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23-4785 Advanced Special Topics II:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-4785J Advanced Special Topics II:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 23-1112 Foundations of Photography II
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23-4790 Advanced Special Topics III:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-4790J Advanced Special Topics III:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 23-2310 Advanced Lighting and 23-3202 Digital Imaging II
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23-4795 Photography Studies Abroad: Ireland
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
3 Credits
GA
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23-4796 Photography Studies Abroad: Cologne, Germany
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
3 Credits
GA
PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I
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23-4797 Photography Studies Abroad: Pingyao, China
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
3 Credits
GA
PREREQUISITES: 23-1111 Foundations of Photography I
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23-5210 Body, Space and Image
This course presents an intensive survey of contemporary performance, site, and installation art from an anthropological point of view. Specifically, the course focuses on artist’s works that were constructed to be experienced through photographic and video documentation. Students will be given workshops on sound, digital photography, and video editing. Course expectations and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and graduates.
3 Credits
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23-5450 Architectural Photography
This course explores the wide range of photographic responses to the man-made environment, from classical documentation to the search from personal and formal documentation to the search for personal and formal images. Course introduces the use of view camera. Refined Digital Camera techniques are also addressed. Discussion of work and the development of individual projects is emphasized.
3 Credits
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23-5525 The Documentary Book
Building upon skills learned in Documentary I, this course continues to broaden and deepen an understanding of the various approaches to documentary photography. This course offers an in depth understanding of the various traditional and contemporary approaches to the photographic documentary book. Using desktop publishing software, the class is designed to help the student produce a book of his or her long-term documentary project.
3 Credits
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23-5705 History of Photography Seminar:
This course focuses each semester on a special topic related to recent trends in photographic and/or critical histories and theories of photography. Over the course of the semester students will analyze this topic’s ideological, representational, technological, historical, and aesthetic ramifications for photography. Class time will involve some short lectures and exhibition viewings but will mostly consist of discussions of reading and looking assignments. Course expectations and requirements will be adjusted accordingly for undergraduates and graduates. Students who do not meet the pre-reqs may contact the instructor to discuss possible pre-req equivalency.
3 Credits
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23-5720 Image and Text
This advanced level course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding photographic works that use image and text as a significant strategy in their communication. A wide range of image and text examples in contemporary practice will be examined. Students complete assignments combining images and text.
3 Credits
WI
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23-5750 The Portrait
This advanced course provides an in-depth exploration of the conceptual and practical issues surrounding the photographic portrait. A wide range of social and political issues of portraiture within a historical and contemporary context will be examined and applied.
3 Credits
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23-5777LDM Photographing History
This four-week photography course is offered through the Florence Summer Program. Undergraduate and graduate students will explore contemporary life within a centuries-old urban environment and examine the influences of Italian Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture on western visual culture. Students will be encouraged to incorporate or address the legacy of Florentine traditions and styles of architecture, science and art in their own photographic image making. Students’ work may incorporate techniques as varied as documentary methods or constructed imagery.
3 Credits
Requirements Permission of Instructor
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23-5780 Advanced Special Topics I:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
3 Credits Repeatable
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23-5780J Advanced Special Topics I:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
3 Credits
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23-5785 Advanced Special Topics II:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
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23-5785J Advanced Special Topics II:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
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23-5790 Advanced Special Topics III:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
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23-5790J Advanced Special Topics III:
This course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
1 Credits
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23-5795 Photography Studies Abroad: Ireland
1-6 Credits
Requirements Department Permission Required
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23-5796 Photography Studies Abroad: Cologne, Germany
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
1-6 Credits
Requirements Department Permission Required
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23-5797 Photography Studies Abroad: Pingyao, China
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
1-6 Credits
Requirements Department Permission Required
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23-6200 Digital Imaging
This course expands student’s knowledge of digital media. Using a variety of software students learn to digitally manage, manipulate and enhance photographic images. Emphasis is placed on production methods including but not limited to printing, web galleries and video. The student will create a cohesive final project of professional quality prints utilizing these new tools supported by critical discussions, readings, and research.
