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2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

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  • CINE 523 Research & Analysis of the Film & Television Indus

    This course teaches students to perform sophisticated research and analysis of selected production and distribution companies in the film and television industries. Use of specific industry databases and trade journals is covered as well as the use of primary and secondary source research. Students will learn how to use research to prepare analysis and professional reports.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5633L
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 524 Digital Cinema Mastering

    Course provides an advanced editing experience in three areas: developing skills necessary to manipulate large amounts of cinema source material; acquiring the means to apply those skills while working with clients; and using nonlinear editing and color correction equipment to complete assigned online editing and cinema mastering projects. Students also learn organizational skills necessary to edit projects and gain advanced knowledge of post-production protocols in offline editing and the generation of EDLs and KeyKode cutlists, video online editing and digital cinema mastering. Students work on advanced cinema and high definition projects on industry leading nonlinear editing and color correction software. Digital Intermediates and Digital Cinema Packages will also be covered. Students receive critiques of their work after each project to determine the development of their proficiency of craft and creativity. Course culminates in the finishing of a cinema project from an off-line creative edit to a digital cinema master.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5428
    Prerequisites CINE 509 Editing Theory and Practice  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • CINE 527 Producing the Documentary

    This course prepares advanced documentary students to work in the documentary production industry as a hired producer/director/writer. Typical work-for-hire tasks are explored. Students write and develop production packages suitable for known production companies and media outlets. Advanced producing topics are covered including complex budgeting, scheduling, hiring and delivery an distribution requirements.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-5810
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 528 The Business of Screenwriting

    Students will learn how the inner workings of the film industry directly affect their ambitions as screenwriters. They will understand that there is much more to being a screenwriter than writing the script alone. This course will give the students a working knowledge of finding an agent, researching producers for their material, dealing with studios, understanding different types of contracts, copyright law and the Writers Guild of America. Students will also have a chance to take their scripts through a professional submission process to the agent or production company of their choice.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-5742
    Prerequisites CINE 507 Screenwriting I  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 529 Directing the Biographical Documentary

    This course introduces MFA Screen Director Documentary students to the Biographical documentary film as a distinct form and will explore its relevance both sociologically and historically. Students will create short biographical films through primary and secondary interviews in a studio setting and in the field, in both controlled and uncontrolled situations. Basic skills of lighting, sound and interviewing techniques will demonstrate a visual strategy that explores a characters environment, social belief’s and Core Values, including legal and ethical considerations. Students will complete a treatment, script, verbal pitch in addition to a marketing strategy for the finished film.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5861
    Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing  
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CINE 531 Music Video Production

    This course teaches techniques for music video production through a multidisciplinary approach. In groups, students develop music video projects from treatment through production to final edit with local bands.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5900
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • CINE 532 Studio Producing - Los Angeles

    Students learn the ins and outs of the studio system as it is currently structured and practiced. Topics include scheduling, budgeting, and line-producing in the context of large budgets and complex projects. Additional components include development, reading for coverage, complex financing, and distribution structure. Class also explores the various roles of executives in the film industry.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5631L
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 534 Cinema Studies I

    This is the first of three courses designed to investigate key historical moments of cinema and media through close critical analysis. The goal is to develop a sophisticated approach to the aesthetics of cinema and media as the basis of a professional vocabulary and methodology for creative producing. Particular attention will be paid to dramatic structure, meaning, subtext and authorship within specified film movements or niche markets.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6605A
    Co-requisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing  or CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CINE 535 Cinema Studies II

    This is the second of three courses designed to investigate key historical moments of cinema and media through close critical analysis. The goal is to develop a sophisticated approach to the aesthetics of cinema and media as the basis of a professional vocabulary and methodology for creative producing. Particular attention will be paid to dramatic structure, meaning, subtext and authorship within specified film movements or niche markets.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6605B
    Prerequisites CINE 534 Cinema Studies I  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CINE 540 Advanced Editing Seminar

    This intensive course provides an opportunity for editing students to collaborate on original creative work by advanced direction, thesis and independent projects, in a seminar environment. Deadlines are strictly enforced as editors collaborate with students in other areas of expertise in creating a short digital narrative project. Students also develop an extensive written career plan to showcase their creative work and important portfolio materials such as website, editing samples, resume, cover letters, and business cards.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5406
    Prerequisites CINE 509 Editing Theory and Practice  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • CINE 575 Experimental Production II

