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2020-2021 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses

As a reminder, all courses have been renumbered beginning with the Fall 2018 semester. Click on Course Number Look-up Tool.
 
  

  • CCCX 113 Curiosity in the City: Monsters, Marvels and Museums

    Freak shows, serial killers, medical oddities, and flesh-eating beetles are all part of the Chicago experience. This course is an interdisciplinary study of curiosity and wonder, incorporating philosophy, science, and history to investigate the threshold between shadow (the unfamiliar) and light (the known). Celebrating the marvelous and the macabre is part of a long history of collecting, reaching back to the wonder-cabinets of the late Renaissance. Chicago museums were leaders in the post-Darwinian transformation from sideshow to legitimate science. In this course we will explore three categories of strange Chicago (monsters, marvels, and museology) as case studies to understand the nature of curiosity. Themes will include the nature of knowledge (e.g., credulity, skepticism, collecting and constructing nature, etc.), the borders of human and inhuman (natural and moral monsters), and the hidden oddities of urban natural history. In addition to reporting on a few strange sites in Chicago, each student will make their own curiosity cabinet (a personal artistic/intellectual statement).

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 113
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 113H Curiosity in the City: Monsters, Marvels and Museums: Honors

    Freak shows, serial killers, medical oddities, and flesh-eating beetles are all part of the Chicago experience. This course is an interdisciplinary study of curiosity and wonder, incorporating philosophy, science, and history to investigate the threshold between shadow (the unfamiliar) and light (the known). Celebrating the marvelous and the macabre is part of a long history of collecting, reaching back to the wonder-cabinets of the late Renaissance. Chicago museums were leaders in the post-Darwinian transformation from sideshow to legitimate science. In this course we will explore three categories of strange Chicago (monsters, marvels, and museology) as case studies to understand the nature of curiosity. Themes will include the nature of knowledge (e.g., credulity, skepticism, collecting and constructing nature, etc.), the borders of human and inhuman (natural and moral monsters), and the hidden oddities of urban natural history. In addition to reporting on a few strange sites in Chicago, each student will make their own curiosity cabinet (a personal artistic/intellectual statement).

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 113H
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14) and Honors Student (HONR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 114 50 Years of Civil Rights in Chicago

    A half century ago the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr brought the civil rights movement from Selma to Chicago, and shocked a nation that thought racial oppression was just a Southern thing. Today, exactly 50 years later, young American men and women hardly out of their teens – including Columbia College students – are playing a role in the critical issues summarized by black lives matter. The City of Chicago – its people, its history, its culture – are on the front lines of a newly energized struggle for civil rights. And it is true today, as it was 50 years ago, that The Whole World is Watching. Students in this course will engage with the people and institutions that have made our city an international focus for social change. They will use public relations techniques to document and communicate the past and current state of civil rights in Chicago. And looking toward graduation, they will prepare for their careers a whole lot smarter, ready for intelligent, emotional engagement with the realities of diversity in America today.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 114
    DEI FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 115 Heard in the Hood: Social Media Storytelling From Chicago’s Neighborhoods

    This course gives students the opportunity to tell stories from Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods using mobile apps such as Instagram and Vine to document the community. Students in this course will learn basic smartphone photography, video, and best practices for using social media. Students will look at how journalists and storytellers use social media to report and to engage because social media without engagement is just media. Students also have the opportunity to learn how to verify information and find credible Tweets in a sea of Tweets. What does a politician’s social media account really tell you about what’s going on in a neighborhood? Students will use investigative skills to find out. This course is for students who love telling stories with the latest mobile technology. Everyone in the course is a storyteller and journalist, and at the end of the semester, students should have a small body of work to show for it.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 115
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 116 Podcasting Chicago: Capturing the Sounds of Chicago’s Neighborhoods

    The course emphasizes the art of listening with a focus on Chicago’s unique neighborhoods, engaging students by employing them to study, travel to, and listen for the sounds of the city in communities like Chinatown, Little Italy or Pilsen. Students will record the sounds of the neighborhoods (with the help of Radio Department teaching assistants) and then create a series of audio podcast episodes through words and particularly the captured sounds. The goal is to create a series of audio documentaries that are, in essence, a sound mosaic of the city of Chicago that will be featured in a podcast series deliverable online.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 116
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 117 Chicago Film History

    Chicago Film History is a screening, lecture, and discussion course with a two-fold purpose. It explores Chicago’s formative role in the creation of the Hollywood system and analyzes how Chicago has been represented in American narrative and documentary features. In particular, it’s divided into four units. Unit I uses Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the U.S Film Industry to review how Chicago functioned as the center of American film production pre-Hollywood. Unit II explores images of Chicago in genres such as gangster films, film noir, and romantic comedies. Unit III covers Chicago documentaries. Lastly, Unit IV contains in-class presentations where students synthesize their own analyses and research in front of their peers.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 117
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 118 Flagships, Boutiques, Popups and More: Chicago, a Retail Innovation Lab

    Chicago has been a retail destination shop since the days of fur traders and, later, retail pioneers like Marshall Field and Richard Warren Sears. Today, Chicago is still a retail giant for residents and tourists alike, featuring a multitude of retail flagships (Crate & Barrel, AT&T, NikeTown, UnderArmor, American Girl, Warby Parker, Uniqlo, Eataly, Walgreens’ State Street Store.) as well as some of the most exciting boutiques and pop-up concepts anywhere in the world (think Transistor, Wolfbait & B-girls, Open Book).

