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In this course, students will be introduced to the varieties of music used in film from c. 1900 to the present. Topics covered include a basic introduction to the musical features of Western European dramatic music; the role of music in the early decades of the 20th century; the growth of film and musical sound in the "classic era" of Hollywood film; the use of music in specific genres such as film noir, science-fiction, epic, and musicals; and the use of popular song in film. Prerequisite: previous completion of MHIS 100, 120, 130, or by permission of the instructor. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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This course covers two inter-related areas: finance and automotive journalism. Students learn how to cover the economy and business community, focusing on areas such as Wall Street, economic indicators, stocks and bonds. Since the University of Michigan-Dearborn is located in the heart of the world automotive industry, the course also emphasizes the skills necessary for a career in automotive journalism, specifically how to read and report auto-related financial, environmental, safety, labor, finance and manufacturing documents. An introductory course in Economics is recommended. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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This hands-on course will introduce students to the basic theories of audio and audio program production, including the fundamentals of digital audio and studio and remote recording. The course is designed to instill upon students the importance of sound in the electronic media and how its use or misuse can enhance or detract from media productions. Readings, lectures and projects are designed to teach students how to discern good audio from bad and how to avoid pitfalls media producers and directors commonly make. Through the practical application of audio concepts in the radio laboratory and through critiques of radio projects and programs, students will gain the insight and experience they will need to successfully design and execute audio strategies for the electronic media. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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Television production skills taught in the context of the history, aesthetics, and technology of television. Purpose of the course is to provide students with a working knowledge and critical awareness of the medium through classroom instruction and studio training. Course counts toward minor in Communications. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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This course will introduce students to the national cinemas of a select country In contrasting the evolution of cinema in the East, with the dominant genres and conventions of Hollywood, the course will enable students to critically examine non-Hollywood narratives; the interaction of various nationalist movements within the institution of cinema; and the ways in which world cinema has been inflected by various indigenous performance practices and other visual representations. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture, Internet/E-mail, Seminar Language,Culture&Communication Department
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Explores the narrative conventions of literary and filmic fictions in a cultural, historical and psycho-analytical context. The course goes beyond a discussion of the relative merits of novels and their respective film adaptations and examines the more complex interchanges between the two narrative forms; the ideological function of narrative in contemporary society; and the effect of the medium of a fictional text on the reader/viewer. (OC). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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This course surveys the history of American journalism from the Colonial period to the present. Topics explored include the development of print journalism, the rise of the reading public, the growth of advertising, photojournalism, and the tabloid press, and the evolution of electronic journalism from radio and television through the computer age. (YR). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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This course will examine selected films from African American and African film traditions in order to analyze how their cultural production is responsive to the conditions of social oppression, economic underdevelopment, and neo-colonialism. How film traditions define "Black aesthetics" will also be discussed. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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This course will establish the role of mainstream cinema in the construction of female gender roles in contemporary Western society. The course will engage with debates in feminist film theory and the role of avant-garde and non-Western cinema in challenging the gender ideology of mainstream cinema. (AY). 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Language,Culture&Communication Department
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3.00 Credits
A study in the reading and writing of newspaper columns, editorials and reviews. Course prepares students to write newspaper columns as well as reviews and interpretive pieces on the arts. It examines current writing on literature, drama, cinema, graphic arts and music, and includes a study of the newspaper/magazine column. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Seminar Language,Culture&Communication Department
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