3 Credits
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23-6300 Still/Moving: Photography&Video
This course will examine diverse approaches that include unique hybrids of photo/video, timeless and time-driven content, and simultaneous and sequential imaging. Students will explore the intersections and distinct qualities of each medium. Through referencing historical and researching contemporary photography art practice students will implement practical applications and investigate conceptual possibilities between the still and moving image in relation to their creative practice.
3 Credits
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23-6645 Photographic History, Theory & Criticism: 1900-1989
This course surveys the major issues within the history, theory and criticism of photography from 1900-1989 during which the photographic medium was central to debates about modernism and postmodernism. Close attention will be paid to photography’s relationship to other media such as film, painting, and installation. Students will be exposed to a variety of photographic theories and art historical approaches so that they may situate their work within these art historical, theoretical and critical movements and traditions
3 Credits
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23-6650 Graduate Special Topics:
This graduate-level course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues in photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
3 Credits
COREQUISITES: 23-6700 Graduate Seminar
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23-6650J Graduate Special Topics:
This graduate-level course is designed to respond to current trends and topical issues n photography. The topic changes according to instructor and the needs of the program.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 23-6700 Graduate Seminar
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23-6660 Written Thesis
The purpose of this course is to prepare first semester graduate students for the analytical and creative thinking and writing that are a part of the contemporary photographic art world. Students are introduced to graduate level research methods and become acquainted with cultural theories that currently influence the study of photography. Readings rooted in semiotics, Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, feminism, and post-colonialism address how we understand our particular field of study and our culture. This course stresses the critical skills needed to think and write effectively, with the immediate purpose of preparing students for the papers that will be produced in other graduate level courses and for the Master’s thesis.
3 Credits
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23-6700 Graduate Seminar
This required course for all 1st and 2nd year photography graduate students is an intensive seminar. Students develop a long-term project, increasingly refining their expertise in conceptual ideas and the formal execution of their work. Students will improve their ability to speak and write articulately about their work and the work of others. Discussion of student’s art practice will revolve around issues and concerns in contemporary art. Prominent practitioners from outside the program are regularly invited to engage with and critique student work.
6 Credits
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23-6705 Graduate Forum
A weekly forum led by the graduate faculty allows for a flexible range of learning experiences to compliment students’ ongoing work in Graduate Seminar. These activities include studio visits, visiting artist discussions, and ongoing critical dialogues supported by topical presentations by students, faculty, and short workshops. This course provides weekly opportunities to meet with visiting artists, engage with local exhibitions and curators, and a sequence of graduate faculty to discuss issues that augment the work in Graduate Seminar.
3 Credits
COREQUISITES: 23-6700 Graduate Seminar
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23-6730 Photographic History, Theory & Criticism: 1989-Present
This course surveys the major issues in the history, theory and criticism of photography since 1989, a period defined by the internet, globalization, photography’s rise to art market prominence, and the decline of medium-specific art theories. Close attention will be paid to photography’s intersection with other media - film, painting, and installation. Students will be exposed to a variety of photographic theories and art historical approaches so that they may situate their work within contemporary photographic movements and practices.
