The new major in Cinema and Digital Media is now open, as of
Fall 2015.
Students who wish to declare will be majoring in
Cinema and Digital Media from now on. See
complete details about the new major here, including the major
checklist PDF, which lists all courses in the new
major. Cinema and Digital Media courses are currently
designated with the letters CTS. Also please see TCS and
FMS courses
for additional course descriptions.
Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Critically celebrated scripted television since the
mid-1990s. Key themes including class, ethnicity, race, violence,
and US politics. Major developments in the medium’s history as
context for recent wave of epic television. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WE. Effective: 2018
Fall Quarter.
Students will make short fiction pieces experimenting with the
original formal and stylistic rules employed by German filmmaker
Angela Schanelec and French filmmaker Robert Bresson. Students
will read Robert Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematograph and Bresson
on Bresson. Among the films studied will be Schanelec’s films,
Afternoon, Marseille, and Orly as well as L’argent and A Man
Escaped by Bresson. We will focus on directing actors or as
Bresson would say, creating atmospheres for models to be.
Variable—3-15 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of
Instructor. Directed group study in cinema and digital
media. For students with upper division standing. May be taught
abroad. May be repeated for credit when topic
differs. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 2018 Fall
Quarter.
Variable—3-15 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of
Instructor. Directed group study in cinema and digital
media. For students with upper division standing. May be taught
abroad. May be repeated for credit when topic
differs. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 2018 Fall
Quarter.
Variable—3-15 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of
Instructor. Directed group study in cinema and digital
media. For students with upper division standing. May be taught
abroad. May be repeated for credit when topic
differs. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 2018 Fall
Quarter.
Variable—3-15 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of
Instructor. Directed group study in cinema and digital
media. For students with upper division standing. May be taught
abroad. May be repeated for credit when topic
differs. (P/NP grading only.) Effective: 2018 Fall
Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion—1
hour(s). Introduction to the history, theory, and practice
of play. Survey of both analog and digital games. Overview of
gaming cultures, aesthetics, industries, and
technologies. (Same course as ENL 072.) GE
credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2017 Fall Quarter.
This course introduces students to the practice of screenwriting.
We examined the classical three-act structure in the various
traditional fiction genres. We develop character, dialogue, story
arc etc. However, we go further and experiment with
alternative narrative structures. We create styles of
“writing” with images and music that break the conventional
standard of what Peter Watkins refers to as the “mono-form”.
This course introduces students to current debates between cinema
studies and contemporary art and explores experimental modes of
filming, montaging, installing, screening, and displaying images
between the White Cube (gallery/museum) and the Black Box
(cinema). Guest speakers (a curator, an artist, a museum
director) will come to class to talk about their practices and we
will have one special field trip.
Studio – 6 hours. Prerequisite: course 12 or CDM 20 or CTS 20.
Exploration of animation. Relationship between drawing, digital
stills, and multiple images. Animation using traditional drawing
techniques, collage, and digital processes.
Studio—6 hours. Prerequisite: course 12 or CDM 20 or CTS 20 .
Experimental documentary practice. Use of interviews,
voice-overs, and still and moving images. Production of
alternative conceptual and visual projects. May be repeated for
credit one time.
Studio – 6 hours. Prerequisite: course 12 or CDM 20 or CTS 20.
Use of video to expand performance art production. Exploration of
improvisation, direction, projection, and image processing in
real time.
Studio – 6 hours. Prerequisite: course 12 or CDM 20 or CTS 20 or
TCS 100; one of course 112, 114A, 114B, or 114C; upper division
standing Art Studio Majors. Independently driven video, digital,
and/or performance projects. Further development in the
electronic arts ranging from video installation to
performance.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s). Current debates
between cinema studies and contemporary art. Issues covered
include, experimental modes of filming, montaging, installing,
screening, and displaying images between the White Cube
(gallery/museum) and the Black Box (cinema). GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WE. Effective: 2017
Winter Quarter.
Lecture—3 hours; discussion/laboratory—1 hour. Introduction to
key computational ideas necessary to understand and produce
digital media. Fundamentals of programming are covered as well as
analysisof how media are represented and transmitted in digital
form. Aimed primarily at non-computer science students. (Same
course as Engineering: Computer Science 012.) GE credit: ArtHum
or SciEng
Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—2
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 001 and/or CDM 003
recommended. Introduction to filmmaking concepts,
principles, and methods. Emphasis on form, content and historical
dialectic between classical narrative filmmaking conventions and
artists’ challenges to these conventions. Not open for
credit to students who have taken CTS 020. GE
credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2019 Winter Quarter.
History of Media to 1945, with particular focus on mechanically
reproduced mass media technologies including the printing press,
the newspaper, photography, cinema, radio and early computing
technology. Analysis of inter-related cultural and political
topics.
An introduction to the intricate, inter-related strands of
media history since the Second World War, focusing on the rise of
the digital computer and network technology. First, in
Military/Industrial/Academic research centers during the Cold
War, and then across society in the last thirty years as it
spread from the office to the home to our hands. Lecture 3
Hours, Section 1.
What is the impact of movies around the world? Films are
international products with global audiences, and that’s how
we’ll study them in this class, from the very beginning of cinema
to World War Two. The spectrum of films viewed includes
silent films and sound films, black and white films and
color films, cartoons and live-action, made by Charlie
Chaplin, Walt Disney, and many other of the era’s great
filmmakers from the United States, France, Russia, China,
Mexico and elsewhere.
