2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Offerings
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FTV 399 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, junior standing, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of FTV 299 , FTV 399, or FTV 499 . May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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FTV 429 - Experimental Course
Experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, prerequisites, and credits may vary. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if course content is different. Some courses require student lab fees. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
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FTV 490 - Independent Internship
Offers students an opportunity to earn credit and learn professional skills “on the job” by working for a studio, network, production company, newsroom, etc. A minimum of 40 hours of work for each credit is required. P/NP. (Offered every semester.) ½-6 credits
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FTV 499 - Individual Study
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students must have an overall grade point average of at least 3.0 to enroll. Designed to meet specific interests which are not provided for by regular curriculum offerings. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits
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FP 115 - Editing I
Prerequisites, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G , and film production, or screen acting, or news and documentary, or television and writing production or broadcast journalism major. Students study the basic principles and aesthetics of editing film and digital media, with practical experience through the completion of short editing projects. Some sections may be restricted to film production majors only. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 133 - Audio Techniques
Prerequisites, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G and DCFMA major. An introductory course on the art and science of audio recording, including studio and field recording, digital editing, equipment operation, mixing, and the theories and techniques that support quality sound production. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 201 - Actor-Director Workshop
Prerequisites, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G and animation and visual effects, or film production major. A comprehensive course in understanding the acting process through script analysis, scene study, and acting exercises. Some sections may be restricted to film production majors only. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 237 - Cinematography I
Prerequisites, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G and animation and visual effects, or film production major, or production design for film minor. A study of motion picture photography as a means of communication. Includes lecture and practical application on camera operation, lenses, filters, film, digital media, exposure, composition, formats, location and studio techniques, and laboratory procedures. Some section may be restricted to film production majors only. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 239 - Directing I
Prerequisites, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G and film production, television writing and production, or screen acting major. The class provides an overview of the director’s craft and teaches the basic tools for the interaction of directors with all their collaborators including actors. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 280 - Intermediate Production Workshop
Prerequisites for film production major, FTV 130A , FP 133 . Prerequisite for screen acting major, FTV 130F . An exploration of dramatic narrative production focusing on story, performance, and subtext through the development, preparation, production, and post-production of an emotionally-engaging short film of limited scope. Students serve as writers, directors, editors and sound designers on their productions and crew on their classmates’ productions. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 291 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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FP 293 - Visual Design for Film
Prerequisites, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G , and FTV 140 , film production major. An overview of the principles of visual design and how visual elements express story, emotion and personal vision in motion pictures and other related mediums. The course will include the creative and practical work of various filmmaking disciplines including directing, cinematography and production design. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 299 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, freshman or sophomore standing only and consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of FP 299, FP 399 , or FP 499 . May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
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FP 315 - Editing II
Prerequisites, FP 115 , FP 133 . A study of advanced storytelling principles as they are expressed through editing. The course analyzes examples from important films that demonstrate how timing, pacing, sound, and other dramatic aesthetics affect the viewer’s perceptions and the success of the sequence. Each student will further develop technical skills through the completion of a complex editing project. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 325 - Art and Craft of Foley and ADR
Prerequisite, FP 133 . This course is designed to introduce students to the necessity of foley and Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) for a completed motion picture sound track. Methods for producing and recording real-time sound effects and post-production dialogue will be taught using a fully-equipped foley stage as a classroom and work from fellow students and professional filmmakers as raw material. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 331 - Advanced Production Workshop
Prerequisites, SW 227 , CRPR 234 , FP 280 , film production major with directing area of study, junior standing, consent of chair. An advanced course in which each student will be responsible for producing and directing a complex narrative film. Enrollment contingent upon approval of a project proposal. Fee: $300. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 333 - Audio Design
Prerequisite, FP 133 . An advanced course in the art and science of post-production. Students will provide post-production audio design and support for advanced film and video. Proper methods of studio recording, sound effects recording, SMPTE time code systems, signal processing, multiple soundtrack construction, and mixing using a digital workstation are emphasized. Fee: $300. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 336 - Production Design I