3 Credits
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23-6780 Graduate Thesis in Photo
After completion of 2nd year of graduate courses, students continue to develop visual work for their thesis exhibition. Students will meet bi-monthly with their advisors to discuss new work and the refinement of their ideas
1-6 Credits
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23-6785 Thesis Continuance
1 Credits
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23-6791 Photography Study Abroad: Southeast Asia
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
1-6 Credits
Requirements Department Permission
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23-6791J Photography Study Abroad: Ireland
1-6 Credits
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23-6792 Photography Study Abroad: The Netherlands
This three-to-four week intensive course offers an introduction to practicing photography internationally. Students will engage with the historical and contemporary visual culture of a selected country through visits to sites of interest, museums, galleries and educational institutions. Production of a photographically based work, performance, paper or other creative production during the period of travel is required. Collaborative practice and cultural interaction will be encouraged. Students may also have the opportunity to participate in festivals, exhibitions and/or conferences in the country visited. Acceptance based on students’ submission of application. For more information visit
1-6 Credits
Requirements Department Permission
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23-6796 Independent Study:Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6797 Independent Study:Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6798 Independent Study:Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6799 Independent Study: Photo
This course requires that students design an independent project, with the approval of a supervising faculty member and chairperson, to study an area that is not at present available in the curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines their self-defined project.
1-6 Credits
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23-6805 Special Topics in Hybrid Practice
This course examines specific concepts related to an artistic practice that combines photography with other artistic forms. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by theoretical and critical readings; class discussions; and critiques. This course is co-listed with Interdisciplinary Studies.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 23-6700 Graduate Seminar
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23-6805 Special Topicsin Hybrid Practice
This course examines specific concepts related to an artistic practice that combines photography with other artistic forms. Students will create and implement a self-directed, semester-long project aided by theoretical and critical readings; class discussions; and critiques. This course is co-listed with Interdisciplinary Studies.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 23-6700 Graduate Seminar
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23-6850 Research as Creative Practice
This course will guide students through a variety of research methods that informs and motivates their artistic practice to incorporate into their creative work. Students will identify and analyze the themes/questions/issues present in their work while conducting multidisciplinary research (including writers, filmmakers, scientists, and visual and performing artists) with similar concerns. While executing original research, students develop the groundwork for their written thesis that will be produced in the following semester, by producing short drafts of papers and working bibliographies.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 23-6730 Photographic History, Theory & Criticism: 1989-Present
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24-1000 Cinema Notebooks
This course develops critical and analytical skills needed to be a cinema practitioner: focused observation, setting and articulating artistic goals and intentional self-reflection about creative process. We examine contemporary moving image practice in a context of personal and critical analysis and visual literacy and culture. You will research, write and present your work as a series of works-in-progress. We explore the purposes and benefits of creative failure as a necessary process in revising and rethinking personal artistic goals.
3 Credits
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24-1001 Cinema Image & Process
This course uses both visual and aural acquisition as sketching tools in exploring content selection, juxtaposition and space to find and make meaning as a cinema practitioner. The ideation process includes conceptualization through writing as well as storyboarding, prototyping with paper and pencil, and other previsualization methods. Using a variety of cinematic, visual and aural techniques, we explore the relationship between shots by curating images and sound that then requires interaction with an audience through critique and discussion.
3 Credits
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24-1015 Production Design I
Course provides an overview of production design for the visual media by exploring the history and theory of production design, as well as the application of art, design, and architecture to moving image storytelling. Students examine and critique case studies. Instruction covers the process of script analysis and breakdowns to budgeting for the art department. The roles and procedures of the art department will be introduced. Basics of architectural drafting and simple drawing will be covered. Students will be required to serve in the art department of an advanced film production.
3 Credits
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24-1016 History and Techniques of Production Design
The men and women who have become Production Designers have arrived from many different backgrounds. Production Designers strive to create a visual language that encompasses and defines the world we see in film. What techniques have designers developed and how have they evolved since cinemas early beginnings in the silent era, through the studio system, and into the digital age? By exploring the evolution of the profession, as well as the evolution of film both in Hollywood and the wider world, this course will provide historical context for the Production Designer.
3 Credits
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24-1025 CVFX: Topics in Cinema Visual Effects
Rotating CVFX Topic course dedicated to specific areas of study within the cinema visual effects discipline.
