Courses - CMS Spring 2024

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 2024

CMS 270 A: Perspectives on Film: Introduction

TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12432

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

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

SLN: 12433

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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: 12434

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis

MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12435

Department Requirements Met:

Cinema & Media Studies Core

GE Requirements Met:

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

TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12436

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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

MW 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12437

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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 313 A: History of Film: 1989-Present

TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12438

Department Requirements Met:

Cinema & Media Studies Core

GE Requirements Met:

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 314 A: History of Television

TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm

SLN: 12439

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Covers issues, problems, and themes in the history of televsion. Topic may include changes in television styles and representional forms, television's historical relationship with other media, transitions from broadcast to satellite through cable and digital distribution, and television's changing audiences.

CMS 320 A: Cinema and Nation

TTh 1:00pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12440

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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

MF 1:30pm - 3:20pm

SLN: 12441

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

CMS 320 C: Cinema and Nation

TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 21486

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media

MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12442

Department Requirements Met:

Cinema & Media Studies Core

GE Requirements Met:

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: 12443

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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

TTh 11:30am - 1:20pm

SLN: 12444

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 470 A: Advanced Screenwriting

MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 21564

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

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 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12446

Department Requirements Met:

Capstone for Cinema

GE Requirements Met:

Capstone course in cinema and media studies. Includes research, creative, and/or reflective project. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CMS 301.

CMS 480 B: Senior Capstone

TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12447

Department Requirements Met:

Capstone for Cinema

GE Requirements Met:

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: 12448

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: 12449

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 497 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 1:30pm - 3:20pm

SLN: 12450

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Varying topics in cinema studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 497 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 21637

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Varying topics in cinema studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 573 A: Aesthetics

W 12:30pm - 3:50pm

SLN: 12451

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: 12452

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: 12454

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: 12455

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: 12456

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 600 B: Independent Study or Research

to be arranged

SLN: 12457

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

to be arranged

SLN: 12458

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.