COURSES TAKEN & SYLLABI BELOW
THEORY: Contemporary World Cinema
This course will examine representative examples of films from around the world to understand the current interest and concerns of world cinema, as well as discern what concerns various countries around the world, and how those concerns are expressed. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Syllabus below.
THEORY: Horror in Western Culture and Cinema
This course is designed to analyze the history, practice and production of the horror film. By examining the horror genre students analyze how cinema is both a reflection of the time it was produced as well as it impacts on art and society. Max hours: 3 Credits
Syllabus below.
PRACTICAL: Lighting, Grip and Sound Introductory Workshop
The purpose of this course is to acquire basic competence with all film/video production equipment. The course acts as an introductory look at maintaining professionalism, efficiency, and safety in film/video sets for cast and crew. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Syllabus below.
PRACTICAL: Production Design
This design research class explores the creative skills, technical knowledge and scholarly engagement employed by production designers. The students will understand how design elements enhance a production and create a production design for a video, film or play. Prereq: FITV 1040. Restriction: Restricted to TFTV-BFA majors within the College of Arts and Media. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Syllabus below.
FOUNDATIONAL: Math for Liberal Arts
Designed to give liberal arts students the skills required to understand and interpret quantitative information that they encounter in the news and in their studies, and to make quantitatively-based decisions in their lives. Topics include a survey of logic and analysis of arguments, identifying fallacies in reasoning, working with numbers and units, linear and exponential relations and essentials of probability and statistics. The emphasis is on applications with case studies in economics, finance, environmental sciences, health, music and science.
Syllabus below.
Summer 2019 University of Westminster
Television in London
DESCRIPTION: Working in one large and several small groups students devise and produce a factual programme realised in a multi-camera studio. Studio-based multi-camera television show. Students work in a large group to produce one 25-minute live magazine programme. Through practice in the studio students learn the procedures and protocols necessary for shooting within a large crew, an ‘as live’ TV studio show. Students learn how to schedule, source talent, produce a running order, design and build a simple set and work collectively towards the recording of a live show in a proscribed amount of ‘on-air’ time. There is an emphasis on collective responsibility and problem solving. Students write a personal log plus a reflective and a critical analysis of the production process and their finished programme.
Syllabus Below in Summer School 2019 Class Catalog
Photographing the City: London
DESCRIPTION: This module is concerned with an investigation of the city as represented through historical and contemporary photography. Through a series of lectures, workshops, photo walks and gallery visits students gain a critical perspective on the city as a social, cultural, architectural and artistic phenomenon. Through a research and development process they focus on an aspect of the city to represent through their own photographic project.
Syllabus Below in Summer School 2019 Class Catalog