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.
Studio—6 hour(s). Prerequisite(s): ART 012 or CTS 020;
(ART 112 or ART 114A or ART 114B or ART 114C or CDM 100 or CDM
104); (CDM 105 or TCS 100 or TCS 101 or TCS 104); Upper division
standing Art Studio majors. Pass One restricted to Art
Studio majors; upper division standing. Independently driven
video, digital, and/or performance projects. Further development
in the electronic arts ranging from video installation to
performance. May be repeated up to 1 time(s). GE
credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2019 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); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—2 hour(s);
Extensive Writing. 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. (Same course as STS
040A.) GE
credit: AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—2 hour(s);
Extensive Writing. 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. (Same course as STS
040A.) GE
credit: AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2014 Fall 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.
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.
Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s);
Extensive Writing. Examination of cinema in the postwar
period. Study of world cinema trends and the economic and
socio-political conditions enabling innovative work in the film
industry. GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Analysis of the contribution of outstanding
designers for cinema, television and filmed entertainment. Study
of diverse aesthetic theories of production design and art
direction, costume design, or cinematography. Introductory
principles and practice, history. May be repeated up to
2 time(s) when topic differs. GE
credit: AH, VL. Effective: 2013 Fall Quarter.
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); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Upper division standing, or
consent of instructor. Iranian cinema of the 20th century in
the context of profound cultural and social changes in Iran
especially since the Iranian Revolution. Productions by
representative directors such as Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Bahram
Beizaie are included. Knowledge of Persian not
required. (Same course as MSA 131A.) GE
credit: AH, OL, VL, WC, WE. Effective:
2013 Fall Quarter.
Lecture/Discussion – 3.0 hours, Film Viewing – 3.0 hours
Prerequisites-Upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
South Asian cinema of last 100 years in the context of
cultural, social, and political changes. South Asian history,
Independence, Partition, urban life, class, migration,
postcolonial identity, diaspora, gender, sexuality, religion,
sport, performance, etc.GEcredit: SocSci | AH, SS, VL, WC, WE. –
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): HIS 009A; Or any course on
traditional China; upper division standing. English language
survey of Chinese film, from its inception to the end of the 20th
century. Chinese films as important texts for understanding
national, transnational, racial, gender, and class politics of
modern China. GE
credit: AH, VL, WC. Effective: 2014 Winter
Quarter.
Taught in English and designed for undergraduates and graduate
students with no prior background in Japanese language,
literature, or history, this course aims to introduce various
manifestations of Japanese cultural paradigms and imagination
through the medium of film by some of the most prominent talents
in the Japanese cinema from the 1920s to the present-day.
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s). Survey
of films based on works of Japanese literature, emphasis on
pre-modern and early modern texts. Introduction to major
directors of Japan, with a focus on cinematic adaptation.
Lectures and readings in English. Films in Japanese with English
subtitles. GE
credit: AH, VL, WC, WE. Effective: 2016
Winter Quarter.
Lecture—2 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s);
Extensive Writing. Critical and theoretical approaches to
the emergence of new technologies since the invention of
photography. Examine various approaches to media (formalist,
semiotic, structuralist, Frankfurt School, cybernetics, visual
and gamer theory). (Same course as STS 151.) GE
credit: AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Film Viewing—3 hour(s); Term
Paper. Prerequisite(s): TCS 001 or STS 020. Study
of the ubiquitous presence of CCTV, face recognition software,
global tracking systems, biosensors, and data mining practices
that have made surveillance part of our daily life. Study
boundaries between security and control, information and
spying. (Same course as STS 162.) GE
credit: ACGH, AH, OL, SS, VL, WE. Effective:
2015 Winter Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion—1
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): TCS 001 or ENL 003 or STS
001; or equivalent of these courses. Critical approaches to
the study of video games, focusing on formal, historical, and
cultural modes of analysis. History of software and hardware in
North American and global contexts. Relations of games to
society, politics, economics, literature, media, and the
arts. GE
credit: ACGH, AH, SS, VL. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—3 hour(s); Extensive Writing/Discussion—1
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): TCS 001 or ENL 003 or STS
001; or equivalent of these courses. Critical approaches to
the study of video games, focusing on formal, historical, and
cultural modes of analysis. History of software and hardware in
North American and global contexts. Relations of games to
society, politics, economics, literature, media, and the
arts. (Same course as STS 172, ENL 172.) GE
credit: ACGH, AH, SS, VL. Effective:
2014 Fall Quarter.
Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour; film viewing—3 hours.
Analysis of film form and narrative, including cinematography,
editing, and sound. Issues in film studies, including authorship,
stardom, race, gender, class, and cultural identity. Includes
introduction to selected cinematic movements and national film
traditions. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt | AH, OL, VL, WC, WE.
Lecture-2 hour(s); Discussion-1 hour(s); Film Viewing-3 hour(s).
History of representations of vampires and horror generally from
the 19th-21st centuries. Emphasis on transnational history of the
horror genre; psychologies of horror effects; issues of race,
gender, and class; intersections with prejudice, medicine,
modernity. (Same course as GER 045.) GE credit: ACGH, AH, DD, OL,
VL, WC, WE.
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.