    Project-centered course stimulates and assists students in the creation of an alternative film, video, or digital work. Students will employ an aesthetic that explores, challenges, or subverts mainstream narrative or documentary structures. The class builds on topics from Experimental Production I, including camera experimentation and image manipulation, as well as the development of personal, political or social themes. Festivals, distribution and marketing of experimental film and video will also be emphasized. The class will produce a show at the end of the semester.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5902
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 602 Long-Form Narrative Development

    Building upon their experiences and preliminary work in Acquisitions, Development & Presentation, students will continue to develop a slate of potential projects, specifically finding, developing, and acquiring the rights to material to be developed into a long-form narrative property (such as a feature length film or serialized storytelling such as a TV series, extended web series or transmedia project) and work with an accomplished screenwriter to produce a first draft from which a production package can evolve in Long-Form Narrative Packaging.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6614
    Prerequisites CINE 512 Story Development  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 603 Directing for Drama

    Building on the foundations of Directing for Character and MFA Screenwriting I, students will develop, cast, rehearse, prepare, shoot, and edit a 5- to 8-minute narrative film through a series of lectures, written assignments, shooting exercises and training workshops. These classroom experiences are designed to provide the student with a better understanding of the relationship of character to dramatic scene and story.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6362
    Prerequisites CINE 503 Directing for Character  
    Co-requisites CINE 535 Cinema Studies II  and CINE 513 Ideation and Theme  
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CINE 604 Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition

    The Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition seminar is a course that explores the roles and professional practices of a producer during the Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition phase of the process. Participants actively develop sophisticated metric analyses through a variety of case studies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6613
    Prerequisites CINE 512 Story Development  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 611 Business Affairs

    Business Affairs is a Los Angeles-based seminar that introduces students to market trends in financing, ranging from entrepreneurial business plan-driven investment scenarios to more conventional distributor-driven opportunities, that include fundamentals in the roles of agents and managers. Students develop negotiating skills and further examine the art of effective negotiations.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6611L
    Prerequisites CINE 604 Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 612 Long Form Narrative Package

    This course is a hands-on approach based on the principles learned, and materials developed, in Acquisition, Development and Presentation, and Long Form Narrative Development, concentrating on a final pitch and oral presentation with a thesis binder consisting of multiple projects and corresponding selling strategies. Coursework will include professionally-modeled research that identifies project-specific buyers, talent, and financing tactics. Students will package at least one project from their slate developed in course Long-Form Narrative Development.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6619L
    Prerequisites CINE 602 Long-Form Narrative Development  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP) Creative Producing MFA Students Only (G244)
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  

  • CINE 615 Cinematography: Camera Seminar

    Course gives students working knowledge of 16mm motion picture camera equipment. Operation and maintenance procedures are specified for each camera. Instruction also covers duties of the camera assistant and operator.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6202
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • CINE 616 Image Design for Cinema

    The class deals with issues of visual communication and design of the cinematographic image. Through lectures, practical assignments and critiques, students refine their ability to see, conceive, and communicate with images. They also develop critical thinking necessary for filmmakers when creating the visual concept of the story.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6201
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 621 Lighting I

    Course introduces basic film lighting techniques for students with little or no studio lighting experience. Students become familiar with important safety procedures and the uses of standard pieces of lighting equipment. The role of grip and gaffer on the film set is also explored. Special attention is given to important light measuring techniques, including use of the spotmeter. Course encourages intelligent, thoughtful approaches to lighting based on dramatic structure and script.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6200
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • CINE 625 Applied Postproduction

    In this course producers and directors apply their knowledge of post-production and finishing strategies to their thesis production or another advanced project. Teams schedule and budget the specific post-production requirements across multiple workflows and platforms and continue to apply professional collaboration as a creative team. Site visits to local post-production facilities are included.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6618
    Prerequisites CINE 634 Cinema Studies III  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 626 Directing Techniques for the Micro Feature

    This course examines the skills and aesthetics of micro-budgeted feature film cinema as created by directors working outside the established mainstream. Utilizing innovative hardware/software and ideology, micro feature directors evolve the art and practice of their cinema by creating and challenging financial boundaries, narrative topics and develop personal perspective(s) using entrepreneurial and cost/ time effective methodologies. A variety of proven authorial and developmental approaches shall be used for classroom practice with professional examples, instructor guidance and targeted student assignments/ projects.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-5305
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 628 Acting and Directing Workshop

