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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course focuses on specific film movements in international cinema, with an emphasis on understanding stylistic and aesthetic innovations in their social-historical context. Topics may include European film movements, Chinese cinemas and others. Note: May be repeated for credit if different topic with the permission of the Film Studies Director.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This class investigates various social issues that emerge from an examination of films produced in the United States, Europe and the developing world. Students consider societal forces such as class, race, gender, youth, family, prejudice, education and homelessness. The cinematic depiction of these factors as well as the connection between cinematic language, syntax, structure and a film’s ultimate meaning or message are explored.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course is an introduction to the study of television as a unique audio-visual culture with its own history and styles. Students will learn a new vocabulary for reading television texts and will practice methods of television analysis. Examples from television programming from the 1950s to the present will supplement readings. This course is not appropriate for students already advanced in film or media analysis, nor is it for students wanting a course in broadcast productions skills.
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3.00 Credits
Professor Mackin. Applies principles of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory to problems of writing for news media. Incorporates grammar review. Writing requirements include major news story, major feature story and numerous smaller assignments. Emphasis on writing for print media, but stylistic techniques for broadcast media also covered.
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3.00 Credits
Professor Porto. Studies federal and state regulation of both print and broadcast media in the United States to understand how legal mandates and constraints have defined the roles of media in society. Historical and contemporary analyses include laws in areas such as libel, privacy, free press versus fair trial, access to government information, regulation of advertising and regulation of broadcasting.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This course examines the history and theory of visual communication and its application in a variety of cultural contexts. Topics include the transition from print to visual media, the development of visual literacy and the role of emerging technology. Students will complete applied projects using photography, video and electronic media, digital imaging, and web-based visual technology.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. A detailed study of particular issues, problems and developments in the history, theory and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any of the departmental areas of concentration, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture and similar themes. May be taken twice for credit on different topics.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. A detailed study of particular issues, problems and developments in the history, theory and criticism of communication. Topics may be drawn from any of the departmental areas of concentration, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture and similar themes. May be taken twice for credit on different topics.
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3.00 Credits
Professor Mayer, Professor Daruna. A critical examination of communication in intercultural, interethnic and international contexts. An overview of models and approaches designed to explain cultural differences in communication, with emphasis on the dimensions of symbolization, acculturation, prejudice, stereotyping and ideology. Conceptual frameworks are applied and tested within a range of cultural populations as defined by race, ethnicity, gender, physical disability, sexuality, socio-economic class and geographic location.
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4.00 Credits
Professor Balides, Professor Lopez, Professor Ukadike, Professor Esch. Introduction to film analysis designed to help students develop a visual literacy with regard to film and a critical understanding of how films produce meanings. Focus is on formal analysis of film including elements such as narrative, mise-en-scène, editing, camera movement, sound and on key critical and theoretical approaches such as neoformalism and psychoanalysis. Classical Hollywood cinema and avant-garde and independent film making traditions are studied in order to focus on the “politics of form.” A required film journal helps students develop analytical and critical skills. Required course for the film studies minor.
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