Courses of Instruction

USC School of Cinematic Arts

Courses

Animation

• CTAN 496 Directed Studies

  Units: 2
  Max Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Individual research under faculty guidance.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Animation and Digital Arts majors
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 497L Generative Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Introduction to software packages and practices exploring current animation techniques that leverage simulation systems. Artificial intelligence as a tool for animation.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 452 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 499 Special Topics

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Detailed investigation of new or emerging aspects of cinema and/or television; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 501 Experiments in 2-D Digital Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  2-D Digital animation exploring the art form as a fertile terrain for experimentation, exhibition and activism.
  Recommended Preparation: 2-D digital experience.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 502L Experiments in Immersive Design

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  An in-depth exploration of aesthetics and techniques involved in the conceptualization, design and creation of immersive media and stereoscopic imaging.
  Duplicates Credit in former CTAN 502a.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 503 Storyboarding for Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Focus on film grammar, perspective, and layout, staging and acting as it relates to storyboarding for animation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 504L Creative Production in Virtual Reality

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  A creative studio course in producing both a linear cinematic virtual reality short film and associated real-time immersive experience.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 502L  
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 505 The Business of Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Professional knowledge and application of fundamental business skills associated with working in the animation industry, academia or the arts.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 508L Live Action Integration with Visual Effects

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Survey of the digital techniques required to successfully marry live action shooting with CGI elements and green screen footage.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 462 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 522 Animation Department Seminar

  Units: 1
  Max Units: 6.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  A weekly seminar required of all MFA Animation students. This course includes guest speakers, faculty and student presentations followed by lively and critical discussion.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTAN 524 Contemporary Topics in Animation and Digital Arts

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Topics exploring the evolution of the brain, development of art, technology, science and culture. How this correlates to the evolution of animation-digital media.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 525 Gesture Movement for Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  The concepts of animation performance, body and facial gesture, and the emotional and psychological resonance through cinematic arts.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 536 Storytelling for Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Storytelling workshop for animators; application of dramatic techniques to visual concepts to derive three-dimensional stories which can serve as bases for finished films.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to cinematic arts students.
  Duplicates Credit in CTAN 436.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 544 Introduction to the Art of Animation

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Fundamentals of film, video and computer animation production. Orientation to assist students on determining future emphases and specialties.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Animation and Digital Arts master students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 547 Animation Production I

  Units: 3
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Practicum in film, video and computer animation emphasizing the production process through individual projects.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 544 .
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Animation and Digital Arts master students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 550 Stop Motion Puppet and Set Design

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Puppet and set design for stop motion animation while providing guidance on armature rigs that allow the character to be animated effectively.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 551 Stop Motion Performance

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Incorporating classic stop motion techniques for puppet performance and animation. Emphasis on timing, performance, movement, animation and gesture.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 550 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 555 Animation Design and Production

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Exploring creative strategies to designing form and content. Developing style and investigating multiple techniques, including live action and sound. Production of a 30–60 second work.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 547 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 563 Advanced Computer Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Investigation of advanced computer techniques related to character representation and various types of algorithmically defined animation produced on either film or videotape.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 443L .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 564L Motion Capture Fundamentals

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Fundamental principles of motion capture technology explored while working through a structured series of assignments based around performance, gesture and motion.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 452  or CTAN 462 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 565L Motion Capture Performance

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  The art of directing, acting, and creating story for motion capture will be explored while learning the technology behind bringing virtual actors to life.
  Prerequisite: CTAN 564 .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab Required
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 577a Fundamentals of Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  The exploration of the techniques of the art of character animation with an emphasis on discipline, performance and personality observation, specializing in classical Hollywood animation.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Animation and Digital Arts master students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 577b Fundamentals of Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  The exploration of the techniques of the art of character animation with an emphasis on discipline, performance and personality observation, specializing in classical Hollywood animation.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Animation and Digital Arts master students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 579 Expanded Animation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Incorporation of traditional image making methods as well as digital and new media technologies to convey non-linear narratives over internal and external landscapes.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 582 Basic Animation Production Technologies