    Course is designed to introduce fundamentals of the actor’s craft to directing students. Students learn various acting techniques and apply them to basic directing methods. The relationship between actor, text, and director is emphasized through analysis, rehearsal, and scene work. Intended outcome is an understanding of the actor’s process and the collaboration and communication necessary between actors and directors.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6300
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 634 Cinema Studies III

    This is the third of three courses designed to investigate key historical moments of cinema and media through close critical analysis. The goal is to develop a sophisticated approach to the aesthetics of cinema and media as the basis of a professional vocabulary and methodology for creative producing. Particular attention will be paid to dramatic structure, meaning, subtext and authorship within specified film movements or niche markets.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6605C
    Prerequisites CINE 535 Cinema Studies II  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CINE 635 Authorship:

    This screening/discussion class is an intensive study of a single director (or directors) as auteur. The featured director(s) changes each semester. Class examines recurring themes, stylistic innovations, and differing interpretations of directors’ films. This course may be repeated as featured directors change.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6501
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 645 Screenwriting II:Feature Film

    This course has been developed to provide graduate students from Fiction, Poetry and Film with a variety of experiences (including in-class and out-of-class assignments) designed to hone observation, problem-solving, creativity and writing skills as they apply to developing feature-length screenplays. The class operates as an intensive workshop meeting for several day-long sessions along with individual conferences, usually summer semester. The goal is to help students produce longer (feature-length) and more complex screenplays; to facilitate a deeper understanding of the screenwriting process; to assist students in better developing character, story and linear structure; to assist in developing systematic work habits to carry the student from idea development through revisions to completed script; to provide students with the opportunity for critique of their screenwriting.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6710
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 653 Adaptation

    Course examines problems, obstacles, and reconstruction principles inherent in adapting a literary work for the screen. Content focuses primarily on the kinds of short work attractive to low-budget filmmakers and works possible within the Columbia production program.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6715
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 655 Screenwriting Workshops

    This course is designed to help the students write better and more effective short scripts. Students will learn a variety of approaches and techniques. This is a repeatable course with rotating topics, which in the past have included Co-writing and Experimental Screenwriting.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6730
    Prerequisites CINE 645 Screenwriting II:Feature Film  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 660 Screen Treatment and Presentation

    This course develops student’s skills in presenting their film ideas orally and in written treatment format. The course builds on concepts learned in Screenwriting I and Screenwriting II. Students master techniques to improve their oral pitching skills, learn how to write a query letter, and explore ways to improve their storytelling ideas. The course emphasizes rewriting and developing skills to sell screenplays.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-6740
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 665 The Entrepreneurial Producer

    This Los Angeles-based advanced workshop will provide a detailed examination of the producer’s role of packaging with a practical emphasis on attaching talent, calibrating trends in international co-productions, soft monies and tax incentives, international sales and pre-sales, and film marketing.

    Repeatable: N
    Prerequisites CINE 604 Marketing, Distribution and Exhibition  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP) Creative Producing MFA Students Only (G244)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 673 Comparative Screenwriting:

    This is a repeatable, rotating subjects course that provides students with an extensive examination of the screenwriter’s role, career, development and relationship to the production process. These objectives are achieved by comparing and contrasting screenplays and/or screenwriters that are related in a significant way.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6705
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 674 Genres In Screenwriting

    This course examines a specific genre and provides an opportunity to develop and write a feature screenplay based upon elements of the genre, but reflective of the student’s personal themes, as well. This is a repeatable, rotating subjects course wherein the genre rotates from semester to semester.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6720
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 680 Topics in Screenwriting

    No description available.



    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6731
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 681 Thesis Workshop

    This is an advanced directing workshop in which students will further develop material generated in Ideation & Theme. Students will explore that material through a series of rehearsals, pre-visualization exercises, exploratory shoots, critique and discussion. These will provide the students with the opportunity to develop and sketch material from character-based, theme-based, traditional and nontraditional narrative perspectives as ways to test out active creative decisions that will help them prepare a strategy and finished script for their thesis film.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6363
    Prerequisites CINE 603 Directing for Drama  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CINE 690 Internship: Graduate Cinema

    This course provides graduate students with practical work experience that places them in training positions related to their academic studies. The college awards academic credit in internships based on a ratio of credit hours to hours worked. Even though the internship takes place outside the classroom, there are institutional and departmental requirements for students seeking and taking internships.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6089
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CINE 691 Graduate Thesis: CTVA

    Graduate students work with their thesis advisors on their required thesis deliverables including film, long form project or written thesis.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6071
    Prerequisites CINE 512 Story Development  or CINE 513 Ideation and Theme  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CINE 692 Thesis Extension

    Students work on the completion of their thesis project, under the direction of faculty advisor(s).