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 118
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 119 Chicago Means Business: The Creative Leadership of Our City

    This course will connect incoming first-year students with the urban landscape of Chicago by exposing them to various facets of the cultural industries in the city: festivals and live events; sports; music; digital media; design; fine, visual and performing arts; and others. Through various interactive projects as well as and group and online discussion forums, the students will explore and experience Chicago’s creative industries.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 119
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 120 Big Chicago: Dance, Sex and Popular Culture

    This class explores how Chicago’s rich dance history and contemporary practices–from the Savoy to Soul Train–circulate throughout and influence popular culture. Readings, discussions, performances and close viewings reveal dance in popular culture as texts that reflect culturally held ideas about sexuality, race, class and gender. The class introduces students to Chicago through and exploration of Chicago’s house, footwork and stepping dance cultures, as well as its contemporary concert dance scene. Popular television dance shows Bring It!, Dance Moms and So You Think You Can Dance, and popular performances by artists in music videos, film and television such as Beyoncé, Katie Perry, Nikki Minaj and Taylor Swift are also interrogated to see how they articulate contemporary socio-political ideals through their dancing bodies, or the bodies that dance for them. Social media sites including Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr are critically engaged as pertinent sites of public discourse.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 120
    DEI FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 121 Did You Just Flip Me Off?? Deaf People and Linguistic Diversity in Chicago

    Chicago is a global city, and its linguistic diversity reflects its cultural richness. This course will survey the topics of signed languages and their structures, Deaf Culture, and the vibrant Deaf community in Chicago. Students will also explore Chicago’s neighborhoods and dynamic linguistic diversity. Topics include the history of American Sign Language, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Deaf art and storytelling, and the linguistics of cross-cultural dialogue. Additionally, students will explore ideas of disability and privilege through the lens of the many museums and cultural landmarks in Chicago.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 121
    DEI FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 122 The Late, Late Afternoon Show

    The Late, Late Afternoon Show will expose students to the best and the brightest across Chicago’s vivid cultural landscape. The class is taught through a talk show/interview format, allowing each week’s featured guest to share their life and work experiences in the arts. Students will race across the city to experience music venues, museums, theatres, performances, art exhibits, design shows and all the human-made beauty a world-class city’s culture provides.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 122
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 123 Chicago: Creating a Cinematic Diary

    The city provides a dynamic space to experience immediate methods of personal inquiry, creativity, sharing, experimentation and self-expression. Using focused observation through image and sound acquisition and curation, students will set, articulate and re-examine artistic goals through intentional self-reflection about their emerging creative process through making increasingly sophisticated cinematic diary entries. The course employs two types of expression and exploration: writing using images and sounds and writing using text and voice in ways that require students to explore thought and expression that are metaphorical, aesthetic, contextual and personal. Activities are grounded in a number of needed future skills: design sense, novel and adaptive thinking, media and digital literacy, information literacy, transdisciplinarity, social intelligence, collaboration and connectivity.

    For more information go First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 123
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 124 Chicago: City of Stories

    The spirit of a place is most aptly captured by its artists. Writers in particular have long been fascinated with the city of Chicago. The literary tradition in Chicago is rich and varied. From the politically conscious poems of Gwendolyn Brooks, to the fantastic imaginings of L. Frank Baum and Ray Bradbury, to the blue collar portraits and tales of Studs Terkel, Nelson Algren and beyond. Chicago’s contribution to the pantheon of storytelling goes without question. The city is at the forefront of the modern graphic novel renaissance, and was the birthplace of the poetry slam. In this lecture hall class, students will survey the history of Chicago literature and storytelling from the Great Fire of 1871 to the present. The course will examine the literary history of the City of Big Shoulders and learn to understand the profound impact the city will have on their own sense of story and development as artists. The course will not only place the city in literary context, but will help students discover the many voices at the center of this complex, vigorous, beautifully paradoxical city. In doing so, students will begin to discover the most important voice of all-their own.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 124
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 125 Death and Desire in Chicago

    In this course we will use texts in literature, science, and the arts, in the context of the City of Chicago, to frame an exploration of human representations of the relationship between death and desire. Walking the city and on excursions to locations such as The Art Institute of Chicago, The Field Museum, Chicago Museum of Sex, The Cambodian Memorial Museum, Cook County Forest Preserves, and Chicago city parks and cemeteries, students will be invited to consider the visual, physical, and spatial manifestations of theoretical concepts such as: the abject, decay, ancestry, legacy, fetish, jouissance, the erotic, evolution, and symbiosis. Texts, visits, and events range from the murders during the 1893 World’s Fair to deaths caused by the 1995 heat wave; from Chicago’s identity as the slaughterhouse of the world to its current reputation as a world class food city; from its geologic history as a site of widespread destruction and extinction to its reputation as having one of the more vibrant queer cultures in the United States. Students will create a working artist/design journal as a site of artistic and academic observation and reflection to explore their experiences, research, and ideas presented in the class. Students will also use social media platforms such as Instagram and Twitter to aggregate personal observations and data to be analyzed in a final course reflection.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 125
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 126 Chicago: Design of Cities and Social Justice

    In this course, we investigate Chicago as a hub for activism and social change through the lens of architecture, urban planning, design and the arts. Students will be invited to consider the physical and virtual places and spaces and objects that constitute and define the city of Chicago and the Chicagoland region. Students will learn of Daniel Burnham, the architect and visionary urban planner who, in the early 1900s, proposed access to clean air, green space, civic engagement and cultural life for Chicago’s residents. On walking tours and site visits throughout the city, students will examine and critically evaluate the current condition of Chicago’s urban and civic spaces against the backdrop of Burnham’s plan. Students will investigate how different people and organizations throughout the region contribute to access for services in health, nutrition, safety and the environment for Chicagoans. Students will be introduced to models of grassroots and community engagement that open up spaces for dialogue, action, agency and continued transformation and vitality.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 126
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 127 Chicago Fashion Tribes

