FLME 4765 | Gender in Film and Television |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | Only students who have met the Film and Media Major Eligibility Requirements may enroll in this course without department approval |
Description | (Same as WGSS 4340.) Examines representations of gender in film and media from a variety of analytical perspectives as a way to understand social relations and cultural practices. |
FLME 6000 | Acting for the Camera |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | Two lecture and two lab hours. Acting theory and practice for the performer and director of film and television production. |
FLME 6020 | Advanced Film Theory |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | An in-depth study of the theoretical writing about film, particularly those classical and contemporary paradigms that have illuminated the medium: realism, formalism, structuralism, semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and feminism. |
FLME 6060 | Close Textual Analysis of Moving Image |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | An intensive examination of one media text (or televison series), selected for its aesthetic, social, and/or historical importance. (Example might include Hitchcock’s Psycho, the TV series Queer As Folk, the video game Grand Theft Auto, etc.) May be repeated once if medium to be analyzed is different. |
FLME 6115 | Screenwriting for the Short Film |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Dramatic fiction writing for short film and video production. Provides and in-depth dramatic writing course for students intending to make short film and videos in subsequent production courses. |
FLME 6125 | Community-Based Media Production |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | consent of instructor |
Description | Two lecture and two lab hours. Seminar combines service learning and digital video production to preserve stories of overlooked local communities. |
FLME 6135 | Digital Cinematography |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | One lecture and three lab hours per week. A comprehensive introduction to Cinematography covering framing and lighting for different film and electronic imaging formats. Out of class collaboration is required. Student must bear all additional costs for productions during the semester. |
FLME 6140 | Episodic and Serial Television Production |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | The creative, technical and managerial process of developing serialized entertainment for television as it propagates the Internet, both as audio-visual entertainment and audience response data. Students will learn the development, production, post-production, dissemination and analytic stages of contemporary New Media television practice by working in teams to produce a serial or episodic internet-based TV show. Extensive collaborative production required. |
FLME 6145 | Digital Editing |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | consent of instructor |
Description | Two lecture and two lab hours per week. An intensive exploration of the practice, technique, and aesthetics of editing the motion picture image and sound visual media. Non-linear editing software will be used in the creation of process-oriented exercises and short projects. Students are responsible for the cost of materials required for class projects. Outside class time will be required for collaborative student projects. |
FLME 6155 | Conceptualization and Expression for Mediamakers |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | Consent of instructor |
Description | Two lecture and two lab hours per week. Seminar combines film and digital video production to explore a variety of conceptual and expressive strategies and techniques. |
FLME 6156 | Media Entrepreneurship |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6155 |
Description | Students will develop or continue to develop a media concept, business or technology through an intensive semester long curriculum structured as an incubator/accelerator. This class will study the convergence of media producer and media entrepreneur while students create at the intersection of media, business and technology and culminate with a final presentation of the studentâs pitch and prototype to media industry professionals. |
FLME 6157 | Cross-Media Design |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6155 |
Description | Design multimedia stories from the ground up in which movies, video games, web sites, smart phone applications, comic books, and other media are equal partners and all elements of a complete story. |
FLME 6158 | New Media Production |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6155 |
Description | An exploration of the production visual and audio assets for Internet transmission and interactive media experience, using techniques and forms that best utilize the evolving aesthetics of the digital and interactive media cultures of the moment. New concepts of interactive storytelling in documentary and/or fiction, and for the visualization of characters and their settings will blend cinematic aesthetics with other aesthetic systems. |
FLME 6159 | Computational Media |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6155 |
Description | An introduction to the production of creative components of interactive and digital media derived from code and computation that is at the forefront of new forms of personal and public expression. Popular culture in the form of games, websites, interactive television, interactive animation and digital art use computational media, and will be the genres that students will produce. |
FLME 6160 | Special Topics |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 - 4.0 |
Prerequisites | consent of instructor |
Description | Graduate faculty and specific tools for this course will change according to the specialized expertise of participating faculty. |
