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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
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ENGFLM 0532 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM GENRES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys major film genres—the Western, the musical, the detective film, the 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 and landmarks in film development—European avant-garde films, the British documentary, the classic Hollywood film, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 0570 - INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Over the past two decades, so-called “new media” — ranging from television, computers, digital image production, video games, to the internet — have begun to supplant the social and cultural prominence of film and other traditional media. This course will provide an introduction to a critical approach to new 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).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGFLM 0590 - FILMMAKING: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces to filmmaking as related to cinematic expression, aesthetics, criticism, and ethics. Working in groups, students will produce short film projects. These projects are designed to foster a reflexive stance toward filmmaking practices and support students in the effort of developing a cinematic voice that is critically and historically informed. 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 0712 - CRITICAL MAKING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 indige nous 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1293 - AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY/AMERICAN CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Photography’s basic function is to record. So, what and who are worth documenting? Who has the right to photograph, who and what is represented and why? How do images affirm or debunk our stereotypes about “others,” and how do difference and identity emerge through photography? Race and class in American photography explores these questions by examining American photography of African Americans, native Americans, the Japanese interned, union workers, celebrities, and more. Images by and of photographers of varying backgrounds is collectively viewed and discussed in order to further understand photography’s relationship to the social history of race and class in the United States, and to examine ourselves and our relationship to those like/unlike us. Race and class in American photography spans photography’s nascent developments until the early part of the 21st century. Photography by those such as Bill Burke, Teenie Harris, James van der Zee, Walker Evans, P.H. Polk, Edward s. Curtis, Toyo Miyatake, and Beth Yarnelle Edwards is examined and discussed. Readings from the course packet include essays by leading photo critics and critical theorists such as Theresa Harlan, Bell Hooks, Vicki Goldberg, Andy Grunberg, Deborah Willis and Karin Higa.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1390 - CONTEMPORARY FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Surveys international film from 1950 to the present and the major film movements of the period. It also demonstrates the stylistic and cultural interrelationships between the international film schools.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1391 - TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Since the late 19th century, world cinema has been ever changing. Cinema was transformed with the coming of sound, color, and large-screen format. The “studio system” reigned from the 1920’s to the 1960’s then lost ascendancy. Changes also have to do with economics and financing, creating “global cinema”. The woman’s movement changed the stereo typical vision of women. This course will allow the program and faculty to respond to important changes in cinema.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1420 - TRANSNATIONAL EAST ASIAN CINEMAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1470 - FILM DIRECTORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course looks at the mode of production of films and works to understand the interweaving contributions to that mode of directors, producers and screenwriters. It will also consider less personal forces—social climate, studio style, genre and audience taste. It will, finally, examine the films of particular directors for signs of personal style, theme, or personal preoccupation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1473 - Spike Lee
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1479 - CHILDREN AND MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1480 - TOPICS IN FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Explores selected issues in the production and reception of film.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1481 - YOUTH FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 differences between male and female star images. In addition, we will survey a variety of recent approaches to star studies through assigned readings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1483 - FILM SOUND
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, we will learn to listen to films and to use 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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. We will screen European, U.S., Soviet and third world cinema.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1490 - POLITICAL MEDIA: FILM AND POWER IN THE 20TH CENTURY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1493 - CITY MADE STRANGE: LONDON ON SCREEN IN HORROR AND SCIENCE FICTION CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1495 - CITY SYMPHONY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1497 - URBAN SCAVENGING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1499 - INDUSTRY INSIDER: FROM SHOWRUNNER TO FINAL CUT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1610 - TOPICS IN GENRE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A consideration of significant emergent literary forms or practices in relation to their social and cultural contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1613 - TOPICS IN FILM GENRE AND THEME
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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. With the rise of high technology and popularity of Japanese anime a course in the genre of animation would be important in the future, as well as a course, following the horror of the world trade center attack, on the topic of disaster and the cinema. This course will consider a specific genre each time it is offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1615 - THE WAR FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Given the current resurgence of the war film in contemporary cinema, it is worth considering the history and changing form of this genre in relation to historical wars, beginning with World War I. In the context of film genre theory, this course will consider stable and changing elements of the genre, while remaining attentive to the specificities of specific cultural moments. 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1670 - GLOBAL ANIME
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1671 - MAKING THE DOCUMENTARY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a projects-oriented seminar course in which students will research, define, 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1672 - VISITING FILMAKER: PRODUCTION AND CRITIICISM
