Courses - CMS Spring 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.
Spring 2022
CMS 240 B: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 11:30am - 1:20pm / MGH 082A
SLN: 12470
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 240 C: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies
- TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / THO 231
SLN: 12471
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 272 A: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm / KNE 120
SLN: 12474
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 272 AA: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21515
Instructor:
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 272 AB: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21516
Instructor:
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 272 AC: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21517
Instructor:
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 272 AD: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21518
Instructor:
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 272 AE: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21519
Instructor:
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 272 AF: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21520
Instructor:
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 272 AG: Perspectives on Film: Genre
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 21521
Instructor:
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 295 A: Study Abroad
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12475
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 12:30pm - 2:20pm / JHN 111
SLN: 12476
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 302 A: Media Arts and Cultures
- MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / SUZ 324
SLN: 12477
Instructor:
- John Vallier
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Examines cultural expressions and aesthetic formations across media forms, with an emphasis on electronic and digital media. Media arts analyzed vary, including but not limited to comics, cell-phones, mash-ups, games, electronic literature, video installations, photography, and soundscapes.
CMS 313 A: History of Film: 1989-Present
- TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm / SAV 264
SLN: 12478
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
- Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Addresses the latest trends in international filmmaking typically with an emphasis on world cinema and issues of globalization and diaspora. Sometimes taught in conjunction with the Seattle International Film Festival.
CMS 320 A: Cinema and Nation
- TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm / ART 004
SLN: 21275
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 11:30am - 1:20pm / SAV 157
SLN: 21286
Instructor:
- Dawid Junke
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 3:30pm - 5:20pm / ARC G070
SLN: 21647
Instructor:
- Naghmeh Samini
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
- MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / THO 335
SLN: 12480
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: 12481
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 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / OUG 141
SLN: 12482
Instructor:
- Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- SSc
- A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
CMS 397 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / ECE 105
SLN: 12483
Instructor:
- Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
- SSc
- A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
CMS 480 A: Senior Capstone
- MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm / CDH 141
SLN: 12484
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
- Capstone for Cinema
GE Requirements Met:
- A&H
Capstone course in cinema and media studies. Includes research, creative, and/or reflective project. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CMS 301.
CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12485
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: 12486
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 571 A: National Frameworks
- Th 3:30pm - 6:50pm / PAB B109
SLN: 12487
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Approaches to national, transnational, global, diasporic, and/or regional cinemas and media. Content varies.
CMS 590 A: Master of Arts Essay
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12489
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Research and writing project under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered: jointly with C LIT 590; AWSpS.
CMS 597 C: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
- T 3:30pm - 6:50pm / DEN 256
SLN: 21543
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Varying topics in cinema and media studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
CMS 599 A: Special Seminar or Conference
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12491
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: 12492
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: 12493
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
CMS 600 B: Independent Study or Research
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12494
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation
- to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12495
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.