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Introduction for animation majors to the basic techniques and processes of film, video and computer systems, including cinematography, editing and sound.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to M.F.A. animation and digital arts students.
  Duplicates Credit in former CTAN 482.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 591 Animation Pre-Thesis Seminar

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  A pre-production seminar, where students complete the research, development, script and storyboards for their thesis project to be executed in CTAN 594a , CTAN 594b , CTAN 594z .
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 592 Master Class

  Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  Max Units: 12.0
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  A special projects course in which students produce a major work through weekly meetings with a master artist/animator. Topics must be approved prior to enrollment.
  Recommended Preparation: previous advanced animation production experience.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 593 Directed Studies in Animation

  Units: 2
  Max Units: 4.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Individual exploration in the areas of contemporary technology, animation techniques or experimental film through internships, residencies or directed studies.
  Registration Restriction: Open only to Animation and Digital Arts master students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTAN 594a Master’s Thesis

  Units: 2
  Credit on acceptance of thesis.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTAN 594b Master’s Thesis

  Units: 2
  Credit on acceptance of thesis.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTAN 594z Master’s Thesis

  Units: 0
  Credit on acceptance of thesis.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTAN 599 Special Topics

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Detailed investigation of new or emerging aspects of cinema; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  

Cinema and Media Studies

• CTCS 190g Introduction to Cinema

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Gateway to majors and minors in cinematic arts. Technique, aesthetics, criticism, and social implications of cinema. Lectures accompanied by screenings of appropriate films.
  Satisfies New General Education in Category A: The Arts
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 191 Introduction to Television and Video

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Exploration of the economic, technological, aesthetic, and ideological characteristics of the television medium; study of historical development of television and video including analysis of key works; introduction to TV/video theory and criticism.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 192gm Race, Class, and Gender in American Film

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Analyzes issues of race, class and gender in contemporary American culture as represented in the cinema.
  Satisfies New General Education in Category A: The Arts
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 200g History of the International Cinema I

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  The development of international cinema from its beginnings to World War II. Lectures, screenings, and discussions.
  Satisfies New General Education in Category A: The Arts
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Discussion
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 201 History of the International Cinema II

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  The development of international cinema from World War II to the present. Lectures, screenings, and discussions.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 303 Japanese Anime

  Units: 2
  Explores the visual, dramatic and social conventions of Japanese animation in film and television. Examines anime fan communities, manga and their impact.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 306 Cinema and Media Theory and Practice

  Units: 2
  Max Units: max 10
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Theories and case studies of contemporary issues in film, television and digital media research. Students will be required to design their own undergraduate research projects.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 367 Global Media

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Studies in the global configurations of television industries and cultures, including new technologies and the textual and sociological analysis of global media events and programming.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 373 Literature and Film

  Units: 4
  (Enroll in COLT 373 )
  
• CTCS 379 Nationalism and Postcolonialism in Southeast Asian Cinema

  Units: 4
  (Enroll in COLT 379 )
  
• CTCS 392 History of the American Film, 1925–1950

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Screenings of American film classics and their relationship to society. Lectures and discussions.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 393 Postwar Hollywood, 1946-1962

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Cinematic and extra-cinematic determinants of Post-Classical and Modernist Hollywood studio and independent genres, styles, and the star-phenomenon and their relationship to American history and culture.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 394 History of the American Film, 1977–present

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Cinematic and extra-cinematic determinants of Postmodernist Hollywood studio and independent genres, styles, and the star-phenomenon and their relationship to American history and culture.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 400 Non-Fiction Film and Television

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  An international survey of documentary, informational, and independent experimental film, video and television.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 402 Practicum in Film/Television Criticism

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Exercise in writing film and television criticism using new and classic films and television programs.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 403 Studies in National and Regional Media

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Detailed investigation of traditions, achievements, and trends of film and/or electronic media in a particular country or region.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 404 Television Criticism and Theory

