Courses - CMS Winter 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.

Winter 2022

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / THO 331
SLN: 12590
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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.
  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / KNE 120
SLN: 12592
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  • A&H
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: 12593
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  • A&H
Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / SMI 307
SLN: 12594
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  • A&H
Varied topics related to film and/or media. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 303 A: Genre Studies

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / DEN 303
SLN: 12595
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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. Offered: AWSp.
  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / SAV 260
SLN: 12596
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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 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SIG 224
SLN: 21975
Department Requirements Met:
  • Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
  • DIV
  • A&H
Approaches film and related media as socially and politically engaged practice, with focus on screen media produced or received in "opposition" to dominant cultural and entertainment industry norms. Topics vary.
  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / ARC G070
SLN: 12597
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  • 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: 12598
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GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
  • WF 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SAV 264
SLN: 12599
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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 / SMI 107
SLN: 12600
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. Course overlaps with: T FILM 450. Prerequisite: CMS 370.

CMS 480 A: Senior Capstone

  • TTh 11:30am - 1:20pm / OUG 141
SLN: 12601
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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: 12602
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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: 12603
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Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open to upper-division cinema and media studies majors with approval of departmental internship supervisor.
  • M 2:30pm - 6:20pm / SAV 167
SLN: 12604
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Provides a basic grounding in the theory, history, and criticism of film and media studies, and introduces central debates, topics, and methods in the field.

CMS 573 A: Aesthetics

  • W 2:30pm - 6:20pm / LOW 219
SLN: 21845
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Inquiry into such areas as the sensory perception, cultural valuation, or close analysis of cinema and media. Formal, theoretical, and philosophical approaches. Content varies. Offered: AWSp.
  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12606
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Research and writing project under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered: jointly with C LIT 590; AWSpS.
  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 22292
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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: 12607
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Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 22303
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Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.