    Women’s Wear Daily once described dress code unifiers as fashion tribes; calling out those that flaunt their sartorial signage to show who they run with. Fashion in Chicago is shaped by mainstream brands and local style tribes. A hundred years before there were brand name stores in every town or shopping online, Chicago was the capital of the mail-order catalog industry, providing and distributing ready-to-wear clothing and accessories for the masses. Nowadays, with a diverse population of close to three million people, it is possible to see high fashion and street style in the same neighborhood. Add to the mix the diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religions, political beliefs and ideologies, then Chicago represents a fascinating fashion fusion; a global experience without leaving the city. Students will observe and participate in the function of fashion as a form of belonging. With a focus on observing and documenting fashion tribes, and identifying their own, students will learn how fashion can define, incorporate and galvanize by expanding their understanding of what makes Chicago style unique.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 127
    DEI FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 128 Made in Chicago: The City of Art and Design

    Chicago has served as the home of the surrealist art collective The Hairy Who?, an incubator of innovative African-American graphic design, the site of vibrant Latino/a murals, a cradle of forward-thinking urban photography, and a crossroads for civil rights and gay liberation visual culture. This course examines Chicago as a national and international center for art and design. Students will have the opportunity to travel across the city to explore, understand, and engage with historic and contemporary art and design objects in a process of hands-on inquiry and experiential learning. In the classroom, there will be lectures, discussions, and group/individual projects to address topics like the role of cities as cultural incubators, the importance of images in understanding cities, the role of art and design as a tool for empowering diverse communities, and students’ role in Chicago’s current art and design culture. The course pairs with artdesignchicago.org, an unprecedented series of exhibitions and programs across the entire City of Chicago in 2018.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 128
    DEI FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 129 Chicago: The Third Coast

    The blue horizontal lines that frame the iconic red stars on the Chicago flag represent Lake Michigan and the Great Canal, waterways that link the City across time and space to the development of modern America. In this course students will learn about the human and natural history of the Chicago Portage and the Continental Divide, and about the rich history of technological innovation that created the complex network of canals, railroads, highways, and air corridors that make the city an unrivaled transportation hub. While this network contributed directly to Chicago becoming an industrial, retail, and financial powerhouse and was a beacon to adventurers, entrepreneurs, and artists, it had negative effects on the environment. Students will explore this history through class lectures, discussion, song, and field trips to a variety of City locations and will use a journal as a site of artistic and academic observation and reflection to document some of the scientific, environmental, technological, artistic, and historic features of this great crossroads metropolis.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 129
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 130 Chicago Latinx! Community, Culture and Citizenship

    Chicago is a multi-ethnic city, and the Latino community is one of the most vibrant and active today. But what’s in a name? What’s in a place? What are the connections between an urban space like Chicago and the communities that call themselves Latina/o, Hispanic, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, Salvadoran? Some of them are recent immigrants and need to navigate a culture and a language unfamiliar to them; some of them were born here and need to straddle more than one culture and language; some are scarcely aware of their cultural and linguistic origins. And then there is the rest of the population who constantly interacts with these communities. This course delves into the issues of Latin@/Latinx ethnicity and culture in the urban space of Chicago–through language and literature, music and food–as we discuss questions of migration, cultural citizenship, and identity.

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    FE
    Requirements New Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 131 Big Chicago: Epicenter of Popular Culture

    From the invention of pinball machines and video games; the invention of gospel music and the electrification of the blues-and serving as ground zero for the Black Arts Movement-Chicago has always played a pivotal role in the evolution of 20th Century popular culture. Columbia College Chicago has long been at the crossroads of this cultural wellspring. This course is an interdisciplinary study of the city’s contributions to the pantheon of pop. From the first Ferris Wheel to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “Epicenter of Popular Culture” will challenge students to explore and understand the city’s contributions to modern culture and ask them to consider the question, “Why does pop culture matter?” Students across all areas of study will benefit from gleaning a deep-rooted understanding and appreciation of Chicago as a mecca for American and global popular culture. Along the way, students will begin to ponder their own contributions to the tradition, challenging them to truly understand the concept of “authoring the culture of our times.”

    For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    FE
    Requirements New Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 199 Big Chicago

    Led by top scholars and practitioners in their fields, these first semester courses connect students to the city of Chicago and encourage reflection on those experiences with a cohort of student peers. Students investigate aspects of Columbia College Chicago’s diverse urban and cultural setting. Courses introduce students to different learning environments, issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and deeper ways of engaging the urban contexts and communities of Chicago. 

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 199
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 199H Big Chicago: Honors

    Led by top scholars and practitioners in their fields, these first semester courses connect students to the city of Chicago and encourage reflection on those experiences with a cohort of student peers. Students investigate aspects of Columbia College Chicago’s diverse urban and cultural setting. Courses introduce students to different learning environments, issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and deeper ways of engaging the urban contexts and communities of Chicago.

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information and section descriptions go to First Semester Experience: Big Chicago: Honors

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly FEXP 199H
    FE
    Requirements Freshman Only (FF14) and Honors Student (HONR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 210 Art, Design, and Change

    In this course, students will explore concepts of community engagement within the practices of art and design. The class will examine how individuals and institutions collaborate to employ creative practices that address social justice. Students will learn skills, strategies and principles of social practice to build toward successful reciprocal engagements with community groups. Through a series of site visits, case studies and interviews, students will investigate the aesthetics, structure and practice of artists, performers and designers who seek to affect social change. Strategies for fundraising, assessment, research and reflection will be considered within the context of Chicago-specific projects.