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  The evaluation of television programs and their reception from various theoretical perspectives which may include cultural studies, race and ethnic studies, psychoanalysis, gender and queer studies, and semiotics.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 406 History of American Television

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  History of television as an entertainment, information, and art medium. Emphasis on programming and institutional history, including issues of regulation, censorship, aesthetics and activism.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 407 African American Cinema

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Intensive survey of African American cinema; topics include history, criticism, politics, and cinema’s relationship to other artifacts of African American culture.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 408 Contemporary Political Film and Digital Media

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Examination of a variety of politically engaged films and digital media recently produced in the U.S. and abroad, with particular emphasis on aesthetic strategies.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 409 Censorship in Cinema

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  An inquiry into the practice and patterns of censorship in cinema.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 411 Film, Television and Cultural Studies

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Detailed examination of film/television from the perspectives and insights of Cultural Studies; focus on the production and reception of cultural texts, practices, and communities.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 412 Gender, Sexuality and Media

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Examines how gender and sexuality are figured in cinema and television with an emphasis on the development of feminist media theory.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  Crosslisted as SWMS-412
• CTCS 414 Latina/o Screen Cultures

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Examination of Latino/a moving image production including film, video, and digital media in the context of the politics of race, class, gender, sexuality, and international relations.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  Crosslisted as AMST-414
• CTCS 417 African American Television

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Intensive survey of the history of African American images on American television. Topics include history, criticism, politics, and television’s relationship to African American culture.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 462 Critical Theory and Analysis of Games

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  (Enroll in CTIN 462 )
  
• CTCS 464 Film and/or Television Genres

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Rigorous examination of film and/or television genres: history, aesthetics, cultural context, social significance, and critical methodologies.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 466 Theatrical Film Symposium

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Lectures and readings on creative problems in the motion picture industry; current films; interviews with visiting producers, directors, writers, performers.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 467 Television Symposium

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Lectures and readings on creative problems in the television industry; study of current and historical trends, interviews with producers, directors, writers and performers.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 469 Film and/or Television Style Analysis

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Intensive study of the style of an auteur, studio, film or television making mode in terms of thematic and formal properties and their influences upon the art of film.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 473 Film and Media Theory

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Influential ideas and theoretical approaches that have shaped the making and study of film. Students are encouraged to take this course in their junior year.
  Prerequisite: CTCS 190  
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 478 Culture, Technology and Communications

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Cultural study of communications technology and its relationship to society. Evaluation of the social and cultural impact of technologies from the telegraph to the Internet.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 482 Transmedia Entertainment

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  An examination of transmedia, or cross-platform, entertainment: commercial and grassroots texts, theoretical framework, historical context, and commercial projects. Developing transmedia strategies for existing media properties.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 494 Advanced Cinema and Media Studies Seminar

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Rotating topics involving detailed study of the historical, cultural and aesthetic analysis of film, television, and new media technologies.
  Registration Restriction: Not open to Freshmen
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 495 Honors Seminar

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Advanced work in the historical, cultural and aesthetic analysis of film, television, and new media technologies.
  Corequisite: CTCS 473 .
  Registration Restriction: Open only to students in CTCS Honors program.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 499 Special Topics

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Detailed investigation of new or emerging aspects of cinema and/or television; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 500 Seminar in Film Theory

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Introduction to classical and contemporary film theory; exploration of their relationship to filmic experimentation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 501 World Cinema Before 1945

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Historical survey of global cinema from its beginnings until 1945.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 502 World Cinema After 1945

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Historical survey of film from a global perspective from 1945 until the present.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 503 Survey History of the United States Sound Film

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Survey history of the United States film from 1927 to the present, with emphasis upon film as art form, economic institution, technology, and cultural product.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 504 Survey of Television History

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  An exploration of the historical, cultural, business, creative, and technological aspects of television.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 505 Survey of Interactive Media

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  A survey course exploring the historical, cultural, business, creative and technological aspects of the new interactive media.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 506 Critical Studies Colloquium/Professional Seminar

