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The curriculum in the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures provides an integrated
program of courses in the history, aesthetics, theory, and techniques
of film and video (single camera and studio television). Emphasis
is placed on a liberal arts sequence that provides students with
a solid foundation for understanding how film and electronic-based
visual media arise out of varied cultural, historical, social, and
technological circumstances. A prerequisite course in Art of the Film prepares students for advanced study in the history and aesthetics of these media and for production courses. An introductory course in production gives students hands-on experience in film, video, and television. The courses in American and World cinema prepare students for electives in the films of specific cultures, nations, and time periods, as well as in the study of film style illuminated by the work of individual artists and in various film genres. Television History allows them to assess trends in the social, technological and formal development of the most influential medium of the second half of the twentieth century. Film Theory and Criticism is a capstone course in examining the methods that have been used to study film. Production core courses are designed to help concentrators work creatively in film, video, and television as they become familiar, through electives, with interdisciplinary, humanistic perspectives on how moving image technology has been used in different cultures as a medium of communication and artistic expression, and how various kinds of institutional practice have characterized its use. The Screen Arts & Cultures undergraduate curriculum is designed
to prepare students for more advanced work in film
writing and criticism, in creative film, video-making,
and studio television work, and for advanced study
in graduate programs in moving image media. |