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 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.
Performance and Improvisation (4) Workshop 3 hours; practice 3
hours. Prerequisite: courses 121 and 122 or consent of
instructor. Culmination of TCS sound courses. Class will focus on
performance and improvisation, culminating in a final public
performance. Students will be expected to do extensive reading
and rehearsal outside of class time. III. (III.) Ostertag
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 hours; laboratory 3 hours. Prerequisite: course
130 or consent of instructor. The art of character animation in
three dimensional computer animation. Movement theory, principles
of animation, animation timing. Development of technical and
practical skills. III. (III.) Neff
Social, political, economic, and aesthetic factors in virtual
reality. Artificial environments, telepresence, and simulated
experience. Focus on contemporary artists’ work and writing.
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Current work at the
intersection of the arts, culture, science, and technology
including biological and medical sciences, computer science and
communications, and artificial intelligence and digital media. GE
credit: VL.—Dyson
Lecture/Discussion—3 hour(s); 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. GE
credit: ACGH, AH, DD, VL. Effective:
2012 Fall Quarter.
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—3 hour(s); Laboratory—3
hour(s). Prerequisite(s): Consent of
Instructor. 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. May be repeated up
to 2 time(s). (Same course as DRA 175.) Effective:
2012 Fall Quarter.
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
