Introduction to Cinema, 1941-present
AS.061.141 (01)

Introduction to Cinema provides an overview of American and international cinema from the post World War II era to the present. Through lectures and discussion, weekly screenings, and intensive visual analysis of individual films, we will explore the aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped the art and industry of film over the past 80 years. Regular quizzes, writing assignments, class participation required. Mandatory film screenings. Lab Fee $60.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 12:00PM - 2:30PM Screenings, W 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

Introduction to Digital Video Production
AS.061.152 (01)

This course introduces students to the world of digital filmmaking. Through screenings, production assignments, and in-class labs, students will develop proficiency in digital cameras, sound recording devices, and software. Students will work individually and in groups to produce several video projects. For their final projects students will pitch an idea and develop a more complex film. Lab fee: $100

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 12:30PM - 3:20PM
• Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): FILM-PROD

Introduction to Screenwriting
AS.061.205 (01)

In this course we will explore the basic principles of visual storytelling in narrative film as they apply to the design, creation, and revision of the screenplay. Specifically, we will focus on learning the craft of screenwriting — strategies, processes, and philosophies that writers can develop, practice, and rely upon as they progress through a series of screenwriting exercises and write three short screenplays, which will be critiqued in-class during weekly table reads and with the Instructor (one-on-one) during office hours. Select professional screenplays will be read and analyzed — and clips from select films viewed — to further explore what works well on the page, and how it translates to working well onscreen. Final Draft screenwriting software is required; a FREE 18-week trial will be made available for all students who don’t already have Final Draft.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:50PM
• Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT

Screening Difference: Race in American Film
AS.061.213 (01)

This course will explore how race and ethnicity have been represented in popular American film from the early 20th century to the present. Weekly screenings, regular quizzes, and open discussion will emphasize close observation and critical thinking. Requirements include an oral presentation and a written analysis. No prior experience in film studies required; majors and non-majors welcome.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Special Topics: Producing the Independent Film
AS.061.221 (01)

This class will guide students through the process of producing an independent film in the United States. The chronology of lectures and coursework will follow the lifeline of a project, from conception through financing and development, production, postproduction, marketing, and exhibition. Students will learn how to package and pitch projects, budget and schedule a screenplay, develop a financing plan, supervise production and post-production, and mount a viable festival and distribution strategy. Lab Fee: $50

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:20PM, T 7:30PM - 10:00PM
• Instructor: Porterfield, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

Intermediate Video: Dreams, Psychosis, and Altered States in Cinema
AS.061.232 (01)

In this production course, students will create multiple video projects that reflect the representation of dreams, psychosis, and altered states in cinema. We will screen and deconstruct a variety of feature films, video artworks, and music videos to understand the mechanics and language of subjective realism as a narrative form. We will trace this stylistic lineage from its roots in art house cinema to its rise as an accepted Hollywood modality. We will also explore editing and software techniques that will further students' ability to create stunning works of strange beauty.Basic proficiency with digital cameras and editing is required. This class fulfills the intermediate film production requirement.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 12:30PM - 3:20PM
• Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): FILM-PROD

Portrait Films
AS.061.237 (01)

Portraiture has a long history in the arts, in painting, sculpture and photography. The film portrait is closer to these plastic arts, rather than traditional documentary, in that it approaches it’s subject mostly though looking and finding new forms. Screenings will include the work of Andy Warhol, Philippe Garrel, Shirley Clarke, varied screen tests, some animation and more. Coursework will include a presentation, short papers and a film portrait.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 3:30PM - 6:00PM, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/8
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Introduction to Writing for Television
AS.061.266 (01)

This course will take novice television writing students from show concept to show bible and into the early stages of pilot writing. It teaches the basics of how to develop a television concept, and dramatic structure for television writing. Students will read analytical work on what makes a successful television series, dramatic structure, and effective characterization, and will engage in both critical readings and writing workshop. The result will be the creation of their own show bible and the beginnings of an original thirty-minute television pilot.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:20PM
• Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/10
• PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT

History of Computer Animation
AS.061.268 (01)

