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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of and orientation to mime in the classic white-face tradition. The emphasis is on the history of the art form, basic mime techniques, training, performance, and performance critique.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the origins and development of film criticism and theory through a close analysis of selected writings. Specialized critical approaches such as genre, auteur, feminist, and Marxist will be framed by a cultural studies approach giving an understanding of film as an expression of both art and popular culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between ethnic, racial, and gender groups that historically have been under-represented, distorted, or marginalized in mainstream commercial cinema. Considerable emphasis is placed upon the cinematic treatment of important historical and current events, multicultural phenomena, and sociopsychological issues and movements.
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3.00 Credits
The emphasis is on basic elements of K-12 play production beginning with choosing age-appropriate material, auditions, crews, budgeting, directing, and understanding the role of the drama educator. Textbook reading, journal reviews, observations, classroom presentations, classroom participation, and creation of dramatic education plans are the primary elements of this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course carefully examines popular cultural forms, institutions, rituals, artifacts, icons, communication practices, thought patterns, worldviews, value systems, and ideologies possibly created thereby. Topics range from the private and public experiences of popular culture in movies, television, and recordings to fast food, automobiles, and blue jeans, along with their relationship to wider cultural contexts and Christian faith.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on the business and management areas of media production, this course includes modules on business plans, budgets, investors, revenue streams, project procurement, equipment/facilities management, freelance hiring, personnel contracts, and talent/crew management. The creative and ethical components of producing will be examined under the light of industry demands and the church's historic concern with economic justice. Prerequisite: CBA 260
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3.00 Credits
This is a service-learning course intended to enlighten, encourage, and entertain the citizens of Azusa, California through imaginative, well-executed, redemptive theater involving a variety of themes, styles, and venues. Performances range from the heavily traditional to the avant-garde and may include interactive theater, children's theater, street theater, readers' theater, educational theater, nouveau Commedia Del Arte, and realism.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes the analysis and writing of film screenplays and television scripts. It serves as a workshop for story planning and scripting in the fictional genres of drama and comedy, and for learning creative, redemptive approaches to marketable and effective media formats and presentations. Meets the general studies Upper-Division Writing Intensive course requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on screenwriting fundamentals: structure, scene development, character, theme, dialogue, and conflict. Using case studies from film and television, students learn to analyze screenplays and teleplays rather than focusing on the integrated experience of the script, directing, editing, and performance elements. Prerequisites: TFT 303 or TFT 375
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3.00 Credits
This course offers exploration of the essentials of good writing for successful nonfiction programs in visual media such as documentary film, documentary television, media ministry, promotional media, and more. Students learn how to research and write proposals, outlines, treatments, and scripts. Study of scripts and screenings of model nonfiction programs enrich the course and serve as practical examples.
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