2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Film Studies Courses that fulfill requirements for the Film Studies major and the core curriculum are designated by the following code:
GN - Genre
VS - Visual Storytelling
IC - International Cinema
ST - Special Topics in Film Studies
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FILM 3160 - Cinema of the 60s 5 credit hours
A study of the film culture of the sixties in relation to the major artistic movements of the period and the cultural and political turmoil that characterized the decade. Films to be studied may include such works as Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde.
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FILM 3170 - Cinema of the 70s 5 credit hours
A study of the cinema of the seventies as developing out of the turmoil of revolutionary experiments of the previous decade. Many of the major films continued to challenge accepted values and established modes of cinema. The films to be studied may include such works as The French Connection, The Godfather, The Wild Bunch, Taxi Driver, and The Deer Hunter.
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FILM 3210 - Film Genres: Westerns 5 credit hours
A study of the Western as one of the most dominant of genres in American cinema, with analyses of its assumptions about the world it presents and its role in creating the myth of “The American West,” both among Americans and in the rest of the world. Films to be studied include such works as Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence, Shane, The Searchers, Lonely Are the Brave, Once upon a Time in the West, and Unforgiven. GN
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FILM 3220 - Film Genres: Film Noir 5 credit hours
What exactly was film noir or “dark film”? Made between the forties and mid-late fifties these crime films had a distinctive visual style with stylized lighting and dramatic contrasts between light and shadow. The films often shared complex narrative structures, deeply pessimistic themes and oneiric or dreamlike sequences. This class explores Classic Noir (late thirties-1958), exploring how its visual style, themes and narrative and generic forms expressed social changes in wartime and postwar America. We’ll take a close look at the femme fatale and homme fatale, and consider how Noir depicted gender in unconventional ways. We’ll also explore the connections between Noir and other art forms, from literature to painting, and from jazz to abstract art and architecture. Titles may include screenings or selections from The Maltese Falcon, Gilda, Out of the Past, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Double Indemnity, Kiss of Death, Murder My Sweet, Rififi, Raw Deal, T Men, The Big Heat, The Killers, The Hitchhiker, Naked City, The Big Clock, Elevator to the Gallows, Mildred Pierce, Asphalt Jungle and others. This meets the Genre Requirement for Film Majors.
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FILM 3230 - Film Genres: Musicals 5 credit hours
A study of that most American of theatrical genres, the musical, as embodied on the screen. The genre incorporates conventions that openly violate our experience of the “real world,” by requiring cast members to burst into song and dance at crucial, emotional moments. The power of these musical conventions will be examined, together with the audience psychology which allows them to be accepted. GN
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FILM 3240 - Film Genres: Horror 5 credit hours
A study of the horror film, including its roots in German expressionist cinema and its development as a major American genre, including vampire, slasher, psychological horror, and science fiction films. Special attention will be paid to sexual and gender issues, which are pervasive elements of the horror genre. The study will explore such films as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Vampyr, Dracula, Aliens, The Shining, The Birds, Carrie, and The Silence of the Lambs. GN
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FILM 3250 - Film Genres: Scifi 5 credit hours
An introduction to the norms of the scifi genre, its methods of inquiry, and, through a rigorous analysis of eight or ten major films, its most notable experiments. In addition to spurring many technological innovations in moviemaking through its history, science fiction films traditionally have undertaken serious philosophical exploration and social, cultural, and ideological critique. They often address, implicitly or explicitly, our assumptions, our values, our aspirations, and our fears. Moreover, because they speak directly to their times, they serve as a useful barometer for how, at the time the films were made, people viewed themselves and their world. Representative films may include The Day the Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Terminator, Independence Day, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. GN
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FILM 3260 - Film Genres: Political Cinema 5 credit hours
A study of the very rich and diverse genre of political cinema, from the silent era up to the present day, including films arising out of World Wars I and II, the cold war, the Viet Nam war, the women’s movement, racial conflict, and other national and international crises. The course will explore such examples as Birth of a Nation, Casablanca, Z, The Candidate, All the President’s Men, Bob Roberts, Primary Colors, and The Contender. GN
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FILM 3270 - Film Genres: Documentary 5 credit hours
An examination of the historical development and complex nature of documentary film, including a study of the wide range of subject matters and the extremely difficult problem of the relationship between the “reality” purported to be the content and the perspectives imposed, deliberately or unavoidably, upon the material by the filmmakers. GN
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FILM 3280 - Film Genres: Animation 5 credit hours