1 Credits Repeatable
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24-1027 Next Generation Cinema
This fifteen-week class is designed for students wishing to create and design ‘next generation’ cinema using tools, techniques and methodologies available online and within their cellular phone technologies. Broken down into Past Practices/Present Methodologies & Future Applications, this is a combination History & Workshop Hands-on program.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 52-111
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24-1030 Moving Image Art
Course provides a foundation in the history and aesthetics of moving image arts. Through individual films, clips, lectures, and discussion, students analyze major film movements that contributed to the development of narrative cinema. Organized thematically, course explores aesthetic, historical, technological and ideological moving image elements and their impact on the evolution of narrative construction in cinema. Students apply principles and concepts of film language as well as notions of story premise and theme to their creative production projects.
4 Credits
COREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1151HN Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
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24-1031 Moving Image Production I
Using observational writing, visual and aural sketching techniques, students conceptualize and develop creative projects that are adapted to the short film format emphasizing how aesthetic elements are woven into narrative forms. Preproduction and preparation for production include writing treatments, story-boarding and developing a workflow appropriate to the project. Short film stories are acquired using various audio and visual acquisition techniques. Students learn basic producing, directing, camera operation, lighting, composition and editing.
4 Credits
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24-1080 Directed Study: Production
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in the development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1100 Sound for Cinema: Introduction
This introductory level course discusses theory and aesthetics of sound as it is used in cinema, & develops the workflows and vocabulary used for audio through all phases of production. Students record and edit audio to create stories that demonstrate the elements of a film soundtrack, including dialogue, sound effects, music, lull, and mix.
3 Credits
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24-1180 Directed Study: Audio
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in the development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1200 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.
4 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process or 24-1030 Moving Image Art and 24-1031 Moving Image Production I
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24-1280 Directed Study: Cinematography
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1300 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.
3 Credits
24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process
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24-1380 Directed Study: Directing
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1480 Directed Study: Post Production
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1581 Directed Study: Cinema Studies
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1600 CVFX Supervisor
This course focuses on the visual effects (CVFX) supervisor as artistic author of visual effects, a key creative member of a production who manages the preparations and implementation of computer-generated imagery into a live action production.
3 Credits Repeatable
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24-1680 Directed Study: Producing
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1700 Script Analysis
Course provides students with an opportunity to learn more about various concentrations by examining the methods by which professionals approach, break down, or prepare a script for filming. Students analyze various drafts of scripts from several feature length and shorter films. Beginning with story analysis, class analyzes scripts in relationship to producing, directing, acting, production design, cinematography, editing, and sound design. Scripts’ strengths and weaknesses are discussed in relation to each of the production areas. Course material links with material from each of the major concentration areas in Cinema Art + Science.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-111 COREQUISITES: 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30 or COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97
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24-1701 Idea Development for Cinema
Students will examine their own creative process as well as conceptualize and develop creative projects that can be adapted to the short film format. The goal is to generate a number of viable concepts and ideas that can be stockpiled for future use as well as to learn and implement development techniques by concentrating on a couple of those concepts and bringing them to the pre-production stage. Portfolios developed in this class can be used for future projects.
1 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: COMPASS Placement Test score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
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24-1710 Screenwriting I: Writing the Short Film
Course is a workshop that explores basic methods of writing for cinema which further develop the students’ skills in presenting their ideas in written form. Students will develop craft skills basic to cinema writing: research, story development, scene structure, dialogue, and character definition. Emphasis is on finding visual equivalents for human emotions and on developing the writer’s individual personal vision. This work culminates in the development and revision of two short narrative scripts. Instrumental in the development of the student as a writer is the ability to read, and effectively critique, the work of their peers.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II
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24-1780 Directed Study: Screenwriting
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-1801 Introduction to Documentary
Students will examine in-depth the methods by which non-fiction filmmakers develop, produce and distribute documentary films. Through a series of screenings, lectures, critiques and class discussions, a variety of long- and short-form documentary projects will be analyzed by students in relationship to: story, research, producing, directing, cinematography, editing, sound design, history, aesthetics, ethics and distribution. The class will link with material from each concentration area in Cinema Art + Science - but through the prism of non-fiction filmmaking.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: Computer Application Proficiency EXC score >= 97 or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I or 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1121 International Writing and Rhetoric I or SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) score >= 710 or ACT (American College Test) score >= 30
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24-1810 Topics in Documentary:
Non-production, rotating topics course looks at examples of documentary filmmaking. Such past topics have included cross-cultural filmmaking, the music documentary, and indigenous filmmaking. Students may repeat this course as topics change.
