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ENGWRT 1010 - INTERMEDIATE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students work on writing short stories and read a wide range of stories. Students can expect to revise their work regularly. Class sessions will address problems in fiction writing — from plot to characterization, from point-of-view to style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1020 - ADVANCED FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will continue the development of literary devices introduced in the prerequisite fiction writing courses (introduction to fiction and intermediate fiction), and introduce new core writing skills to master such as narrative voice and narrative time, point-of-view, methods of characterization, the use of suspense and tension as functions of plot, scene-setting, dialogue, elements of style, and the importance of “place” in fiction. The class time will be divided between work- shopping, student writing, and discussion of readings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1010 ( MIN GRADE ‘C’)
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ENGWRT 1050 - The Lyric Essay
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this class, students will be invited to experiment with the boundaries between nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. They will read and write a wide variety of Lyric Essays-including mosaics, prose poems, and double-portraits¿as well as compose a short audio monologue.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1090 - MASTERING POINT OF VIEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course acquaints the student with a variety of first and third person points of view. Through readings, class discussions and written work, students develop a mastery of the internal monologue, dramatic monologue, letter, diary and other forms.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1091 - AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND CREATIVE IMPULSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced level, mixed-genre course will explore various ways autobiographical material might be generated, structured, modified, and revised. In addition to frequent in-class writing and a final project, students will read and respond to published essays, poetry, and fiction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1092 - WRITER’S JOURNALS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the journal as an art form. It also questions the purpose and value of journal keeping for a writer.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1094 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course acquaints students with a variety of contemporary writers. This study helps students raise questions about their own developing esthetics as they are reflected in form and take into account their dual roles as creative writers and critics. It also helps students access their relationship to reviewing and criticism, including its benefits to a creative writer developing a career, and to discover techniques of reviewing and criticism which aid and do not transgress upon their esthetics and its expression.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520
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ENGWRT 1095 - TOPICS IN FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concerns itself with matters of interest in fiction writing; form and technique, contemporary production, and the relation of the fiction writer to his/her society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1098 - THE CONTEMPORARY BESTSELLER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read books in a variety of genres that have all appeared on the New York Times’ bestseller list. We will examine the elements of craft that play a role in making a book a bestseller, such as suspense, characterization, world-building, and plot. A series of assignments will allow students to put these elements into practice in their own writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1101 - SENTENCE SHOP: EXPERIMENTS IN TIME AND SPACE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1200 - WRITING THE CITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course’s goal is to encourage your personal recording of experiences through which you gain insight and self-discovery. Journal entries reflect the significance of travel experiences that others can share and expand. Travel narratives and oral presentations are evaluated.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGWRT 1210 - POETRY WORKSHOP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
For this advanced poetry writing course, the central text will be the student’s own writing. Students will read recently published poetry, regularly write their own poetry and frequently rewrite it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0530; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1245 - STUDIO IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY AND POETICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intended for graduate students and advanced undergraduates, Studio in African American Poetry and Poetics will be a course in interdisciplinary making, as we investigate the evolving fields of African American poetry and poetics through a critical and a creative lens.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1290 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on American poets who have come to prominence since 1963. We will read widely in the poetry of this period to understand its unique contribution to the development of poetic form and its relationship to the culture that produced it.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0530
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ENGWRT 1310 - NEWSPAPER 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course learn how to profile individuals, report trends, take polls and write about a community. The course provides hands-on practice in feature writing and a workshop approach to critiquing students’ and professionals’ work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1330 - INTERMEDIATE NONFICTION: SCENE AND POINT-OF-VIEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course will study, practice, produce and revise short pieces of literary nonfiction while examining basic structures of the essay, the profile, and long form narratives. We will study the anatomy of a scene and explore techniques of scene-by-scene construction. Students will be expected to master the basics of point-of-view, and to begin experimenting with voice. We will develop research techniques including the art of the interview and immersion research. This course will place emphasis on digital forms of publishing. Students will develop personal blogs. Workshopping of student work will be limited.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1340 - ADVANCED NONFICTION: LONG FORM NARRATIVE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on developing students’ skill as magazine writers by producing articles for widely different markets. It emphasizes professional preparation from the idea stage to a final, revised, polished version suitable for submission. Students analyze their markets, and discuss both those markets and student writing in class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1330; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1370 - JOURNALISM BOOT CAMP: WRITE NOW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course is a journalism boot camp-like experience where students will work closely with the instructor and editors on the Pitt news to prepare for the real world of journalism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1375 - GREAT MODERN JOURNALISTS: FIRST DRAFTERS OF HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the lives of men and women who have made significant contributions to the craft of journalism and to society’s understanding of how history unfolds. Students read and discuss works by and about great journalists, beginning turn-of-the-century and ending with more contemporary works. Selections highlight the contributions made to journalism and society, while also documenting the evolution of the press and how it experienced and presented signal events to the American public such as social movements, wars and elections. Speakers and outside assignments augment readings and discussion.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1377 - MEDIA LITERACY: WRITING AND READING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE DIGITAL LANDSCAPE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will teach you how to be media literate and understand the role of media in a democracy. You will learn how to identify and verify news, and how to understand news gathering and sourcing. You will learn how to distinguish between the demands of real journalism as you do your own writing and the realities of the digital world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1378 - WOMEN IN JOURNALISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1390 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY NON-FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course familiarizes students with a number of different forms of and approaches to contemporary non-fiction writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1391 - WRITING THE REVIEW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores various types and styles of reviews. Students read a variety of critics as well as write original reviews of film, television, theatre, music, books, etc.
