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3.00 Credits
Professor Mayer. This course balances the practical development of literary journalistic skills with academic inquiry into the theorizing and development of journalism that conceptualized itself as an alternative to mainstream news content, media and practices. It will also examine the changing meaning of the word “alternative” in relation to journalistic genres, such as non-fiction stories, underground writings, ethnic presses and community media. Note: This class can be taken as a service learning course for an optional 4th credit.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. A service-learning, praxis-oriented course in which students develop analytical and reflective skills by critiquing and creating feminist documentation in various media. Study of history and theory of feminist documentary filmmaking and new media will be complemented with learning production and post-production skills. Weekly volunteer work will be done with an organization serving women and girls in New Orleans.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Balides. This course investigates historical changes in film audiences, film exhibition and film reception from the silent to the contemporary period as well as the issue of cultural memory and cinema. Issues focusing on who the audience for cinema has been during different historical periods, that changes have taken place in the venues in which films have been shown and cinema reception as cultural history are explored. The course also theorizes questions of reception and memory in terms of psychoanalysis, oral history and the public sphere. This course includes an optional service learning component. COMM 3150, Film Analysis, is recommended but not required.
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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 area of communication, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture, and similar themes." " Note: May be repeated 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 area of communication, for example, the concept of invention, the rhetoric of religion, non-verbal communication, mass media and culture, and similar themes. Note: May be repeated for credit on different topics.
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1.00 Credits
Staff. Pre-requisite: Departmental approval. Students complete a service activity in the community in conjunction with the content of a three-credit corequisite course.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Balides. This course covers major formal, industrial and cultural issues in the history of cinema in the United States from 1895 to the present Course topics include the formal distinctiveness of the early period, the emergence of continuity editing and the classical Hollywood style, post-classical cinema, monopolistic industry practices, exhibition venues, the studio system, synchronized sound, contemporary independent production, and the relationship between film and commodity culture. Case studies on censorship, the representation of race and black radical politics, and female spectatorship integrate formal, industrial and cultural analysis. Note: COMM 3150 is recommended.
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Ukadike. This course will provide a critical and interdisciplinary look at the development of African cinema from its inception in the 1960s to the present. In looking at this period, we will move from the sociopolitical upheavals of late colonialism to the recent phase of introspection and diversification. The relationship of cinematic practices to transformation in the social and economic sphere will be examined, as well as the creation of distinctively African film styles based on oral traditions. In pursuing these topics, we will consider the impact of technology, history and culture, ties to the cinema of other developing nations and co-productions. This course satisfies the capstone requirement. (Same as ADST 4180).
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3.00 Credits
Prof. Lopez. The development of cinema in Latin American from its arrival as an imported technology to the present. Films studied in relation to the sociopolitical environment and emphasis placed on close analysis as well as a contextual understanding of the material. Topics include the struggle to create national film industries, the “art film” and New Cinema movements, and recent trends in countries such as Mexico and Argentina. (Same as SPAN 419.)
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3.00 Credits
Professor Daruna. An investigation of how human bodies communicate cultural identities and relations historically and across spaces. May repeat under a different topic (COMM 4261, 4262) for credit. This course satisfies the capstone requirement.
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