    For more information go to Creative Communities

    Repeatable: N
    DEI CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 211 Chicago Performs

    Students in this class will explore the performance of self, performance in the everyday, performance as ritual, as well as performance on the stage and screen. Through engagement with culturally diverse performances, community partners, and critical analysis of introductory text in dance, theatre, and performance studies, students will draw on their specific skills and interests to articulate course concepts in writing and in collaborative interdisciplinary performance projects and installations. As collaboration is a key component of this course, a portion of each class session will be devoted to the development of skills necessary to create a final performance in small groups. 

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to Creative Communities: Chicago Performs

    Repeatable: N
    DEI CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 212 Fashion Ethics and Aesthetics

    This interdisciplinary course engages the city of Chicago as a site for investigating the ethics and aesthetics of contemporary fashion. Building on the foundational experience of the first semester Big Chicago courses (and specifically, “Chicago Fashion Tribes”), this course frames fashion as one of the most polluting and exploitative global industries as well as a creative medium through which designers can challenge inequality and further environmental and social justice initiatives. In thinking broadly about the ethics of fashion, this course takes a deep dive into tough topics such as environmental sustainability, fast fashion, sweatshop labor and style piracy, and will introduce students to local actors who are using the medium of fashion to effect meaningful change in Chicago and beyond. Through site visits, participant observation, craft-based workshops and community partnerships, students will be challenged to develop an understanding of the place they occupy in the fashion system, to devise actionable solutions to the myriad problems plaguing the industry and to hone their creative and critical voices as future leaders in the fashion industry.

    For more information go to Creative Communities

    Repeatable: N
    DEI CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 213 Listening to the City

    This course explores communities connected through sound. Such communities form through networks both local and virtual, coalescing around shared interests in particular genres and venues, roles and expertise, economies and missions. Through reading, deep listening, discussion, and construction of sonic artifacts, students will engage with foundational theories of auditory culture while they encounter the city through sound.

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to Creative Communities: Listening to the City

    Repeatable: N
    DEI CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 214 Social Objects

    This course encourages students to explore some of the diverse ways that human groups create and use material objects, including but not limited to: decorative art, clothing, gifts, utilitarian items, religious icons, modes of transportation, digital “things,” and communication devices. Students will engage with current theories of the material world; examine case studies about the manufacture, trade, and use of objects from around the world; investigate how objects mediate relationships among individuals and community groups; and create their own “social objects.”

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to Creative Communities: Social Objects

    Repeatable: N
    CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 215 People, Power, and Narrative

    This course focuses on stories people tell about themselves and their communities. By collecting, analyzing, and retelling stories, students will develop a sharper understanding of how and why people use stories to make sense of their lives and local environs. Students will learn about life stories, help make hidden stories visible, and establish connections between diverse stories and diverse communities. Through the process of discovering, understanding, and relaying narratives, students will establish deeper ties with their own communities at the college and in the city.

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to Creative Communities: People, Power, and Narrative

    Repeatable: N
    DEI CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 216 Write in Place

    Offered in specific geographical locations, this course enables students to participate in creative ecosystems built around a community of interest in writing, reading, literature, narrative, and other art forms that include a written component. Through an on-site, immersive experience, students engage with the culture of each place in order to see their work in the context of other writers’ and artists’ work. Students examine the personal and social contexts for creativity, with special attention to the roles of location, culture, and history on creative identity and expression. Students reflect upon how, as creative individuals, they respond to the world around them, and to consider the ethical implications for cultural representation in literary and artistic forms, while exploring possibilities afforded by cross-cultural and collaborative experiences. Through their own creative practice and scholarly endeavor, students are encouraged to interrogate and challenge traditional assumptions and understandings of the creative communities they engage with, locally and globally, and to locate themselves within their creative continuum.

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to Creative Communities: Write in Place

    Repeatable: N
    CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 299 Creative Communities:

    Creative Communities builds on the foundational experience of First Semester Experience (Big Chicago). In this class students will draw on their interests and skills to investigate and understand global and local creative ecosystems that are built around communities of interest, communities of practice, and/or communities of purpose. Students will develop tools for responsive engagement with contemporary creative practices, materials, and concepts, as well as strategies and skills for working with interdisciplinary collaborators, in order to contribute to community and public good.Course content encourages integrative thinking and is specific to the expertise and experience of the faculty instructors and the department offering the course.

    This course offers multiple topics sections. For more information go to Creative Communities:

    Repeatable: N
    CC
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 310 Accessible Chicago

    In this class, the topic of disability access provides a focus for employing a range of ideation strategies to imagine and create a future for fully accessible communities. Students will investigate barriers in site-specific situations, and create proposals and plans of action to address and remedy inaccessibility. Rather than approaching any given disability as a ‘problem to solve,’ the course emphasizes inclusivity of human diversity. Together, we will explore the political, social and cultural aspects of a number of disabilities as we work to create a world that is fully accessible to all. The larger goal is for students to take the lessons learned in this course, to apply to them to their own disciplines, and to be change agents for a better, more accessible world.   

