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/Discussion—3 hours; Term Paper. Recent evolution of the
documentary. The personal essay film; found-footage/appropriation
work; non-linear, multi-media forms; spoken word; storytelling;
oral history recordings; and other examples of documentary
expression.
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1
and either American Studies 1 or 5. The history and analysis of
the 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. (Same course as American Studies 158.) GE credit:
ArtHum
Lecture—3 hours; extensive writing or discussion—1 hour.
Historical, aesthetic and critical approaches to how information
technologies produced ghost effects or a sense of terror in
response to new media like the photograph, gramophone, film,
typewriter, computer, Turing Machine. Focus on technological
media transforms sense perception. Offered in alternate years.
(Same course as Science and Technology Studies 160.) GE credit:
ArtHum or SocSci | ACGH, AH or SS, VL, WE.—Ravetto-Biagioli
Lecture and intensive workshop teaching small-scale film
production. Appointments as a(n) director, director of
photography, actor, writer, lighting designer, sound designer and
other critical positions are used to produce and submit a short
film to a film festival.
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; project. Introduction to basic
research methods for Technocultural Studies: electronic and
archived images, sounds and data, satellite downlinking,
radiowave scanning, and oral histories. GE credit: VL, WE.—Drew
