Course Descriptions

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Cinema Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
CINE 102 Introduction to Contemporary Cinema (3) Fall 2008
CINE 200 Introduction to Cinema Studies (3) Spring 2009
CINE 202 Introduction to Filmmaking (3) Summer 2009
CINE 203 Introduction to Film Studies and Production (3) Fall 2009
CINE 300 Film History I (3) Fall 2009
CINE 302 Film History II (3) Effective Summer 2009
CINE 303 GW Writing About Cinema - GWAR (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 304 Gender and Film (3) Effective Fall 2004
CINE 304 Variable topics:
  CINE 304 Homosexuality in Film (3) Spring 2007
  CINE 304 Women and Film (3) Spring 2009
CINE 305 Film and the Holocaust (3) Spring 2009
CINE 308 Third Cinema (3) Fall 2009
CINE 310 Workshop in Film Production (3) Fall 2009
CINE 310 Workshop in Film Production (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 315 Cinema Production: Technical Crew (1) Fall 2009
CINE 316 Film Production Laboratory (1) Fall 2009
CINE 316 Film Production Laboratory (1) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 325 Focus on Film Topics (1) Effective Fall 1992
CINE 325 Variable topics:
  CINE 325 Bay Area Filmmakers (1) Spring 2008
  CINE 325 Ecology and Film (1) Spring 1993
  CINE 325 Focus on Bergman, Fellini, and Antonioni (1) Spring 2008
  CINE 325 Focus on Comedy (1) Effective Summer 2007
  CINE 325 Focus on Contemporary Filmmakers (1) Fall 2008
  CINE 325 Focus on Cult Films (1) Summer 2008
  CINE 325 Focus on Emerging Cinemas (1) Spring 2009
  CINE 325 Focus on French Cinema (1) Spring 2007
  CINE 325 Focus on Hitchcock (1) Spring 2009
  CINE 325 Focus on James Bond (1) Spring 2009
  CINE 325 Focus on Melodrama (1) Fall 2007
  CINE 325 Focus on Queer Cinema (1) Effective Summer 2007
  CINE 325 Focus on Sexuality and Gender in the Cinema (1) Fall 2007
  CINE 325 Focus on Spike Lee (1) Summer 2007
  CINE 325 Focus on Women Filmmakers (1) Fall 2008
  CINE 325 Focus on Woody Allen (1) Spring 2005
  CINE 325 Focus on the Horror Film (1) Spring 2008
  CINE 325 Focus on the Rock Music Film (1) Fall 1993
  CINE 325 Focus on the Western (1) Summer 2009
  CINE 325 Four Movie Goddesses (1) Fall 2008
  CINE 325 Hollywood Animation Studios (1) Summer 2004
  CINE 325 Radical Documentary (1) Fall 2008
  CINE 325 Science Fiction (1) Summer 2009
  CINE 325 Stanley Kubrick (1) Summer 2008
CINE 327 Anthropology and Film (3) Spring 2009
CINE 340 Critical Studies (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 340 Critical Studies (3) Fall 2009
CINE 341 Critical Studies Discussion Group (1) Fall 2009
CINE 341 Critical Studies Discussion Group (1) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 342 Documentary Film (3) Fall 2009
CINE 344 Film Genre (3) Effective Fall 1992
CINE 344 Variable topics:
  CINE 344 American Genres (3) Spring 2007
  CINE 344 American Genres: The Western (3) Fall 2007
  CINE 344 Chinese Perspectives on Western Cinema (3) Effective Spring 2008
  CINE 344 Comedy (3) Effective Summer 2007
  CINE 344 Ecology and Film (3) Fall 2008
  CINE 344 Film Comedy (3) Spring 2008
  CINE 344 Film Genre: "Fantasy Genres" (3) Effective Spring 2010
  CINE 344 Film Noir (3) Fall 2009
  CINE 344 Genre: The Horror Film (3) Spring 2009
  CINE 344 Musical Film (3) Spring 2006
