Course offerings for the 2024-2025 academic year are subject to change.
Instructor names appear in the quarter course is offered. If no name is listed, then the course is not expected to be offered in 2024-2025.
Course Topics and Meeting Days and Times can be found in the Schedule of Classes. Links to Course Descriptions and the Schedule of Classes can be found on the right navigation menu.
Course |
Title |
Fall |
Winter |
Spring |
| FILM 10 | Professional Topics in Film, Television, and Digital Media | |||
| FILM 20A | Introduction to Film Studies | Staff | Horne | |
| FILM 20B | Introduction to Television Studies | Staff | ||
| FILM 20C | Introduction to Digital Media | Ruiz | ||
| FILM 20P | Introduction to Production Technique and Theory | Gustafson | ||
| FILM 80A | The Film Experience | Limbrick | ||
| FILM 80M | Understanding Media | Staff | ||
| FILM 80S | Special Topics in Film and Digital Media | Staff | Rizzo-Martinez Kara |
Glogovac-Smith |
| FILM 80T | Technothrillers | |||
| FILM 80V | Video Games as Visual Culture | Staff | ||
| FILM 80X | Sex in the Cinema | |||
| FILM 120 | Introduction to Media Theory | Sack | ||
| FILM 130 | Silent Cinema | Horne | ||
| FILM 132A | International Cinema to 1960 | Staff | ||
| FILM 132B | International Cinema 1960 to Present | Kara | ||
| FILM 134A | American Film, 1930-1960 | Staff | ||
| FILM 134B | American Film, 1960 to Present | Staff | ||
| FILM 136A | Experimental Film and Video | |||
| FILM 136B | History of Television | Kim | ||
| FILM 136C | Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media | |||
| FILM 136D | Documentary Film and Video | Staff | ||
| FILM 145 | Social Media Documentary Theory and Production | |||
| FILM 150 | Screenwriting | V | V | |
| FILM 151 | Film Directing | Vazquez | ||
| FILM 152 | Script Analysis | |||
| FILM 160 | Film Genres | Rizzo-Martinez | ||
| FILM 161B | Documentary Animation | |||
| FILM 162 | Film Authors | Staff | Gustafson | |
| FILM 162F | Female Filmmakers | |||
| FILM 165A | Film, Video and Gender | Staff | ||
| FILM 165B | Race on Screen | Wang | ||
| FILM 165C | Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video | |||
| FILM 165D | Asian Americans and Media | |||
| FILM 165E | Chicana/o Cinema, Video | Leaños | ||
| FILM 165G | Gender and Global Cinema | |||
| FILM 168 | National Cinema and Culture | |||
| FILM 168A | Arab and North African Cinemas | |||
| FILM 168F | Francophone African Cinema | |||
| FILM 168M | National Cinema and Culture: Morocco | |||
| FILM 170A | Fundamentals of Digital Media Production | Sack | ||
| FILM 170B | Fundamentals of Film and Video Production | Archer | Erb Ayon |
Taylor Vazquez |
| FILM 171A | Sound | Friz | ||
| FILM 171C | Special Topics Workshop: Found Footage | |||
| FILM 171D | Social Information Spaces | |||
| FILM 171F | Special Topics Workshop: Autobiographical Film | |||
| FILM 171S | Special Topics in Film and Digital Media Production | Glogovac-Smith | Friz Erb |
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| FILM 172 | Narrative Video Workshop | Ayon | Archer | |
| FILM 173 | Narrative Digital Media Workshop | |||
| FILM 174A | Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree Part A | Daniel | ||
| FILM 174B | Reasonable Doubts: Making an Exoneree Part B | Daniel | ||
| FILM 175 | Documentary Video Workshop | Lusztig | ||
| FILM 176 | Experimental Video Workshop | Vazquez | ||
| FILM 177 | Digital Media Workshop: Computer as Medium | Daniel | ||
| FILM 178A | Personal Computers in Film and Video | |||
