Cinema and Media Studies Electives Options

Cinema and Media Studies Electives Options

These courses are a selection of cinema courses across campus, but your elective options are not limited to this list.
If you register for one of these approved courses and, after registering, your DARs does not show the course in your CMS major, please contact Humanities Academic Services to manually add the course to your record.

Seattle Campus

  • AIS 443: Indigenous Films/Sovereign Visions
  • AIS 475: Survey of Indigenous Media, or, Native Voice Documentary Seminar, or Aboriginal Filmmaking in the US and Canada
  • ART H 309: (when topic is cinema) e.g. Topics in Art History: Survey of Japanese Film
  • BIOL 305: Science Communication: Video Storytelling in Biology (Prerequisite required: BIOL 180)
  • CLAS 432: Classical Mythology in Film
  • COM 495: (when topic is cinema) e.g.Special Topics: Asian American Film
  • CSE 456, 458, 459, 460: Animation courses
  • Drama 201: Play Analysis
  • Drama 251: Acting
  • Drama 252: Acting II
  • Drama 460: Directing I (requires completion of Drama 201, 251, 252 and permission of instructor for non-drama majors)
  • Drama 461: Directing II (requires completion of Directing I)
  • DXARTS 200: Digital Art and New Media
  • DXARTS 450: Digital Video
  • DXARTS 451: Experiments in Video Art I
  • DXARTS 452: Experiments in Video Art II
  • DXARTS 460: Digital Sound
  • DXARTS 461: Digital Sound Synthesis
  • DXARTS 462: Digital Sound Processing
  • DXARTS 470: Mechatronics (Sensing and Control Systems for Digital Arts)
  • DXARTS 471: Mechatronic Art, Design, and Fabrication I
  • DXARTS 472: Mechatronic Art, Design and Fabrication II
  • DXARTS 490: Special Topics in Digital Arts and Experimental Media
  • ENGL 345: Studies in Film (usually cross listed with CMS)
  • ENGL 387: Screenwriting
  • GERMAN 371: Special Topics: German Cinema
  • HSTAA 365: History of the American Film
  • JAPAN 325: Introduction to Japanese Cinema and Media 
  • JAPAN 360: Topics in Japanese Culture (if the topic is CMS related)
  • JAPAN 361: Topics in Japanese Cinema and Media
  • MUSIC 325: Music in Cinema
  • PHIL 449: Philosophy of Film
  • SCAND 360: Scandinavian Cinema
  • SCAND 490: (when topic is cinema) Special Topics
  • SLAV 423: East European Film
  • SPAN 332: Chicano Film and Narrative 

Bothell Campus

  • BIS 347: History of American Documentary Films
  • BIS 464: Topics in Advanced Cinema Studies 
     
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