3 Credits Repeatable
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24-1815 DocYourWorld
#docyourworld is a modular course born out of the successful multi-disciplinary collaboration of Cinema Art + Science, Television, Radio, Journalism, Interactive Arts & Media, Creative Writing and Photography over the past two years of the annual event, which bears the same name. #docyourworld brings together students and faculty from across the college along with leaders in the field of the non-fiction documentary form.
3 Credits
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24-1880 Directed Study: Documentary
Course consists of learning activities involving student independence within the context of regular guidance and direction from a faculty advisor. Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.
1-3 Credits Repeatable
Requirements Application Required and Department Permission
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24-2000J Set Decorating Workshop for Cinema
Course provides a hands-on techniques review for set construction and dressing. Instruction covers the entire process, from scene analysis and breakdown, budgeting for the art department, set construction, props and dressing location and procurement, and dressing of constructed set. Strategies of collaboration are discussed.
2 Credits
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24-2001 Cinematic Art in the Land of Leonardo
In this course students investigate Florentine history and art as it relates to contemporary cinema by analyzing, planning, and filming segments from a film script. Special attention is paid to visual perspective, the impact of physical context on visual narrative, individual and collaborative approaches to art making, and the role of patronage, apprenticeship and mentorship. Primary references are Dante’s Inferno , Renaissance perspectival painting, and 20th century Italian Neo-Realism. Each topic is approached from the point of view of performance, photography/cinematography, design, and editing. The course will be of value not only to Cinema Art + Science students but also to actors, photographers, set and fashion designers, and those interested in art history and art criticism.
3 Credits
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24-2003 Production: Fact and Fiction
You will develop, produce, edit and exhibit two short films based on a single ideaby exploring a variety of visual and aural strategies, styles, and production approaches appropriate for both fiction and documentary filmmaking. You will explore developing a point-of-view and narrative structures leading to forming your authorial and personal voice. You will relate fundamental cinematic concepts to your creative process including mise-en-scène, visual and sonic design, intentionality, and audience awareness. Further emphasis is placed on effective small team production techniques.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process or 24-1031 Moving Image Production I
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24-2004 Production: The Cinematic Essay
You will explore your personal voice and vision through a series of brief visual and aural essays focused on a course topic. These cinematic sketches may include a travelogue, diary, impressionistic “news” report, home movie, and real or imagined conversations, and they will lead to a longer cinematic essay expressing a fully developed concept pertaining to the course topic. A variety of visual, sonic and discursive cinematic practices are examined as well as the history and aesthetics of the cinematic essay as a filmmaking mode.
3 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process or 24-1031 Moving Image Production I
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24-2005 The Future of Cinema
In 1971, computer scientist Alan Kay told colleagues, the best way to predict the future is to invent it. This online course is an exercise in speculation, inquiry and virtual collaboration. Participation requires you to approach the possibility of authoring the culture of the future and how you might do that. You will develop questions leading to discussion about what film work will look like, how cinema will be distributed, how teams will collaborate and what your ideal cinema world might look like.
