Courses - Autumn 2022
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 2022
CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / MEB 243
SLN: 12890
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
- Composition and W-courses
GE Requirements Met:
- C
- W
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 / GWN 301
SLN: 12894
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 271 AA: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors
- T 12:30pm - 1:20pm / DEM 124
SLN: 23723
Instructor:
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 / FSH 109
SLN: 23724
Instructor:
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 / PAA A212
SLN: 23725
Instructor:
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 / PAR 160
SLN: 23726
Instructor:
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 / DEM 124
SLN: 23727
Instructor:
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 / FSH 109
SLN: 23728
Instructor:
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 / PAA A212
SLN: 23729
Instructor:
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 / PAR 160
SLN: 23730
Instructor:
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 / SMI 120
SLN: 23494
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.
- WF 10:30am - 12:20pm / MLR 316
SLN: 12895
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: 12896
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 297 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm / JHN 111
SLN: 12898
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Varied topics related to film and/or media. Offered: AWSpS.
CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis
- MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm / JHN 175
SLN: 12899
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 303 A: Genre Studies
- TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12900
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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.
CMS 311 A: History of Film: 1930-1959
- MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SAV 264
SLN: 12901
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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 / MGH 231
SLN: 12902
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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 / MGH 228
SLN: 12903
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 / GUG 218
SLN: 12904
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
- TTh 6:00pm - 7:50pm / DEN 113
SLN: 12905
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 370 A: Basic Screenwriting
- TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SMI 107
SLN: 12908
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: 12909
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 470 A: Advanced Screenwriting
- TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / MGH 278
SLN: 12912
Instructor:
- Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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. Prerequisite: CMS 370.
CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12913
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: 12914
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
- T 2:30pm - 5:50pm / MGH 097
SLN: 12915
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 571 A: National Frameworks
- Th 2:30pm - 5:50pm / MGH 097
SLN: 12916
Instructor:
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
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: 12918
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: 12919
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12920
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.
CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / MEB 243
SLN: 12890
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
- Composition and W-courses
GE Requirements Met:
- C
- W
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 / GWN 301
SLN: 12894
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 271 AA: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors
- T 12:30pm - 1:20pm / DEM 124
SLN: 23723
Instructor:
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 / FSH 109
SLN: 23724
Instructor:
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 / PAA A212
SLN: 23725
Instructor:
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 / PAR 160
SLN: 23726
Instructor:
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 / DEM 124
SLN: 23727
Instructor:
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 / FSH 109
SLN: 23728
Instructor:
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 / PAA A212
SLN: 23729
Instructor:
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 / PAR 160
SLN: 23730
Instructor:
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 / SMI 120
SLN: 23494
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.
- WF 10:30am - 12:20pm / MLR 316
SLN: 12895
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: 12896
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 297 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm / JHN 111
SLN: 12898
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Varied topics related to film and/or media. Offered: AWSpS.
CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis
- MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm / JHN 175
SLN: 12899
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 303 A: Genre Studies
- TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12900
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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.
CMS 311 A: History of Film: 1930-1959
- MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SAV 264
SLN: 12901
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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 / MGH 231
SLN: 12902
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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 / MGH 228
SLN: 12903
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 / GUG 218
SLN: 12904
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
- TTh 6:00pm - 7:50pm / DEN 113
SLN: 12905
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 370 A: Basic Screenwriting
- TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SMI 107
SLN: 12908
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: 12909
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 470 A: Advanced Screenwriting
- TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / MGH 278
SLN: 12912
Instructor:
- Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
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. Prerequisite: CMS 370.
CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12913
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: 12914
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
- T 2:30pm - 5:50pm / MGH 097
SLN: 12915
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 571 A: National Frameworks
- Th 2:30pm - 5:50pm / MGH 097
SLN: 12916
Instructor:
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
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: 12918
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: 12919
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12920
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.
C LIT 200 B: Introduction to Literature
- T 11:30am - 1:20pm / GWN 201
SLN: 12078
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Reading, understanding, and enjoying literature from various countries, in different forms of expression (e.g., dramatic, lyric, narrative, rhetorical) and of representative periods. Emphasis on the comparative study of themes and motifs common to many literatures of the world.
C LIT 200 BA: Introduction to Literature
- Th 11:30am - 12:20pm / MEB 237
SLN: 12079
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Reading, understanding, and enjoying literature from various countries, in different forms of expression (e.g., dramatic, lyric, narrative, rhetorical) and of representative periods. Emphasis on the comparative study of themes and motifs common to many literatures of the world.
C LIT 200 BB: Introduction to Literature
- Th 11:30am - 12:20pm / SMI 115
SLN: 12080
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Reading, understanding, and enjoying literature from various countries, in different forms of expression (e.g., dramatic, lyric, narrative, rhetorical) and of representative periods. Emphasis on the comparative study of themes and motifs common to many literatures of the world.