With iconic characters like Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Totoro and Pokon, animation has shaped American and international popular culture, from the cel animation of Walt Disney and Studio Ghibli to today’s computer-generated 3D animation and special effects. This class studies the development of animation in its different narrative, experimental and industrial forms over the last century, from comedic shorts to dramatic narratives, webisodes and advertising, while it also considers the role of technological developments in sound, music and color and the development of personality and character animation. It will offer changing historical and theoretical topics in animation: these might include the history of 2D and 3D animation; different modes of production (cel animation, sand, pin, stop motion and puppet animation, 3D), or different historical and contemporary American and international aesthetic developments (from anime to Zagreb). This class will fulfill your genre requirement for Film Majors. GN
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FILM 3290 - Film Genres: Crime 5 credit hours
Formerly - FILM 4910-01, 17WQ
How have crime and violence been central concerns in cinema since its beginnings? What kinds of genres and subgenres have formed around the representation of the criminal and violence? What is the relationship of crime cinema to the modern world and how does it engage with key technologies like the fingerprint, biometrics and DNA that map and profile the body? How does the crime film engage with race, class, gender and nation? From the gangster film, ‘whodunnit’, film noir and neo-noir, to the heist film, erotic thriller, serial killer film, crime television and the work of Hitchcock, Coppola and Nolan, we will survey a variety of different narrative and generic formulations of the crime film, from juvenile delinquents on the run, to murder amongst friends, to the revenge drama. We’ll look at how crime cinema engages with discourses in criminal law and psychology, including sociopathy, mens rea and actus reus, the insanity defense and the M’Naghton rule. We’ll also examine the serial killer in recent cinema, pulp fiction, and television. Throughout we will consider the narrative function of “detection” and its relationship to the spectatorial experience of consuming and reconstructing specific questions of the whodunit– namely, who did it? And why? Films may include some of the following: Shallow Grave, Cape Fear, Blood Simple, Heavenly Creatures, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Se7en, Oldboy, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal. This class will fulfill your genre requirement for Film Majors. GN.
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FILM 3300 - Screen Adaptations 5 credit hours
An exploration of the interplay between film and literature and, in particular, the challenges of transposing different forms of fiction to the movie screen. A segment of this study will focus on different film adaptations of the same literary source. VS
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FILM 3320 - Shakespeare in Film 5 credit hours
A study of the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, from early silents to the proliferation of major productions in the last decade of the 20th century. The course will explore the difficulties inherent in converting a work written for the stage into the film medium, an art form far more different from live theater than is often recognized. These difficulties are compounded by the towering reputation of the author and the expectations of an audience familiar with the originals. Within these contexts, the course will study some of the best film versions, not always of the most famous plays, including works directed by Laurence Olivier, Roman Polanski, Trevor Nunn, Kenneth Branagh, Orson Wells, Julie Taymor, and others, as well as works in foreign languages by such directors as Akira Kurosawa and Grigory Kozintsev. VS
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FILM 3330 - Film Script Analysis 5 credit hours
A close analysis of film scripts of both successful and unsuccessful films in several genres. VS
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FILM 3350 - Screenwriting I 5 credit hours
Study of the scriptwriting craft, with attention to script conventions and formatting, story plotting, constructing characters, writing convincing dialogue, and developing effective scenes. VS
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FILM 3360 - Screenwriting II 5 credit hours
Study of the scriptwriting craft, with attention to script conventions and formatting, story plotting, constructing characters, writing convincing dialogue, and developing effective scenes. VS
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FILM 3400 - Filmmaking I 5 credit hours
An introduction, building upon basic video camera familiarity and skills, to filmmaking technique, structure, and aesthetics through the production of a digital media project. The course will develop skills in narrative and/or documentary filmmaking, with an emphasis on story, cinematography, editing, and directing. Instructional fee. VS
Requisites may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor if students have sufficient background (such as transfer course work.)
Prerequisite Course(s): FILM 3000/ENGL 3820
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FILM 3420 - Filmmaking II 5 credit hours
Builds upon foundational visual storytelling skills, including script analysis and storyboarding, cinematography, and editing, and introduces the basics of directing a narrative film, and production sound. Working in teams, students develop their own sync-sound narrative films. Instructional fee. VS
Prerequisite Course(s): FILM 3400
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FILM 3510 - Writing About Film 5 credit hours
A study of film criticism as a genre, with attention to the theoretical perspectives, styles, and audiences of important film critics; and a rigorous practicum workshop on writing critically and expertly about film and visual media generally.