    A $500 thesis continuance fee will be assessed.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0

  

  • CINE 695 Directed Study: CTVA Graduate

    Directed Studies are learning activities involving student autonomy within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. They are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in existing courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered by the College. Directed studies cannot be substituted for any existing course whether it is running or not, including canceled courses. Directed studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who assists in development and design of the study, oversees the student’s progress on a regular basis, evaluates the final results, and submits a grade.

    Repeatable: Y
    Prerequisites CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing   or CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • CINE 696 Independent Project: Graduate Cinema

    Independent Projects are advanced, student-driven learning experiences involving substantial student independence in project design and project execution. Independent Projects are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject on their own beyond what is possible in regular coures offered by the college. An independent project must not be equivalent in content to courses offered by the college and should not be used to replace an existing or canceled course. Independent Projects must be approved by a faculty advisor who also evaluates the final results and awards a grade.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-6098
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CINE 699 Graduate Topics in Cinema

    This is a Graduate studies topics course in Cinema. Different sections will have differing areas of focus, so please contact the department for information on the content offered offered in this particular semester. 

    Repeatable: Y
    Prerequisites   CINE 501 Introduction to Cinema Directing  and CINE 502 Introduction To Creative Producing  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 4

  

  • COLL 200 Internship

    This course allows students to take a valuable internship experience in their desired industry.  Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course.  Participating in an internship allows the student to gain hands-on experience and explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a work setting. The experience also helps students gain a clearer sense of what they still need to learn and provides an opportunity to build professional networks.  Students are responsible for securing their own internships and should contact Career Center for assistance and resources to identify and apply for opportunities of interest.  

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 99-2000
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0

  

  • COLL 210 Internship

    This course allows students to take a valuable internship experience in their desired industry for academic credit. Each position is vetted and approved byCareer Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course.  Participating in an internship allows the student to gain hands-on experience and explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a work setting. The experience also helps students gain a clearer sense of what they still need to learn and provides an opportunity to build professional networks.  Students are responsible for securing their own internships and should contact Career Center for assistance and resources to identify and apply for opportunities of interest.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 99-2100
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • COLL 230 Internship

    This course allows students to take a valuable internship experience in their desired industry for academic credit.  Each position is vetted and approved by Career Center to ensure that it is an educational opportunity that will fulfill the learning objectives of the course.  Participating in an internship allows the student to gain hands-on experience and explore career interests while applying knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to a work setting. In addition to participating in the internship, students will complete an online course which will reflect on their experience and will expand their knowledge of professionalism.  Students are responsible for securing their own internships and should contact Career Center for assistance and resources to identify and apply for opportunities of interest. 

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 99-2300
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COLL 232 Internship

    This internship course allows students to gain hands-on experience within the Los Angeles entertainment and arts industries, bridging theory with practice. This real-world experiential learning opportunity allows students to apply the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom to an existing organization. The online academic component of the course allows students to deepen their understanding of how entertainment and arts organizations and professions are structured and operate while learning how to assess and apply the knowledge and skills learned to more effectively contribute to an organization’s success. The course features content specific to coursework and work experiences during the semester in LA.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COLL 480 Undergraduate Research Mentorship

    The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in conducing academic research with faculty.  This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to share the intellectual excitement of inquiry into new questions, the solving of scholarly and creative problems, and the creation of knowledge with faculty mentors.  Students learn research and scholarly techniques as they assist faculty practitioners in their academic and integrative disciplines, gaining valuable experience in pursuit of professional fields or higher academic degrees.  Prior to the project semester, the supervising faculty and student must submit a joint proposal outlining the project. 

    Repeatable: N
    Requirements Permission Required (DP) and Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COLL 480H Undergraduate Research Mentorship: Honors

    The Undergraduate Research Mentorship connects talented students interested in conducing academic research with faculty.  This course, available to students from across the College, gives students the opportunity to share the intellectual excitement of inquiry into new questions, the solving of scholarly and creative problems, and the creation of knowledge with faculty mentors.  Students learn research and scholarly techniques as they assist faculty practitioners in their academic and integrative disciplines, gaining valuable experience in pursuit of professional fields or higher academic degrees.  Prior to the project semester, the supervising faculty and student must submit a joint proposal outlining the project. 

