Courses - CMS Spring 2023

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 2023

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / MGH 074
SLN: 12423
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.
  • MW 11:30am - 1:20pm / MGH 082A
SLN: 12424
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.
  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / AND 008
SLN: 12425
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.
  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / KNE 210
SLN: 21321
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Department Requirements Met:
  • Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to film form, style, and techniques. Examples from silent film and from contemporary film. Course equivalent to: BIS 261 and T FILM 201.
  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / GWN 301
SLN: 21320
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 295 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12428
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GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
  • TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm / MLR 316
SLN: 12429
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Varied topics related to film and/or media. Offered: AWSpS.
  • MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm / JHN 111
SLN: 12430
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.
  • TTh 8:30am - 10:20am / OUG 141
SLN: 12432
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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 10:30am - 12:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12433
Instructor:
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.

CMS 395 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12435
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.
  • MW 11:30am - 1:20pm / DEM 124
SLN: 12437
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 10:30am - 12:20pm / JHN 111
SLN: 12438
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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: 12439
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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: 12440
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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.
  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / SAV 138
SLN: 12441
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Varying topics in cinema studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.
  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / BNS 117
SLN: 21313
Instructor:
  • Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Varying topics in cinema studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 570 A: Media Lab

  • M 1:30pm - 4:50pm / CMU 218D
SLN: 12442
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Practical approaches to cinema and media studies. May include archival research, production of videographic or audiographic criticism, film programming, public scholarship, or hands-on work with media devices and technologies. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 572 A: Historiography

  • W 1:30pm - 4:50pm / SMI 107
SLN: 12443
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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.
  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12444
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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: 12446
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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: 12447
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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: 12448
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Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12449
Instructor:
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GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.
  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12450
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GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.