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. The class will also often host a series of professional visiting artists to discuss current and real-world examples of how their particular craft fits into the overall process of making a film.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1680 - ANIMATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Animation is a course designed to survey 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., Cell animation) and styles (e.g., Abstract).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1681 - FILM COMEDY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys film comedy from the silent period through the sound era. It focuses both on major comic performers and directors as well as on comic forms and traditions. In addition the course examines issues of comic structure, psychological dynamics of comedy and its political proclivities.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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, audiences 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”.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1684 - MOCKUMENTARY: PRODUCTION AND CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 pleasure but also with the goal of analyzing and understanding our reactions, and those of the mass audience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 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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ENGFLM 1694 - THE AUSTRALASIAN NIGHTMARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGFLM 1695 - 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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ENGFLM 1696 - FILM NOIR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The term film noir was coined by French critics in the mid-1950s to describe these black and white films. This course will explore the classic films noir of the period 1941-1958 as well as films considered to be ‘neo-noir’ of the seventies, eighties and nineties and beyond. We will look at these films from the perspective of film art, of the relationship of film to culture, and of their exploration of gender and sexuality. The course will explore debates as to whether film noir is a style, a period, a genre, an idea in criticism, or a marketing category in mainstream cinema. 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 including Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray and Joseph H. Lewis. We will look at the historical context of these films in terms of censorship and blacklisting and in terms of A and B film production. The last third of the course will examine what happened when ‘film noir’ took on a broader meaning and the term started to be applied to a wide range of crime films and thrillers both mainstream and independent, and as the style moved from black and white to color.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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 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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ENGFLM 1703 - GENDER AND FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines and questions aspects of women’s role in the international cinema. The class considers both women as filmmakers, and the portrayal of women in film. 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1752 - TELEVISION ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course increases students’ awareness of television as a visual medium 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 and move through the fictional forms television takes (sitcoms, cop shows, serials, etc.) To “quality” forms of television.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1790 - 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
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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
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ENGFLM 1904 - UTA IN FILM STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1920 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN FILM STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for film 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.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 1930 - FILM STUDIES INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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ENGLIT 0300 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the definitions, functions, and values of literature by reading across a range of genres, styles, historical periods, and cultures. It will also introduce various reading strategies for making sense of plays, poems, novels, short stories, and essays.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0305 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0310 - THE DRAMATIC IMAGINATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the major dramatic forms and compares the ways playwrights from several centuries use ideas, characters and dramatic techniques. We will consider how social, historical, and dramatic contexts influence our interpretations and evaluation, or may lead to alternative understandings of a play.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0315 - READING POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Poetry is usually the first literary form to evolve in a culture. Yet many today reject it as artificial, overly refined and removed from ordinary human experience. By studying various kinds of poetry, this course aims to help students break down the barriers between classic poems, contemporary poetry, and a more general lyric impulse. As the most highly condensed literary experience, poetry invites very close reading, so we will explore various techniques for making sense of poems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0318 - WRITING IN PARIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will study the American writers who lived in Paris during the 1920s “the lost generation” and the ways they were influenced by Paris and its culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0321 - ESSAYS AND MEMOIRS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines different uses of prose narrative in both fiction and non-fiction. Texts include memoir, essay, novels, short stories, travelogue, and biography.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0325 - THE SHORT STORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies short stories that explore a variety of themes. It seeks to define the short story as a specific literary genre and to distinguish it from earlier forms of short narrative literature. It then goes on to examine the effects of literary, cultural and historical traditions on these stories and their reception.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0330 - GREAT BOOKS: A SEMINAR IN THE MODERN HUMANITIES (PART 1)
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course centers on classic texts of world literature, from homer, to the Koran, to Emerson and Woolf. This course is meant for all students who have an intellectual interest in the complex resources of some of our shared traditions as well as a healthy curiosity about the history of our present. In other words, this seminar is intended to make available a demanding, but still selective encounter with works of high aesthetic, intellectual, and indeed even political importance. (Part 1 of a 2-semester course)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0331 - GREAT BOOKS: A SEMINAR IN THE MODERN HUMANITIES (PART 2)