    Repeatable: N
    Requirements Permission Required (DP) and 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP) and Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COLL 600 Graduate Internship

    In this course, students with internship opportunities gain valuable, hands-on experience in an industry of interest while receiving mentorship, critical feedback and educational supervision. This is an individual experience and is different for each student. Students cannot take this course without prior authorization from their Internship and Career Advisor.  There are several steps to getting approval for an internship for credit. 

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 0 Maximum Credits 0

  

  • COMM 101 Career Opportunities in Communication

    This site visit intensive 1 credit, 8-week course exposes students from any and all majors to the variety of career opportunities available in the Communication field including, but not limited to: advertising, content creation, content strategy, digital and print-based journalism, broadcast journalism, radio production, radio voice-over, podcasting, public relations, strategic event planning, social media, visual communication and more. Students will learn about current best practices in the various allied fields, meet with working industry professionals, and go on site visits to explore career options looking for their transferable skills. This course is a great way to explore options for potential minors, college wide elective coursework and more.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • COMM 102 Communication Essentials

    This hands-on interactive course explores communication perspectives and challenges (verbal and non-verbal)in our diverse culture. Students will practice management of creative communication issues and opportunities we all encounter working with others and in small group settings. Coursework will also investigate particular challenges facing us as ethical and responsible communicators in public, mass, and digital communication settings. Lastly, course will give students a glimpse of the wide range of creative career possibilities in communications fields.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 45-1300
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 103 Introduction to Social Media & Digital Strategies

    This introductory course teaches students how to connect businesses, brands, media and nonprofits to their critical audiences via digital communications. Through real-world best practices examples and hands-on projects, students will learn on-the-job skills and identify possible career paths in a vibrant field that blends aspects of advertising, public relations and journalism.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 54-1200
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 110 Pitching the Media for the Layman

    Course introduces students in disciplines other than Public Relations studies to tips and techniques for garnering media attention for their band, art work, writing, etc. Students learn how to find and create news within their own accomplishments.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 54-1704J
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • COMM 120 Truth, Lies and Accuracy in the Digital Age

    This course equips students with strategies to better evaluate what they see and hear in the media. It empowers them to cut through the underbrush of half truths and outright lies, determine the veracity of news sources found through Tweets, television, blogs, podcasts, photos, word of mouth, wikis, videos, newspapers, magazines and maps in order to become savvier, self-governing citizens of the world.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-1610
    Not Open to Journalism Major or Minor Students (N530) and (N531) and (N532) and (NJMN)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 201 Communication Professional Practices Across the U.S.

    This travel course introduces students to a variety of communication disciplines as practiced in other parts of the United States. Learning experiences will include tours, industry visits, and talks with working professionals.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 210 Visual Communication

    A theoretical and a hands-on course that immerses students in all aspects of visual communications, including typography, photography, illustration, informational graphics, design, and layout. Students will create visual projects according to their related fields.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-2220
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  
  
  

  • COMM 299 Topics in Communication:

    This is a topics course in Communications for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 310 Oral Traditions

    This foundational course introduces students to the study of oral tradition - the verbal transmission and preservation of information from one generation to the next - and its history and processes. Taking a global perspective, students study a range of verbal art starting with the known origins of oral communication up to the modern application of spoken word performance.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 45-3410
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 320 Media Ecosystems

    This course provides an applied perspective on the local information ecosystem and the intersections between media systems, communities, and civic and commercial agencies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 45-3420
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 325 Strategies in Data Visualization

    This class combines theory and practice on strategies of communicating data through digital graphics. It focuses on visual literacy, research, and infographics design. Students should gain experience creating digital media infographics and collaborating on a transmedia storytelling project, including images (icons, pictures, memes), explanatory charts (bars, pies, fever, tables), maps, animation (git, 3D, motion graphics, stop motion), and diagrams.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3230
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 326 Semiotics for Creators of Popular Culture

    Writing-intensive course explores the study and use of semiotics (or symbolic meaning) in the development of advertising and other creative works that contribute to the content of popular culture. Interdisciplinary in scope, the course explores how advertising uses symbolic language from diverse disciplines such as literature, cinema, television, performing arts, architecture, fashion, and other fields that shape the overall popular culture.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 54-3670
    SS WI
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 326H Semiotics for Creators of Popular Culture: Honors

