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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
(1.0 Unit) (No prerequisite. Either one evening a week for six weeks, or six three-hour classes [two weeks], or seventeen and one-half hours on one weekend.) This class offers an intensive survey of a single subject of film study such as influential director, screenwriter, cinematographer, or an influential movement in film history. Subjects of study change, but will include such topics as the following: the Director (Hitchcock, Fellini, Truffaut, Nicholas Ray, Frank Capra); the Screenwriter (Waldo Salt, John Sayles, David Mamet, John Patrick Shanley); Animation (classic, Disney, Fleisher); and Focus on Film Noir, Focus on the Western, Focus on French New Wave, Focus on Italian Neo-Realism, Japanese Cinema, Focus on Third World. Check current schedule for particular focus offered. Communications 108 may be taken more than once for credit provided the same topic is not repeated. (CSU) AA/AS Area C (three units)
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Can be taken for credit as Communications 109A or Humanities 109A. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Four lecture hours weekly.) This course offers a chronological survey of narrative film as art, business, technology, and politics from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s to post World War II. Periods and movements covered will include the Silent Era, German Expressionism, Soviet Avant Garde and editing of the 1920s, French classicism, American Studio Period and sound, as well as the history of censorship in the United States. Classroom screenings of representative films. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-1, IGETC Area 3A
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Can be taken for credit as Communications 109B or Humanities 109B. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Four lecture hours weekly.) This course offers a chronological survey of narrative film as art, business, technology, and politics from 1950 to the present. Periods and movements covered will include the American Studio Period, 1950s Film Noir and subversive movements, Italian Neorealism, French Nouvelle Vague, National Cinemas of Sweden, England, Czech Golden Age, Poland, Hungary, Japan, India, China, Iran, The New German Film, Third World Cinemas; Australia, the Hollywood Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s, Dogma 95, and independent film movements. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area C-1, IGETC Area 3A
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Advisory: Economics 125 or Ethnic Studies 125 or History 125 or Political Science 125 or Social Science 125. Can be taken for credit as Communications 110 or Journalism 110. Credit will be awarded for only one course. Three lecture hours weekly.) A critical history survey of mass media from a humanities and social science perspective including print (newspapers, magazines, books), broadcast (radio and television), film, audio recording, images, news gathering and reporting, public relations, advertising, media rights and responsibilities, media ethics and impact, audience and feedback, cybermedia, and global media. Students will examine form, content, and consequences of mass media in our society. Designed for general education, career exploration, and consumer understanding of the interaction and influences among and between media and our culture. Can also be offered in a distance learning format. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area C, CSU Area D-7, IGETC Area 4
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Two lecture and three laboratory hours weekly.) Functions of the director in relation to cast and crew; process of casting, script breakdown, blocking, dramatic and cinematic interpretation of scripted material, and practice in crew functions following the professional model. We will explore how the director and crew operate in a variety of genres, i.e., theatrical, documentary, commercial, training, etc. (CSU)
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2.00 Credits
(2.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Two lecture hours weekly.) This class is appropriate for anyone who needs to learn how to develop a concept, idea or story for short film, multimedia and video projects. The focus of the course is to give students the skills and practical experience necessary to create a script for a short documentary, multimedia, narrative, music, experimental, interview, personal and promotional film and video projects. (CSU)
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1.00 Credits
(1.0 Unit) (No prerequisite. Other limitations: Basic English Skills. One lecture hour weekly.) This hands-on class is appropriate for anyone who needs to learn how to complete preproduction tasks for film and video. The focus of the course is to give students the skills and practical experience necessary to carry out preproduction duties for documentary, narrative, music, experimental, interview, personal and promotional film and video projects. (CSU)
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (No prerequisite. Three lecture and three laboratory hours weekly.) This hands-on class is appropriate for anyone who is considering a career in cinema or who wants to take a filmmaking class for fun and personal enrichment. The focus of the course is to give students a basic set of filmmaking and visual communication skills. Using digital video, 16mm film and computers, students, working in groups and individually, learn and practice the fundamentals of filmmaking without having to incur the cost of producing a complete film. (CSU/UC) Film/Video
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