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This survey of fashion of the Western world introduces historic dress as an inspiration and a design resource for students of fashion design and fashion buying and merchandising. The evolution silhouette and the cut and construction of men’s and women’s garments are analyzed using slides of paintings, drawings, sculpture and historic costume. Contemporary examples in fashion are compared to their historic sources.

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Please see “Independent Studies” section.

Please see “Independent Studies” section.

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This course will give students skill in drawing fashion figures and deals with contemporary idealized proportions used for fashion today for both fashion design and fashion merchandising. Students will develop individual style in their presentation, and learn to use their drawing as a means of communicating their ideas and designs.

• Advisory: FASHN 2 and FASHN 9A.

This course provides the student with advanced techniques used to illustrate fashion and is for students of fashion design or fashion merchandising. Techniques are taught that are used for quick and realistic sketching and rendering with water color to illustrate various designs and textures.

Formerly CINEMA 9.

This course introduces students to the aesthetic or formal properties of cinema, including narrative, performance, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound. Students then examine genre filmmaking and different modes of cinematic representation, including animated and avant-garde cinema, as well as works in documentary and nonfiction.

This course is intended as a beginning course to introduce students to cinema.

• Advisory: FILM 1.

Formerly CINEMA 10.

This course introduces students to the ways scholars have explained cinema as an art form, entertainment, and social force since the late 1800s. It begins with theories connected to the early development of cinema and moves on through the mid-20th century. It then examines theories emerging today as cinema intersects with new forms of expression. Students will learn to use theory in analyzing cinema, composing essays and presentations for popular and academic contexts.

• Advisory: ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGL 1).

Formerly same course as ENGL 11.

This course explores the process of transforming works from various sources — including literature, television, radio, video games, comic books, and historical events — into movies. Students will study various approaches to adapting source material into cinema, the expressive powers and limitations of the sources in question, and how to evaluate the adapted work in relation to its original format.

This course examines short-form cinema — movies under 60 minutes in length — from different periods and parts of the world, including those that are narrative, experimental, documentary, and animated in nature. Students will also explore the challenges and opportunities of short-form cinema, from economics and aesthetics to exhibition in theaters, film festivals, television, the Internet, and cell phones.

This course examines subjects in Film Studies that do not fit within the confines of existing courses. These could be issues of interest to our specific region, community, and student populations, or areas of faculty research in the field.

Formerly CINEMA 1.

A broad survey is made of the history, theory, techniques, and development of motion pictures. The history of film as a major art form and its major artists, works, and styles are emphasized. Film examples are screened in class.

• Advisory: ENGL C1000 (formerly ENGL 1).

Formerly CINEMA 11A.

This course is designed to teach the student the basic tools of scriptwriting for film, television, or theater, focusing on the aesthetic and commercial demands of each medium.

• Prerequisite: FILM 20.

Formerly CINEMA 11B.

This course is designed to provide intermediate level training in skills required to create scripts for film, television, or theatre. Techniques of writing and marketing scripts are explored.

This course introduces documentary film and media through a formal, historical, social and political perspective. Focuses on analysis of various types of domestic and international documentaries with a wide range of subject matter.

• Advisory: FILM 20.

Formerly CINEMA 3.

This course is designed for students who are interested in transforming a creative concept into a practical production plan. By viewing, discussing, and analyzing scripts, television, and film, students will learn skills necessary to start production of a film or video.

This is an introductory course covering both the basic techniques of digital filmmaking and of critical appreciation, while emphasizing students’ personal and creative expression. Topics will include the theory and practice of visualization, the grammar of cinematic storytelling, the aesthetics of various film movements, camera technique, lighting, sound recording, directing, and other fundamentals related to learning the craft of digital filmmaking. Students will engage in critical appreciation and individual and group analysis of movies, as well as in filming exercises under the direct and continuous supervision of their instructor.