Courses - CMS Autumn 2023

Listings for future quarters are tentative and subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, including instructor and location, please consult the UW Time Schedule. For a listing of all courses potentially offered, see the Course Catalog.

Autumn 2023

CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12876
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 240 B: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12877
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

  • MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12878
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

  • T 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 12879
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

  • Th 12:30pm - 1:20pm
SLN: 23580
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

  • Th 12:30pm - 1:20pm
SLN: 23582
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

  • Th 12:30pm - 1:20pm
SLN: 23584
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

  • Th 12:30pm - 1:20pm
SLN: 23586
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

  • Th 1:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 23588
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

  • Th 1:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 23590
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

  • Th 1:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 23592
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 AH: Perspectives on Film: Genre

  • Th 1:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 23594
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 AI: Perspectives on Film: Genre

  • Th 12:30pm - 1:20pm
SLN: 23880
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 AJ: Perspectives on Film: Genre

  • Th 1:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 23882
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 273 A: Perspectives on Television: Analysis

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 23172
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Provides an introduction to television styles and aesthetics, with particular attention to camerawork, narrative, acting, and sound. Course overlaps with: TCOM 347.

CMS 275 A: Perspectives on Visual Culture: Sex, Race and Power

  • WF 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12881
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: 12882
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
SLN: 12883
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

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12884
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 311 A: History of Film: 1930-1959

  • MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12886
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 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN: 12887
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 315 B: History of New Media

  • MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm
SLN: 23201
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Study of new media histories and methodologies for research, with particular emphasis on new and emergent technologies such as the Internet and other digital forms. Specific media to be analyzed vary.

CMS 320 B: Cinema and Nation

  • MW 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN: 12890
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 D: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm
SLN: 12892
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 E: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm
SLN: 23323
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: 12893
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: 12894
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

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm
SLN: 12898
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 490 A: Directed Study or Research

  • to be arranged
SLN: 12899
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: 12900
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

  • W 10:30am - 1:50pm
SLN: 12901
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Pedagogical approaches to cinema and media studies. Introduces teaching tools, technologies and modes of practice. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 572 A: Historiography

  • Th 3:30pm - 6:50pm
SLN: 23387
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Assessment of processes through which film and/or media histories are constructed. Incorporates methodologies for retrieving and analyzing primary materials relevant to course subject matter. Content varies. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 590 A: Master of Arts Essay

  • to be arranged
SLN: 23301
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 599 A: Special Seminar or Conference

  • to be arranged
SLN: 12902
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: 12903
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: 12904
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

  • to be arranged
SLN: 12905
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.