| FILM 178B | Advanced Personal Computers in Film and Video | |||
| FILM 179A | Special Topics in Animation | Erb | Ruiz | |
| FILM 179B | Documentary Animation Workshop | |||
| FILM 180 | Writing about Film, Television, and Digital Media | |||
| FILM 185D | Sound and Image in Theory and Criticism | |||
| FILM 185R | The Film Remake | |||
| FILM 185S | Advanced Topics in Film Studies | |||
| FILM 185X | EyeCandy Seminar | Staff | ||
| FILM 187 | Advanced Topics in Television Studies | |||
| FILM 189 | Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies | Shanken | ||
| FILM 194A | Film Theory Seminar | Horne | ||
| FILM 194B | Electronic Media Theory Seminar | |||
| FILM 194C | New Media Seminar: Topic TBA | Shanken | ||
| FILM 194D | Film History Seminar: Topic TBA | |||
| FILM 194E | International Cinemas | |||
| FILM 194F | Film and the Other Arts | |||
| FILM 194G | New(s) Media | |||
| FILM 194H | Ethics and Documentary Filmmaking | |||
| FILM 194S | Special Topics Seminar | Rizzo-Martinez | Leaños | |
| FILM 196A | Senior Project in Narrative Production | Archer | Archer | |
| FILM 196B | Senior Project in Screenwriting | V | ||
| FILM 196C | Senior Documentary Workshop | Ayon | ||
| FILM 197 | Senior Digital Media Workshop | |||
| FILM 200A | Introduction to Graduate Study | Horne | ||
| FILM 200B | Theory and Praxis of Film and Digital Media 1 | Limbrick | ||
| FILM 200C | Theory and Praxis of Film and Digital Media 2 | Daniel | ||
| FILM 202 | Pedagogy in Film and Digital Media | Staff | ||
| FILM 203 | Professional Development in Film and Digital Media | Sack | ||
| FILM 221 | Audio Arts and Methods | |||
| FILM 222 | Critical Methodologies in Film and Television | |||
| FILM 223 | The Film/Video Essay | |||
| FILM 224 | Mediating Difference | Wang | ||
| FILM 225 | Software Studies | |||
| FILM 226 | Queer Theory and Global Film and Media | |||
| FILM 227 | Representing Memory | |||
| FILM 228 | Moving Image Archives and the Frontiers of Information | Glogovac-Smith | ||
| FILM 229 | Topics in Documentary Studies | |||
| FILM 230 | Expanded Documentary | |||
| FILM 231 | Topics in Postcolonial Theories, Film, and Media | |||
| FILM 232 | Audiovisual Ethnography | Erb | ||
| FILM 233 | Studies and Practice for Social Documentation, Filmmaking, and New Media | |||
| FILM 234 | Towards an Ethics of New Media | |||
| FILM 235 | Feminist Media Histories | |||
| FILM 236 | Making... in the Anthropocene | |||
| FILM 237 | Graduate Critique | |||
| FILM 238 | The Politics of Information | |||
| FILM 239 | Topics in Media Theory | |||
| FILM 250F | Film, Moving Image Installation, and Curatorial Lab | |||
| FILM 283 | New Media Art and Digital Culture | |||
| FILM 284 | Film, Culture, and Modernity | |||
| SOCD 200 | Approaches to Social Documentation | Kara | ||
| SOCD 201A | Introduction to Documentary Field Production and Editing | Gustafson | ||
| SOCD 201B | Advanced Documentary Field Production and Editing | Ayon | ||
| SOCD 201C | Project Planning for the Social Documentary | Hibbert-Jones | ||
| SOCD 202 | Multiple-Platform Social Documentary Production | |||
| SOCD 203 | Documentary Research Methods and Social Science Representation | Rizzo-Martinez | ||
| SOCD 204 | Ethnographic Writing and Social Documentation | |||
| SOCD 292 | Special Topics | |||
| SOCD 293 | Studies and Practice for Social Documentation, Filmmaking, and New Media | |||
| SOCD 294A | Production/Analysis/Editing | Vazquez | ||
| SOCD 294B | Production/Analysis/Editing | Lusztig | ||
| SOCD 294C | Production/Analysis/Editing | Taylor |