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Provides orientation to the profession, opportunities for academic and professional growth and development. Recommended for entering students.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 510 Case Studies in National Media and/or Regional Media

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 12.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Seminar on media’s impact in defining nation and/or region in specific cultural contexts. Also addresses issues of exile, diaspora, transnationalism and globalism.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 511 Seminar: Non-Fiction Film/Video

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Aesthetic, rhetorical, and ideological issues in nonfiction film and video.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 517 Introductory Concepts in Cultural Studies

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  Introduction to central concepts, key theories, and/or leading figures in cultural studies, particularly as they relate to issues of popular culture and visual media.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 518 Seminar: Avant-Garde Film/Video

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Aesthetic, historical and ideological issues in avant-garde film and video.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 520 Film History Through the Archives and Special Collections

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Fa

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  A historical exploration of film and television through the artifacts, images and writings used in their creation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 521 Media Archiving: History and Practice

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  An introduction to the field of moving image archive and the complexities of preserving and managing moving image collections.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 564 Seminar in Film and Television Genres

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Advanced study of a selected genre of film and/or television — its relationship to history, society, and culture, as well as to genre theory.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 567 Seminar in Film/Television and a Related Art

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Historical, critical, aesthetic, and theoretical issues raised by a comparison of cinema and television and other allied art forms.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 569 Seminar in Film and Television Authors

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8
  Seminar in the style of an auteur, studio, filmmaking, or televisual mode in terms of thematic and formal properties and their influences upon the art of film and/or television.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 585 Seminar in Film/Television Critical Theory and Production

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  A conjoint theory/production seminar, in which the study of media texts will be combined with media production informed by the theoretical study. Specific themes and area of focus may vary.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 587 Seminar in Television Theory

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: Sp

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  Detailed investigation and discussion of various aspects of television, including genre, textual analysis, production and distribution systems and audience studies.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 599 Special Topics

  Units: 2, 3, 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Detailed investigation of new or emerging aspects of cinema; special subjects offered by visiting faculty; experimental subjects.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 673 Topics in Theory

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Contemporary theoretical frameworks and their relationship to film and television studies. Topics differ from semester to semester.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 677 Cultural Theory

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Seminar in theoretical approaches to cultural studies; focus on interdisciplinary research of media and audiences, covering a range of methods and theoretical frameworks; concentration varies.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 678 Seminar in Film Theory and Medium Specificity

  Units: 4
  Max Units: 8.0
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Explores the way film has been theorized in relationship to traditional media that preceded it and electronic media that followed.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  Crosslisted as ENGL-678
• CTCS 679 Seminar in Genre and/or Narrative Theory

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: Irregular

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  Seminar in theoretical issues concerning genre and/or narrative as they pertain to media, literature or cultural forms. Areas of focus vary from semester to semester.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  Crosslisted as ENGL-679
• CTCS 688 Moving Image Histories: Methods and Approaches

  Units: 4
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Research seminar in methods and approaches to moving image history including film, television, and digital media. Focus on archival research and issues in writing history.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 690 Special Problems

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Field production; organization and administration of local film-producing units; experimental aspects of film communication; advanced work in film history and criticism; teaching cinema.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTCS 790 Research

  Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTCS 791 Historical and Critical Research Methods

  Units: 2
  Max Units: 4.0
  Terms Offered: FaSp

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  Methods and procedures for historical and critical research in the visual media. Required tutorial with Ph.D. student’s dissertation committee chair, designed to assist initial work on dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture, Lab
  Grading Option: Letter
  
  
• CTCS 794a Doctoral Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTCS 794b Doctoral Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTCS 794c Doctoral Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTCS 794d Doctoral Dissertation

  Units: 2
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  
• CTCS 794z Doctoral Dissertation

  Units: 0
  Terms Offered: FaSpSm

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  Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
  Instruction Mode: Lecture
  Grading Option: In-progress to Credit/No Credit
  
  

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