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course centers on classic texts of world literature, from homer, to the Koran, to Emerson and Woolf. This course is meant for all students who have an intellectual interest in the complex resources of some of our shared traditions as well as a healthy curiosity about the history of our present. In other words, this seminar is intended to make available a demanding, but still selective encounter with works of high aesthetic, intellectual, and indeed even political importance. (part 2 of a 2-semester course)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0333 - PARIS THROUGH THE AGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The readings will introduce students to French writers who were influenced by Paris and who influenced the city and its intellectuals, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. This study abroad course includes excursions through the streets and museums of Paris. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0350 - LITERATURE, TRADITION AND THE NEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines works from several different periods and cultures that both embody and challenge literary and cultural traditions. It explores the ways in which we are all active participants in the process by which traditions are reproduced and revised over time.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the relationships between lanaguage and images. It studies how we describe and understand visual images and how they help us understand qualities that could not easily be defined otherwise. It considers how images function in literary texts and other writers as well as the unconventional images found in dreams, ads, and popular prints, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0365 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course questions the relationship between present and/or “contemporary” literature and past literary traditions. It is not a course solely in contemporary literature but a course that compares contemporary texts with texts from other periods. It investigates the contemporary as both a complex reworking of past narratives and traditions and as the production of the experimental and the new.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0370 - LITERATURE AND IDEAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies invention and interpretation, and explores the various ways writers produce texts and readers make them make sense. Though texts may change from section to section and instructor to instructor, they always stimulate investigation into reading and writing as ways of knowing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0375 - INTRODUCTION TO OPERA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course, offered jointly in collaboration with the artistic and educational staff of Pittsburgh opera, provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the multimodal and synthetic art form of opera. Over the course of the semester, we will explore the essential literary, musical, and dramatic elements that have shaped the development of opera throughout the past four-hundred years. We will study a variety of historically significant operatic works, each representing a different style in the evolution of this art form. Every semester, the class as a whole will also attend two current opera productions staged by Pittsburgh opera.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0380 - SLOVAK TRANSATLANTIC CULTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Slovak European history and the interaction of Slovak and American cultures during the 120-year history of Slovak immigration is conveyed through readings in Slovak and Slovak-American literature, and through issues in literary theory that concern this theme. The course is structured around the history of Slovak, and in a broader cultural sense central European immigration to the U.S. With a special focus on Pittsburgh. Students are encouraged to investigate Pittsburgh’s rich ethnic heritage and to research and write on topics tailored to individual interests.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0399 - NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the relationship between traditional literary forms and contemporary media such as hypertext, web logs, fan fiction, video games, comics, and interactive fiction.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or ENGCMP 0205 or ENGCMP 0207 or ENGCMP 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or FP 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or ENGR 0712 or ENGR 0715 or ENGR 0718 )
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ENGLIT 0500 - INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies three to five significant literary works in conjunction with influential criticism on each text. Students explore the uses and limits of different critical methods. The course seeks to develop a critical understanding of both classic literary texts and dominant modes of reading as changing cultural practices.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or (ENGCMP 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or FP 0003 or 0006 or ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0505 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LITERATURE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
We explore the historical, generic, and transnational range of literature in English as an object and field of study. A variety of lecturers introduce the concepts of periods and “key moments”.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0506 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0510 - MAKING THE BOOK
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0511 - HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the major development in English social and political history, concentrating on those that had the greatest impact on the development of English literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0512 - NARRATIVE AND TECHNOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0515 - CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the rich and diverse field of contemporary poetry by African Americans, which has witnessed a marked growth over the last three decades. It examines the range of styles, aesthetic projects, and concerns of contemporary black U.S. poets, including the relation of various forms of experimentation to tradition; vernacular, oral, and musical expression; questions of race, culture, and identity; globalization and diasporic movements; the individual and society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0541 - LITERATURE AND MEDICINE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0550 - INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers texts from American mass culture-popular fiction, advertising, popular music, television, etc. It will explore methods of analyzing these texts, discovering what these products have in common and what distinguishes them from other cultural artifacts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0560 - CHILDREN AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies children’s literature through an investigation of the history of childhood through its representations in children’s books and other media.