Courses - CMS Autumn 2021

Listings for future quarters are tentative and subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the UW Time Schedule. For a listing of all courses potentially offered, see the Course Catalog.

Autumn 2021

CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / THO 231
SLN: 12911
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Composition and W-courses
GE Requirements Met:
  • C
A critical approach to film and/or media texts and a workshop on writing papers in English. Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 271 B: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

  • TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm / GWN 301
SLN: 23144
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 272 A: Perspectives on Film: Genre

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / KNE 210
SLN: 12916
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to study of film and/or television genre. Literary, mythic, and historic aspects of film and/or television genre.

CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power

  • WF 10:30am - 12:20pm / MLR 316
SLN: 12917
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • DIV
  • SSc
  • A&H
An introduction to the study of visual texts such as film, television, comics, or digital media. Focus on the representation of cultural differences including, but not limited to, sexuality, gender, ability, and race. Topics vary.

CMS 295 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12918
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / CDH 139
SLN: 12920
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to the analysis of film. Covers major aspects of cinematic form: mise en scene, framing and camera movement, editing, and sound and color. Considers how these elements are organized in traditional cinematic narrative and in alternative approaches.

CMS 310 A: History of Film: 1895-1929

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12921
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Film history from its beginnings in the 1890s through the golden era of silent film in the 1920s. Topics include the invention of major film techniques, the creation of Hollywood and the studios, and movements such as expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism.

CMS 315 A: History of New Media

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / CDH 135
SLN: 12922
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Study of new media histories and methodologies for research, with particular emphasis on new and emergent technologies such as the Internet and other digital forms. Specific media to be analyzed vary.

CMS 320 A: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / SMI 115
SLN: 12923
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 320 B: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm / PCAR 395
SLN: 12924
Instructor:
  • Claudio Mazzola
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 320 C: Cinema and Nation

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / CDH 115
SLN: 22915
Instructor:
  • Sasha Senderovich
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 320 D: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / CDH 139
SLN: 23364
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media

  • MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12925
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
  • DIV
  • A&H
Approaches film and related media as socially and politically engaged practice, with focus on screen media produced or received in "opposition" to dominant cultural and entertainment industry norms. Topics vary.

CMS 370 A: Basic Screenwriting

  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SMI 309
SLN: 12926
Instructor:
  • Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Students develop collaborative critical and creative skills; studying screenwriting manuals and techniques; adapt stories for screenplays; and/or write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.

CMS 395 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12927
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 397 C: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / RAI 121
SLN: 12929
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • SSc
  • A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12930
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Individual study of topics in cinema and media studies by arrangement with the instructor and the Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media Department advising office.

CMS 491 A: Internship

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12931
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open to upper-division cinema and media studies majors with approval of departmental internship supervisor.

CMS 525 A: Cinema and Media Studies Pedagogy

  • W 10:30am - 1:50pm / PDL B526
SLN: 12932
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Pedagogical approaches to cinema and media studies. Introduces teaching tools, technologies and modes of practice. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 572 A: Historiography

  • M 10:30am - 1:50pm / SAV 141
SLN: 12933
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Assessment of processes through which film and/or media histories are constructed. Incorporates methodologies for retrieving and analyzing primary materials relevant to course subject matter. Content varies. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 599 A: Special Seminar or Conference

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12934
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Group seminars or individual conferences scheduled to meet special needs. Prerequisite: permission of graduate program adviser. Offered: jointly with C LIT 599.

CMS 599 B: Special Seminar or Conference

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12935
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Group seminars or individual conferences scheduled to meet special needs. Prerequisite: permission of graduate program adviser. Offered: jointly with C LIT 599.

CMS 600 A: Independent Study or Research

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12936
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12937
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.