Prerequisite, FTV 130 , or FTV 130A , or FTV 130B , or FTV 130C , or FTV 130D , or FTV 130E , or FTV 130F or FTV 130G . This course examines the general principles of art direction and the creation of the visual look of a production. Students design the set, costumes, make-up, the cinematographic look, and other visual elements for a specific film. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 337 - Cinematography II
Prerequisites, TWP 232 , or FP 237 and film production, or television writing and production major. A study of motion picture photography as a means of aesthetic expression and communication. Includes lecture and practical application on camera operation, lenses, filters, film, digital media, exposure, composition, formats, location and studio techniques, and laboratory procedures. Fee: $300. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 338 - Directing II
Prerequisites, FP 201 , or FP 239 and film production major, sophomore standing. An in-depth workshop in the implementation of techniques for directing actors and emphasizes turning analysis into performance. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 359 - Pro Tools Certification
Prerequisite, FP 133 . This course is designed to give students immersive, hands-on training in Avid Pro Tools, the industry-standard software for recording, editing, and mixing professional sound. It will cover all basic features of the application as well as advanced functions such as Elastic Audio, MIDI and virtual instruments, and a full spectrum of editing tools and techniques. The course prepares students for the examinations required for “Pro Tools Certified User” status from Avid, which are administered within the course. Chapman does not award Pro Tools certification. Fee: $300. (Offered interterm.) 3 credits
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FP 376 - Cinematography for Commercials
Prerequisite, FP 237 . This course will teach students the fundamental theories and aesthetic practices of shooting 30 second commercials. Students will learn the role of the creative concept in advertising with the goal of understanding what makes good advertising and how filmmaking compliments the advertising message. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 382 - Music Composition for Filmmakers
Prerequisite, DCFMA major. A course designed to give film majors a foundation in both the musical concepts and technology necessary to compose original music to accompany picture. Compositional activity is supplemented by discussion and analysis of film scoring trends and techniques, stressing the role that music plays in any filmmaker’s creative process. Prior musical training or the ability to play an instrument is not essential. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 386 - Pro Tools Certification II
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. This course is designed to give students a conceptual and practical understanding of the specific techniques for working with the Pro Tools audio software in a professional post audio for film environment. Areas covered in the course include: “Using Video in Pro Tools”, “Recording Dialog in Pro Tools”, “Dialog Editing Techniques”, “Organizing Sessions in Pro Tools”, “Synchronization Concepts”, and “Mixing to Picture”. At the end of the course, the students will have the option of taking the Pro Tools Post Operator Certification exam. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 388 - Digital Intermediate Workflow
Prerequisite, FP 115 . An exploration of current technologies employed in film and television post-production as it applies to the Digital Intermediate process. This advanced course analyzes various workflows used in the creation of film and digital masters as well as file based systems. Students will gain practical experience in conforming and color grading. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 399 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, junior standing, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of FP 299 , FP 399, or FP 499 . May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
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FP 415 - Editing III
Prerequisite, FP 315 , or consent of instructor. Provides students with an intensive hands-on experience editing under the supervision of a visiting master of the craft. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 424 - Senior Thesis Development
Prerequisites, SW 128 , or SW 227 , junior standing, and creative producing, or film production, or screenwriting major. The goal of this intensive workshop is to help students develop the best senior thesis screenplays possible - screenplays which will enable them to produce outstanding films, demonstrating their unique creative voices and their professional excellence. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 436 - Production Design II
Prerequisite, FP 336 . This course offers the opportunity for advanced work in art direction. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 437 - Cinematography III
Prerequisite, FP 337 . An advanced course in motion picture photography for students who wish to learn the duties of the director of photography, gaffer and set lighting technicians. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 438 - Directing III
Prerequisites, FP 338 , or TWP 338 and film production, or television writing and production major. The class deepens the understanding of the director’s craft with an emphasis on how to move the camera, block actors in motion, and stage action safely. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 446 - Storyboarding and Concept Art
Prerequisite, Dodge College major, or production design for film minor. The course focuses on traditional skills of drawing perspective sketches in the development of visual media. Topics include use of line, tone, and color in the development of 1 and 2 point perspectives. Storyboarding techniques are also presented along with related exercises. Students should leave this class with the ability to quickly sketch not only what they see but what they imagine. Fee: $75. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FP 457 - Concept Art and Illustration for Film
Prerequisite, DCFMA major, or production design for film minor. This class includes weekly exercises in using perspective drawings to communicate design ideas with the emphasis on freehand drawing techniques. Topics include perspective layout methods, line drawing overlays, adding light and shadow as well as introducing color to the drawings. Students are required to complete and deliver a variety of in-class drawing exercises, a series of homework sketches as well as sketches of projects designed in class. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 458 - Digital Production Design Studio I
Prerequisite, FP 336 . An introductory workshop covering computer system operations, digital design, digital graphics and illustration, computer assisted drafting, CAD modeling software, print, and presentation taught through design projects. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FP 459 - Digital Production Design Studio II