This course offers a journey through the history of computer animation. We’ll start with an archaeology of the digital image, look at experimental animations by early computer artists, and sketch out the work of engineers in developing techniques of wire-frame modeling, texture mapping, shadowing, and facial animation. Beginning with short films and digital sequences in otherwise live-action movies, we’ll cover a wide variety of animation styles in an international context. Screenings will be drawn from a selection of fully computer-animated features, such as those from Studio Ghibli and Pixar; live-action movies with digital special effects in the mode of Tron (Lisberger, USA, 1982) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Cameron, USA, 1992); films that use computer software to aid traditional methods of animating, such as The Illusionist (Chomet, France, 2010) and Boy and the World (Abreu, Brazil, 2014); and animated documentaries, such as Waltz with Bashir (Folman, Israel, 2008) and Tower (Maitland, USA, 2016).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 10:00AM - 12:00PM, W 7:30PM - 10:00PM
• Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/13
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Strategic Approaches to Filmmaking in 2021
AS.061.302 (01)

The year 2020 challenged the film industry by imposing restrictions on our mobility, collaboration and access. Unable to gather in large groups or travel to the ideal location, much less rent equipment or leave the confines of our homes, moving-image makers found creative ways to embrace these limitations and continue making exceptional things. This intro-level production course will go back to basics in an attempt to define and explore the essential elements of visual storytelling. In this present, and in the future, how do we embrace the aesthetic challenges that come with limited resources and means? Can we make a compelling film or video without human subjects? Can we tell a dynamic story using only one location? Is there a possibility for drama when only one character appears on screen? Can sound be used to evoke the world outside the frame? And how do we make meaningful, relevant, transcendent work amidst a social, political and public health crisis? Over the course of the semester, students will be exposed to films and filmmakers who use these questions to stimulate their practice, and in turn, will be asked to address these challenging questions for themselves through the work they create for class. This course will fulfill the Advanced Filmmaking requirement for the major and minor. Students should have previously completed a 200-level course with POS tag FILMPROD

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 1:00PM - 3:30PM
• Instructor: Porterfield, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 1/8
• PosTag(s): FILM-PROD

Podcasting: Critical and Creative Practice
AS.061.303 (01)

In this critical studies course with a creative component, students will learn about the history and cultural significance of podcasting, develop tools for critically listening to and analyzing podcasts, and learn how to research, write for, and produce podcasts. Examples will come from a broad sample of narrative, documentary, interview, and discussion-based podcasts. While no formal training in audio production is necessary to take the course, students will be expected to learn the necessary skills to create their own podcasts. In-class demonstrations of microphones, editing software, and approaches to sound design will be offered, and students are encouraged to take advantage of office hours for further help with audio production.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:20PM
• Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/13
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Monster Films
AS.061.335 (01)

Monstrous others and monstrous selves in classic 20th century horror. One core course or permission required.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:20PM, S 7:00PM - 9:30PM Screenings, Th 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Invisible Cities
AS.061.354 (01)

In Italo Calvino’s book, Invisible Cities, Marco Polo depicts an eclectic array of imaginary, and fantastic, cities to Kublai Khan. Using this book as a guide, each student will create an imaginary city composed entirely from online archival footage. Following Calvino’s advice, these projects will “take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders but in the answer it gives to a question of yours”. Additional readings will include works by Louis Aragon, Walter Benjamin, Michel de Certeau, Rainer Maria Rilke, and W.G. Sebald. This course satisfies the Advanced Film Production requirement for FMS majors and minors.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:20PM
• Instructor: Mann, John
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/8
• PosTag(s): FILM-PROD

Documentary Film Theory
AS.061.361 (01)

Documentary Theory: The Work of Documentary in the Age of Reality Reproduction This course explores contemporary documentary film and video with an emphasis on selected directors and the theoretical implications suggested by their work. In particular, we look at the notion of the ‘real’ as it is constructed and maintained through and by documentaries. This inquiry necessarily involves a reflection that is philosophically as well as politically motivated. Directors include Errol Morris, Trinh Minh-ha, Ross McElwee, and Werner Herzog. Readings are eclectic, ranging from Annie Dillard to Martin Heidegger. Counts toward 300 or 400-level critical studies requirement.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: F 11:00AM - 1:20PM
• Instructor: Mann, John
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