3 Credits
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24-2010 Production Design II
Building on the concepts introduced in Production Design 1 (24-1015), this course expands on the foundation of the student as designer with an emphasis on the development of the visual concept and collaboration with a director and cinematographer. New material includes the creative and technical aspects of the art department as they relate to physical production and location modification. Course covers the traditional skills of sketching, drafting, and concept art and explains how they are used to communicate a designer’s vision to production crews. Students will be required to collaborate with peers on an advanced production.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1015 Production Design I
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24-2014 Production Design Rendering Techniques
Production Design for cinema requires precise visual communication between all departments. This course emphasizes the rendering and drafting techniques necessary to create useful and believable previsualization images of sets, props, keyframes, and storyboards. Focus will be on utilizing elements and principles of design to compose drawings based on observation, understanding and utilizing perspective, and applying shading techniques and lighting.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1015 Production Design I
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24-2015 Cinema Models and Miniatures
Course emphasizes the design and technical ability needed to create miniatures and models for cinema. Film examples will be analyzed for scale, medium, and style. Students will be introduced to physical modeling and sculpting techniques, media, scale, and architectural terms and concepts. Beginning from sketches and draftings, students will design and build miniature objects, environments, and characters utilizing a variety of materials.
4 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 24-1015 Production Design I and 24-2013 Cinema Set Design & Construction or 24-2011 Cinema Props
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24-2030 Project Development, PreProduction, and Preparation
This course explores and practices above-the-line roles and functions for project development, preproduction and preparation. Projects conceptualized, written, and developed are produced in the companion, co-requisite course Moving Image Production II. Students will draft scripts, schedule and budget projects, prepare visual and aural treatments, keep director/producer journals, conduct casting sessions, and critique edits in a team-based approach. Emphasis is on collaboration and team building.
4 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1030 Moving Image Art and 24-1031 Moving Image Production I
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24-2031 Moving Image Production II
This course is a continuation of Moving Image Production I and continues a team-based approach to cinema production. Each team member serves as executive producer for one of four team projects which may include fiction, documentary or alternative forms. Emphasis is on intermediate production protocols including set operations, cinematography and lighting, audio acquisition and intermediate postproduction skills including developing a workflow to completion of the project.
4 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1030 Moving Image Art and 24-1031 Moving Image Production I
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24-2101 Post-Production Audio I
Entry-level Sound for Cinema course offers instruction and exploration into the methodology and skills training of sound design and mixing for cinema. Course includes an introduction to the Digital Audio Workstation for sound editing, enhancement and manipulation, andre-recording mixing of the various categories of cinema sound. Students work on a variety of cinema sound projects that mirror professional practice and foster development of the necessary skills to proceed through the Sound for Cinema pathway.
4 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process or 24-1030 Moving Image Art and 24-1031 Moving Image Production I
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24-2102 Post-Production Audio II
Course explores the post-production techniques used in creating effective audio for cinema. Students develop aesthetic judgment by analyzing a variety of soundtracks and develop technical skills, including track building, ADR, Foley, and mixing, by employing these techniques in the design and creation of their own soundtracks.
4 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 43-2420 Audio for Visual Media I or 24-2101 Post-Production Audio I
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24-2103 Location Sound Recording I
Course introduces students to synchronous audio technologies and applications for cinema. Areas covered include analog and digital recorders, mixers and microphone applications, signal flow, time-code, metadata, production protocols and pre-production strategies for cinema production. Students will become proficient in professional production sound protocols including recording, mixing and microphone applications.
4 Credits
COREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II
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24-2104 Music for Cinema
Students are introduced to the language of cinema and how composers and music supervisors serve the needs of the frame while exploring the functions of the score and music licensing. Textural conceptualization and technology expanding emotional resonance are examined. Understanding the vocabulary of music, contemporary targeting issues impacting tone, voicing, spotting and the business of synchronization to picture are a vital component. Students develop musical application skills using analysis and creative projects to foster and enhance their understanding.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process or 24-2031 Moving Image Production II
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24-2106 The Art and Craft of Foley
This workshop course offers hands-on projects designed to prepare students to cue, perform, and edit Foley tracks as needed for cinema, animation, television, and games. Small class projects will include studio time for performing footsteps, props, and cloth for Foley. Final projects will require the cueing, shooting, and editing of Foley on student projects.
