Students who wish to declare will be majoring in
Cinema and Digital Media from now on. See
complete details about the major here, including the major
checklist PDF, which lists all courses in
the 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). Analysis of film form and narrative, including
cinematography, editing, and sound. Issues in film studies
including authorship, stardom, race, gender, class, and cultural
identity. Introduction to selected cinematic movements and
national film traditions. GE
credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2021
Winter Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Contemporary
developments in the fine and performing arts, media arts, digital
arts, and literature as they relate to technological and
scientific practices. Not open for credit to students who
have taken TCS 001. GE
credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2019 Winter
Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Term Paper. Evolution of media
technologies and practices beginning in the 19th century as they
relate to contemporary digital arts practices. Special focus on
the reconstruction of the social and artistic possibilities of
lost and obsolete media technologies. Not open for credit to
students who have taken TCS 005. GE
credit: AH, SE, VL, WE. Effective: 2019
Summer Session 1.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s). Introduction to key
computational ideas necessary to understand and produce digital
media. Fundamentals of programming and analysis of how media are
represented and transmitted in digital form. Aimed primarily at
non-computer science students. Two units of credit for students
that have taken ECS 010, ECS 030, ECS 032A, ECS 036A, or ENG 006.
(Same course as ECS 012.) GE credit: AH, QL, SE, VL. Effective:
2021 Spring Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—2 hour(s);
Extensive Writing. Prerequisite(s): CTS
040A. History of media from 1945 to present, with particular
focus on the development of the computer, digital network and
Internet technologies in the context of other media
infrastructures like radio, television and satellite networks.
Analysis of inter-related cultural/political topics. (Same
course as STS 040B.) GE
credit: AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2015 Winter Quarter.
Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 001
recommended. Examination of the cultural context of the
emergence of cinema. Discussion of cinema as a product of the age
of industrialization and conquest, as well as an element of urban
culture, and mass transportation. Not open for credit to
students who have taken CTS 041A. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2018 Summer Session 1.
Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 001
recommended. Examines cinema from 1945 through the present,
with focus on neo-realist, new wave and third-world movements.
Examines social critique in cinema from studio system to New
Wave, Cine Novo, postcolonial cinema and contemporary independent
cinema. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2021 Winter 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.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 020 or ART 012; or
Consent of Instructor. Experimental approaches to the making
of film and video in the age of digital technologies. Builds upon
the foundation provided by CDM 020. Instruction in technical,
conceptual, creative, and critical skills for taking a project
from idea to fruition. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL. Effective: 2019 Winter
Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 100; Consent of
Instructor. Continuation of CDM 100 with further exploration
of digital cinema creation. Additional topics include new modes
of distribution, streaming, installation and exhibition. GE
credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2018 Summer Session 1.
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; laboratory—3 hours; fieldwork—6
hours. Prerequisite: Cinema & Technocultural Studies 20 or
equivalent; one course in Women and Gender Studies, or consent of
instructor. Media production as a mode of cultural criticism,
furthering feminist and social justice goals. Fundamentals of
camera, editing and distribution via a social engagement model.
Study and hands-on response to key historic and contemporary
feminist and social justice media discourses. Offered in
alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, SocSci, Div|AH, SS, ACGH, DD,
VL.—W. (W.) Wyman (new course—eff.
Lecture/Lab—6 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of
Instructor. Analysis and practice of acting skills required
for camera work and digital media. May be repeated up to
2 time(s) when instructor differs. (Same course as
DRA 174.) GE credit: AH. Effective: 2020 Fall
Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s). Use of
sound to articulate, lend mood or subconsciously underscore
visual, environmental, or performative situations, combining
music, voice, sound effects and other noises to create sound
designs that enhance, alter or support action and
movement. GE credit: AH. Effective: 2018 Fall
Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s). Foundation course
teaches the theory of three-dimensional computer graphics,
including modeling, rendering and animation. Development of
practical skills through the use of professional software to
create computer graphics. Not open for credit to students who
have taken TCS 130. GE credit: VL. Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter
Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 130 or TCS 130. The
art of character animation in three dimensional computer
animation. Movement theory, principles of animation, animation
timing. Development of technical and practical skills. Not
open for credit to students who have taken TCS 131. GE
credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 002
recommended. Introduction to object-oriented programming for
artists. Focus on understanding the metaphors and potential of
object-oriented programming for sound, video, performance, and
interactive installations. GE
credit: VL. Effective: 2018 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3 hour(s). Creative
application of electronic technology relevant to media and fine
arts involving both electronic principles and hands-on
application. Effective: 2019 Spring Quarter.
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.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Term Paper. History and
analysis of relationships between human bodies and technologies
in modern society. Dominant and eccentric examples of how human
bodies and technologies influence one another and reveal
underlying cultural assumptions. Not open for credit to
students who have taken TCS 158. (Same course as AMS
158.) GE
credit: ACGH, AH, WE. Effective: 2019 Winter
Quarter.
Cinema and Digital Media Major course offerings for the
2024-2025
academic year. To see course descriptions, use the menu at left
to view them on our site, or use our link to the general
catalog, at right.
Use the Registrar’s Course Search Tool to see times, dates, and
locations for each course and to plan your schedule.