The New Hollywood:American Films of the Seventies
AS.061.365 (01)

This course will explore the extraordinary renaissance in American film that arose from the death of the studio system and ended with the advent of the blockbuster. We'll discuss how the political and cultural struggles over the Vietnam war, civil rights, and the feminist movement affected American filmmaking between roughly 1967 and 1980, heralded by a new generation of filmmakers working both within and outside of the system. Emphasis will be on both close formal analysis and historical contexts. Filmmakers to be discussed will include Robert Altman, Hal Ashby, Charles Burnett, Ivan Dixon, Francis Ford Coppola, Barbara Loden, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, Alan Pakula, Arthur Penn, Bob Rafelson, Martin Scorsese, Melvin Van Peebles, and Claudia Weill. This is a discussion-based class, and regular participation is required.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 4:00PM - 6:20PM, T 7:00PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: DeLibero, Linda
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Surrealism and Film
AS.061.375 (01)

We will define Surrealism through primary texts, including those of Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud and Rene Daumal and other works that defined and influenced the movement in the early part of the 20th century. Using an understanding of the practice of surrealism found in the readings, as well as in surrealist games and automatic writing, we'll study a diverse group of filmmakers influenced by the practice, including Luis Buñuel, Joseph Cornell, Raul Ruiz and contemporary artists such as David Lynch. Assignments include weekly papers and one final creative project. Weekly film screenings Thursday 7:30-10:00 PM. $50 lab fee. Media, Online

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 3:30PM - 5:50PM, M 7:30PM - 10:00PM Screenings
• Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): FILM-CRITST

Advanced Screenwriting II The Rewrite
AS.061.407 (01)

You’ve just finished the first draft of your feature screenplay or long-format teleplay. If you’re like most mortals, including the teacher of this course, it’s likely to be terrifically average. Here’s the chance to make it good — and possibly great — with a semester’s worth of systematic, high-octane rewriting. Hard labor, creative breakthroughs and a glimpse at what it takes to get Hollywood’s attention included.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: F 1:00PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 0/8
• PosTag(s): FILM-SCRWRT

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (01)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mann, John
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (02)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (03)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Porterfield, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (04)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (05)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: DeLibero, Linda
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (06)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (07)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (09)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Production
AS.061.440 (10)

Permission required. Production track students complete an independent project. Should must have completed one advanced level FMS production course (POS tag FILM-PROD).

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (01)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ward, Meredith C
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (02)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: DeLibero, Linda
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (03)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Bucknell, Lucy
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 3/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (05)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Mann, John
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (06)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Stine, Kyle J.
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (07)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Rodgers, Adam F
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (08)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Roche, Jimmy
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (09)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Yasinsky, Karen
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Capstone Project: Critical Studies
AS.061.441 (10)

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Porterfield, Matthew
• Room:  
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society
AS.211.316 (01)

Course is taught in ENGLISH - This course is an introduction to the academic study of cinema as a communicative art and to Brazilian film. The films selected focuses on films from the late 1950s to the present and highlight import episodes and challenges in the advancement of the Brazilian society as well as its cinematic production with a special view to the film aesthetics through analysis from a number of critical perspectives, including class, race, gender as well as ethnicity, nationalism or national identity, colonialism, social changes, and the politics of representation. In this sense, the films and documentaries that we will be watching and studying encompass the period from the rise of New Cinema (Cinema Novo) up to films exploring the most recent trends, including movies launched up to 2019. Students wishing to do the course work in English, for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM. May not be taken on a Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory basis.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL

Brazilian Cinema and Topics in Contemporary Brazilian Society
AS.211.316 (02)

Course is taught in ENGLISH - This course is an introduction to the academic study of cinema as a communicative art and to Brazilian film. The films selected focuses on films from the late 1950s to the present and highlight import episodes and challenges in the advancement of the Brazilian society as well as its cinematic production with a special view to the film aesthetics through analysis from a number of critical perspectives, including class, race, gender as well as ethnicity, nationalism or national identity, colonialism, social changes, and the politics of representation. In this sense, the films and documentaries that we will be watching and studying encompass the period from the rise of New Cinema (Cinema Novo) up to films exploring the most recent trends, including movies launched up to 2016. Students wishing to do the course work in English, for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM. May not be taken on a Satisfactory / Unsatisfactory basis.

