2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]
Cinema and Screen Studies
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The Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema and Screen Studies is an interdisciplinary program designed to prepare students to become, through criticism and creation, active participants in and shapers of the culture and society of moving images. The major in Cinema and Screen Studies combines a rigorous course of study in the theory and history of moving images with an equally rigorous course of study in technical and creative production. The dual emphases of the program are designed to prepare students for a number of possible postgraduate options, ranging from media production to graduate study of theories and histories of visual culture.
Moving images increasingly belong to the very texture of our lives. The Cinema and Screen Studies program engages with this texture, examining the “big screen” of cinema to the “small screen” of television to the “new screens” of computers, ATMs, cellular phones, iPods, and the myriad other screens with which we regularly interface.As such, courses in the program are inherently interdisciplinary, touching on concerns across the humanities as well as the fields of business, education, political science, information technology and more.As virtually every career must engage with moving images in some form—marketing, public relations, organizational communications, education, etc.—the Cinema and Screen Studies program can augment traditional career preparation majors in fundamental ways. The major is in keeping with the College’s mission in that it “prepares graduates to live and work in a technologically sophisticated, culturally diverse world of changing opportunities.”
The major in Cinema and Screen Studies includes thirteen courses divided into two components: core requirements, and approved electives. The core requirements are comprised of critical studies and production courses. The critical studies courses address histories and theories of moving images. The production courses focus on screenwriting and film and video making. The approved electives give students an opportunity to develop a particular emphasis of their course of study and enable them to take full advantage of the interdisciplinary elements of Cinema and Screen Studies. For example, a student might use this group of courses to fashion an emphasis in: acting and design, media archaeology, visual anthropology and documentary, computer animation, gender and visual culture, race and representation, media literacy/education, technology and society, digitality and information science, natural sciences and visual technologies, psychology and visual culture, physics of screen technologies, etc.
The completion of the major is marked by a senior thesis course that includes a public exhibition of a film, research, screenwriting or video project. By the conclusion of a course of study in Cinema and Screen Studies, a student will be able to:
- Deploy a technical, conceptual vocabulary to describe, categorize, analyze and create moving-image artifacts.
- Recognize, apply and transform the historical frameworks through which moving-image artifacts are received and created.
- Use and deploy appropriate technologies to both analyze and create moving-image artifacts.
- Write for the screen in multiple ways and for multiple audiences.
- Collaborate on moving-image projects in a variety of capacities and in the service of shared vision.
Major
Cinema Screen Studies
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CSS 235 - Introduction to Cinema Production
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
This course presents the basic concepts, techniques, and processes of cinema production. Throughout the course the student will learn how to write, storyboard, shoot, and edit an electronic motion picture. Digital post production processes will be introduced. Narrative, documentary, and experimental theories will be discussed, and the students will participate in directing and producing a final short film for a public screening.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CSS 335 - Intermediate Cinema Production
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
The primary goal of this course is to create a solid foundation in the art and discipline of cinematography from pre-production to post production. Through painting with light and using cinematographic tools we will discover how to solve problems by helping each other in a team effort.
Throughout the course the student will learn how to compose, light, and create 16mm b/w and color motion pictures. HD cinematography and post-production will also be discussed as it applies to professional practice. Narrative and documentary theories will be stressed, and the students will participate in directing and producing a final short film ready for a public screening.
Prerequisites: BRC 235 or CSS 235
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CSS 360 - Studies in National Cinemas
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
An extended investigation into theories of national ceinema (in what ways can a ‘cinema’ be understood as ‘national’?) in conjunction with the study of a body of films arising from a single, ‘national’ context, for example: Brazilian, Cuban, Iranian, Japanese, Soviet, Tunisian, etc.
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3; May be repeated for total of 6 credits. -
CSS 385 - Children’s Literature and Film
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
Explore, analyze, and adapt classic works or Children’s Literature to motion picture film. Emphasis is placed on thinking, imagining, and creatiing works from the perspective of a child spectator in order to make films that are personal, original, and appropriate for a young audience. Throughout the course, the students will learn how to write, design, shoot, hand-develop, audio mix, and edit Super 8mm children’s color motion pictures.
Prerequisite: CSS 235 or BRC 235
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CSS 391 - Film Practicum
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
Film Practicum is an intensive, cerebral and physical exercise in the various approaches to filmmaking and videography. This course takes both conventional and experimental paths to help students expand their creative horizons. Students should expect to be “in production” constantly during the semester.
Prerequisite: CSS 235 or BRC 235; or instructor permission
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3; repeatable for total of 6 credits. -
CSS 395 - Special Topics
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
Special topics in Cinema and Screen Studies include, but are not limited to, cinematography, web-based cinema production, experimental cinema, and genre-focused courses.
Note: This course can be repeated up to 3 times for a total of 9 credit hours, as long as the topic areas of each course are distinct.
Prerequisite: ENG 102
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3 -
CSS 485 - Experimental Filmmaking
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
The purpose for this course is to examine experimental cinema and the avant garde as an alternative method of filmmaking. The student will experiment with non-narrative, impressionistic, and poetic filmmaking methods in order to engage the audience in thought-provoking manners.
Prerequisite: ENG 286
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CSS 487 - Advanced Studies in Film Theory
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
Seminar devoted to intensive study of a particular film theorist, a particular theoretical problem, or a particular theory.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
3 Credits
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CSS 491 - Location-based Filmmaking
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
Location Filmmaking is an intensive, long-form venture into the fundamentals of independent filmmaking, without the comforts of a campus/studio/sound stage. Students will be required to submit one screenplay of 15-25 pages in length on the first day of class. These scripts mus be written, or acquired legally by the student prior to the first class meeting. A faculty committee will select TWO (2) scripts from those submitted, based upon a live pitch by the writer/director/producer. The chose scripts will go into immediate preproduction, and will be allowed to utilize the entire semester, in and outside class, for full completion.
Note: Repeatable up to 6 credit hours
Prerequisite: CSS 235 or BRC 235, and ENG 286
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3 -
CSS 496 - Senior Thesis
2016-2017 Catalog Year:
The Senior Thesis seminar provides advanced CSS students with an opportunity to collectively reexamine the practical, theoretical, and historical bases of their screen education while at work on their particular, culminating projects. Participants explore recent scholarship on the state of the discipline and directions for research and creative work.
Prerequisite: Minimum senior standing or instructor permission
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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