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 205 or 207 or 208 or 0250) or (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102 or ENGR 0012
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ENGWRT 1393 - SPORTS WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course affords students the opportunity of studying modern sports writing techniques, with an added goal of improving their writing skills. It deals with the differences between sports reporting and writing and news reporting and writing. Ideally, a student with an interest in sports writing will complete the course with an idea of how best to collect information, organize it and disseminate it in an appealing manner. Clear, entertaining prose will be stressed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1394 - SCIENCE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The emphasis of this introductory science writing course will be two fold: you will learn to find, read, assess, and interpret scholarly scientific writing; you’ll also read books and articles that use creativity, imagination and poetic acuity to make scientific ideas clear to the lay reader. Through the deep study of pieces of science writing and the completion of a series of short exercises, you will gain the skills you need to write and revise feature-length articles.
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 (FP 0003 or 0006) or ENG 0102 or ENGR 0012
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ENGWRT 1399 - TOPICS IN NON-FICTION: NEWSPAPER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the history, lives and livelihoods famous female journalists who made exceptional contributions to journalism despite institutional and gender obstacles. Starting with the turn-of-the century, we look at women and their writing who covered domestic and international beats such as Nellie Bly, Martha Gellhorn, Gloria Steinem, and Lara Logan who have left their mark on women’s history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1403 - TOPICS IN NON-FICTION: ELECTRONIC MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concerns itself with the varieties of writing for the electronic media, and with related matters of interest; form and technique, contemporary production, ethical and legal matters, and the general relation of the writer in this field to his/her society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1430 - LITERARY AND ONLINE PUBLISHING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the art and craft of literary and online publishing. Students will research independent literary magazines and small presses, both online and in print. They will learn the basics of literary publishing from both an editorial and an authorial perspective. They will use what they learn to produce an online site featuring the work of Pitt-Greensburg writing program graduates, as well as individual print chapbook-length collections from the English writing program capstone.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1435 - LITERARY PUBLISHING IN PRINT AND ONLINE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520 or 0530 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1450 - AUDIO STORYTELLING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1501 - TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING: POLITICAL STORYTELLING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1510 - ADVANCED POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, students will spend time reading and exploring poetry written by established contemporary authors, thereby furthering their understanding of literary device, craft, practice and form. They will also identify and consider the literary transitions embedded within the contemporary works they study. As part of the analysis of texts in question, students will write imitations of several of the poems discussed in class. Class time will be divided between workshopping, student writing and discussing the required reading.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1210; MIN GRADE: ‘C’
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ENGWRT 1515 - THE BOOK AS ART: TEXT AND IMAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: English Writing (BA)
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ENGWRT 1540 - WRITING YOUTH LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Expanding on the fundamentals of writing youth literature, students will aim to complete the first draft of a novel-length piece for either a young adult or middle grade audience. Incoming students must have an approved idea and roughly sixty consecutive pages of writing already completed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1650 - PLAYWRITING 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A beginning course in writing for the stage. Starting with short scenes, students will work towards understanding the craft and art of constructing theatre stories to be performed by actors. The final project will be a one-act play. Throughout there will be emphasis on the stage effectiveness of the writing and opportunity for informal performance of student scripts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1651 - PLAYWRITING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced course in the study of playwriting. The goal is to create performable plays.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: THEA 1365 or ENGWRT 1650
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ENGWRT 1710 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this seminar students are expected to criticize student work intelligently and constructively. It is designed for students familiar with the craft of writing who wish to refine their writing skill and make their stories more subtle, original and meaningful. Analysis of student writing will be supplemented by the reading of professionally written stories.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1010
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ENGWRT 1730 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A fairly broad knowledge of 20th century poetry in English is assumed. Most class hours will be devoted to workshop critiques; a portion of class time will be spent discussing the work of younger contemporary poets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1210
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ENGWRT 1750 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN NONFICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a workshop-intensive class in which students will work on one research-intensive piece of long form narrative nonfiction of about 8,000 words. This course will place heavy emphasis on digital forms of publishing. Students will maintain personal blogs and personal websites where they will publish their own work and participate in the editing and publishing of a class-wide digital magazine.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1330
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ENGWRT 1760 - ADVANCED REPORTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will stress in-depth-interpretive reporting in specialized areas such as science, business, and politics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550 or 0610
