Courses - CMS Autumn 2022

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

Autumn 2022

CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12890

Department Requirements Met:

Composition and W-courses

GE Requirements Met:

A critical approach to film and/or media texts and a workshop on writing papers in English. Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 271 A: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

Th 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12894

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AA: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 12:30pm - 1:20pm

SLN: 23723

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AB: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 12:30pm - 1:20pm

SLN: 23724

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AC: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 12:30pm - 1:20pm

SLN: 23725

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AD: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 12:30pm - 1:20pm

SLN: 23726

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AE: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 1:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 23727

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AF: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 1:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 23728

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AG: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 1:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 23729

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 271 AH: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

T 1:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 23730

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 272 A: Perspectives on Film: Genre

TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 23494

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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

SLN: 12895

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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: 12896

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 297 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm

SLN: 12898

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Varied topics related to film and/or media. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis

MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12899

Department Requirements Met:

Cinema & Media Studies Core

GE Requirements Met:

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 303 A: Genre Studies

TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12900

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to the history and significance of genre in film and/or television. May examine one or a selection of several genres, drawn from a list including, but not limited to, the western, melodrama, musical, thriller, sitcom, film noir, and documentary. Topics include form, ideology, authority, history, innovation, and parody. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 311 A: History of Film: 1930-1959

MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12901

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Film history from the introduction of sound through the late 1950s. Focuses mostly on the golden age of the Hollywood studios and on alternative developments after World War II in Italy (Neo-Realism), France (the New Wave), and Japan.

CMS 312 A: History of Film: 1960 - 1988

TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12902

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Covers the vast changes in filmmaking since 1960. Topics include the continuing influence of the French New Wave, the New German Cinema of the 70s and the "New Hollywood" of the 70s, American independent film of the 80s, and the resurgence of Chinese filmmaking since 1980.

CMS 320 A: Cinema and Nation

TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12903

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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

SLN: 12904

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

CMS 320 C: Cinema and Nation

TTh 6:00pm - 7:50pm

SLN: 12905

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

CMS 370 A: Basic Screenwriting

TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12908

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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: 12909

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 470 A: Advanced Screenwriting

TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12912

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Students hone their understanding of screenwriting techniques; enhance their editing/critiquing skills; and develop their own screenplays, synopses, and treatments of various genres, including but not limited to silent, poetic, dramatic, and news-based scripts. Course overlaps with: T FILM 450. Prerequisite: CMS 370.

CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research

to be arranged

SLN: 12913

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: 12914

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

T 2:30pm - 5:50pm

SLN: 12915

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Pedagogical approaches to cinema and media studies. Introduces teaching tools, technologies and modes of practice. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 571 A: National Frameworks

Th 2:30pm - 5:50pm

SLN: 12916

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Approaches to national, transnational, global, diasporic, and/or regional cinemas and media. Content varies.

CMS 599 A: Special Seminar or Conference

to be arranged

SLN: 12917

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: 12918

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: 12919

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

to be arranged

SLN: 12920

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.