• Credits: 4.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/3
• PosTag(s): GRLL-ENGL, INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL

Italian Cinema
AS.211.386 (01)

Italian Cinema: The Classics, The Forgotten, The Emergent. This course traces the history of Italian cinema from the silent era to the contemporary period, highlighting its main trends and genres, and reflecting on the major transformations modern and contemporary Italian society experienced over the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries. We shall discuss iconic films such as Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Mamma Roma, (the classics) that received international recognition and had a global impact on film history, and also rare archival films by pioneer women filmmakers from the silent era (the forgotten). Finally, we’ll discuss films released in the last decade (the emergent) that address issues such as migration and the ecological crisis. (Zoom Q&As with filmmakers will be part of curriculum). While this class takes an historical approach, it also includes a theoretical component and introduces students to the specificity of the cinematic language, examining films in relation to frame composition, camera movements, editing, and sound. This is an intensive writing class taught in English.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/15
• PosTag(s): GRLL-ITAL, GRLL-ENGL

Impure Images: Latin American Film and Poetry at the End of the 20th Century
AS.215.418 (01)

This course will study ideas and images of and from Latin America that appear in poetic and cinematographic productions from 1968 to 2001. It explores connections between aesthetics and politics in Latin American film and poetry after 1968. We will address questions such as: How do images from poetry and film embody and represent tensions between the rural and the urban, the private and the public, the national and the international spheres? How do multimedia productions destabilize the purity of genres and call attention to the form? We will also look at some recent productions, in order to see continuities and transformations in form and content, and in the role that cinema and poetry play in Latin American societies. Taught in Spanish

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Galindo Orrego, Liliana
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): GRLL-SPAN

Science & Film
AS.365.103 (02)

From the origins of cinema to the present, science—particularly science fiction—has remained the most reliably popular way for filmmakers to address contemporary ethical, philosophical and social issues. And for better or worse, film’s ability to envision the limits and possibilities of scientific exploration makes it a primary source of scientific information for lay people. In this course, we’ll study the enduring connection between science and film through weekly screenings, lectures and discussions. Experts in science, medicine, technology, and public health, along with ethicists, philosophers, and film scholars will explore a range of questions: How does film both reflect and shape our understanding of scientific concepts and technologies, from artificial intelligence to genetic engineering? How does science fiction reveal contemporary cultural anxieties and address ethical dilemmas such as weighing the common good against the rights of the individual? How “fictional” is the science in science fiction film? What can we learn about “real” science from the movies? In addition to exploring science through film, students will learn about the background and history of the movies they see and will engage in formal film analysis in order to better understand how film makes meaning. This course is 2 credits with the option for a third credit should you elect to join a film production project about science and film at Hopkins.

• Credits: 2.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: F 12:00PM - 1:15PM, W 6:30PM - 8:30PM Screenings
• Instructor: DeLibero, Linda, Porter, Annette
• Room:  
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Documentary Photography
AS.371.303 (01)

In this course, we will explore different genres and approaches to documentary photography and the questions inherent to this mode of image-making like representation, storytelling, records and archives, journalism, community engagement, research and personal perspective. Baltimore neighborhoods and contemporary issues will provide inspiration for student work. Students will learn camera operation, photo editing and produce a final documentary project on a subject of their choice as the culmination of their semester’s work. Digital SLRs are available on loan for the semester. Attendance at first class is mandatory.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Mckone, Jonna
• Room:  
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 1/10
• PosTag(s): n/a