FLME 6165 | Special Production Topics |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 - 4.0 |
Prerequisites | Consent of instructor |
Description | Graduate faculty and specific tools for this course will change according to the specialized expertise of participating faculty. |
FLME 6170 | American Film History I |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Discussion of the structural, aesthetic, and social factors that shaped American film from its inception through the classic studio period. |
FLME 6180 | International Cinemas |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | An examination of a specific major international film industry or movement and its contributions to world cinema. Films will be studied in their immediate cultural and larger historical and critical contexts. May be repeated once if topic varies. |
FLME 6210 | Critical History of Radio and Television |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | History of television and its origins in radio, focusing on the medium as a technology, an industry, a site of gender and racial representation, a component of American social history, and a cultural forum. |
FLME 6220 | Media History |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | This course provides grounding in the major historical landmarks/movements in international cinema and American broadcasting. Its surveys the primary sociocultural, aesthetic, economic, policy, technological, and industrial forces that shaped film and television in the 20th century. |
FLME 6240 | Documentary Film |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | The history of non-fiction film and production. |
FLME 6250 | Producing for Television and Film |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Role of the producer in film, broadcasting, and theatre. Refinement of skills in developing program ideas, supervising, and financing productions. |
FLME 6260 | Adapting Literature to Film |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | A study of how one medium is transformed into another based on a close reading of both. Adaptation theory will be included, as well as a consideration of the interim screenplay and the film production process where possible. |
FLME 6280 | Topics in Authors and Genres |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examination of the work of a major media author (Hitchcock, Kubrick, Godard, etc.) or of a media genre (melodrama, Western, situation comedy, etc.), with attention to the theoretical, aesthetic, and social/historical questions raised by the work studies. May be repeated once if topic is different. |
FLME 6310 | Feature Screenwriting I |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Principles of writing the full-length screenplay for feature film. Preparation for and writing of the first half of the screenplay. The second half will be completed in the sequence course, COMM 6320: Feature Screenwriting II. |
FLME 6320 | Feature Screenwriting II |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6310 |
Description | Principles of writing the full-length screenplay for feature film, including contest competitions and marketing. Writing and revising the second half of the screenplay begun in COMM 6310: Feature Screenwriting I. |
FLME 6361 | Sound Design |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6155 |
Description | The expressive aesthetics of motion picture sound, its technology and methods of production will provide students the foundations for creating soundtracks for their own films in progress, or for films already completed. Extensive lab time is required. Students must be able to work collaboratively to produce studio and field recordings. |
FLME 6365 | Experimental Media Production |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | An advanced production course that explores highly-personal avant-garde and experimental media making by any means necessary, including but not limited to: experimental documentary and fiction, found footage/cameraless filmmaking, new media, web video, mobile media, video art, installation, etc. |
FLME 6370 | Visual Effects for Film |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | This course will explore concepts of visual effects for film, television and games. These concepts will be applied to practical exercises where student will learn to manipulate media through compositing and 2-D animation. |
FLME 6375 | Music Video Production |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | This advanced course explores the history and developing aesthetics of music video through hands-on production exercises and projects. Participants learn about, analyze, and discuss the variety of modes in which musicians promote themselves, express their worldviews, and tell stories through the music video medium. |
FLME 6385 | Critical Visual Culture Theory |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examines some of the major strands in Critical Theory that have contributed to institute the interdisciplinary field of Visual Culture Studies and the various theories of the image emerging from this field. |
FLME 6430 | Media Industries |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examines the historical, technological, economic, political, and social forces shaping the media industries and explores the range of established and emerging theoretical and methodological approaches employed in media industry analysis. 3.0 credit hours. |
FLME 6840 | Computer Graphics Imaging |
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Credit Hours | 4.0 |
Description | (Same as CSC 6840.) Study the theories, techniques and tools for creating 3D graphics content. Topics include 3D modeling, camera, lighting, materials, texture mapping, physics based modeling, basic animation, and rendering techniques (such as tracing and radiosity). |
FLME 6841 | Computer Animation |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | FLME 6840 |
