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—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); 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.
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. 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/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/Discussion—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Introduction to the use of sound within the arts.
Techniques and aesthetics of experimental contemporary practices.
Creation of original sound works. Effective: 2018
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 121; or Consent of
Instructor. Techniques of recording, editing, mixing, and
synthesis to combine voice, field recordings, and electronic
signals. Incorporating live, recorded, found sounds to create
multidimensional stories. Presentation of live performances,
etc. Effective: 2018 Summer Session 1.
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.
Practice—3 hour(s); Workshop—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 121; CDM 122; or Consent
of Instructor. Culmination of CDM sound courses. Focuses on
performance and improvisation, culminating in a final public
performance. Expectation of extensive reading and rehearsal
outside of class time. GE credit: AH. Effective:
2018 Summer Session 1.
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.
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/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 001; or Consent of
Instructor. Study of one or more of the film genres (such as
musicals, film noir, screwball comedy, or westerns), including
genre theory and the relationship of the genre(s) to culture,
history, and film industry practices. May be taught
abroad. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when topic
differs. GE credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2021
Winter Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Discussion/Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): CDM 001 or CDM 002
recommended. Special topics in cinema & digital
media. May be repeated up to 2 time(s) when topic
differs. GE
credit: AH, VL, WE. Effective: 2019 Fall
Quarter.
Cinema and Digital Media Major course offerings for the
current academic year are listed below, by quarter. 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.