    For more information go to Innovation and Impact

    Repeatable: N
    DEI INIM
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 311 Cultivating Food Equity

    Have you heard the phrase, “eating from the rainbow?” Nutrition experts say, the more colorful the food on your plate, the more nutrients in each meal. Loading up a plate with colorful foods isn’t always easy for many in Chicago and other urban areas who don’t have access to well-stocked, affordable, and accessible grocery stores. In this Innovation and Impact class, students will research a variety of food sources in Chicago and imagine how to cultivate a more equitable food supply chain in an urban market. Through site visits, research, interviews, and real-life role play, students will better understand the underlying causes of food deserts that impact health and wellness. What would food equity look like in the future for an urban city like Chicago? Students will deliver a solution-oriented final project that may address physical grocery needs, opportunities to grow food, programs to educate, or any other possible solution that addresses a root cause.

    For more information go to Innovation and Impact

    Repeatable: N
    DEI INIM
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 313 Locked Out and Unsheltered

    In this Innovation and Impact course, students will collaboratively develop new solutions for future 18 to 25-year-old young adults who are experiencing homelessness. Course materials and discussions will explore causes, current alternatives, unmet needs, and most importantly, self-empowering opportunities. Students will also research diversity, equity, and inclusion issues that unsheltered young adults may face based on gender identity, sexual orientation, race, culture, current government systems, etc. Employing site visits, interviews, social media listening and projective techniques, and iterative design, students will evaluate, propose, and execute a project that explores issues, opportunities, and solutions for young adults experiencing housing insecurity/homelessness.

    For more information go to Innovation and Impact

    Repeatable: N
    DEI INIM
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 314 Social Justice Creative Placemaking

    In this course, students will collaborate with each other to explore new futures for public spaces that focus on an equity-based, social justice theme. Examples of public spaces include parks, public venues, walk and bike ways, public buildings, and other places where people gather to share and build community. Students will research social, technical and policy issues around public space with consideration to gender, age, race, ethnicity, poverty and health. Through site visits, research and iterative design, students will learn to assess, propose, and plan a project. Students will produce a final proposal addressing social justice through an equity-based creative placemaking plan that incorporates research and input from stakeholders in the community. 

    For more information go to Innovation and Impact

    Repeatable: N
    DEI INIM
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 315 Media & Social Justice

    #marchforourlives #blacklivesmatter #metoo #climatechangeisreal are just a few examples of many social justice issues vying for the attention of the masses. Why do some rise to the top of the public consciousness while others struggle? It’s all about effective use of media, from strategy to messaging to content. Our focus will be on the strategic use of media to fight inequalities and prejudice using entrepreneurial thinking, communication skills and technology. In this Innovation and Impact course, students will learn how a community can use media to steer conversations, grab attention, deconstruct power and, ultimately, gain resources to have an equitable impact on a specific issue of social justice. Through interviews, case studies, archival research, and weekly journal entries, students will develop a baseline understanding of media outreach practices that foreground community agency. The semester-long collaborative inquiry will conclude with group presentations of strategic, equity-focused media developed in dialogue with community leaders.

    For more information go to Innovation and Impact

    Repeatable: N
    DEI INIM
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CCCX 399 Innovation and Impact:

    Innovation and Impact courses build on the experience of Creative Communities. In this class, students will employ an entrepreneurial mindset to understand how equity-focused innovation can drive sustained social, economic, and cultural impact. By using entrepreneurial thinking to generate ideas and put those ideas into action, students will learn to recognize and cultivate opportunities for a range of innovative projects such as business ventures, social and civic services, and creative projects in media, arts, and design. Designed as a transformative Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) education experience, the class will offer structures for students to assess, leverage and add to their own skill sets through transdisciplinary collaboration and proactive self-evaluation practices. Beginning with the critical interrogation of case studies and sites, students will employ methodologies connected with business, technology and communications in order to create a proposal/portfolio deliverable for a new business, social venture, and/or speculative enterprise.

    For more information go to Innovation and Impact:

    Repeatable: N
    SP DEI INIM
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 101 Liberal Arts Chemistry

    This introductory chemistry course includes the exploration of the high prevalence of chemical occurrences in the world. Topics such as chemical terminology, atomic structure, bonding, reactions, acids and bases, oxidation and reduction, and nuclear chemistry are considered. Materials from organic chemistry, biochemistry, and polymer chemistry are integrated into discussions and lab activities to demonstrate practical application of everyday substances.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1210
    SL
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 105 Scientific Investigation

    Course provides an introduction to the basic principles and uses of forensic science. The basic applications of the biological, physical, chemical, medical, and behavioral sciences currently practiced and limitations of the modern crime laboratory are presented.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1211
    SL
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 110 Concepts of Biochemistry

    Includes basic chemical and biochemical principles and an insight on the latest breakthroughs in the field. Topics may include functioning of metabolism, cell signaling, hemoglobin abnormalities, DNA and ancestry, cloning, etc. Specially designed laboratory experiments help the student to discover the hidden side of life. The student will be able to make connections between bio-molecules and functioning of living organisms, disease, forensic tests, environmental issues, and biotechnology.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1215
    SL
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 115 Chemistry and Art: Textiles and Dyes

    Course focuses on natural and synthetic textiles, their chemistry, properties, and applications. Paper and dye chemistry is extensively covered. Dye synthesis and interaction of fibers with vat, reactive, acidic, basic, azoic, and mordant dyes are also investigated. Special emphasis is placed on the extraction of natural dyes from plants.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1220
    SL
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 116 Chemistry of Advanced Textile Fibers

    The course focuses on the chemical composition, intermolecular and intramolecular interactions, micro and macro structure of natural and manufactured fibers, highlighting scientific principles involved in the making, use, and postconsumer life of these fibers. Basic examples of natural fibers, such as cotton, wool, silk, bast-fibers, and relevant examples of manufactured fibers, such as polyester, nylon, rayon, azlon are investigated. Additionally, the course introduces students to recent developments in the field of advanced and functional fibers, and to the environmental impact of fiber production and use.