2 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 24-2102 Post-Production Audio II
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24-2107 The Art and Craft of Automated Dialogue Replacement
This workshop course offers hands-on projects designed to prepare students to cue, perform, and edit Automated Dialogue Replacement tracks as needed for cinema, animation, television, and games. Small class projects will include studio time for recording principal performers and group ADR. Final projects will require the cueing, shooting, and editing of ADR on student projects.
2 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-2102 Post-Production Audio II
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24-2206 Cinema Color 2
Course expands upon concepts taught in Cinema Color 1, to deepen students’ competence in the aesthetics and technical aspects of digital image processing and color correction with a focus on the film transfer process. Content addresses advanced theory and application of color correction, image control, and manipulation techniques. Principles of color theory and the tools available to filmmakers are explored through lecture, interactive computer exercises, and hands-on experience with telecine, non-linear editing systems, and third-party applications
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II or 24-3202 Special Studies: Cinematography I or 24-2208 Cinema Color I
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24-2206J Color Correction for Editors
Course is designed for any Cinema Art + Science student, with specific value for the editor. Students acquire a working knowledge of aesthetics and the technical aspects of color correction as it applies to the editing environment. Course involves lecture and practical experience. A portion of the course is hands-on using the color correction programs on Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro NLE systems. Students may bring an existing project to work with during the workshop part of the class or exercises will be provided for them.
2 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-2402 Editing II
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24-2208 Cinema Color I
Course teaches students a working knowledge of the aesthetics and technical aspects of the film-to-tape transfer process and digital image processing with a focus on color correction. Content addresses theory and application of color correction, image control, and manipulation techniques. Principles of color theory and the tools available to filmmakers engaged in the processes of electronic media and image manipulation are explored through lecture, interactive computer exercises, and hands-on experience with telecine, non-linear editing systems, and third-party applications.
3 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-2401 Editing I or 24-2201 Image Design for Cinema
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24-2209 CVFX: Compositing I
Lectures and demonstrations, with supporting materials, along with weekly exercises to reinforce the ideas and principles put forth in these presentations, will guide students toward a solid fundamental understanding of the visual effects postproduction process via the compositing workflow. Students will be given the opportunity to show what they have learned by executing a basic final project at the end of the semester, with a subsequent critique by the class and individually with the instructor.
3 Credits
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24-2210 Introduction to Digital Cinematography
Introduction to Digital Cinematography will show students the similarities and differences between film camera systems and electronic camera acquisition systems, using lecture, demonstration, and example. Building on the fundamental knowledge that students have gained in the Foundation curriculum of Cinema Art + Science Department, students will be shown how the basic functions and relationships in camera systems and support have similar attributes, and similar outcomes, but with sometimes very different methodologies and consequences relative to the production process. This knowledge will be integrally useful for student filmmakers in creative storytelling.
3 Credits Repeatable
PREREQUISITES: 24-2031 Moving Image Production II or 24-1000 Cinema Notebooks and 24-1001 Cinema Image & Process
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24-2301 Cinema Directing I
Course builds upon the relationship between actor, text, and director and expands to include camera blocking, basic scene coverage, additional rehearsal techniques, and effective critiquing skills. Emphasis is on the development of director’s breakdowns, pre-visualization, set-etiquette, and fundamental collaboration with key department heads. Scene work culminates with the blocking and staging of a cinematic narrative scene.
6 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-1300 Acting and Directing Workshop
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24-2302 Comedy Directing Workshop
Course teaches students to develop and direct comic material using a series of in-class writing assignments that are quickly tested through staging and critique. This trial-and-error process helps students develop a unique comedic voice and creates a body of work to be refined and videotaped later in the semester. Course culminates in a short, scripted comedy film, shot outside of class and edited for class review.
6 Credits
PREREQUISITES: 24-2301 Cinema Directing I
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