Screen Directing is a course designed to further a student’s fiction filmmaking skills by exploring the directorial work of interpreting and pre-visualizing narrative scripts, staging them for the camera, blocking and directing actors, and producing …
Radio, Television, & Film
COM ARTS 613 Special Topics in Film
Specialized topics and issues in film history, theory, and criticism.
COM ARTS 608 Special Topics in Media and Cultural Studies
Specialized topics and issues in media and cultural studies.
COM ARTS 669
Survey of significant trends within both classical and contemporary film theory. Designed for serious students interested in reading, analyzing, and evaluating the central concepts and intellectual history of writings about film, particularly with respect to …
COM ARTS 659
A capstone course in digital cinema. Provides students with an immersive experience in the art of visual and aural storytelling. This workshop is structured around the creation of a half-hour finished film, planned and completed …
COM ARTS 655
Important filmmakers from 1910 to the present; their relation to German cultural and social history of the period.
COM ARTS 651
Remote video production in both documentary and narrative genres.
COM ARTS 609 Essential Digital Media Production for Graduate Students
The integration of digital technologies into our daily lives is changing the landscapes of media, communication, and education. Scholars are increasingly expected to be able to use digital media tools to build, extend, and share …
COM ARTS 556
Influences of industrial structure, trade policies, foreign markets and censorship on Hollywood’s production practices up to 1948.
COM ARTS 557
Analysis of major trends in media industries since the 1970s with special emphasis on conglomeration, globalization, new technologies, and changing modes of production and distribution.