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Course Catalog Information (24-25)

F/TV 1H
Introduction to Cinematic Arts - HONORS

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. Because this is an honors course, students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain deeper insight into the discipline of cinematic arts.

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.

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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 non-Honors related course.
Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.