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ENGWRT 1900 - INTERNSHIP: WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers students an opportunity to work as interns for local media, including newspapers, magazines and television stations. The internships are complemented by close supervision and seminars dealing with some of the ethical, legal, and practical issues facing the working professional.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This option permits students to design their own course with the approval of a department faculty member. Students must submit a proposal to the faculty member. Note: the proposed study 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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ENGWRT 1904 - UTA IN WRITING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ELI 0043 - READING LEVEL 4
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Graded
Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
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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
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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
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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
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ELI 0052 - SPEAKING LEVEL 5
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Graded
Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
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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
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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
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ELI 0055 - GRAMMAR LEVEL 5
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Graded
Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
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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
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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
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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
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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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ELI 0065 - GRAMMAR 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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ELI 0110 - GENERAL ENGLISH EVENING COURSE
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
General English evening course
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: No Grade Required
Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
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ELI 0111 - English for Undergraduates (E4U)
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Our English for Undergraduates (E4U) Program is designed to provide a foundation for international students to improve their language skills, academic skills, and cultural background so that they are better prepared for their academic studies in the US. The program is specifically designed for international students who:
1) Have been accepted by an undergraduate program at a university in the US
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2) Have a TOEFL iBT score of 60 (IELTS 6) or higher and are considering applying to undergraduate programs at a university in the US
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: No Grade Required
Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
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ELI 0120 - PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ENGLISH PROGRAM
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Professional and academic English program
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: No Grade Required
Course Requirements: PROG: English Language Institute
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FILMST 0001 - MOTION PICTURE FUNDAMENTALS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course in an introductory course in a new film and video curriculum designed to optimize the ways in which students’ knowledge and skills reflect changes in the field. This allows students to survey the motion picture field in a more general way before deciding on a specific track since part of the course involves shooting film and editing it. Digitally the course allows students to experience the convergence of technologies that characterizes the modern motion picture field.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0120 - BASIC DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0121 - ANIMATION PRODUCTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This comprehensive workshop in single frame filmmaking is designed for the beginner in animation. Students work on individual projects using techniques such as drawing, clay, collage, time-lapse and others. Students are exposed to a wide variety of media and techniques through screenings and practical exercises. As a major course project each student will produce one short animated film. Most work for this course is done in super-8mm.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0001; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0130 - 3-D COMPUTER ANIMATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0151 - INTRODUCTION TO WEB DESIGN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a solid, broad-based foundation for web page and site design. Designing for the world wide web includes an understanding of interface functionality and user-friendliness in addition to literate, visual communication. The class gives an introduction to html; image compression; using browser-safe color; and producing web pages with a WYSIWIG editor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0200 - BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a production course where students, through a series of lectures and laboratory periods, will learn the process of seeing (making an exposure) and the craftsmanship (making a photographic print) that are the fundamental aspects of photography. The lecture will be divided into three main categories; technique, aesthetics, and assignments. Students must have access to a 35mm camera which has a full range of aperture settings and shutter speeds.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0201 - BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will give awareness and understanding of the technical and aesthetic implications of photography. Students will learn to visually articulate their ideas and discuss their work and the work of others through group critiques. The course will refine the basic knowledge of camera mechanisms, film developing, and printing. Areas of exploration will include lighting, high contrast film, solarization, infrared film, and sequential imagery. Other curricular areas include black and white filters; bleaching and toning prints; and archival preservation and mounting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0200; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0220 - COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a production course where students, through a series of assignments, will put together a portfolio of color photographs. The student will learn to visually articulate their ideas, and examine their work, and the work of others through group critiques. The course structure will be one of lecture, demonstration, and critique.