Description | (Same as CSC 6841.) 3D computer animation including classical animation techniques, cel animation, key framing, storyboarding, physically-based modeling, character animation, lighting, camera placement and motion, motion blur, compositing, and other relevant topics. |
FLME 6910 | Special Project |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | consent of the instructor |
Description | Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. |
FLME 6915 | Special Production Project |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 - 4.0 |
Prerequisites | Consent of instructor |
Description | Supervised experience in individual projects developed out of the student’s professional or vocational interests and responsibilities. There is a fee associated with this course that must be paid on enrollment in the course. |
FLME 6940 | Television Studies |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Course traces development of television studies. Also looks at recent work in the field as a means of assessing the changing nature of television and of television studies as an area of inquiry. Readings explore range of industrial, sociocultural, textual and audience analyses, approaches and issues. |
FLME 6960 | American Film History II |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | History of American Film from the post-classical period to the present. Discussion of the semiotics, aesthetics, economics, and politics of Hollywood and independent cinema. |
FLME 6970 | Internship |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | Eligibility criteria may be obtained from the School of Film, Media and Theater Internship Coordinator |
Description | Professional field experience with an organization in the student’s area of concentration. Only M.A. students in Communication may enroll. |
FLME 6990 | Thesis Research |
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Credit Hours | 1.0 - 20.0 |
Description |
FLME 6995 | Thesis Research |
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Credit Hours | 1.0 - 20.0 |
Description | There is a fee associated with this course which must be paid upon enrollment. |
FLME 8035 | Doctoral Colloquium in Communication Pedagogy |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Techniques and approaches to pedagogy in the communication field. Includes a supervised teaching presentation before members of the graduate faculty and graduate students. |
FLME 8111 | Introduction to Graduate Studies |
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Credit Hours | 2.0 |
Description | Introduction to the academic processes, the requirements of the doctoral prospectus and dissertation, and professional opportunities and expectations of the communication discipline. |
FLME 8112 | Doctoral Writing Workshop |
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Credit Hours | 1.0 |
Description | Seminar focused on preparing advanced communication research for publication. |
FLME 8160 | Style and Narrative Analysis |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Methods of qualitative analysis for studying the style and narration of film, television, and/or new media texts. An emphasis on close readings of the formal properties of texts. May be repeated once if content varies. |
FLME 8385 | Critical Visual Culture Theory |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examines some of the major strands in Critical Theory that have contributed to institute the interdisciplinary field of Visual Culture Studies and the various theories of the image emerging from this field. |
FLME 8420 | Media Historiography |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examination of theoretical and methodological approaches to researching media history. |
FLME 8430 | Media Industries |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examines the historical, technological, economic, political, and social forces shaping the media industries and explores the range of established and emerging theoretical and methodological approaches employed in media industry analysis. |
FLME 8640 | Television Studies |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Course traces development of television studies. Also looks at recent work in the field as a means of assessing the changing nature of television and of television studies as an area of inquiry. Readings explore range of industrial, sociocultural, textual and audience analyses, approaches and issues. |
FLME 8680 | Media Reception Studies |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examination of qualitative theories and methodological approaches for researching media reception by audiences. |
FLME 8690 | Media and Cultural Studies |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Description | Examination of the relationship between culture and power. Readings include both founding theoretical texts (the Marxist tradition, the Frankfurt School, the Birmingham School) and current applied scholarship. The class addresses a range of popular media, including film, television, music, new media, and others. Multiple, intersecting structures of power are interrogated, including class, gender, and race. |
FLME 8780 | Directed Research in Communication |
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Credit Hours | 1.0 - 20.0 |
Description |
FLME 8900 | Internship |
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Credit Hours | 1.0 - 3.0 |
Prerequisites | Eligibility criteria may be obtained from the School of Film, Media and Theater Internship Coordinator |
Description | Professional field experience with an organization in the student’s area of concentration. Only Ph.D. students may enroll. |
FLME 8980 | Special Topics |
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Credit Hours | 3.0 |
Prerequisites | consent of instructor |
Description |
FLME 9999 | Doctoral Dissertation Research |
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Credit Hours | 1.0 - 20.0 |
Prerequisites | consent of instructor |
Description |