Graduate

FILM 200A Introduction to Graduate Study

Introduces graduate study in the critical practice of film and digital media. Conducted as a pro-seminar, with faculty presentations and discussion.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Horne

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Spring

FILM 200B Theory and Praxis of Film and Digital Media 1

Investigates methods for rhetorical production of written and visual/aural texts. Emphasizes questions about delineation between theory and practice, and provides groundwork in theories relevant to key areas in film, television, and digital media studies.

Credits

5

Instructor

Shelley Stamp

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 200C Theory and Praxis of Film and Digital Media 2

Investigates methods for rhetorical production of written and visual/aural texts. Emphasizes interwoven practices of the artist/researcher/teacher, formal and expressive possibilities of hybridized research, and cultural issues raised by integrated methods of inquiry.

Credits

5

Instructor

Irene Gustafson

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

FILM 202 Pedagogy in Film and Digital Media

Prepares students for teaching assistantships and instructor roles. Topics include TAships, designing inclusive course syllabi and lesson plans, active learning, teaching technologies, and classroom environment.

Credits

2

Instructor

Marilia Kaisar

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

FILM 203 Professional Development in Film and Digital Media

Prepares graduate students with professional skills in the discipline, such as CV writing, grants research and writing, public presentation, exhibition, publication, and job seeking.

Credits

3

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FILM 221 Audio Arts and Methods

Explores practices and ethics of listening, noticing and audio recording. Students gain expertise with microphones for field recording, studio set-ups, and digital audio editing software, and create original sound works of their own. The course entwines theory and practice, considering various approaches to audio arts across platforms and contexts such as broadcast, podcast, installation, audio essay, performance, and art as social practice, as well as exploring strategies for sound design for audiovisual works.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anna Friz

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 222 Critical Methodologies in Film and Television

Introduces graduate students to critical methodologies in media studies and offers sustained examination of theoretical approaches to media studies. Methodologies may include (but are not limited to) contemporary theory (semiotic, psychoanalytic, ideological), cultural studies, intertextuality, feminist film, and television theory.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anna Friz

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

FILM 223 The Film/Video Essay

Focuses on essayistic approaches to scholarship and production, emphasizing relationships between theory and praxis that this mode of production requires.

Credits

5

Instructor

Irene Gustafson

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Spring

FILM 224 Mediating Difference

Considers theoretical and strategic, situated difference in the era of (semi-)colonialism, post-colonialism, and globalism, examining theoretical writing alongside media works on the topic.

Credits

5

Instructor

Yiman Wang

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 225 Software Studies

Today, our lives are woven into vast software systems that facilitate our family communications, personal relations, jobs, and cultural, economic, political, and social institutions. Course examines these conditions of life and thought using insights from the arts and humanities.

Credits

5

Instructor

Warren Sack

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 226 Queer Theory and Global Film and Media

Examines queer subjectivities, practices, and theories in relation to globalization, transnationalism, and postcoloniality, focusing on film/media produced outside the United States. The course addresses representation and also uses queer theoretical work to engage wider contexts of film/media production, distribution, and exhibition.

Credits

5

Instructor

Peter Limbrick

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 227 Representing Memory

Studio-based hybrid practice/theory to explore problems of historical representation in film, video, and new media and engage with the production of new cinematic/visual forms that take on issues of personal, collective, and national memories.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students

FILM 228 Moving Image Archives and the Frontiers of Information

Explores moving image archives in relation to social movements, technological change, and moving image use and reuse. Theories of memory, information, and technology provide a framework for discussions, site visits, and individual projects.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 229 Topics in Documentary Studies

Examines the forms, discourses, and practices of documentary film, television, video, and other media in relation to cultural, social, and political history and theory. While the thematic focus varies from term to term, each edition of the course places critical thought and documentary work in conversation around issues central to forms of social knowledge and action.

Credits

5

Instructor

Jennifer Home

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 230 Expanded Documentary

Students explore the aesthetic, political, and ethical dimension of new and expanded forms of documentary practice including: new media; database-driven, interactive documentary; participatory media; social media; and documentation-based art practices.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sharon Daniel

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Spring

FILM 231 Topics in Postcolonial Theories, Film, and Media

Explores topics in postcolonial theories and film and media around themes such as colonialism, modernity, and institutions of cinema; colonial histories and national or transnational film and media; race, gender, sexuality and colonialism; the uneven implications, pitfalls, and possibilities of the term postcolonial in relation to film and media.