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0562 - CHILDHOOD’S BOOKS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the field of children’s literature from its earliest beginnings to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0570 - AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This first course in American literature explores the characteristic features of writings from the colonial period to the present. It emphasizes the interaction between literary texts and their social contexts, and examines the emergence of a national literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0572 - INTRODUCTION AFRICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examining major works by contemporary African writers in various genres, including fiction, poetry and drama. Some preliminary reading and discussion of social context of the works. Principal focus on recurring themes in African literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0573 - LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Literature of the Americas introduces students to important issues in the study of literature and culture by focusing on colonial and postcolonial traditions in regions of the Americas beyond the United States. Beginning with the European “discovery” of the “new world”, it examines comparatively literary and other texts from Britain, the West coast of Africa, the US, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America, tracing the emergence of distinctive literary traditions and preoccupations of the Americas through to significant modern incarnations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0250 or 0004 or 0006 or 0020) or (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102 or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0716 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0580 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on a number of Shakespeare’s major plays from all phases of his career. Class discussion will consider the historical context of the plays, their characterization, theatrical technique, imagery, language and themes. Every attempt will be made to see the plays both as poems and as dramatic events.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0590 - FORMATIVE MASTERPIECES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will study in some detail eight or nine of those masterpieces which form the largest part of what we now regard as the Western tradition of literature. The works chosen will come from various genres—epic poetry, drama, the novel, and satire. They will span the centuries from the classical periods of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance and into the nineteenth century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0597 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course acquaints students with what is in the bible and provides background information drawn from various disciplines about the elements and issues that give it its distinctive character. Attention is necessarily given to its religious perspectives, since they govern the nature and point of view of the biblical narratives, but no specific religious view is urged.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0610 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An exploration of writings by and about women. Through our reading of various literary forms — poetry fiction, autobiography — we will explore the aspirations and realities of women’s lives. We will consider how social issues — class, race, etc. — Affect women writers.
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 0250) or (ENG 0102) or (FP 0003) or (ENGR 0012 or 0712 or 0715 or 0718)
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ENGLIT 0612 - LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course aims to restore and improve the dialogue between scientific and critical-humanistic ways of understanding the world. It examines the share both ways of knowing have had in shaping our culture and our ideas by studying (and developing critical perspectives on) both scientific and literary texts. Its goal is to produce an understanding of the common history of literature and science. The course usually focuses on a theme, issue, or topic that has historical range and contemporary relevance. Different versions of the course might focus on social, literary, and scientific understandings of gender; the social, literary, and scientific attitudes toward death and the dead; or the social, literary, and scientific definitions and theories about the “”human.”” Though works of science fiction may be studied, this is not a course in science fiction. This course should be of particular interest to students in the sciences, students of literature, students of philosophy, and students of history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGLIT 0699
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ENGLIT 0613 - ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0616 - EXILES, NOMADS, AND MIGRANTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course reads various reflections on the immigrant’s experience of separation or exile, the problems of encountering a new society, and the processes of acculturation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0617 - CHANGING FAMILIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore varying literary representations of unconventional families including families made by adoption, foster families resulting from migration, multiracial families, and families involving gay, lesbian, or transgender parents or children. Considering different points of view, it will examine plots involving search for family, search for identity, construction of family, loss, conflict, poverty, prejudice, and reconciliation. The course will explore how these works portray and relate to changing attitudes toward childhood, parenthood, heredity, nurture, race, class, nation, and sexuality. As a literature course, it will train students in close reading and critical analyses of texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0618 - WAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0620 - THE GRAPHIC NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0621 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the major ideas, themes, and writers in the development of science fiction as a genre. Discussions will help students to understand and use critical methods for the analysis of science fiction. The topics covered include problems describing and defining the genre, contrasting ideologies in soviet and American science fiction, the roles of women as characters, readers and writers of science fiction, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0627 - LITERATURE OF SPORTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course places the literature of sports in various intellectual contexts. It reads novels by major American writers like Malamud, Roth, cover, DeLillo, exile and Harris, as well as “serious” popular novels (North Dallas 40 and semi-tough) and personal reminiscences.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0628 - WORKING CLASS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores writing produced by working-class men and women. It traces its textual traditions and explores questions of the status of the “working class”, its relation to self-understandings in ethnic or gender terms as well as the effect of class on social experience, social vision and cultural production. It explores as well the relation between worker-writers and the dominant literary tradition.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0629 - THE WILD WEST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines Westerns, the most popular and characteristic of American genres. We will read works by both “popular” and “literary” (or “serious”) writers, as well as viewing movie Westerns.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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