Film Studies 494PI - Practices of Film Studies

Film is never confined to the cinema, home theater, laptop, tablet, or phone where it plays. Rather, it radiates in innumerable ways out into the people and institutions that constitute our world, shaping, reflecting, challenging, and guiding us. As you complete your studies at the University, consider how your college experience has prepared you for the future. How do the film classes you have taken in theory, history, genres, and national and transnational cinemas inform your creative work in screen media? Likewise, in what ways have production courses in screenwriting, filmmaking, television production, and digital media influenced your intellectual engagements with audiovisual art and media? How do you experience films and television differently? How do you see the world differently? Ultimately, who are you becoming over the course of your studies, and how are you positioned for your future life and work? In this class, you will draw on your college career so far and all the work you have done in Film Studies, bringing together what you have learned in diverse areas of the study and discovering the foundations you have built for your future life as a maker, a thinker, and a member of your community and of the world. This course satisfies the Integrative Experience (IE) requirement for the Film Studies major. Undergraduate Film Studies Certificate Category: IV, V BDIC - Film Studies Major Category: IE, E

1 intro Film & 2 300/400-lvl