Courses

• CAS CI 390: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
  Topic for Fall 2017, Section A1: Hollywood 1939. Intensive study of films, and literary works adapted into films, made in the greatest year in Hollywood history, including Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach, Wuthering Heights, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Weekly screenings. Also offered as CAS EN 375 A1.
• CAS CI 462: Asian Cinema
  Surveys important and influential films from India, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and elsewhere in East Asia from the 1950s to the present, including works from Satyajit Ray, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Zhang Yimou, Tsai Ming-liang, and Wong Kar-wai.
• CAS CI 490: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
  Two topics are offered in Fall 2017. Students may take one or both for credit. Section A1: Growing Up in Korea. Examines memoirs, prose fiction, film, television dramas, graphic narratives to ask: how have the conventions of Korean coming-of-age narratives evolved over time? What does this say about changes in Korean identity? No knowledge of Korean required. Also offered as CAS LK 470 A1. Section B1: Visual Politics: Propaganda Art, Literature, and "Model Films" during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). A study of "model films," poster art, and literature during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. A critical approach to the larger cultural and political context of socialist art and literature as well as its legacy in China today. Also offered as CAS LC 470 A1 and CAS XL 470 A1.
• CAS CI 510: Critical Studies in Literature and the Arts
  Topic for Spring 2017: Film Theory. Survey of the writing and thinking of influential theorists and critics. Includes screenings of films relevant to the theoretical discussions, and questions how films offer their own ideas about the nature of film.
• CAS CI 537: Fr New Wave
  This course description is currently under construction.
• CAS CI 545: Stanley Kubrick: The Cinema of Dread
  Intensive study of Kubrick's films, from Fear and Desire to Eyes Wide Shut. Readings of pertinent fiction by Nabokov, Burgess, Thackeray, Stephen King, and Arthur C. Clarke. Topics include: black comedy, visionary experience, utopic misanthropy. Weekly screenings. Also offered as CAS EN 593 A1.
• CAS CI 583: TV Theory and Criticism
  This course sets aside evaluative considerations of TV in favor of theoretical and critical approaches that challenge widespread assumptions about the medium and expand our understanding of its role in our lives.
• CAS CI 590: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies
  Six topics are offered for Fall 2017. Make be repeated for credit if section topic is different. Section A1: NBC: Anatomy of a Network. Explores the different stages of TV's development by using NBC as a case study. Examines the ways "America's network" has navigated the transition from radio to TV, monopolistic trends, inter-network competition, programming decisions, conglomeration, threats from cable and the Internet. Pre-req: CAS CI 303 or COM FT 303. Section B1: Cordless TV. Focuses on differing ways of watching television beyond the television set. Explores ideas of on-demand television and its effects on how television is made and marketed, what audiences are targeted, and how outlets like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are changing the television industry. Pre-req: CAS CI 303 or COM FT 303. Section C1: Writing Film & TV Criticism. Examines both the history of film and television criticism and current practices in a variety of mass media. Students write reviews and thinkpieces that blend insightful analysis with an engaging voice. Pre-req: COM FT 250 or either CAS CI 303 or COM FT 303. Section D1: American Masterworks. A survey of American cinema from the silent era up to recent times, including films directed by such figures as Griffith, Chaplin, Keaton, Ford, Hawks, Capra, Welles, Hitchcock, Ray, Cassavetes, Altman, and Malick. Considers production history and cultural context. Section E1: Foundational Masterworks of American Independent Film. The foundational masterworks of American independent film. Focus on the masterworks created by the first generation of American independent filmmakers--works that changed American film history and continue to inspire generations of independent filmmakers with their example. Section F1: Race, Gender, and Sci-Fi. Explores race, gender, and sexuality as central to science fiction on film and television via Alien, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among other works, to gauge how sci-fi has been used to fantasize radical elsewheres, engage Otherness, and confront issues from enslavement to artificial intelligence.
• CAS CL 101: The World of Greece
  The literature, philosophy, art, and culture of ancient Greece and their impact on the Western tradition. Topics covered include the emergence of epic poetry; art and lyric in the Archaic Age; drama, architecture, philosophy, and political developments of classical Athens and Greece. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 102: The World of Rome
  An introduction to the world of the ancient Romans, as viewed in their literature, culture, and art. Discusses their origins, army, family life, religion, and education, and their legacy in our own time. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 111: Latin 1
  Introduction to grammar, forms, and vocabulary of classical Latin.
• CAS CL 112: Latin 2
  Further study of Latin grammar, forms, and vocabulary.
• CAS CL 115: Intensive Latin
  Intensive Latin grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, equivalent to the two-semester introductory Latin sequence (CAS CL 111/112) and covered in a single semester. Completion of this course prepares students for second-year Latin courses (CAS CL 211/212).
• CAS CL 121: What Is a Good Life? Ancient Wisdom and Modern Insights
  Close examination of literary and philosophical texts from the ancient world and modern psychology that address the question of what constitutes a good life. Themes include: selfhood and the pursuit of happiness, individualism and communities, love, and health.
• CAS CL 161: Greek 1
  Introduction to grammar, forms, and vocabulary of ancient Greek.
• CAS CL 162: Greek 2
  Further study of ancient Greek grammar, forms, and vocabulary.
• CAS CL 202: Warfare in Antiquity
  Examines both strategic and tactical aspects of warfare in antiquity, as well as the political, social, and economic factors that shaped or derived from the experience of ancient battle. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 205: Origins of Writing
  Overview of the world's major writing systems: Egyptian and Mayan hieroglyphs; Sumerian and Akkadian cuneiform; West Semitic consonantal scripts (abjads); East Asian scripts; runes; Greek and Roman alphabets. Considerable linguistic component supplemented by historical information about ancient languages and cultures. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Also offered as CAS LX 205.
• CAS CL 206: Women in Antiquity
  An overview of the image and reality of women's lives in antiquity (with a focus on women in Classical Greece). Topics include: the role of women in ancient religion; images of the female in mythology; ancient ideas of love and sexuality; the family in ancient Athens and Sparta. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS CL 211: Latin 3: Prose
  Reading of selections from Latin prose. Authors read may include Caesar, Cicero, Livy, Petronius, and Pliny.

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