    Repeatable: N
    SC
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 120 Chemistry of Art and Color

    Course deals with atoms and molecules and how they create color or light and reflect and absorb light (dyes and pigments). Topics include additive and subtractive color mixing; interference, or iridescence, which is demonstrated through niobium anodizing; history and chemistry of pigments; and various paint media, including encaustic (or wax), egg tempura, linseed oil, gouache (or gum Arabic), fresco, calcium compounds, and oriental lacquers. The chemical reactions that set these paints are discussed.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1224
    SL
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 125 Chemistry of Photography

    Chemical processes behind all major photographic methods are explored in this course. These processes include: daguerreotypes, black-and-white, color, non-silver, image making using alternative materials such as gum dichromate, holography, and xerography. Science of additive and subtractive color mixing is also explored. Laboratory experimentation constitutes significant part of course.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1226
    SL
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 130 Chemistry of Artifact Conservation

    Chemistry of Artifact Conservation will explain the principles of the scientific method through the study of core chemical concepts critical to the science of conservation. Students will review molecular/atomic structure, chemical equations, and chemical bonding. Next, students will engage in a more in-depth study of the nature of liquids and solutions, organic solvents, and acid/base chemistry. Lastly, conservation specific topics such as polymer chemistry, mechanical cleaning techniques, oxidation and reduction reactions in cleaning, and adhesives will be investigated.

    It is highly recommended that students take CHEM 120 Chemistry of Art and Color  first.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1228
    SL
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 135 The Chemistry of Science Fiction

    In this course, chemistry depicted in science fiction stories, novels, television programs and the cinema will be utilized to teach important chemical concepts in such areas as: atomic structure and the periodic table; nuclear chemistry; temperature and heat; acid/base and oxidation/reduction reactions; gases and their chemistry and also from the field of nanotechnology.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1230
    SC
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 140 Material Science Technology

    This laboratory course provides practical knowledge of the ever expanding use and development of materials in today’s world. Material Science Technology is a multidisciplinary approach to science and technology that teaches students to better understand the properties and uses of materials. It combines scientific theories, practical applications and technology, and actual hands-on experiences to prepare students to work in a technologically rich environment.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1240
    SL
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 145 Crime Lab Chemistry: Solving Crime Through Analytical Chemistry

    A multi-disciplinary approach to the contemporary issues of science and the law provides the student with the general knowledge and ability to understand applications of science in society. Students study basic principles of scientific investigation and the application of sciences to evidence and law. A significant part of the course includes hands-on laboratories; evaluation of DNA evidence; and projects where students incorporate their interests and majors with what they learned in the course.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1280
    SL
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHEM 150 Chemistry of Food and Nutrition

    This course provides a hands-on learning opportunity through laboratory experimentation of the basic chemistry of nutrition. The human body is a complex network of interdependent systems, which operate using chemicals provided by foods. The focus is on the six nutrients: carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and water. Monitoring of intake with nutrient analyses is included. Health depends on our choice of foods and our lives depend on providing the right fuel for the chemical reactions that grow and sustain our bodies.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-1511
    SL
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 201 General Chemistry I

    General Chemistry I is a laboratory-intensive course. Content of the course includes the foundations of chemistry and problem-solving strategies; atoms, molecules and ions; balancing chemical equations and reaction stoichiometry; types of chemical reactions and solution stoichiometry; gases; thermochemistry; atomic structure and periodicity; chemical bonding and liquids and solids. It is highly recommended that students have had one year of high school chemistry.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-2270
    SL
    Prerequisites MATH 210 College Algebra  orACCU-T-75 EXAM-ACCUPLACER MATH MINIMUM SCORE = 75  or ACT-M-25 EXAM-ACT MATH MINIMUM SCORE = 25  or SAT-M-580 EXAM-SAT MATH MINIMUM SCORE = 580  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 202 General Chemistry II

    General Chemistry II will expand upon the core chemical concepts from General Chemistry I. Students will continue their study of general chemistry with problem solving activities and laboratory investigations of the properties of solutions, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, solubility and complex ion equilibria, spontaneity, entropy, free energy, electrochemistry, the representative elements, and transition metals and coordination chemistry.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-2271
    SL
    Prerequisites CHEM 201 General Chemistry I 
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHEM 305 Organic Chemistry

    Organic chemistry is the study of carbon-containing compounds and their derivatives. Organic chemistry is laboratory course which focuses on bonding principles, functional groups, isomerism, stereochemistry, nomenclature, synthesis and reactions of hydrocarbons and their derivatives. Laboratory activities include micro-scale techniques, basic separations, purifications, syntheses, as well as infrared spectroscopy and instrumental analysis.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 56-3270
    SL
    Prerequisites CHEM 110 Concepts of Biochemistry  or CHEM 202 General Chemistry II  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CHIN 101 Chinese I: Language and Culture

    This course for beginners introduces active control of the sound system, basic grammar and vocabulary, to develop proficiency in understanding, reading, speaking and writing standard Mandarin Chinese. Cultural appreciation is enriched through Chicago-area resources.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 47-1351
    HU GA
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CHIN 102 Chinese II: Language and Culture

