MACS 104

Spring 2023 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 17-May 3

Introduction to Film

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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as ENGL 104. See ENGL 104.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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MACS 104 class schedule data for spring 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	56841	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:00AM -9:50AM	MWF	148 Armory	Slobodnik, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: We all like films, but do you know how film has developed over time as a technology, as a social institution, and as a political tool? Do you know how films vary around the world, or why we as film viewers understand and enjoy them? Come and explore these questions in small classes that allow you to have meaningful discussions with accomplished faculty and other smart, engaged students. By the end of this course, you’ll have acquired the skills to appreciate and analyze movies of many different genres, styles, time periods, and cultures. Students in this course will need access to online streaming services to watch at least one film per week. Course work includes quizzes, papers, and one or more exams. Intro to Film is an appropriate prerequisite for more advanced film courses in English and MACS. This course earns 3 credit hours and qualifies as a General Education course in Humanities and the Arts.
	56838	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	148 Armory	Claborn, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: We all like films, but do you know how film has developed over time as a technology, as a social institution, and as a political tool? Do you know how films vary around the world, or why we as film viewers understand and enjoy them? Come and explore these questions in small classes that allow you to have meaningful discussions with accomplished faculty and other smart, engaged students. By the end of this course, you’ll have acquired the skills to appreciate and analyze movies of many different genres, styles, time periods, and cultures. Students in this course will need access to online streaming services to watch at least one film per week. Course work includes quizzes, papers, and one or more exams. Intro to Film is an appropriate prerequisite for more advanced film courses in English and MACS. This course earns 3 credit hours and qualifies as a General Education course in Humanities and the Arts.
	56842	Lecture-Discussion	E	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	148 Armory	Claborn, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours
	56845	Lecture-Discussion	M	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	148 Armory	Slobodnik, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: We all like films, but do you know how film has developed over time as a technology, as a social institution, and as a political tool? Do you know how films vary around the world, or why we as film viewers understand and enjoy them? Come and explore these questions in small classes that allow you to have meaningful discussions with accomplished faculty and other smart, engaged students. By the end of this course, you’ll have acquired the skills to appreciate and analyze movies of many different genres, styles, time periods, and cultures. Students in this course will need access to online streaming services to watch at least one film per week. Course work includes quizzes, papers, and one or more exams. Intro to Film is an appropriate prerequisite for more advanced film courses in English and MACS. This course earns 3 credit hours and qualifies as a General Education course in Humanities and the Arts.
	56844	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	259 English Building	Hansen, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: SP23 MACS 104 Intro to Film - Jim Hansen: The Art of Cinema - This course introduces students to film aesthetics through the analysis of film form, style, and history. The course aims to familiarize students with the language of cinema as it evolved technologically, historically, and generically over the past century. Through screenings, readings, discussion, and writings, students will develop a appreciation of film and acquire a general awareness of film history and its key movements from its beginnings as a black and white silent art form through to the contemporary global digital age. Beyond teaching students how to recognize and describe formal choices and techniques, the course will also invite students to read a film carefully, attending to the aesthetic significance of formal choices and technical innovations. We’ll look at the conventions of narrative film, the employment of formal techniques like the close-up, point of view, editing, framing, special effects, color, and the use of sound . Concentrating on questions about film as an aesthetic form, we’ll also consider the changing role that the spectator has played in relation to the moving image and how film’s relationship to ideology has evolved over time. Students will be required to participate in class, contribute weekly journals, and take two exams. Films will include: City Light, Casablanca, Double Indemnity, Bicycle Thief, Hara-Kiri, Vertigo, Dr. Strangelove, Taxi Driver, Do the Right Thing, Clueless, Fargo, Inglorious Basterds, Lady Bird, and Moonlight
	56840	Lecture-Discussion	Y	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	148 Armory	Kimutis, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Credit: 3 hours Section Info: We all like films, but do you know how film has developed over time as a technology, as a social institution, and as a political tool? Do you know how films vary around the world, or why we as film viewers understand and enjoy them? Come and explore these questions in small classes that allow you to have meaningful discussions with accomplished faculty and other smart, engaged students. By the end of this course, you’ll have acquired the skills to appreciate and analyze movies of many different genres, styles, time periods, and cultures. Students in this course will need access to online streaming services to watch at least one film per week. Course work includes quizzes, papers, and one or more exams. Intro to Film is an appropriate prerequisite for more advanced film courses in English and MACS. This course earns 3 credit hours and qualifies as a General Education course in Humanities and the Arts.

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