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0225 - STUDIO LIGHTING TECHNIQUES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a production course in studio photography. The emphasis will be on lighting techniques. Assignments will include portraiture, tabletop set ups and synchronizing flash units with daylight. Considerable outside time is required to complete assignments.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0230 - NON-SILVER PRINTING 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Acting as both picture-maker and chemist, the student will study photographic history. The artist/student will also choose the most appropriate combination needed to suit specific photographic ideas. This course will allow the student to work within the whole photographic process, that is, the student will be mixing the chemicals and applying the photosensitized emulsion to the support-base that he/she chooses. The processes examined will be cyanotype, van dyke brown, and gum bichromate.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0235 - DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The primary objective of this course will be to concentrate on a cohesive visual statement about Pittsburgh. Areas of concentration will revolve around the landscape, social landscape (people in their environment), cityscape, and portraiture. Discussions will be held during class time to discuss different approaches to the objective. Individual attention will be given to aesthetic and technical problems that may arise. Lab techniques in advanced negative and print processing, and seminars to review student work will also be part of this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0245 - PHOTOGRAPHIC EDITING WORKFLOW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores digital imaging as a method for manipulating and presenting work. Techniques covered include scanning, image retouching, correction and manipulation, printing and creative use of layers, selections, and masks. Assignments include restoration, digital colorizing of black and white imagery and digital color printing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0001 or 0120 or 0200 or 0400; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0275 - HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the overall development of photography in Europe and the United States up to 1900, with demonstrations of early processes.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL EDITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students from film, video and photography to the desktop Macintosh computer-the preferred interface when dealing with graphics-related applications. Students will first become acquainted with and proficient in the mac operating system. The course will survey the most popular applications for manipulating photographic images, combining text with images, and doing simple video and audio editing on a mac. Students will integrate readings, lecture and in-class lab sessions to complete their own projects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0410 - ADVANCED DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers advanced Photoshop techniques. Learn to make complex selection and color correction, texture maps, advanced layering and masking principles. Learn to make custom color profiles along with essentials of digital color management. Emphasis is on the development and exploration of a personal vision and the creation of a digital portfolio.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0420 - ADVANCED DIGITAL EDITING TECHNIQUES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0500 or 0601; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0500 - FILM PRODUCTION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended for freshmen and sophomore students who have taken photographic and motion principles, but do not have advanced skills in the methods of film production. This is an intermediate course in a new film production. Curriculum designed to optimize the ways in which students’ knowledge and skills reflect changes in the field. In particular, digital non-linear editing has replaced film editing almost completely in the film industry, and the technologies of film are increasingly converging and overlapping. This course should increase their skill sets most commonly employed in the industry.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0001; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0601 - VIDEO PRODUCTION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended for freshmen and sophomore students, who have taken the introductory course, photographic and motion principles. This is an intermediate course in a new video production curriculum designed to optimize the ways in which students’ knowledge and skills reflect changes in the field. For students who pursue video, video production 1 is an intermediate level course similar to video production. Students will edit video on computer workstations using final cut pro and DVD studio pro.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0001; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 0610 - DIGITAL EFFECTS AND COMPOSITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers digital methods of combining video, photographs, graphics, text and other visual elements, and manipulation of those elements to tell a story. Course includes software such as Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Topics include gaining an understanding of the structure of digital images, transparency and masking, Chroma keying, using layers and depth, key frame animation, image processing, effects and their use, formats, input and output of imagery and workflow methods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0601; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 1120 - DIRECTING ACTORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 1130; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 1130 - TECHNICAL DIRECTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course addresses some of the basic problems of designing and directing scenes for motion pictures. Some of the problems discussed are the relationship of film to reality, the meaning of cinematic techniques, continuity, shot selection, cut selection and visualization techniques. The format is a combination of lecture, screening and interactive group exercises. Extensive outside work is necessary.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FILMST 0001; PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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FILMST 1132 - INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
As an introduction to writing for the audiovisual media, this course combines theory, analysis and practical exercise. Students will address the basic issues of screen writing; idea, story, structure, scene, character, dialogue and action. Concurrent with the theoretical discussion will be a series of practical exercises. Students will develop stories and characters and mold them into scenes. Students will also submit written analysis on a current film from a screenwriting perspective.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: Dietrich Sch Arts and Sciences or College of General Studies
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