    This course continues the work begun in Chinese I to help students communicate in Chinese and further develop skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students expand knowledge of and appreciation for the Chinese culture and Chinese-American culture of the U.S., especially in Chicago.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 47-1352
    HU GA
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 102 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1000
    Concurrent Requisite CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 103 Cinema Image and 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1001
    Concurrent Requisite CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 104 Fundamentals of Casting

    This course introduces the fundamental practices, etiquette and protocol for casting cinema productions. Sources of actors, methods of posting calls, offers and booking sheets and implementing SAG guidelines are presented and examined. The role and value of a casting director and their collaboration with directors, producers and line producers is covered. A standard protocol for scheduling and running casting sessions from pre-reads through chemistry tests is developed with an emphasis on professionalism.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1301
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 105 Production Design Fabrication Basics

    Production design is both an artistic and industrial enterprise. In order to be an effective designer, one must have a thorough grounding in the techniques of safe and efficient fabrication. This course introduces students to the art, math and science of the common materials and processes necessary to the creation of props, sets and dressing for cinema production design.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-1011
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 107 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1015
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 110 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1016
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 113 Cinema Makeup and Makeup Special Effects

    The goal of this course is to give a broad overview of the responsibilities of the makeup artist on a film or television production and to show how makeup interacts with other departments. The class will also cover specific techniques and tools used in creating makeup looks for cinema, including historical period styles, aging, light special effects and gore. Students will learn how to create a budget, a character proposal, and to work with other members of a production team.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1017
    Requirements Sophomore Standing or Above (SO)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 114 The Art of Editing and Postproduction

    Through lectures, clips, simple exercises and demonstrations, this introductory course will explore the art and mystery of film editing and the editor. From the creative edit through the finishing disciplines, this investigation is a valuable inquiry for filmmakers no matter their particular discipline.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 117 Introduction to Producing

    This introductory course provides an overview of all aspects of film and TV producing from creative affairs to production management. This course exposes students to each phase of making film and TV from ideation/ development to exhibition, and introduces students to creative exploration, establishing themselves as artists relative to the world around them.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 118 Introduction to Sound for Cinema and Television

    This introductory course covers theory and aesthetics of sound as it is used in cinema and television, emphasizing visual storytelling through audio.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1100
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 121 Lighting I

    Course introduces the physics of motion picture lighting for students with little or no lighting experience. Students become familiar with important safety procedures and the use of standard lighting equipment. Special attention is given to important light measuring techniques using incident light meters and spot meters, quality of light and lighting ratios. Course encourages intelligent, thoughtful approaches to the aesthetics of lighting.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1200
    Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks  and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process  or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling  and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CINE 125 Introduction to Digital Cinematography

    This beginning course in digital image acquisition technology introduces students to basic camera systems through lecture and hands-on exploration. Students will become proficient in the use of digital cameras, monitors and data management tools. Shooting exercises reinforce the tools available to a beginning cinematography student as a way to enhance storytelling.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1210
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 128 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 24-1300
    Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks   and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process  or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling  and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 130 Editing I

    Course helps students develop the basic non-linear editing skills needed to tell stories effectively through screenings, practical hands-on assignments, using NLE editing software, readings, and lectures. Organizational skills needed to handle NLE offline digital video and audio materials are covered. Editing exercises consist of various editing genres, using scenes from longer works. Students receive ongoing critiques of their work to determine their proficiency of craft and creativity.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1401
    Concurrent Requisite CINE 131 Editing I Studio  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 131 Editing I Studio

    This course is required concurrently with Editing I. Students develop basic skill in the use of a digital editing platform in completing the Editing I course exercises, as well as investigating current technical developments and digital workflow concepts. Content is presented through demonstrations, tutorials and hands-on practice using visual and audio media. Students receive ongoing critique, quizzes and one-to-one problem solving to determine their proficiency and advancement in the use of the platform.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1401B
    Concurrent Requisite CINE 130 Editing I  
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 135 Photoshop Workshop for Editors

    Intensive two-day seminar course in Photoshop assists editing students in video finishing. Photoshop can be used as a tool for graphics production for film and video. Students will learn titling, alpha channels, mattes, etc.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1426
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 140 Script Analysis for Cinema

    This 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. Script 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1700
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 142 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.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-1701
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 143 World Cinema I

    This course examines the world cinema up until World War II. Emphasis is placed on major directors, national cinemas, and movements that contributed to the development of narrative cinema. Screenings will be discussed for their aesthetic, historical, technological and ideological significance. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the material.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2550
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 144 World Cinema II

    This course examines the world cinema after World War II. Emphasis is placed on major directors, national cinemas, and movements that contributed to the development of narrative cinema. Screenings will be discussed for their aesthetic, historical, technological and ideological significance. Students will research and write papers and be involved in a number of other in-class and online research activities to help engage them actively with the material.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2551
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 145 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1710
    Prerequisites ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 148 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 and Television Arts - but through the prism of non-fiction filmmaking.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-1801
    Prerequisites MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling   or ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 180 Studies 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.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-1810
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 181A Studies in Editing

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing editor or filmmakers who wants to explore particular aspects of editing and postproduction in depth. Classes include lectures, film clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the subjects that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CINE 181
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 181B Studies in Editing

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing editor or filmmakers who wants to explore particular aspects of editing and postproduction in depth. Classes include lectures, film clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the subjects that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 181C Studies in Editing

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing editor or filmmakers who wants to explore particular aspects of editing and postproduction in depth. Classes include lectures, film clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the subjects that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 181D Studies in Editing

