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
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.

CMS 240 C: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

  • 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.

CMS 272 A: Perspectives on Film: Genre

  • 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.

CMS 272 AA: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 272 AB: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 272 AC: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 272 AD: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 272 AE: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 272 AF: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 272 AG: Perspectives on Film: 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.

CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis

  • 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.

CMS 302 A: Media Arts and Cultures

  • 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.

CMS 313 A: History of Film: 1989-Present

  • 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.

CMS 320 A: Cinema and Nation

  • 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.

CMS 320 B: Cinema and Nation

  • 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.

CMS 320 C: Cinema and Nation

  • 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.

CMS 370 A: Basic Screenwriting

  • 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.

CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • 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.

CMS 397 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • 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.

CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research

  • 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.

CMS 571 A: National Frameworks

  • 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.

CMS 590 A: Master of Arts Essay

  • 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.

CMS 597 C: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • 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.

CMS 599 A: Special Seminar or Conference

  • 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.

CMS 599 B: Special Seminar or Conference

  • 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.

CMS 600 A: Independent Study or Research

  • to be arranged
SLN: 12493
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 600 B: Independent Study or Research

  • to be arranged
SLN: 12494
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

  • to be arranged
SLN: 12495
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.