    Writing-intensive course explores the study and use of semiotics (or symbolic meaning) in the development of advertising and other creative works that contribute to the content of popular culture. Interdisciplinary in scope, the course explores how advertising uses symbolic language from diverse disciplines such as literature, cinema, television, performing arts, architecture, fashion, and other fields that shape the overall popular culture. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 54-3670HN
    SS WI
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 399 Advanced Topics in Communication

    This is an advanced topics course in Communication for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 460 Communication Capstone

    This hands-on senior capstone course involves students working as communication specialists within an integrated team on behalf of external organizations (non-profits, civic groups and others). Student work developed will range from digital content such as podcasts, websites, blogs, native ads, publicity, social media, branded videos, branded films, community outreach events, influencer communication and internal/external messaging. All fully engaged students should leave this integrated practicum experience with produced portfolio-ready work.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 45-4500
    Requirements Senior Standing (SR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 485 Social Media and Digital Strategy Practicum

    This capstone course is the culminating curricular experience for Social Media & Digital Strategy (SMDS) majors, moving beyond course concepts and simulated assignments, into real portfolio building work on behalf of a real cause or non profit organization. Students will apply all mastered SMDS concepts and will identify and interpret digital and other research; develop content strategies; create digital content via multiple platforms (e.g., Twitter, YouTube, mobile, etc.); monitor and engage with content consumers, and evaluate and analyze program performance.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 54-3610
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 495 Directed Study: Communication

    This is a Directed Study course in Communication. Directed studies are learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. All directed study course proposals must be approved by the school and department administration.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 496 Independent Project:

    This course is an independent project designed by the student, with the approval of a supervising faculty member, to study an area that is not presently available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project. 

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • COMM 503 Introduction to Civic Media

    This seminar course will be required and introduce students to the core theoretical
    principles and historical underpinnings of civic media deriving from theories of
    participatory culture and media, open data, connected learning, and emerging
    social media and justice movements.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 505 Civic Media Applied Research

    This applied research course seeks to provide students with a deeply contextualized understanding of local civic initiatives through sustained inquiry, data gathering and relationship-building with city partners. Students should learn to form partnerships built upon trust, empathy, and cultural awareness while using participatory action research to conduct investigative inquiry and discovery.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • COMM 601 Civic Media Practicum

    Serving as the final capstone, this course will enable students to engage thoroughly in the complete cycle of a civic media project, including iterative design through user testing, documentation, assessment, impact sharing, and sustainability planning. Students will complete, implement, document and assess a collaborative civic media project in a real-world community context. Drawing from strategic framework analysis sustainability studies and systems thinking, collaborative student teams will design a communications plan that connects their findings and impact stories with broader issues and contexts to cultivate meaningful and long-term community adoption.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CRAT 105 Embodied Learning: Artist within a Social Context

    This course provides an introductory understanding of the body/mind/spirit relationship and how it can foster reflexivity within the creative process, providing a means of increasing understanding of personal values and how they intersect with diverse cultural worldviews. Students will gain an awareness of how to cultivate mindfulness and access an embodied way of knowing and being in the world through an examination of how one experiences and is experienced by others.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-1000
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 405 Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis

    This course provides a broad overview of Rudolf Laban’s taxonomy of human movement and Irmgard Bartenieff’s Fundamentals of Movement. Through didactic and experiential learning, students explore the core concepts in Laban Movement Analysis: Body, Effort, Space, and Shape.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-4100
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 410 Performance as Therapy

    Performance involves preparation through engagement on many levels, intrapersonally and interpersonally. It includes being immersed in the creative process, feedback on the emerging creation, and its integration. While there is an ongoing reflective dialogue between the process and the product, it also involves intense decision making and community building. Performance and rehearsals will be explored for therapeutic impact and value.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-4800
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 415 Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies

    This course allows students to experience a sampling of the creative arts therapies as a means of assisting them in recognizing the scope of practice along the continuum of arts and therapy in healthcare. In addition, this course invites students to examine their own creative process through the lens of a theoretical model. Guest lecturers present on their field of creative arts specialty, including art, music, dance, and drama. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the students’ experience with it.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-4810
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 420 Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy

    This course introduces students to the theory and application of expressive arts therapy. According to the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, the expressive arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development. The students will safely experience the creative process across expressive media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-4830
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 425 Arts in Healthcare: Theory