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FILM 3520 - Women and Cinema 5 credit hours
A study of the challenges faced by women directors, the contributions they have made to the industry and to society, and the feminist issues and debates which continue to inform discussions of these matters. The course will also explore the difficulty women have faced gaining admission to certain occupations within the film industry, such as cinematography, and will consider why, on the other hand, women have had such success in other facets of filmmaking, such as editing.
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FILM 3530 - African-American Film 5 credit hours
An analysis of African-American films and filmmaking culture, from 1900 to the present, with a particular focus on independent filmmakers’ response to dominant industry representations and their efforts to create a distinctive African American cinematic style. IC
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FILM 3540 - Film and Philosophy 5 credit hours
An exploration of the philosophic content of contemporary European, American, and Non-Western cinema, with special emphasis on metaphysical, ethical, and aesthetic ideas developed and visual presented by noted filmmakers. Cross-listed with PHIL 3180.
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FILM 3550 - Film and History 5 credit hours
An examination of how history is represented in feature and documentary films, and how films themselves are the cultural artifacts of the time in which they were produced. What do films tell us about our values, myths, and character at a particular point of time, and how do genre requirements affect the cultural information that films present? Cross-listed with HIST 3530.
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FILM 3600 - Introduction to International Film 5 credit hours
Survey of international cinema from the silent era to the present day, with close study of selected films from Europe, the Soviet Union, Asia, the African Diaspora, and the Middle East, examined within their historical, cultural, social, economic, and political contexts. IC
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FILM 3620 - International Film: India 5 credit hours
A survey of Indian film in the twentieth century, with emphasis on competing and intersecting histories of popular (including Bollywood), avant-garde, new wave, political and regional, and diasporic Indian cinemas. IC
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FILM 3630 - International Film: Japan 5 credit hours
A study of the history of Japanese film, from its beginnings to the present day, including the early influence of traditional Japanese art and theatrical conventions, the influence of Western culture and aesthetics, the political cinema surrounding World War II, the emergence of auteur directors into the international scene, and the recent impact of Japanese anime. The course will include such major directors as Ozu (Tokyo Story), Mizoguchi (Ugetsu Monogatari and The Life of Oharu), Kobayashi (Kwaidan) and Kurosawa (Seven Samurai), as well as more recent figures such as Juzo Itami (Tampopo), and Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away). IC
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FILM 3640 - International Film: China 5 credit hours
A survey of Chinese cinema, with attention to the Chinese film industry and to themes, styles, aesthetics, and socio-political contexts of particular films, including New Chinese Cinema from the early 1980s to the present. IC
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FILM 3650 - International Film: Russia 5 credit hours
An historical overview of the development of Russian film beginning with Eisenstein, including an examination of Russia’s important contributions to film theory. IC
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FILM 3660 - International Film: German Cinema 5 credit hours
This course introduces you to the historical development and aesthetic diversity of German language cinema. It will include Early silent Wilhelmina cinema, Weimar cinema (including Expressionism, the ‘Neue Sachlichkeit or ‘New Objectivity’ and Kammerspielfilme), the cinema of the Third Reich, postwar cinema of West and East Germany, New German cinema (Fassbinder, Wenders, Herzog, Schldorff, Von Trotta) and more recent contemporary film including works by Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke and the filmmakers of the Berlin school. Titles may include: Metropolis, The Golem, Dr Faustus, Pandora’s Box, Triumph of the Will, Jud Ss, Marriage of Maria Braun, The Tin Drum, Freak Orlando, The Lives of Others, Funny Games, Revanche, The White Ribbon and others. This class meets your International Cinema requirement. IC
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FILM 3670 - International Film: Global Africa 5 credit hours
Introduction to the Cinema of the African Diaspora as a contemporary art form and as a window on pressing political, socio-cultural, economic and historical issues raised by filmmakers of African, African American, Carribbean and South American descent. IC
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FILM 3680 - Latin American Film 5 credit hours
A study of Latin American films, primarily from the 1960s to the present, with attention to the cultural, literary, political, social, gender, and religious issues they raise, and the contrast they present to the often stereotypical image of Latin American and Hispanics fabricated by Hollywood. IC
