Introductory media arts creation and study for non-majors, with emphasis on developing an individual aesthetic for screen and related media.

Carolina Core: AIU

Introduction to the critical study of film, video, photography, audio, and new media.

Carolina Core: AIU

How the film industry developed and the impact the movies have had on global popular culture. Does not count toward the film studies major.

Carolina Core: AIU

Fundamental conceptual and technical aspects of media.

Carolina Core: AIU

Introduction to theory and practice of origination, sequencing, and processing of screen-based and related media art.

Carolina Core: AIU

Introduction to the critical study of film and media. Students will closely analyze moving images and develop written arguments about film and media.

Carolina Core: AIU

Surveys the development of cinema and related media from the 1820s to the present. Attention to the relations among key technological, cultural, and industrial changes, their causes, and consequences.

Carolina Core: GHS

Foundational approaches to media as a means of defining and distributing social power in everyday life.

Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries.

Intensive study of a specific topic in popular film and media. May be repeated up to three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Survey of Classical Hollywood Cinema in aesthetic, cultural, political, and economic contexts.

Exploration of the different forms and functions of stardom and celebrity and investigation of how a variety of performers and performance traditions within the histories of film, television, music and new media can be understood in relation to industrial, technological, and socio-cultural influences.

Survey of the history of African American cinema that engages questions of culture, politics, race, and representation in American society.

Examination of how music guides audience interpretation and shapes Hollywood film style.

Storytelling forms and formats for screen-based and related media arts.

Examination of the superhero within and across media, industries, and eras addressing topics such as genre, style, seriality, remediation, franchising, and fandom.

Examination of the post-1975 blockbuster film phenomenon with an emphasis on marketing, finance, and reception.

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning a medium or mediums other than film. May be repeated up to three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Examination of American television as an industry, art form, medium of social representation, and set of viewer practices.

Introduction to the critical study of African American representation on American television.

The history, politics, and culture of digital and emerging media, including the internet, social media, AI, algorithms, platforms, and smart devices.

Examination of industrial structures, network histories, production cultures, and regulation contexts of contemporary British television.

Aesthetic and communicative elements of audio design for screen-based and related media arts.

Scholarly study of the formal and aesthetic evolutions of graphic novels, comic books, and other related forms.

Study of the history of the American comic book industry.

Intensive study of a specific topic in comics studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Intensive study of a specific topic in film and media centered outside the U.S. May be repeated up to three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Examines representations of the Middle East on screen within multiple media-making traditions and considers their aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions.

Introduction to time-based digital media, concept development, and foundational techniques for video compositing and visual effects.

Survey of the transnational history of Hong Kong action cinema and introduction to critical approaches through which it has been studied.

Survey of Chinese language cinema. Chinese film history and vocabulary with which to discuss film texts. Covers classic leftwing cinema, Hong Kong martial arts films, as well as the Hong Kong, Taiwan, and PRC New Waves. Taught in English. Films subtitled.

Introduction to the theory and practice of motion picture production.

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning film and media forms and/or practices outside the commercial mainstream. May be repeated as many as three times for a total of nine credit hours as content varies by title.

Introduction to the design and development of new media art, including internet-based art, media performance, installation, and interactivity.

Survey of key examples and tendencies in the history of experimental film.

History, theory, and practices of documentary film and media.

Introduction to the process of creating 2D animation in a digital environment, including the 12 principles of animation approached through frame-by-frame practice.

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and program director is required.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Critical study of a popular genre (e.g., horror, science fiction, melodrama), or set of genres, in film and media. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of courses by title. May be repeated as topics vary.

May be repeated once for credit as topic varies by title.

Research in a selected area of media arts.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Advanced study of screenwriting.

Advanced study of feature film writing.

Advanced study of Manga and Anime.

Advanced study of television writing.

Sound production for motion picture.

Narrative for motion picture.

Documentary production.

3D animation production.

Experimental motion picture production.

Motion picture cinematography.

Art and practice of site-based and installation art.

Art and practice of mobile platforms.

Art and practice of media performance.

Art and practice of video game design.

Art and practice of sound art.

Foundational techniques in multidisciplinary software development, specifically of applications designed to present sensitive, sometimes controversial, materials in ways to engender empathic awareness of the interactor.

Selected topics in media arts. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title.

Intensive study of a specific topic in film and media studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Intensive study of a specific topic in film and media history. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Intensive study of a specific topic in U.S. film and media studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Intensive study of a specific topic concerning films produced in a country other than the United States. May be repeated as content varies by title.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 567, FORL 598

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Global Learning

Research in media management and distribution.