEL 4 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0045 - GRAMMAR LEVEL 4 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0051 - LISTENING LEVEL 5 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0052 - SPEAKING LEVEL 5 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0053 - READING LEVEL 5 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0054 - WRITING LEVEL 5 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0055 - GRAMMAR LEVEL 5 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0061 - LISTENING LEVEL 6 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0062 - SPEAKING LEVEL 6 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0063 - READING LEVEL 6 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
	ELI 0064 - WRITING LEVEL 6 Minimum Credits: 0 Maximum Credits: 0 Academic Career: Undergraduate Course Component: Lecture Grade Component: No Grade Required Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute

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ENGCMP 1906 - PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: WRITING, EDITING, OR PR

ENGCMP 1910 - BRIDGE SEMINAR

ENGFLM 0355 - VISUAL LITERACY

ENGFLM 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM

ENGFLM 0401 - INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE

ENGFLM 0520 - FILM THEORY

ENGFLM 0530 - FILM ANALYSIS

ENGFLM 0532 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM GENRES

ENGFLM 0540 - WORLD FILM HISTORY

ENGFLM 0570 - INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA

ENGFLM 0585 - TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY

ENGFLM 0590 - FILMMAKING: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM

ENGFLM 0712 - CRITICAL MAKING

ENGFLM 0812 - MEDIA/ECOLOGY

ENGFLM 1190 - BRITISH FILM

ENGFLM 1192 - IRISH FILM

ENGFLM 1226 - EASTERN EUROPEAN COMMUNISM AT THE MOVIES

ENGFLM 1290 - AMERICAN FILM 1

ENGFLM 1291 - AMERICAN FILM 2

ENGFLM 1390 - CONTEMPORARY FILM

ENGFLM 1391 - TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA

ENGFLM 1400 - SUPERHEROES ON FILM AND TELEVISION

ENGFLM 1410 - BOLLYWOOD AND INDIAN CINEMA

ENGFLM 1420 - TRANSNATIONAL EAST ASIAN CINEMAS

ENGFLM 1460 - GLOBAL STARDOM AND CELEBRITY

ENGFLM 1470 - FILM DIRECTORS

ENGFLM 1471 - ORSON WELLES

ENGFLM 1472 - HITCHCOCK’S FILMS

ENGFLM 1473 - SPIKE LEE

ENGFLM 1476 - THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK

ENGFLM 1479 - CHILDREN AND MEDIA

ENGFLM 1480 - TOPICS IN FILM

ENGFLM 1481 - TEEN FILM

ENGFLM 1482 - THE STAR SYSTEM AND THE MOVIES

ENGFLM 1483 - FILM SOUND

ENGFLM 1485 - FILM AND POLITICS

ENGFLM 1487 - FILM CENSORSHIP AND AMERICAN CULTURE

ENGFLM 1489 - CULT FILM

ENGFLM 1490 - POLITICAL MEDIA: FILM AND POWER IN THE 20TH CENTURY

ENGFLM 1493 - CITY MADE STRANGE: LONDON ON SCREEN IN HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA

ENGFLM 1495 - CITY SYMPHONY

ENGFLM 1497 - URBAN SCAVENGING

ENGFLM 1499 - INDUSTRY INSIDER: FROM SHOWRUNNER TO FINAL CUT

ENGFLM 1585 - CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

ENGFLM 1610 - TOPICS IN GENRE

ENGFLM 1613 - TOPICS IN FILM GENRE AND THEME

ENGFLM 1615 - THE WAR FILM

ENGFLM 1670 - GLOBAL ANIME

ENGFLM 1671 - MAKING THE DOCUMENTARY

ENGFLM 1672 - VISITING FILMMAKER: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM

ENGFLM 1680 - ANIMATION STUDIES

ENGFLM 1681 - FILM COMEDY

ENGFLM 1683 - DOCUMENTARY FILM

ENGFLM 1684 - MOCKUMENTARY: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM

ENGFLM 1685 - FILM MUSICAL

ENGFLM 1688 - FILM WESTERN

ENGFLM 1694 - THE AUSTRALASIAN NIGHTMARE

ENGFLM 1695 - HORROR FILM

ENGFLM 1696 - FILM NOIR

ENGFLM 1699 - SCIENCE FICTION FILM

ENGFLM 1703 - GENDER AND FILM

ENGFLM 1750 - CREATIVE PRODUCTION WORKSHOP

ENGFLM 1752 - TELEVISION ANALYSIS

ENGFLM 1760 - CINEMA AND VIDEO GAMES

ENGFLM 1790 - FILM AND LITERATURE

ENGFLM 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

ENGFLM 1904 - UTA IN FILM STUDIES

ENGFLM 1920 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES

ENGFLM 1930 - INTERNSHIP IN FILM

ELI 0001 - ELI: ONE COURSE

ELI 0002 - ELI: TWO COURSES

ELI 0003 - ELI: THREE COURSES

ELI 0004 - ELI: FOUR COURSES

ELI 0005 - ELI: FIVE COURSES

ELI 0006 - ELI: SIX COURSES

ELI 0007 - PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH PROGRAM

ELI 0021 - LISTENING LEVEL 2

ELI 0022 - SPEAKING LEVEL 2

ELI 0023 - READING LEVEL 2