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing editor or filmmakers who wants to explore particular aspects of editing and postproduction in depth. Classes include lectures, film clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the subjects that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 181E Studies in Editing

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing editor or filmmakers who wants to explore particular aspects of editing and postproduction in depth. Classes include lectures, film clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the subjects that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 182A Topics in Cinematography

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing cinematographer or filmmaker who appreciates the importance of visual storytelling. Suggested topics include introduction to cinematography; cinematography aesthetics; the role of lighting in storytelling; choreography of camera for story; editing from a cinematographers POV; blocking for camera; optics and lensing; etc. Topics address relevant camera and visual subjects that merit in depth exploration. Classes include lectures, films clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CINE 182
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 182B Topics in Cinematography

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing cinematographer or filmmaker who appreciates the importance of visual storytelling. Suggested topics include introduction to cinematography; cinematography aesthetics; the role of lighting in storytelling; choreography of camera for story; editing from a cinematographers POV; blocking for camera; optics and lensing; etc. Topics address relevant camera and visual subjects that merit in depth exploration. Classes include lectures, films clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 182C Topics in Cinematography

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing cinematographer or filmmaker who appreciates the importance of visual storytelling. Suggested topics include introduction to cinematography; cinematography aesthetics; the role of lighting in storytelling; choreography of camera for story; editing from a cinematographers POV; blocking for camera; optics and lensing; etc. Topics address relevant camera and visual subjects that merit in depth exploration. Classes include lectures, films clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 182D Topics in Cinematography

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing cinematographer or filmmaker who appreciates the importance of visual storytelling. Suggested topics include introduction to cinematography; cinematography aesthetics; the role of lighting in storytelling; choreography of camera for story; editing from a cinematographers POV; blocking for camera; optics and lensing; etc. Topics address relevant camera and visual subjects that merit in depth exploration. Classes include lectures, films clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 182E Topics in Cinematography

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing cinematographer or filmmaker who appreciates the importance of visual storytelling. Suggested topics include introduction to cinematography; cinematography aesthetics; the role of lighting in storytelling; choreography of camera for story; editing from a cinematographers POV; blocking for camera; optics and lensing; etc. Topics address relevant camera and visual subjects that merit in depth exploration. Classes include lectures, films clips, written papers and/or exercises. Students choose to register for the topic/semester that best address their interests and needs.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 183A Studies in Sound for Cinema and Television

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing filmmaker or sound engineer who wants to explore particular aspects of sound for cinema and television in depth.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly CINE 183
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 183B Studies in Sound for Cinema and Television

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing filmmaker or sound engineer who wants to explore particular aspects of sound for cinema and television in depth.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 183C Studies in Sound for Cinema and Television

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing filmmaker or sound engineer who wants to explore particular aspects of sound for cinema and television in depth.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 183D Studies in Sound for Cinema and Television

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing filmmaker or sound engineer who wants to explore particular aspects of sound for cinema and television in depth.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 183E Studies in Sound for Cinema and Television

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest to the developing filmmaker or sound engineer who wants to explore particular aspects of sound for cinema and television in depth.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 184 Seminar in Producing

    This course consists of topics of interest to the developing filmmaker with an interest in producing. It will provide an indepth exploration of aesthetics, history, and cinematic trends from a producer’s perspective. Subjects may include the producer/director power dynamic; the rise of the female producer; international co-productions; and the art and business of film analysis.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-3606
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 1



  

  • CINE 202 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2001
    GA
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 203 Production: Fact and Fiction

    Students will have the opportunity to develop, produce, edit and exhibit two short films based on a single idea by exploring a variety of visual and aural strategies, styles, and production approaches appropriate for both fiction and documentary filmmaking. Students will also have the opportunity to explore developing a point-of-view and narrative structures leading to forming their authorial and personal voice. Students will relate fundamental cinematic concepts to their creative process including mise-en-scène, visual and sonic design, intentionality, and audience awareness. Further emphasis is placed on effective small team production techniques.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2003
    Prerequisites TELE 230 Production and Editing I   or CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks  and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process  or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling  and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 204 Production: The Cinematic Essay

    Students will have the opportunity to explore their 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2004
    Prerequisites TELE 230 Production and Editing I  or  CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks  and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process  or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling  and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 205 Cinema Props

    Course emphasizes the safety, construction, and planning skills necessary to design, estimate, and construct three dimensional specialty props, models and miniatures for cinema. Emphasis is on the collaborative skills of transforming images from a designer’s sketches and concept art to working drawings and full three dimensional construction props. Techniques include carving, molding, casting, as well as scaling of paint and dress techniques for miniatures.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2011
    Prerequisites CINE 105 Production Design Fabrication Basics  and CINE 107 Production Design I  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 208 Cinema Set Design and Construction

    This course introduces the planning and fabrication skills necessary to design, estimate, and safely construct motion picture sets. Students will learn the basics of hand-drawn drafting to create working drawings and cost estimating for budget creation. Students will collaborate on in-class projects, gaining hands-on experience in construction techniques, shop safety, and the uses of common construction materials as they relate to set construction.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 24-2013
    Prerequisites CINE 105 Production Design Fabrication Basics  and CINE 107 Production Design I  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • CINE 209 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2014
    Prerequisites CINE 107 Production Design I 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • CINE 211 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.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 24-2101
    Prerequisites CINE 102 Cinema Notebooks  and CINE 103 Cinema Image and Process   or MEDI 101 Cinematic Storytelling  and MEDI 102 Cinema and Television Production  or  JOUR 351 Multimedia Photo Essay  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  
 

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