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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Aug 25, 2026
 
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
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FMST 0790 - TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course considers how we learn new technologies by looking at the treatment of the body in cinema and television, as well as animation, sports, gaming, and VR. In addition to analyzing media examples, students will experiment with low-tech and high-tech adaptations of optical toys and smart phone cinema to explore how movement and the body have been imagined in science and entertainment. This is a Critical Studies course with Production elements and counts for Category III towards the Film and Media Studies major and minor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.


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