  CINE 344 The Science Fiction Film (3) Fall 2008
CINE 354 Short Format Screenwriting (3) Fall 2009
CINE 355 Screenwriting I (3) Fall 2009
CINE 360 Animation I (3) Fall 2009
CINE 361 Drawing for Animation (3) Fall 2008
CINE 362 Animation II (3) Spring 2009
CINE 364 Animation Pre-Production (3) Spring 2009
CINE 365 History of Animation (3) Fall 2008
CINE 372 Film Theory (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 372 Film Theory (3) Spring 2009
CINE 373 Film and Society (3) Fall 2009
CINE 401 National/Regional Cinemas (3) Effective Fall 1992
CINE 401 Variable topics:
  CINE 401 Chinese Cinema (3) Spring 2009
  CINE 401 Eastern European Film Art (3) Fall 2009
  CINE 401 Italian Cinema (3) Spring 2004
  CINE 401 Japanese Cinema (3) Spring 2008
  CINE 401 Latin American Film (3) Spring 2009
CINE 406 Ethnicity and Film (3) Effective Fall 1995
CINE 406 Variable topics:
  CINE 406 Latin American Cinema (3) Spring 2005
CINE 407 History and Film (3) Effective Fall 2004
CINE 407 Variable topics:
  CINE 407 Art History and Film (3) Fall 2005
  CINE 407 Film, Dissent, and Black Lists (3) Fall 2009
  CINE 407 Histories of Sexuality (3) Effective Spring 2008
  CINE 407 History and Film: Representing the Catastrophic (3) Effective Spring 2008
CINE 408 Israeli Cinema (3) Spring 2009
CINE 409 Latina/o Cinema (3) Fall 2009
CINE 423 Introduction to Digital Filmmaking (3) Spring 2009
CINE 442 Producing and Financing Films (3) Spring 2009
CINE 455 Screenwriting II (3) Fall 2009
CINE 466 Animation III (3) Fall 2009
CINE 468 Advanced Animation Workshop (3) Spring 2009
CINE 500 Variable Topics in Animation (3) Effective Fall 2003
CINE 500 Variable topics:
  CINE 500 Character Animation (3) Fall 2007
CINE 502 Avant Garde Cinema (3) Spring 2008
CINE 506 Cinematheque Management (3) Spring 2009
CINE 508 Film Authorship (3) Effective Spring 1999
CINE 508 Variable topics:
  CINE 508 American Filmmakers (3) Spring 2004
  CINE 508 Director's Cinema (3) Spring 2008
  CINE 508 John Ford (3) Fall 2007
  CINE 508 Orson Welles (3) Fall 2008
  CINE 508 Romantic Comedy: Lubitsch and Wilder (3) Fall 2009
  CINE 508 Steven Spielberg (3) Effective Winter 2010
CINE 509 Shadow Crew (1) Spring 2004
CINE 510 Film Directing (3) Fall 2009
CINE 512 Sound for Film (3) Spring 2009
CINE 519 Soundstage Workshop (1) Fall 2009
CINE 520 Projects in Post-Production Sound (3) Spring 2009
CINE 522 Projects in Film Editing (3) Fall 2009
CINE 523 Exploration in Interactive Cinema (3) Effective Fall 2009
CINE 524 Digital Sound for Film (3) Fall 2009
CINE 525 Cinematography and Lighting (3) Fall 2009
CINE 526 Optical Printing (3) Spring 2008
CINE 527 Documentary of Social Justice and Health (6) Fall 2009
CINE 540 Issues in Film Theory (3) Effective Fall 2004
CINE 540 Variable topics:
  CINE 540 Documentary Film Form (3) Spring 2009
CINE 545 Issues in Film History/Criticism (3) Effective Fall 2004
CINE 545 Variable topics:
  CINE 545 Film Movements and Waves (3) Fall 2007
  CINE 545 Silent Cinema (3) Spring 2007
CINE 551 Introduction to Digital Animation (3) Fall 2008
CINE 555 Writing and Performing in Film and Theatre (3) Effective Summer 2008
CINE 561 Special Effects and Graphics Workshop (3) Spring 2004
CINE 590 Animation Practicum (3) Summer 2007
CINE 595 Visual Anthropology I (6) Fall 2008
CINE 596 Visual Anthropology II (6) Fall 2009