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FILM 3690 - Greater Middle East Film 5 credit hours
A study of films of the Greater Middle East, with an emphasis not only on their artistic qualities and cultural contexts, but also on the commercial, social, and political conditions which inform film production, distribution, and reception. IC
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FILM 3700 - European Cinema 5 credit hours
A survey of European film history, including German Expressionism, Neo-Realism, and France’s New Wave, with a focus on major narrative films and their cultural and historical contexts. The course explores ways in which cinema constructs concepts of national identity and dramatizes a nation’s unique history, culture, and ethnic makeup. IC
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FILM 3710 - International Film: France 5 credit hours
A study of films drawn from both the “classic” French cinema of the 1930s to 1950s (costume dramas, literary adaptations and thrillers), the freely inspired works of the New Wave and its inheritors, and French critical approaches to cinema. IC
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FILM 3720 - International Film: Pacific Cinema 5 credit hours
After the critical and commercial successes of Whale Rider, Boy, The Dead Lands and The Orator the filmmaking of the Pacific has become an exciting new area of filmmaking and gained international recognition in the art house circuit and mainstream Hollywood production. Since the seventies, indigenous cultural renaissance across a range of the arts, from novelists like Albert Wendt (The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man) and Epeli Hau’ofa (Tales of the Tikongs), to artists like Shigeyuki Kihara and filmmakers like Lee Tamahori (Once Were Warriors ,1994), Chris Graham (Samoan Wedding, 2006) and Sima Urale (Velvet Dreams, 1993) began to challenge Western representations of the Pacific. In the first half of this course you will be introduced to the history of American and other settler colonialism (German, French, Australian, New Zealand) in the Pacific, as well as to Western cinematic representations of the Pacific, from Moana (Robert Flaherty, 1926), White Shadows of the South Seas (WS Van Dyke, 1928), Tabu (Murnau/Flaherty, 1931) to South Pacific (Joshua Logan, 1958). In the second half of the class, bifurcated by the Second World War (Thin Red Line), we will consider Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian film, TV and new media productions from the Pacific (as well as coproductions with New Zealand and Australia). Films may include Thousand Ropes (Tusi Tamasese, 2017), Naming Number Two (Toa Fraser, 2006), Coconut TV (http://www.thecoconet.tv),Tanna (Martin Butler, Bentley Dean, 2015) and others. Meets International requirement for Film majors and minors; elective for Film majors. IC.
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FILM 3800 - Film and Color 5 credit hours
What does color do in film? How does color shape our sense of space, direct our attention to specific areas of the frame, and offer cues for depth, movement and atmosphere? How do humans see color, and how is our perception different from other life forms? Under Walt Disney, color was a key tool for animated verisimilitude, or what he called ‘the illusion of life.’ But in addition to its traditional functions and reality effects, color can also be intensely emotional and expressive, and through costume, production design, props and lighting, shape our perception of narrative actions, character, mood and theme. In cinema, color has been created in many different forms, from painting on the surface of the film strip to computer generated digital manipulations. In this class, we will explore the technological histories of color and film but we will also consider the relationship of color aesthetics to perception, psychology, and spectatorship. We will consider these and other questions: How do our optical and neurological capacities inform our perception of color? How does color function narratively, abstractly and affectively? How do ideas about surface and pigment connect to ideologies of race, class and gender? How do specific cinematographic processes like Technicolor produce spectacle, offer product differentiation and prompt certain effects? What is the relationship of color to realism, surrealism and abstraction? Meets Special Topic Requirement for Film Major. ST.
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FILM 3820 - Visual Storytelling: New Media 5 credit hours
This class focuses on the historical changes which have led to cinema migrating to new platforms and technologies in the shift from analogue to digital, and from projected film to multiple, distributed screens. From nineteenth century panoramas and stereopticons to today’s Oculus Rift and other augmented and virtual reality devices, we will interrogate the concept of “new” media, from the remediation of older technologies to new networked platforms and modes of production, distribution and exhibition. Changing topics might include new technological forms of storytelling; augmented and virtual reality; transmedia storytelling; special effects; the relationship of cinema to other forms of media; hybrid media; 360 filmmaking and others. Meets Visual Storytelling requirement for Film majors. VS.
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FILM 3910 - Special Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
New and changing topics will be offered under this number. ST.
