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

  • MW 11:30am - 1:20pm
SLN: 12470
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.
  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12471
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.
  • MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12474
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21515
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21516
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21517
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21518
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21519
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21520
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 21521
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
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12476
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.
  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12477
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. Topics vary.
  • TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12478
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.
  • TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN: 21275
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.
  • TTh 11:30am - 1:20pm
SLN: 21286
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.
  • MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 21647
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.
  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN: 12480
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
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN: 12482
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • SSc
  • A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm
SLN: 12483
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
SLN: 12484
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12485
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
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.
  • Th 3:30pm - 6:50pm
SLN: 12487
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Approaches to national, transnational, global, diasporic, and/or regional cinemas and media. Content varies.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12489
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Research and writing project under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered: jointly with C LIT 590; AWSpS.
  • T 3:30pm - 6:50pm
SLN: 21543
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Varying topics in cinema and media studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12491
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12492
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.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12493
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12494
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
  • to be arranged
SLN: 12495
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.