Courses - CMS Spring 2024

Listings for future quarters are tentative and subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the UW Time Schedule. For a listing of all courses potentially offered, see the Course Catalog.

Spring 2024

CMS 270 A: Perspectives on Film: Introduction

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / KNE 210
SLN: 12432
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to film form, style, and techniques. Examples from silent film and from contemporary film.

CMS 274 A: Perspectives on Media: Critical Concepts

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / KNE 110
SLN: 12433
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Provides an introduction to media studies, with particular attention to critical concepts including, but not limited to, audience studies, formal analysis, and ideological critique. Specific media analyzed varies.

CMS 295 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12434
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis

  • MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm / SAV 264
SLN: 12435
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to the analysis of film. Covers major aspects of cinematic form: mise en scene, framing and camera movement, editing, and sound and color. Considers how these elements are organized in traditional cinematic narrative and in alternative approaches.

CMS 303 A: Genre Studies

  • TTh 10:30am - 12:20pm / HRC 155
SLN: 12436
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Introduction to the history and significance of genre in film and/or television. May examine one or a selection of several genres, drawn from a list including, but not limited to, the western, melodrama, musical, thriller, sitcom, film noir, and documentary. Topics include form, ideology, authority, history, innovation, and parody.

CMS 310 A: History of Film: 1895-1929

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / CLK 120
SLN: 12437
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Film history from its beginnings in the 1890s through the golden era of silent film in the 1920s. Topics include the invention of major film techniques, the creation of Hollywood and the studios, and movements such as expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism.

CMS 313 A: History of Film: 1989-Present

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / DEN 303
SLN: 12438
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Addresses the latest trends in international filmmaking typically with an emphasis on world cinema and issues of globalization and diaspora. Sometimes taught in conjunction with the Seattle International Film Festival.

CMS 314 A: History of Television

  • TTh 3:30pm - 5:20pm / GWN 201
SLN: 12439
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Covers issues, problems, and themes in the history of televsion. Topic may include changes in television styles and representional forms, television's historical relationship with other media, transitions from broadcast to satellite through cable and digital distribution, and television's changing audiences.

CMS 320 A: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 1:00pm - 2:20pm / SMI 305
SLN: 12440
Instructor:
  • Andre Schuetze
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 320 B: Cinema and Nation

  • MF 1:30pm - 3:20pm / CDH 125
SLN: 12441
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 320 C: Cinema and Nation

  • TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm / DEN 159
SLN: 21486
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Examines the cinema of a particular national, ethnic or cultural group, with films typically shown in the original language with subtitles. Topics reflect themes and trends in the national cinema being studied. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / MOR 221
SLN: 12442
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Cinema & Media Studies Core
GE Requirements Met:
  • DIV
  • A&H
Approaches film and related media as socially and politically engaged practice, with focus on screen media produced or received in "opposition" to dominant cultural and entertainment industry norms. Topics vary.

CMS 395 A: Study Abroad

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12443
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • TTh 11:30am - 1:20pm / CMU 326
SLN: 12444
Instructor:
  • Kimberlee Gillis-Bridges
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • SSc
  • A&H
Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 470 A: Advanced Screenwriting

  • MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm / CHL 101
SLN: 21564
Instructor:
  • Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Students hone their understanding of screenwriting techniques; enhance their editing/critiquing skills; and develop their own screenplays, synopses, and treatments of various genres, including but not limited to silent, poetic, dramatic, and news-based scripts. Prerequisite: CMS 370.

CMS 480 A: Senior Capstone

  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / CDH 115
SLN: 12446
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Capstone for Cinema
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Capstone course in cinema and media studies. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CMS 301.

CMS 480 B: Senior Capstone

  • TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm / THO 335
SLN: 12447
Instructor:
Department Requirements Met:
  • Capstone for Cinema
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Capstone course in cinema and media studies. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CMS 301.

CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12448
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Individual study of topics in cinema and media studies by arrangement with the instructor and the Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media Department advising office.

CMS 491 A: Internship

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12449
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open to upper-division cinema and media studies majors with approval of departmental internship supervisor.

CMS 497 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • MW 1:30pm - 3:20pm / SAV 131
SLN: 12450
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Varying topics in cinema studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 497 B: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

  • MW 10:30am - 12:20pm / MEB 245
SLN: 21637
Instructor:
  • Warren Etheredge
Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
  • A&H
Varying topics in cinema studies. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 573 A: Aesthetics

  • W 12:30pm - 3:50pm / SMI 111
SLN: 12451
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Inquiry into such areas as the sensory perception, cultural valuation, or close analysis of cinema and media. Formal, theoretical, and philosophical approaches. Content varies. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 590 A: Master of Arts Essay

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12452
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Research and writing project under the supervision of a faculty member. Offered: jointly with C LIT 590; AWSpS.

CMS 599 A: Special Seminar or Conference

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12454
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Group seminars or individual conferences scheduled to meet special needs. Prerequisite: permission of graduate program adviser. Offered: jointly with C LIT 599.

CMS 599 B: Special Seminar or Conference

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12455
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Group seminars or individual conferences scheduled to meet special needs. Prerequisite: permission of graduate program adviser. Offered: jointly with C LIT 599.

CMS 600 A: Independent Study or Research

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12456
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 600 B: Independent Study or Research

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12457
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 600.

CMS 800 A: Doctoral Dissertation

  • to be arranged / * *
SLN: 12458
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Department Requirements Met:
GE Requirements Met:
Offered: jointly with C LIT 800.