Courses - CMS Winter 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.

Winter 2023

CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / CMU 243
SLN: 12663
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.

CMS 270 A: Perspectives on Film: Introduction

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / KNE 210
SLN: 12666
Instructor:
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.

CMS 274 A: Perspectives on Media: Critical Concepts

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / GWN 301
SLN: 12667
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Provides an introduction to media studies, with particular attention to critical concepts including, but not limited to, audience studies, formal analysis, and ideological critique. Specific media analyzed varies. Course overlaps with: TCOM 247.

CMS 295 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12668
Instructor:
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 / MGH 231
SLN: 12670
Instructor:
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 303 A: Genre Studies

  • M 12:30pm - 2:20pm / DEN 303
  • W 12:30pm - 2:20pm / THO 101
SLN: 12671
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
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.

CMS 310 A: History of Film: 1895-1929

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12672
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Film history from its beginnings in the 1890s through the golden era of silent film in the 1920s. Topics include the invention of major film techniques, the creation of Hollywood and the studios, and movements such as expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism.

CMS 315 A: History of New Media

  • TTh 8:30am - 10:20am / MGH 231
SLN: 12673
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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 A: Cinema and Nation

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / MGH 231
SLN: 12674
Instructor:
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

  • T 12:30pm - 2:20pm / THO 325
  • Th 12:30pm - 2:20pm / HCK 320
SLN: 12675
Instructor:
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

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / PAR 120
SLN: 12676
Instructor:
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 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media

  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / JHN 111
SLN: 12677
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 370 A: Basic Screenwriting

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / CDH 110B
SLN: 12678
Instructor:
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: 12679
Instructor:
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

  • WF 12:30pm - 2:20pm / ECE 037
SLN: 12680
Instructor:
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

  • WF 10:30am - 12:20pm / OUG 141
SLN: 12681
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • SSc
  • A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 423 A: East European Film

  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / SMI 304
SLN: 12682
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Studies major East European film makers who left their countries at some point in their careers. Compares East European and Western production of those directors who worked partially in the West. Offered: jointly with SLAVIC 423.

CMS 470 A: Advanced Screenwriting

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / RAI 116
SLN: 12683
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

  • T 3:30pm - 5:20pm / CMU 228
  • Th 3:30pm - 5:20pm / SIG 227
SLN: 12684
Instructor:
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: 12685
Instructor:
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: 12686
Instructor:
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 520 A: Methods and Issues in Cinema and Media Studies

  • W 1:30pm - 4:50pm / THO 235
SLN: 12687
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
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

  • Th 2:30pm - 5:50pm / SMI 111
SLN: 12688
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
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.

CMS 590 A: Master of Arts Essay

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12689
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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: 22605
Instructor:
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: 12690
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 22438
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.