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FILM 3960 - Directed Reading 1 to 5 credit hours
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FILM 4400 - Filmmaking III 5 credit hours
Focuses on short-form social documentary, emphasizing research and interviewing methodology, proper use of found footage, mis-en-scene, shooting-to-edit, and short documentary structure and editing. Working collaboratively in production teams, students create a 3 to 5 minute documentary film. Instructional fee. VS.
Prerequisite Course(s): FILM 3400, Instructional fee. VS.
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FILM 4420 - Narrative Filmmaking 5 credit hours
Builds upon visual storytelling skills acquired in both filmmaking and critical studies film courses. Working in teams and assuming two or more roles in the production process, students complete fifteen minute narrative/fiction digital films of professional quality.
Prerequisite Course(s): FILM 3400
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FILM 4450 - Documentary Filmmaking 5 credit hours
An advanced documentary filmmaking course focusing on issues of social justice. Working in teams, sutdnets research, script, shoot, and construct a fifteen minute digital film using interviews, found-footage, and graphics, workshopping their project at every stage of development. Instructional fee. VS.
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FILM 4510 - Seminar: Great Directors 5 credit hours
A study of one of the major directors in the history of film, one distinguished by his or her artistry as well as the influence upon other directors, crtiics, and the viewing audience. Directors that might be treated include Woody Allen, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Goddard, Alain Renais, Vittorio di Sica, Lena Wertmuller, Jean Renior, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Pedro Almodovar and Werner Herzog. ST
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FILM 4511 - Great Directors: Fellini 5 credit hours
A study of one of the most radical, controversial, and influential directors in the history of film, from his early days as a runaway circus follower, to his early “neo-realist” films, to his ultimate development as the most powerful, fanciful, and perhaps most misunderstood of surrealistic, expressionist filmmakers. In his most famous films, La Dolce Vita and 8 , he raises some profound questions regarding the relationship of an “auteur” filmmaker to the movies he creates. ST
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FILM 4512 - Great Directors: Hitchcock 5 credit hours
A study of perhaps the most popular of great directors, one of the central figures in the auteur theory of film authorship, and the creator of a wide range of film types, from his early comedies and mysteries produced in England, to masterpieces of suspense and thrillers bordering on the horror genre. The course will include Hitchcock’s relationship to his actors, his theories of emotional stimulation, his use of storyboards, and his editing genius, considered by many the finest in the history of film. ST
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FILM 4513 - Great Directors: Bergman 5 credit hours
A study of one of the giants of modernist cinema, a director whose films initiated and nourished the art house/foreign film phenomenon that swept college campuses in the late fifties. Bergman exerted an enormous influence on the development and direction of film art in the second half of the 20th century, including not only his artistry, but also his existential, angst-ridden philosophical probing of human experience. The course will include such masterpieces as The Virgin Spring, The Seventh Seal, and Wild Strawberries. ST
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FILM 4514 - Great Directors: Kubrick 5 credit hours
A study of one of the most controversial of great film directors, one whose films were time and again attacked by critics who, five years later, were hailing them as masterpieces. Whether his films were original stories or adaptations from other media, they consistently embodied his superlative control and obsessive perfectionism. The course will include such films as Spartacus, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Lolita, and The Shining. ST
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FILM 4530 - Film Theory 5 credit hours
An examination of critical frameworks related to film art and film as a social institution, with close attention to theorists and filmmakers from Eisenstein, Bazin, Deren, and Metz to Marxist, psychoanalytic, postmodernist, and feminist perspectives. This class is a requirement for all film majors.
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FILM 4540 - Gender and Sexuality in Film 5 credit hours
l and political environments of these characterizations, as well as the representations of women in other media. Closely related to these issues are other topics related to sexuality and gender in film ” gay, straight, bi- and transsexual ” which will also be examined. ST
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FILM 4550 - Film, Photograph and Modernism 5 credit hours
An interdisciplinary study of film, photography, and modernism, with a focus on such issues as dystopia, alienation, sexuality, subjectivity, and self-referentiality. ST
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FILM 4560 - Avant-Garde Film and the Arts 5 credit hours
A study of the history and aesthetics of avant-garde/ experimental films, beginning with Dada and surrealism, in light of similar ideas found in the other arts, particularly painting, poetry, photography and music. ST
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FILM 4570 - Film Industry: How It Works 5 credit hours
Examination of the structure of the U.S. motion picture industry, both Hollywood and independent, with an emphasis on the economics of film production, distribution, and exhibition, as well as the technological aspects of a medium that is always changing.