Prerequisites, FP 458 , consent of instructor. An intermediate level workshop covering computer system operations, digital design, digital graphics and illustration, computer assisted drafting, CAD modeling software, print, and presentation taught through design projects. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 468 - Avid Certification Prep
Prerequisites, FP 315 , consent of instructor. This course has been created to teach the core skills for editing using Avid Media Composer 5.5 and to introduce the fundamental concepts and workflow of editing. It is designed for novice and intermediate users using Avid official training curriculum. Class consists of both lecture and lab time and each student will be given the opportunity to take the Avid Media Composer Certified User exam. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 481 - Set Decoration
This course is an introduction to Set Decoration. The decorating process will be studied in the course. Students will explore how the decorating process relates to the dramatic text and the film production as a whole. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 483 - Set Decoration II
Prerequisite, FP 481 . This course is an advanced introduction to the Art of Set Decoration Design. It will look at the “design process” and explore how it relates to the dramatic text and to the film production as a whole. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 486 - Costume Design
This course is an introduction to the art of costume design. Students will study the design process and how it relates to the dramatic text and the film production as a whole. Fee: $75. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FP 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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FP 497A - Cinematography Senior Thesis Workshop I
Prerequisites, FP 237 , FP 337 , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The first semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FP 497B - Directing Senior Thesis Workshop I
Prerequisites, FP 331 with a B- or better, FP 338 , FP 424 , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The first semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FP 497C - Editing Senior Thesis Workshop I
Prerequisites, FP 315 , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The first semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FP 497D - Production Design Senior Thesis Workshop I
Prerequisites, FP 336 , senior standing, consent of instructor, and film production major, or production design for film minor. The first semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FP 497E - Sound Design Senior Thesis Workshop I
Prerequisites, FP 333 , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The first semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FP 498A - Cinematography Senior Thesis Workshop II
Prerequisites, FP 497A , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The second semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. The second semester includes completing a professional caliber motion picture project and premiering the completed work in a public screening. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 498B - Directing Senior Thesis Workshop II
Prerequisites, FP 497B with a B- or better, senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The second semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. The second semester includes completing a professional caliber motion picture project and premiering the completed work in a public screening. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 498C - Editing Senior Thesis Workshop II
Prerequisites, FP 497C , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The second semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. The second semester includes completing a professional caliber motion picture project and premiering the completed work in a public screening. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 498D - Production Design Senior Thesis Workshop II
Prerequisites, FP 497D , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The second semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. The second semester includes completing a professional caliber motion picture project and premiering the completed work in a public screening. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 498E - Sound Design Senior Thesis Workshop II
Prerequisites, FP 497E , senior standing, film production major, consent of instructor. The second semester of an advanced two-semester course in which each student performs in a key creative crew position in the completion of a finished motion picture project. The second semester includes completing a professional caliber motion picture project and premiering the completed work in a public screening. This course includes a laboratory component held at a different time. Fee: $1,000. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FP 499 - Individual Study
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students must have an overall grade point average of at least 3.0 to enroll. Designed to meet specific interests which are not provided for by regular curriculum offerings. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
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FS 241 - Film Analysis
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , sophomore standing, film studies major. This course introduces film studies majors to various theoretical and analytical approaches for the study of film and media. Specific attention is given to the critique of film and televisual form and content in its various social and cultural contexts, in order to develop critical thinking and writing skills. This course prepares students for their upper division film studies classes in their junior and senior year. This course has required lab and lecture components held at different times. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FS 244 - History of Film to 1959
The history of film as an art form, industry, and cultural phenomenon, from the postwar Neorealist movement to the state of contemporary art and practice. Open to non-majors. This course includes a lecture and required laboratory component held at different times. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FS 245 - History of Film 1960 - Present
Prerequisite, FS 244 . The history of film as an art form, industry, and cultural phenomenon, from post war film movements to the present. Open to non-majors. This course includes a lecture and required laboratory component held at different times. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FS 291 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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FS 299 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, freshman or sophomore standing only and consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of FS 299, FS 399 , or FS 499 . May be repeated for credit. Fee: varies. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
