Course Catalog Information (24-25)
F/TV 1
Introduction to Cinematic Arts
Course Description
This is an introduction to the close analysis of film and television texts. The course will examine broad questions of form and content, aesthetics and meaning, and history and culture. Covering a wide variety of media, filmmakers, and film movements, the course will explore the diverse possibilities presented by the cinematic art form. Topics include modes of production, narrative and non-narrative forms, visual design, editing, sound, genre, ideology, and critical analysis.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability to critically analyze, interpret, and write about film and electronic media using film-specific language.
- Demonstrate visual literacy through the application of the analytical tools of categories, theories, and ideologies to understand the complex role and function of the cinematic arts in society, including representations of class, race/ethnicity, gender, ability, and sexuality.
- Demonstrate the ability to critically analyze film and television as a technology, business, cultural production/cultural artifact, entertainment medium and art form.
- Demonstrate recognition, description and analysis of formal aesthetics elements of the cinematic arts ie: narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound.
Course Details
- Units
- 4 Units
- Hours
- Weekly Lecture Hours: 4
- Weekly Lab Hours: 0
- Gen Ed
- General Education Class
- Program Status
- Program Applicable
- Credit
- Credit - Degree Applicable
- Transferability
- Transferable to both UC and CSU
- Grading Method
- Letter Grading
Requisite and Advisory
- Advisory(ies)
- EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or ESL 5
- Prerequisite(s)
- Corequisite(s)
Limitations on Enrollment and Entrance Skills
- Limitation(s) on Enrollment
- Not open to students with credit in the Honors Program related course.