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FILM 4770 - Honors: Directed Reading 5 credit hours
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FILM 4790 - Honors: Thesis Supervision 5 credit hours
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FILM 4800 - Senior Synthesis 3 to 5 credit hours
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FILM 4910 - Special Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FILM 4950 - Internship 1 to 5 credit hours
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FILM 4960 - Independent Study 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINC 3400 - Business Finance 5 credit hours
Study of the financial policies and practices of business firms; planning, control, and acquisition of short-term and long-term funds; management of assets; evaluation of alternative uses of funds; capital structure of the firm; cost of capital; financing growth and expansion of business firms.
Prerequisite Course(s): Advanced standing in the Albers School; ECON 2130, ACCT 2300
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FINC 3420 - Intermediate Corporate Finance 5 credit hours
Working capital management, advanced capital budgeting, lease versus buy analysis, dividend policy, capital structure theory, long-term sources of finance and contingent claims as they apply to corporate financial management.
Prerequisite Course(s): At least a B- (2.7) in FINC 3400; ECON 3100
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FINC 3430 - Financial Institutions and Markets 5 credit hours
The nature, role, and operation of financial institutions and markets in the economy. The impact on the financial system and industries such as banking and insurance of rapidly changing structural, policy, and international conditions. Focus is on the institutional setting facing businesses today as they cope with financing and risk management concerns.
Prerequisite Course(s): At least a B- (2.7) in FINC 3400
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FINC 3440 - Investments 5 credit hours
An introduction to financial investments: the theory, practice and empirical research. Emphasis is placed on developing the risk/return relationship. Topics include modern portfolio theory, (CAPM, APT) market efficiency, derivative assets (options, futures), the pricing of contingent claims, and the influence of taxes and inflation.
Prerequisite Course(s): At least a B- (2.7) in FINC 3400, ECON 3100
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FINC 3910 - Special Topics 2 to 5 credit hours
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FINC 3960 - Directed Study 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINC 4400 - Risk Assessment and Analysis 5 credit hours
An introduction to the evolution, theory, and economics of risk. Develops emerging concept of enterprise risk management, exploring identification, measurement, prioritization and impact of operational, legal, political and financial/market risks, including next generation risk in a rapidly changing global environment. Application of analytical tools from value at risk models to information systems for risk analysis.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3400
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FINC 4410 - Case Problems in Finance 5 credit hours
Through the use of cases, students develop skills in identifying problems, conducting analysis, and using financial theory for making decisions in simulated business settings. Investigates strategies for linking risk management with overall corporate strategy.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3420, FINC 3430, FINC 3440
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FINC 4450 - Financial Risk Management 5 credit hours
Develops a methodology to establish an organization’s risk tolerance policy based on financial capacity and operational strategy. Evaluates risk financing methods and derivative solutions. The use of financial derivatives, including options, futures, swaps and other financial instruments for hedging price, interest rate, currency risks. Explores why all these strategies are not static as business and market conditions change.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3420, FINC 3440
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FINC 4460 - International Corporate and Trade Finance 5 credit hours
Investigates techniques used to manage the financial activities of a corporation operating in an international environment. Addresses economic exposure of the firm to exchange rate changes, hedging techniques, capital budgeting, international capital markets, techniques of accessing blocked funds, foreign currency options, and other topics.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3400
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FINC 4480 - Capital Budgeting 5 credit hours
Capital budgeting is the activity of allocating capital to alternative investment opportunities facing a firm. This course covers a wide variety of tools, techniques, and issues associated with a firm’s capital budgeting decision.
Prerequisite Course(s): ECON 3100, FINC 3420, and FINC 3440
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FINC 4490 - Senior Seminar 5 credit hours
Advanced topics to expose students to recent research in finance in a seminar setting. Topics covered will depend on instructor.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3400, 3420, 3440
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FINC 4510 - Investment Practicum 5 credit hours
This course focuses on the application of the fundamental concepts in stock valuation learned in other finance classes to the selection of real companies and the formation of an investment portfolio. The emphasis is on stock selection. Different investment philosophies are studied and applied, including: “value” strategies, “growth” approaches and “momentum” methods. Students in this class will manage a real or virtual portfolio. Requisites may be bypassed by the department with permission of instructor.