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FS 342 - Film Genre Studies
An intensive study of one film genre, with a different genre covered in each course offering. Open to non-majors. May be repeated in a different genre. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FS 342A - Film Noir
An exploration of the crime films of the 1940s and 1950s, called “black” by French critics because of their violent, nihilistic content, and distinctive style of extreme-angled, deep-focus cinematography and shadowy low-key lighting. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342B - The Horror Film
Beginning with Thomas Edison’s Frankenstein (1910), this course examines such influential movements as German Expressionism, the Val Lewton horror films of the 1940s, sci-fi hybrids of the 1950s, the ‘slasher’ horror of the 1970s, and the recent wave of Asian horror films and their Hollywood remakes. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342C - The Musical
Intensive study of the history and aesthetics of the movie musical form its stage roots and cinematic birth coinciding with the coming of sound film through the waning of the genre’s popularity during the decline of the Hollywood studio system and the many attempts since then to revive the form. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342D - The Science Fiction Film
A study of cinematic science fiction from George Melies’ A Trip to the Moon (1902) through contemporary films such as The Matrix. Emphasis is placed on certain developments, such as the alien invasion pictures of the 1950s and the dystopian cycle exemplified by Blade Runner. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342E - Screwball Comedy
This classic film genre of the 1930s and ‘40s is examined in terms of its reflection of certain cultural changes such as the emergence of the independent ‘New Woman,’ the rising divorce rate, and the notion of equality of the sexes. Emphasis is placed on key directors within the form: Leo McCarey, Frank Capra, Preston Sturges. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342F - The Animated Film
From Winsor McCay’s Gertie the Dinosaur (1906) through Disney, Pixar, and the rise of anime, this course examines the history and development of one of the most popular and groundbreaking of contemporary genres. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342G - The Western
Provides an overview of the oldest and most enduring of Hollywood genres exploring the mythology of the genre as well as its historical origins, with an emphasis on the impact of such classic film directors as John Ford, and Anthony Mann, and on the many waves of “revisionist” westerns in the past forty years. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342H - The Melodrama
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Students examine the history, developments and transformation within melodrama across national and global cinemas to explore diverse stories that are told through various representations of emotion. Melodrama is a fluid and potent vehicle for genre and cultural expression that has used a wide range of formal aesthetics to create powerful expressive and affective visual experience. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342J - The Gangster Film
A study of the history and impact of this most American of film genres, which was “ripped from the headlines” of newspaper accounts of the violent exploits of Al Capone, John Dillinger, and Bonnie and Clyde. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 342K - Latinx Films and Filmmakers
This course is an intensive study of the history and aesthetics of latino/a films and filmmakers, with specific filmmakers, regions or nations covered with each course offering. The course will examine representative films from any of the following major periods: silent cinema (1890s-1930s), studio/golden age cinema (1930s-1950s), Neorealism/Art Cinema (1950s), the New Latin American Waves Cinema (1960s-1980s), and contemporary global cinema (1990s through the twenty-first century). Some sections of FS 342K and 542K share the same lectures and meet together. May be repeated for credit. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FS 353 - Korean Cinema Today
This course highlights the current trends in Korean cinema by exploring a variety of contemporary films. Through screenings, class discussion, Q&A with invited filmmakers as well as an optional trip to Busan International Film Festival, students will gain first-hand familiarity with Korean films, film industry and culture. May be repeated for credit when a different topic is studied. (Offered fall semester, alternate years.) 3 credits
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FS 399 - Individual Study
Prerequisites, junior standing, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students may only count 6 credits of individual study credit towards any degree in Dodge College. This includes any combination of FS 299 , FS 399, FS 499 . May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
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FS 443 - Advanced Topics in World Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors, and minors have enrollment priority. A concentrated study of the cinema of one nation or region. Films are studied within their historical and cultural context. Open to non-majors. May be repeated for credit in a different topic. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FS 443A - Asian Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. A survey of Asian film with emphasis on film as a reflection of culture. The cinema of India, China, and Japan, the countries with the largest film industries will be featured. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443B - British Films
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. This course will cover the major areas of British Film, including: ‘British Heritage’ films, British Cinema of the 1990s, plus influential directors. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443C - French Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. An examination of the French film industry and its most influential movements, from “poetic realism” to the “New Wave” and the “cinéma du look.” (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443D - Mexican Film
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. A historical survey of Mexican cinema with an emphasis on film as a reflection of culture. The course will examine films produced in Mexico and films made by Mexicans in the United States. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443E - German Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. An examination of the German film industry and its most influential movements, from “Weimar Cinema” to the “New German Cinema” and beyond. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443F - Italian Cinema: Politics, Art, and Industry