    This course explores the arts in healthcare movement as part of the integrative health model in American society. Students will learn theory and its application, professional development skills and a variety of project options for diverse artistic media. Attention will be given to understanding healthcare policies specific to employees in this environment.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-3100
    Co-requisites CRAT 405 Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 430 Arts in Healthcare: Practice

    This is the capstone course for the Arts in Healthcare Minor. Students will apply their knowledge by developing and implementing an arts project within a healthcare setting with special attention focused on best practice Additionally, students will have the opportunity to experience a variety of special projects in arts in healthcare.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-3110
    Prerequisites CRAT 425 Arts in Healthcare: Theory 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 495 Directed Study: Arts in Health

    No description available.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 70-3990
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6

  

  • CRAT 499 Special Topics:

    This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in professional practices.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 70-4840
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 505 Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis

    This course provides a broad overview of Rudolf Laban’s taxonomy of human movement and Irmgard Bartenieff’s Fundamentals of Movement. Through didactic and experiential learning, students explore the core concepts in Laban Movement Analysis: Body, Effort, Space, and Shape.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-5100
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 510 Performance as Therapy

    Performance involves preparation through engagement on many levels, intrapersonally and interpersonally. It includes being immersed in the creative process, feedback on the emerging creation, and its integration. While there is an ongoing reflective dialogue between the process and the product, it also involves intense decision making and community building. Performance and rehearsals will be explored for therapeutic impact and value.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-5800
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 515 Introduction to Creative Arts Therapies

    This course allows students to experience a sampling of the creative arts therapies as a means of assisting them in recognizing the scope of practice along the continuum of arts and therapy in healthcare. In addition, this course invites students to examine their own creative process through the lens of a theoretical model. Guest lecturers present on their field of creative arts specialty, including art, music, dance, and drama. Emphasis is placed on the creative process and the students’ experience with it.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-5810
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 520 Introduction to Expressive Arts Therapy

    This course introduces students to the theory and application of expressive arts therapy. According to the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association, the expressive arts combine the visual arts, movement, drama, music, writing and other creative processes to foster deep personal growth and community development. The students will safely experience the creative process across expressive media.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-5830
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 599 Special Topics:

    This course will focus on specific topics, themes, and ideas that might not be included in the permanent course offering or will concentrate on new and experimental approaches to issues in professional practices.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 70-5840
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 601 Social and Cultural Foundations

    This course will introduce the social and cultural foundations of the arts in healing and how this has influenced current understanding of the creative arts therapies and counseling. The course focuses on the creative exploration of each of the student’s cultural world views, influenced by beliefs about health, illness, and healing. The impact of power, prejudice and oppression on the provision of mental health services to diverse populations will also be examined. Participation in community-based cultural events will be central to the learning experience.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6135
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 603 Intro to the Body/Mind: Experience in Movement

    This course will provide an understanding for the development of a relationship to our body, mind and spiritual connection and how this connection can provide tools for understanding the intersubjective therapeutic process. The course will also explore the seeds for the development of a personal creative process for self-reflection. Anatomical/kinesiological methodologies, neurobiological and creative theory will be addressed and studied experientially.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6310
    Minimum Credits 2 Maximum Credits 2

  

  • CRAT 606 Human Development

    This class focuses on stages of development and developmental tasks in the life cycle spanning the prenatal period to our elder years and death. We examine the life cycle from various perspectives, including physical, cognitive, emotional, and social. Discussion also focuses on how we construct ideas of normal and pathological development. Throughout the course, attention is paid to how the neurobiological, environmental, and cultural factors of human development influence creativity .

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6210
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 609 Observation & Assessment of Movement I

    Students will learn and develop skills for observing, documenting, describing, and assessing human movement behavior grounded in applied Laban-based studies. Students will learn foundational theory, principles, vocabulary, and philosophy of Laban Movement Analysis through kinesthetic, written, and verbal experience within the Body and Effort portions of the taxonomy.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6315
    Prerequisites   CRAT 505 Introduction to Laban Movement Analysis  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 610 Observation and Assessment of Movement II

    As the second of two observation/assessment classes, students will build on their working knowledge of Body and Effort from Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) with the emphasis on Shape and Space. Training in Bartenieff Fundamentals will continue from the O & A I course. Through seeing, doing, and writing, students will utilize LMA as a foundation for clinical applications in dance/movement therapy. In addition students will examine foundational theory, principles and applications of the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and have the opportunity to discuss and apply their Laban-based skills in movement labs as well as in an application project.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6320
    Prerequisites   CRAT 609 Observation & Assessment of Movement I  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 612 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory I

