Critical Approaches to Film

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Overview

Subject area

FLM

Catalog Number

4900

Course Title

Critical Approaches to Film

Department(s)

Description

Critical Approaches to Film provides students with an in-depth understanding of a specific film genre, filmmaker, national cinema, or critical issue. It is a communication-intensive course in which students engage theoretical and methodological topics through the close study of specific films. This course serves as the capstone course in the Film Studies Minor, although non-minors are also welcome. Topics vary from semester to semester; students may enroll in this course more than once if the topic is different. See Semester's Special Topic(s) for this course.

Typically Offered

Fall, Spring, Summer

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

Yes

Total Completions Allowed

33

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Course Topic ID

1

Formal Description

The City and Film

Course Topic ID

2

Formal Description

Immigration Cinema

Course Topic ID

3

Formal Description

HISTORY OF US TELEVISION

Course Topic ID

4

Formal Description

American Film of the 1970

Course Topic ID

5

Formal Description

Women Behind the Camera

Course Topic ID

6

Formal Description

Critical Approaches to Film 

Course Topic ID

7

Formal Description

Spanish Cinema

Course Topic ID

8

Formal Description

Four American Directors

Requisites

031100

Course Schedule