(Same as ITAL 341 .) This course is a survey of the history of Italian cinema. We will study how cinema has embodied Italian collective consciousness and identity and how it has evolved artistically at different moments in the 20th century. Particular attention will be given to Italian cinema’s relationship with other national cinemas and Hollywood. We will read about and screen some of the most representational and influential films by directors such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Leone, Bertolucci and others. Among the topics discussed are: the birth of Italian cinema, silent cinema, cinema during Fascism, the aesthetic and ethical heritage of Neorealism, auteur cinema, collaboration practices, existential and abstract cinema, comedy Italian style, the advent of TV and the new genres of the 60s and 70s, and recent trends. Taught in English. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443G - Australian Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . This course examines the way in which ‘Australian identity’ is cinematically represented as a fictional construct and an industrial product. It will consider issues such as cultural difference and the effects of globalization on the imagining and imaging of a ‘national’ community. Some sections may be taught with FS 543. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443H - Survey of European Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Students will be introduced to the key films of European cinema and analyze them within historical, social and aesthetic contexts. Emphasis will be placed on transnational, global and multicultural perspectives. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 443I - East Asian Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . This course examines cinematic traditions from the region of East Asia by analyzing films from Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. The course focuses on a historical mode of textual analysis placing each film within larger historical, social, and cultural contexts of its production. Some sections may share course lectures with FS 543. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444 - Advanced Topics in Film Studies
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . DCFMA film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. An in-depth study of a particular aspect of film history and aesthetics. Open to non-majors. May be repeated for credit in a different topic. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FS 444A - Films by and about African-Americans
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. A critical, historical analysis of African-American filmmaking through lecture, discussion, and viewing of films and film excerpts. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444B - New Hollywood Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. Focuses on the rise of the New Hollywood, covering the influence of European directors on the ‘movie brats,’ the emergence of the contemporary blockbuster, the role of advertising and film reviews in promoting films, the significance of box office figures, and the economics of packaging and deal-making. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444C - Queer Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. Explores an alternative history of film setting out to decode the rules and parameters of a “Queer Cinema” and focusing on “Queer Cinema” as a historical and theoretical category for analysis. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444D - Hollywood Auteurs
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. A study of the concept of the film “auteur” and the way it has been applied to Hollywood filmmakers from the classical period (1917-1960) through the evolution of this concept into a marketing category in contemporary Hollywood. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444E - Independent American Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. Examines independent film movements in North American cinema with an emphasis on the ‘independent revival’ from the 1980s onwards. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444F - Women in Film
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. A survey of the on- and off-screen roles women have played in film and television, and an examination of how these roles have changed to reflect the changing status of women in society. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444G - Films about the Holocaust
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. Traces the history of the Holocaust on film focusing on the cinematic art’s contribution to our understanding of the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. The course will cover both non-fiction and fiction films and will attempt to survey all styles of filmmaking as they pertain to the Holocaust. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444H - Film Censorship
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. This course investigates the cultural, industrial, and social factors that provided the genesis of Hollywood self-industry censorship during what has been coined its “Pre-Code” era. We begin in the 1920s by studying the formation of the Motion Picture Producers and Directors Association (MPPDA), to the Studio Relations Committee’s monitoring of early sound films in the early 1930s, until the strict enforcement of the film industry’s “Production Code” in 1934, and then analyze its effects/aftermath. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444I - The History and Aesthetics of Stereoscopic Cinema
Prerequisite, DCFMA major. This course will explore the history and aesthetics of stereoscopic 3-D cinema through readings, screenings, lectures, classroom discussions and written assignments. Though stereoscopic imagery can be found in a variety of media, including photography, comic books, theme parks and video games, this course engages specifically with stereoscopic cinema within the tradition of the Hollywood narrative feature film. The course follows a largely chronological trajectory from the pre-cinema era before 1895 to the digital present, tracing the technological, industrial and aesthetic issues that have shaped the production, exhibition and reception of stereoscopic cinema at various points along the way. In many ways, the history of stereoscopic cinema represents a parallel, shadow history to mainstream cinema, one that can help throw the embedded assumptions and naturalized practices of monocular film culture into relief, as it were. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444J - Screened Violence
