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CLCS 3208: Studies in Film History
Course Type: Undergraduate standalone lecture
Course Level: 3000 (3 credits)
Films are historical documents and exist as parts of larger cultural spheres. Among many other issues, films reflect economic realities and scientific knowledge, national obsessions, behavioral conventions, and societal transformations. In addition, the technological possibilities film makers have at their disposal determine many of the aesthetic and stylistic choices they can make.
The course aims to provide an overview of the global development of film as an artform, and to develop a comparative study of elements of novelty and wonder in cinema around the world. Films are selected to be both characteristic for the development of world cinema, and productively feeding into the fascinating dimension of Cinema itself. We will encounter different national, cultural, religious, and ideological settings, in order to examine and discuss these works of art within their specific historical context and investigate their impact on the future of filmmaking.
By the end of the semester, students should be able to:
- Identify classic films from around the world, the time periods in which they were made, and the typical characteristics of films of those time periods.
- Use appropriate cinematic language and terminology to analyze films.
- Recognize the historical, social, political, and artistic contexts of films.
- Explain the evolution of the history of film from its origins to the present day.
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General Education Courses
CLCS 1101 Classics of World Literature I
Course Type: Large lecture and discussion sections
Course Level: 1000 (3 credits)
This course is an introduction to canonical works of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, as well as Europe, from antiquity to the early modern period (1600). Taught in English.
CLCS 1102 Classics of World Literature II
Course Type: Large lecture and discussion sections
Course Level: 1000 (3 credits)
A comparative approach to representative works of culture of Europe, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, from the Renaissance (1600) to the present. Taught in English.
CAMS 1101. Greek Civilization.
Course Type: Hybrid
Course Level: 1000 (3 Credits)
A survey of classical Greece, with emphasis on literature, thought, and influence on contemporary culture. Taught in English.
CAMS 1103. Classical Mythology
Course Type: Online, 1000 (3 Credits)
Origin, nature, and function of myth in the literature and art of Greece and Rome and the re-interpretation of classical myth in modern art forms. Taught in English.