Cinema and Media Studies Concentration
Director: Professor John F. Schott, fall and winter, and Assistant Professor Carol Donelan, spring
A Concentration in Cinema and Media Studies invites students from all disciplines to explore the important ways modern mediafilm, photography, video and television and the internetconnect with and affect established disciplines. Students are encouraged to enroll in the concentration early in their academic career; required courses Cinema and Media Studies 110 and 114 must be completed no later than the end of the junior year.
Requirements for the Concentration:
Required Courses:
CAMS 110 Introduction to Media Studies
CAMS 111 Introduction to Video Production
CAMS 114 Film History and Criticism
CAMS 395 Media Theory and Analysis (Capstone Seminar taken in the Senior Year)
Beyond the four required courses (21 credit), students are expected to take additional courses (24 credits) from an approved list in order to reach the minimum of 45 credits required for the concentration.
Concentrators typically choose an emphasis in either history theory or production.
Requirements for a History and Theory Emphasis:
In addition to the four courses required of all concentrators, students choosing a history-theory emphasis are encouraged to take at least one course from each of the following areas:
a) American Film
CAMS 135 History of American Film
CAMS 228 Rethinking the Fifties through Film, Television and Photography (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 229 Outsiders Cinema: Fiction Film (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 234 Film Noir: The Dark Side of the American Dream
CAMS 235 Film and the Melodramatic Imagination (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 280 The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 281 The Cinema of Martin Scorsese (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 282 Hitchcock: The Classic Films (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 283 Capra and Wilder: Sweet and Sour (not offered in 2005-2006)
b) International Film
JAPN 231 Japanese Cinema in Translation (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 233 Italian Neorealism and Its Legacy (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 238 Border Crossings: Postmodern Perspectives on French and German Cinema
RUSS 255 Russian Cinema: History and Theory (not offered in 2005-2006)
SPAN 250 Spanish Cinema (not offered in 2005-2006)
SPAN 256 Lorca Buñuel, and Dalí: Poetry, Film and Painting in Spain (not offered in 2005-2006)
And one course from either of the following areas:
c) Non-Narrative/Nonfiction or
ARTH 222 History of Photography (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 232 Cinema at the Edge: The Idea of Avant-Garde
CAMS 244 Representing Reality: Nonfiction Film and Video (not offered in 2005-2006)
ENGL 362 Narrative Theory (not offered in 2005-2006)
MUSC 115 Music and the Media (not offered in 2005-2006)
b) Electronic/Digital Media
CAMS 227 Open the Box Studies in Television (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 252 Understanding New Media (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 260 Cyberculture: Digital Seeing and Surveillance (not offered in 2005-2006)
POSC 204 Media and American Politics: Special Election Edition (not offered in 2005-2006)
Requirements for a Production Emphasis:
In addition to the four courses required of all concentrators, students choosing a production emphasis are required to take two of the following:
CAMS 122 Video Production for Community Television (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 220 Nonfiction Video Production (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 221 Fiction Video Production (not offered in 2005-2006)
Students may take any additional courses in production (Pre-Production, Photography, or Digital Production) to reach the minimum of 45 credits required for the concentration.
a) Pre-Production
CAMS 112 Screenwriting
CAMS 210 Project Conception and Development Workshop (not offered in 2005-2006)
b) Photography
ARTS 238 Photography I
ARTS 350 Advanced Photo: Digital Imaging
ARTS 350 Advanced Photo: Color Photography (not offered in 2005-2006)
c) Digital Production
CAMS 219 Audio Workshop (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 250 Designing Complex Web Sites (not offered in 2005-2006)
CAMS 262 Advanced Editing Techniques
CAMS 263 Authoring New Media (not offered in 2005-2006)
Students are expected to work with a Cinema and Media Studies faculty adviser to devise an optimum program of study.