    This course lays the basic foundation of becoming a dance/movement therapist through understanding the principles, methods, and techniques of the early pioneers of dance/movement Therapy. A historical overview of dance and psychology encompasses the bridge between aesthetic and scientific practices.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6110
    Prerequisites CRAT 601 Social and Cultural Foundations  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 613 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory II

    This course emphasizes the practice of dance/movement therapy. Students will create and apply DMT techniques for a variety of contexts incorporating knowledge of human development, DMT methodologies and the unique needs of special populations. Students have the opportunity to investigate an area of specialty in the field through community site visitation that will prepare them for their three semesters of clinical placement.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6115
    Prerequisites CRAT 612 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory I  and CRAT 609 Observation & Assessment of Movement I  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 615 Psychopathology

    This course addresses individual mental functioning in health and disease from a variety of perspectives: biological, developmental, cultural, and interactional. Students learn to recognize and describe the signs and symptoms of mental illness on clinical examination in order to formulate a diagnosis consistent with the DSM-5 criteria with an understanding of the dynamic etiological and contextual perspectives.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6215
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 616 Theories & Principles of Counseling

    This course provides an introduction to counseling theories and principles, exploring culturally informed traditional and contemporary approaches. Students will be required to understand the relationship of counseling principles to the psychological theory from which they are derived. Microskills will be introduced.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6220
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 617 Clinical Techniques of Counseling

    Techniques in clinical counseling will be introduced and Microskills utilized in all counseling modalities will be further developed. Major treatment modalities, best practice recommendations, and effective intervention strategies will be addressed.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6230
    Prerequisites CRAT 616 Theories & Principles of Counseling  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 620 Methods of Group Therapy

    This course provides students with a foundational understanding of group theory and practice. It examines concepts such as the stages of group development, group member roles, the therapist’s role, and leadership styles as well as the types of groups and their differing group goals, objectives, and techniques. As part of the course, students facilitate their own group alternating as leaders and observers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6225
    Prerequisites   CRAT 613 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 623 Professional, Legal & Ethical Responsibilities through Fieldwork

    Professional orientation includes the following content: federal and Illinois laws relevant to counselors including HIPPA regulations, ethics with an emphasis on the American Counseling Code of Ethics as well as the Code of Ethics specific to the practice of creative arts therapies, diverse organizational systems, administrative policies and procedures, roles and professional relationships, patient populations, daily routine, beginning documentation, beginning group facilitation, and the practice of counseling and the creative arts therapies within the clinical setting and the broader context of society.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6515
    Prerequisites   CRAT 613 Dance/Movement Therapy Theory II  and CRAT 615 Psychopathology  and CRAT 616 Theories & Principles of Counseling  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 628 Family Counseling

    Students will survey various frameworks from the field of couples and family counseling which focus on facilitating change in relational patterns. Emphasis will also be placed on at risk families and the challenges and issues they face. Effective treatment planning requires understanding the impact of environmental, social, economic and cultural factors on therapeutic processes for families.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 70-6126
    Prerequisites CRAT 637 Clinical Appraisal and Treatment Planning  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 631 Research Methods

    This course is the first in a three course series designed to prepare the student as a researcher and consumer of research in the fields of counseling and creative arts therapies. The course will provide a basic overview of research methodologies that utilize qualitative and quantitative data followed by an exploration of research methods in ethical and legal contexts appropriate to counseling and creative arts therapies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6410
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3

  

  • CRAT 632 Literature Review Seminar

    This course continues the four course research requirement beginning with Research Methods and concluding with Graduate Thesis Credit. Students will develop their research topic with the goal of completing their literature reviews and research questions. The seminar will provide consultation and assistance, as well as offer group support and structure.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6414
    Prerequisites CRAT 631 Research Methods  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  

  • CRAT 633 Thesis Seminar

    This course continues the three course research requirement begun with Research Methods and concluding with Graduate Thesis Credit. Students will develop their thesis project with the goal of completing their Departmental Thesis Committee (DTC) and Internal Review Board (IRB) thesis proposals. The seminar will provide consultation and assistance as well as offer group support and structure.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 70-6415
    Prerequisites CRAT 631 Research Methods  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1

  
 

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