Credits

5

Instructor

Peter Limbrick

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 232 Audiovisual Ethnography

Students learn the technical and critical skills required for fieldwork-based ethnographic video and audio media production. The course is structured around cumulatively building filmmaking skills with an emphasis on critically informed nonfiction ethnographic observation.

Credits

5

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to film and digital media, anthropology, or social documentation graduate students.

FILM 234 Toward an Ethics of New Media

Investigates an ethics of new media. Using an intersectional approach, students read thematic units that consider issues of race, class, and gender as they crosscut questions of advanced technological tools and their implementation in modern society.

Credits

5

Instructor

Soraya Murray

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Quarter offered

Fall

FILM 235 Feminist Media Histories

Investigates feminist histories of film, radio, television, video, technology, playable media, and digital culture from the 19th century through the present day. Students learn varied historiographic methodologies and also engage in primary historical research.

Credits

5

Instructor

Shelley Stamp

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 236 Making...in the Anthropocene

Through readings and assignments, students explore the notions of making and the temporal context of the Anthropocene. Making is broadly defined as any creative production. The Anthropocene and climate change are studied as urgent and compelling context.

Credits

5

Instructor

Charles Lord

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FILM 237 Graduate Critique

Develops fluency in the languages of critical practice as expressed across media. Integrates critical and analytical writing about objects and experiences created by and through electronic and digital media with ongoing, student-driven critiques of audiovisual scholarship.

Credits

5

Instructor

Irene Lusztig

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to film and digital media graduate students. Graduate students from other programs may enroll by permission of the instructor.

Quarter offered

Winter

FILM 238 The Politics of Information

Explores the production and perception of information (news, stories, figures, identities, controversies, and complacencies). Students research, analyze, theorize, and define the scope of the politics of information, study the consequences of media(ted) knowledge, and propose possibilities for critical intervention and change.

Credits

5

Instructor

Lahn Kim

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FILM 239 Topics in Media Theory

Explores advanced media theory and the methodologies of media analysis. Themes and issues to be drawn from media history; material, popular, or mass cultures; network and information theory; and intellectual, institutional, political, or cultural contexts.

Credits

5

Instructor

Edward Shanken

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

FILM 283 New Media Art and Digital Culture

A study of new media art in the context of digital culture. Electronic, digital and online technology art are set in critical relation to discourse on history, aesthetics, hypermedia, the interface, hacks, embodiment, robotics, artificial life and other topics.

Credits

5

Instructor

Edward Shanken

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 284 Film, Culture, and Modernity

Traces the rise of motion picture culture from the late 19th century through the end of the 1920s, looking at film's emerging visual and narrative grammar, its changing cultural status, and its engagement with shifting registers of class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

Credits

5

Instructor

Shelley Stamp

Requirements

Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

FILM 295 Directed Reading

Directed reading that does not involve a term paper. Students submit petition to course-sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FILM 296F Independent Study

Independent study with primary advisor for graduate students prior to advancing to candidacy.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FILM 297 Independent Study

Either study related to a course being taken or a totally independent study. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. May be repeated for credit.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FILM 297F Independent Study

Students submit petition to course-sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FILM 299A Thesis Research

Students submit petition to course sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

FILM 299B Thesis Research

Students submit petition to course sponsoring agency. Enrollment restricted to graduate students.

Credits

10

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

DANM 250F Film, Moving Image Installation, and Curatorial Lab

Workshop investigating moving and still images to create visual and sonic languages for production, exhibition and installation. Core faculty Mark Nash and Isaac Julien invite students to participate in ongoing projects as well as present and discuss their own work. Established artists, film makers and curators are also invited to present their work to the group. (Formerly offered as Research Group: Isaac Julien Studio Lab.)

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FILM 250F, HISC 250F

Instructor

Isaac Julien

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

SOCD 293 Studies and Practice for Social Documentation, Filmmaking, and New Media

This thematic, graduate-level, hybrid, production/critical studies course provides opportunities to learn specific technical skills while engaging in the analysis and critical interpretations of cinema, social documentary, animation, art, television, and new media. Technical topics may include animation; motion graphics; interactive web media; and installation, editing, cinematography, and sound.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FILM 233

Instructor

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to graduate students in social documentation. Graduate students from other programs may enroll by permission of the instructor.