The courses below were offered in summer 2024. They are listed here to indicate what is typically available during Summer Term. Please check back on December 15, when the full summer 2025 course schedule will be available.
Film and Television
College of Communication
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Storytelling for Film and Television
COM FT 310
Undergraduate Prerequisites: First Year Writing Seminar (e.g., WR 100 or WR 120). - An introduction to the art and craft of storytelling through the moving image. Particular emphasis is given to writing short scripts. Topics covered include character development and narrative structure as it applies to shorts, features, and episodic television. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr.
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Super Heroes in Film
COM FT 460
Online Offering. Focusing on films of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), this course explores the thematic and aesthetic aspects that have made super hero films so popular. Students learn and utilize basic film studies terminology (the close-up, the long take, cross-cutting, etc.) in order to understand how filmmakers create meaning through the use of specific cinematic techniques. In addition, the course contextualizes MCU films by explaining how each has operated within Marvel's cinematic history and its competition with DC. Taking the films themselves and their historical context into consideration, students are introduced to a basic understanding of the field of film studies and the types of analyses those working in the field undertake. 4 cr.
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Storytelling for Film and Television
COM FT 310
An introduction to the art and craft of storytelling through the moving image. Particular emphasis is given to writing short scripts. Topics covered include character development and narrative structure as it applies to shorts, features, and episodic television. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Writing-Intensive Course, Creativity/Innovation. 4 cr.
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Special Topics
COM FT 554
Topic for Summer 1 2024: The Horror Genre - Classic Creatures and Contemporary Scares. Do horror films tap into your inner anxieties? Audiences and scholars have grappled with the genre's fascination with the uncanny and the genre's deeper implications for years. In this course, we will touch on terrifying creatures--from vampires, monsters, zombies and demons--to the psychological realms of body horror and madness. Films may include foundational films like Nosferatu and The Bride of Frankenstein, to horror classics like The Exorcist and Alien, as well as the modern forms of Hereditary, Train to Busan and Get Out. 4 cr.