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. Violent images have often been blamed for violent actions. This course examines the consequence of violence on screen (film, tv, gaming) in both in its explicit and implicit forms. Screen examples will include themes of vengeance, transgression and cruelty, as much as it includes latent violence on gender, sexuality, racial identity and ability. The examples will be drawn from a range of cinemas and sources to expand the inquiry of what constitutes violence and how violence can result from ill-considered representation. Some sections of this course may be taught with FS 544. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444K - The Hollywood Studio System
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . This course provides a survey of American cinema using the Hollywood studio system as its case study during its zenith in the 1930s and 40s, when cinema was the “mass medium” of the Twentieth Century and the majority of film production took place in Los Angeles (better known as “Hollywood”). The goal of this course is to historically contextualize the key studios of what has been called “The Golden Age” of “classical Hollywood” in terms of their aesthetic, cultural, industrial, social, and technological significances. In sum, students will identify and scrutinize the varying “house styles” of the major studios through studying the production choices, management style, and talent at each studio. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 444M - Italian American Cinema
(Same as ITAL 387 .) 3 credits
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FS 444N - Postwar U.S. Cinema
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , and FS 244 , or FS 245 . Dodge College film studies majors and minors will have enrollment priority. This course provides a survey of American cinema focused on the decade of the 1950s, which witnessed tremendous economic and social changes that in turn impacted the style of Hollywood films. In doing so, we will historically contextualize this decade in terms of its aesthetic, cultural, industrial, social, and technological attributes, including the rise of television in Hollywood and in response, the emergence of new film technologies like 3-D, Cinemascope, and stereoscopic sound in film; the major stars and genres of the decade that reflected dominant gender ideologies of the period (the “office company man,” “blonde bombshell,” domestic homemaker, the teen rebel, etc); the rise of “teenagers” as a social (and marketable!) demographic; the Cold war political climate (McCarthyism and the ensuing Blacklist in Hollywood; and the end of the “studio system” that caused changes in production (Hollywood productions abroad, freelancing). We will also consider historical revisionism of the decade through select contemporary Hollywood films and television and consider how the present frames the past. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
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FS 445 - Film Theory and Criticism, Lecture and Laboratory
Prerequisites, FS 241 , FS 245 and film studies major, or minor. This course analyzes film through classical theories developed by such formalists as Sergei Eisenstein and Rudolf Arnheim, and realists such as Andre Bazin and Siegfried Kracauer. It also explores modern film theories informed by structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, narratology, et.al. in order to help students gain an understanding of individual films, widespread filmmaking practices, important film movements, and the cultural impact of cinema. This course includes a lecture and required laboratory component held at different times. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
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FS 455 - The Practices of Writing about Film
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , FS 244 , FS 245 . Film studies majors and minors have enrollment priority. This course explores the different professional applications of film studies, from the practice of film reviewing to the preparation and planning of film festivals and public programming. Students learn writing techniques specific to film criticism and study the various film histories and critical approaches of film critics past and present, as well as considering the social and cultural issues involved in professional film journalism. Open to non-majors. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FS 491 - Student-Faculty Research/Creative Activity
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Students engage in independent, faculty-mentored scholarly research/creative activity in their discipline which develops fundamentally novel knowledge, content, and/or data. Topics or projects are chosen after discussions between student and instructor who agree upon objective and scope. P/NP or letter grade option with consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1-3 credits
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FS 498 - Film Studies Advanced Senior Seminar
Prerequisites, FTV 140 , FS 244 , FS 245 , FS 445 , senior standing, film studies major, and FS 444 , or FS 443 . This course is designed for advance study for film studies majors in their senior year that emulates a small, graduate seminar experience so that the students can write a longer term paper with detailed feedback and guidance from their professor. This class culminates the film studies degree, drawing upon their critical analysis and primary research skills in their semester long research project. The course subject will revolve each year depending on which faculty member teaches the class, who will bring their unique research expertise to design the class. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
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FS 499 - Individual Study
Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Individual research and projects. Students must have an overall grade point average of at least 3.0 to enroll. Designed to meet specific interests which are not provided for by regular curriculum offerings. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
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FIN 207 - Personal Finance
Prerequisite, quantitative inquiry course. This course addresses the major personal financial planning issues that individuals and households face. Topics include establishing savings goals, using banking, credit, and other financial services, tax and estate planning, making good investment decisions, and comparing insurance products. Cannot be used to fulfill major requirements. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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FIN 307 - The Financial System
Prerequisites, ECON 200 , ECON 201 . Financial intermediation and institutions, central banking, financial markets, and monetary economics. The impact of fiscal and monetary policy on interest rates. Provides a background for understanding financial structure and capital markets for business majors. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
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