CINE 610 Senior Critical Studies Seminar (3) Spring 2009
CINE 612 Digital Cinema Workshop (1) Effective Spring 1998
CINE 620 Advanced Film Production I (3) Fall 2008
CINE 622 Advanced Film Production II (3) Spring 2009
CINE 623 Exploration in Cinema as an On-Line Medium (3) Effective Fall 2009
CINE 624 Advanced Production Crafts (1) Spring 2009
CINE 625 Post Production Workshop (1-3) Effective Summer 2007
CINE 625 Variable topics:
  CINE 625 Post Production Workshop (1) Effective Summer 2007
  CINE 625 Post Production Workshop (3) Effective Summer 2007
CINE 630 Workshop in Film Production (3) Effective Fall 2002
CINE 630 Variable topics:
  CINE 630 Workshop in Experimental Documentary (3) Spring 2009
CINE 651 Experimental Animation (3) Spring 2009
CINE 655 Projects in Film Writing (3) Fall 2009
CINE 660 3D Computer Animation (3) Spring 2009
CINE 661 Intermediate 3D Computer Animation (3) Fall 2009
CINE 662 Advanced 3D Computer Animation (3) Spring 2008
CINE 690 Production Practice (3) Fall 2009
CINE 690 Production Practice (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 692 Internship (3) Fall 2009
CINE 692 Internship (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 695 Independent Critical Studies (3) Fall 2009
CINE 695 Independent Critical Studies (3) Effective Spring 2010
CINE 699 Independent Study (1) Fall 2009
CINE 700 Introduction to Graduate Study (3) Fall 2009
CINE 701 Creative Process I (3) Fall 2009
CINE 702 Creative Process II (3) Fall 2009
CINE 710 Production Practice I (3) Fall 2009
CINE 711 Production Practice II (3) Fall 2009
CINE 712 Production Practice III (3) Spring 2009
CINE 713 Animation Workshop (3) Spring 1999
CINE 713 Animation Workshop (3) Fall 2009
CINE 721 Non Narrative Film (3) Fall 2009
CINE 722 Narrative and the Independent Tradition (3) Spring 2009
CINE 724 Cinema Theory I (3) Fall 2008
CINE 726 Cinema Theory II (3) Spring 2009
CINE 740 Seminar in Film Theory (3) Effective Fall 1992
CINE 740 Variable topics:
  CINE 740 Aesthetics of Film Form (3) Fall 2009
  CINE 740 Digital Critical Theory and Practice (3) Spring 2007
  CINE 740 Documentary Film Issues (3) Effective Spring 2008
  CINE 740 Feminist Film Theory (3) Effective Fall 2006
  CINE 740 Realism and Film (3) Spring 2008
CINE 745 Seminar in Film History and Criticism (3) Effective Fall 1992
CINE 745 Variable topics:
  CINE 745 Cinema and the City (3) Spring 2009
  CINE 745 Documentary Issues (3) Effective Spring 2010
  CINE 745 Genre Theory and Critical Practice (3) Fall 2007
  CINE 745 Post-colonial Cinema (3) Fall 2008
  CINE 745 Post-modernism and Cinema (3) Spring 2007
CINE 755 Feature Screenwriting (3) Fall 2008
CINE 761 Writing and Directing for Cinema (3) Fall 2009
CINE 762 Advanced Cinematography and Lighting (3) Spring 2009
CINE 763 Cinema Laboratory II and Avid Editing (3) Spring 2008
CINE 765 Internship (3) Fall 2009
CINE 770 Film Production Research (3) Spring 2009
CINE 813 Production Practice in Animation (3) Fall 2009
CINE 852 Directed Experience in Film Education (3) Fall 2009
CINE 894 Creative Work Project (3) Fall 2009
CINE 897 Research Project in Cinema Studies (3) Fall 2009
CINE 898 Master's Thesis (3) Fall 2009
CINE 899 Special Study (3) Effective Spring 2006
CINE 899 Variable topics:
  CINE 899 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
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