Undergraduate Courses Fall 2008CORE COURSES IN CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES CCS101-B INTRODUCTION TO CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES S. CONNOLLY An examination of the images and texts of film, television, art, photography and advertising, and how they characterize and shape our everyday lives. Students learn how to recognize, read, and analyze culture within a particular social, cultural, or political context, with special attention to race, gender, class, ideology, and censorship. Since this is the first course in our Cinema and Cultural Studies major, primary emphasis will be placed on film. 3 credits CCS 201 - WRITING ABOUT CULTURE M. HIGH The course teaches research methodology, develops critical thinking, and hones argumentative writing skills. A range of cultural artifacts, issues, and approaches are considered along with the ways that various discourses appropriate or critique them. Students gain extensive training in the methods essential to the use of resources and to critical writing. Prerequisite: Completion of D.E.C. category A 3 credits CCS 301-G THEORIZING CINEMA AND CULTURE A. FOLEY Recent trends in critical theory applied to the study of film, television, literature, popular music, and other types of “cultural production.” In-depth analyses of specific literary, visual, and musical texts are situated within structures of power among communities, nations, and individuals. Exploration of how identities of locality, gender, ethnicity, race, and class are negotiated through cultural forms. Prerequisites: Two courses toward the major in cinema and cultural studies 3 credits CCS 313-H TELEVISION STUDIES R. GUINS This course maps the social, cultural, and technological changes that the medium/media of television has experienced from its early ties to radio models of broadcast to the changes in reception wrought by the iPod. Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; 1 DEC F course Advisory prerequisite: CCS 101, HUM 201, or HUM 202 3 credits CCS 390-J LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA M. SANNING This course studies a variety of aspects connected with the production, distribution, and reception of cinema in Latin America. Course includes a representative sample of films produced in everyone of the major Latin American film producing nations (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Cuba). It will also review a short selection of minor Latin American cinematographies and of indigenous film productions. All films will always be studied within the social, political and artistic context in which these works are produced. Readings include works by Latin American film directors and theorists that have contributed to the study of the films in the region and of film as a world art form. Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; completion of DEC B Advisory prerequisite: CCS 101, HUM 201, or HUM202 3 credits
CCS 392-K AMERICAN CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES H. STAATS The history of cinema as art has been directly linked to the evolution and increment of multicultural societies. This course studies the ways in which film has either included or excluded representations of multiculturalism in the United States, and how films have discussed and participated in the different debates about cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, gender and class difference within the United States. The course studies theoretical concepts such as difference, ethnicity, migration, incorporation and cultural contact zones. Prerequisite: U3 or U4 standing; completion of DEC B Advisory prerequisite: CCS 101, HUM 201, or HUM202 3 credits
CCS 401.01/SPN 420.01 SENIOR SEMINAR IN CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES: BUÑUEL, RIPSTEIN & ALMODÓVAR K. VERNON This course will focus on the films and careers of three of the most provocative and influential Hispanic directors of the last 80 years, Luis Buñuel, Arturo Ripstein and Pedro Almodóvar. In analyzing each of their distinctive film universes we will also consider a series of shared concerns: their participation in a model of hybrid, transnational cinema, their pursuit of socially and sexually transgressive themes, and their creative if conflictive relation to various traditions of Hispanic culture. Prerequisites: U4 standing; CCS major 3 credits CCS 475 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING PRACTICUM I Work with a faculty member as an assistant in one of the faculty member’s regularly scheduled classes. The student is required to attend all the classes, do all the regularly assigned work and meet with the faculty member at regularly scheduled times to discuss the intellectual and pedagogical matters relating to the course. Prerequisites: U3 or U4 standing; permission of instructor and department by appointment J. REICH CCS 487 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH Intensive readings and research on a special topic undertaken with close faculty supervision. May be repeated. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and department by appointment J. REICH CCS 488 – INTERNSHIP May be repeated up to a limit of 9 credits, but only 3 credits may be applied toward the cinema and cultural studies major. Prerequisite: Permission of program advisor by appointment J. REICH CCS 495 - SENIOR HONORS PROJECT IN CINEMA AND CULTURAL STUDIES A one-semester project for CCS majors who are candidates for the degree with departmental honors. The project involves independent study under close supervision of an appropriate faculty member, and the written and oral presentation to the department faculty colloquium of an honors thesis. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and undergraduate program director. by appointment J. REICH |
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