Prerequisite Course(s): ECON 3100 and FINC 3440
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FINC 4520 - Portfolio Management 5 credit hours
This course focuses on the design of “efficient” portfolios within a risk-return framework. The subjects included are: setting portfolio objectives and constraints, mean-variance analysis, modern portfolio theory, investment styles, asset allocation, portfolio protection, revision, performance and attribution. Use of portfolio analysis software.
Prerequisite Course(s): ECON 3100 and FINC 3440
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FINC 4600 - Crises, Manias, and Crashes 5 credit hours
In this course we will look at the prominent features of financial crises from a historical perspective. We examine crises throughout the ages (not just the 20th century). There is a great deal to be learned from a historical perspective since it can be invaluable in enlightening us in making sense of the current confusion, as well as helping us consider the range of likely responses in regard to the recent financial crisis.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3400 and FINC 3430
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FINC 4790 - Entrepreneurial Finance 5 credit hours
In this course you will learn to identify and value attractive business opportunities, to estimate the resources necessary to undertake these opportunities, to secure such resources on favourable terms, and to prudently manage them in pursuit of the opportunity, intended for individuals interested in careers in small businesses, family enterprises, entrepreneurial new ventures, private equity and venture capital investing.
Prerequisite Course(s): FINC 3400
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FINC 4910 - Special Topics 2 to 5 credit hours
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FINC 4940 - International Study Tour: Finance 5 credit hours
The study of financial, economic, and business environment of a foreign country. Course will include travel to the country to observe activities and conditions and to meet with representatives of businesses and other institutions. Location of tour can vary. Check with the department for details.
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FINC 4950 - Internship 0 to 5 credit hours
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FINC 4960 - Independent Study 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINC 4990 - Directed Research 1 to 5 credit hours
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Fine Arts |
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FINR 1200 - Experiencing the Arts 5 credit hours
An exploration of the arts by experiencing the creative process, understanding elements of the artist’s composition, and learning criteria of aesthetic judgment. The irreplaceable value of art in human culture will be studied and celebrated by attending musical, dramatic, and/or visual art events both locally and on campus. Faculty teach with an emphasis on one of the arts with interdisciplinary connections made to the other fine arts. Offered every quarter.
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FINR 3910 - Special Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINR 4790 - Honors Thesis Supervision 5 credit hours
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FINR 4900 - Business of Art 5 credit hours
This senior capstone course integrates the university core curriculum with personal and professional development in the arts. The course is an overview of the business aspects of being an artist and/or working in an arts organization. The goal is to develop an awareness of the many issues that impact on the success or failure of artists to make a living in their creative vocation. Topics will be relevant to visual and performing artists and those who seek to enter the arts as a profession.
Registration Restriction(s): Senior standing and eligibility for graduation
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FINR 4910 - Special Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINR 4950 - Internship 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINR 4960 - Independent Study 1 to 5 credit hours
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FINR 4990 - Directed Research 1 to 5 credit hours
Terms Typically Offered: Varies
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FREN 1150 - French Language I 5 credit hours
An intuitive approach to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. These courses constitute a systematic, programmed study of the French language and culture. All of the French language courses are taught in French.
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FREN 1250 - French Language II 5 credit hours
An intuitive approach to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. These courses constitute a systematic, programmed study of the French language and culture. All of the French language courses are taught in French.
Prerequisite Course(s): FREN 1150
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FREN 1350 - French Language III 5 credit hours
An intuitive approach to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. These courses constitute a systematic, programmed study of the French language and culture. All of the French language courses are taught in French.
Prerequisite Course(s): FREN 1250
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FREN 2000 - SABD Variable Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FREN 2010 - SABD Variable Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FREN 2020 - SABD Variable Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FREN 2030 - SABD Variable Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FREN 2040 - SABD Variable Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FREN 2050 - SABD Variable Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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FREN 2150 - French Language IV 5 credit hours
An intuitive approach to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. These courses constitute a systematic, programmed study of the French language and culture. All of the French language courses are taught in French.
Prerequisite Course(s): FREN 1350
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FREN 2250 - French Language V 5 credit hours
An intuitive approach to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. These courses constitute a systematic, programmed study of the French language and culture. All of the French language courses are taught in French.
Prerequisite Course(s): FREN 2150
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FREN 2350 - French Language VI 5 credit hours
An intuitive approach to understanding, speaking, reading, and writing French. These courses constitute a systematic, programmed study of the French language and culture. All of the French language courses are taught in French
Prerequisite Course(s): FREN 2250
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FREN 2910 - Special Topics 1 to 5 credit hours
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