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4.00 Credits
Special research designed by senior students on an individual basis. The specific topic is a detailed study of some interdisciplinary problem in which student has undertaken prior cousework and study. The project is usually undertaken in the fall semester of the senior year as an honors thesis. Requires minimum GPA of 3.5, submission of a written proposal in the junior year and approval by core faculty of environmental studies. Prerequisites: senior standing and permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
For students who wish to complete the capstone requirement before the senior year, this requires a major independent research project that draws on experiences across the curriculum and allows students to reflect on and integrate those experiences.
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4.00 Credits
The senior project is a major independent research project that draws on experiences across the curriculum and allows students to reflect on and integrate those experiences. If students have studied abroad, they are encouraged to use that experience as context for their research.
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4.00 Credits
This course looks at the social forces that determine and structure how we form our identities. We link these concerns about selfhood with the role of media to the acceleration and subsequent fragmentation of information, the emergence of virtual reality, the spread of global capitalism, the rise of the megalopolis and the experiences of privatization, narcissism and cynicism. We also look at how traditional sociological categories such as race, gender and class are being affected by these emerging special formations.
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4.00 Credits
The first course in a sequence that examines the structures, techniques, history and theory of film. Questions of history and theory are treated only in passing; the prime focus is on learning to identify, analyze and articulate what we see when we watch a film. The course studies the terminology used to describe film techniques and applies this terminology to the films viewed. The goal is to pass from close analysis of film technique and film construction to interpretation. Students learn not only how a film is constructed, but also how the techniques employed contribute to its values and meaning.
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4.00 Credits
Techniques of Screenwriting
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4.00 Credits
The development of film technology and film technique from the 19th century to 1960, and the place of the new medium in the evolving cultural-social contexts of the 20th century. Subjects include early experiments in photography; the beginnings of narrative cinema; special effects; new camera dynamics; the development of cinema stars; theories of editing and montage; the introduction of sound; film aesthetics; deep focus photography and realism; color photography. Films by Lumière, MélièsGriffith, Wiene, Murnau, Eisenstein, Chaplin, Lang, Renoir, Rossellini, Welles, Godard, Truffaut and others. Movements and genres studied include German Expressionism, poetic realism, forms of comedy, film noir, Italian neorealism and French New Wave. Significant reading and writing.
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4.00 Credits
Using Australian films as the primary texts, this course explores how Australian national identity is constructed. We look at what constitutes a national cinema (independent, governmentsponsored and Aussiewood), then focus on three variables which heavily determine both the shape of Australian cinema and national identity: the power of nature, the relationship of aboriginal peoples to non-indigenous peoples and the role of class and gender construction. Topics include white masculinity, as it is constructed in relation to both nature and war; feminine(ist) themes; ethnicity and immigration; revising history and national identity to include Aboriginal peoples; and the emergence of a global postmodern cinema.
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4.00 Credits
This course complements Film Studies 251 by exploring the history of film outside Western Europe and the United States. The semester is typically divided into four units, each focusing on a different national or regional cinema. We study a new film each week, taking three main approaches: the history of a particular national film industry, how a director fits into both local and global histories of cinema, and the social terrain upon which filmmakers work. One unifying topic will help us look comparatively at some very different kinds of films.
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4.00 Credits
Music television created new ways of visualizing music, new ways of seeing sound, which have in turn influenced the ways filmmakers use sounds and images in feature and documentary films. In this course, we look at the rise of music video in the 1980s, its predecessors and its influences. While we focus primarily on the history and criticism of music video, the course also includes a substantial production component which includes creating and editing sound and video files. Also offered as Music 281.
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