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CAMS 100 Rock ‘n’ Roll in Cinema 6 credits
This course is designed to explore the intersection between rock music and cinema. Taking a historical view of the evolution of the "rock film," this class examines the impact of rock music on the structural and formal aspects of narrative, documentary, and experimental films and videos. The scope of the class will run from the earliest rock films of the mid-1950s through contemporary examples in ten weekly subunits.
Held for new first year students
- Fall 2024
- AI/WR1, Argument & Inquiry/WR1 IDS, Intercultural Domestic Studies
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Student is a member of the First Year First Term class level cohort. Students are only allowed to register for one A&I course at a time. If a student wishes to change the A&I course they are enrolled in they must DROP the enrolled course and then ADD the new course. Please see our Workday guides Drop or 'Late' Drop a Course and Register or Waitlist for a Course Directly from the Course Listing for more information.
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CAMS 100.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 136 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 136 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 110 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies 6 credits
This course introduces students to the basic terms, concepts and methods used in cinema studies and helps build critical skills for analyzing films, technologies, industries, styles and genres, narrative strategies and ideologies. Students will develop skills in critical viewing and careful writing via assignments such as a short response essay, a plot segmentation, a shot breakdown, and various narrative and stylistic analysis papers. Classroom discussion focuses on applying critical concepts to a wide range of films. Requirements include two screenings per week.
Sophomore Priority. Extra Time required for screenings
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CAMS 110.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 165 Sound Design 6 credits
This course examines the theories and techniques of sound design for film and video. Students will learn the basics of audio recording, sound editing and multi-track sound design specifically for the moving image. The goal of the course is a greater understanding of the practices and concepts associated with soundtrack development through projects using recording equipment and the digital audio workstation for editing and mixing.
Sound Design is offered at both the 100 and 200 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 265; students who have not taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 165.
Extra Time Required. CAMS 165 students will complete additional workshops during the first two weeks of class in order to be familiarized with the audio recording hardware.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Not open to students who have taken CAMS 265.
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CAMS 165.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 138 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 138 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 212 Contemporary Spanish Cinema 6 credits
This course serves as a historical and critical survey of Spanish cinema from the early 1970s to the present. Topics of study will include the redefinition of Spanish identity in the post-Franco era, the rewriting of national history through cinema, cinematic representations of gender and sexuality, emergent genres, regional cinemas and identities, stars and transnational film projects, and new Spanish auteurs from the 1980s to the present.
Extra Time required. Evening Screenings.
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CAMS 212.00 Fall 2024
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 214 Film History III 6 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to recent film history, 1970-present, and the multiple permutations of cinema around the globe. The course charts the development of national cinemas since the 1970s while considering the effects of media consolidation and digital convergence. Moreover, the course examines how global cinemas have reacted to and dealt with the formal influence and economic domination of Hollywood on international audiences. Class lectures, screenings, and discussions will consider how cinema has changed from a primarily national phenomenon to a transnational form in the twenty-first century.
Extra Time required for evening Screenings.
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CAMS 214.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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CAMS 265 Sound Design 6 credits
This course examines the theories and techniques of sound design for film and video. Students will learn the basics of audio recording, sound editing and multi-track sound design specifically for the moving image. The goal of the course is a greater understanding of the practices and concepts associated with soundtrack development through projects using recording equipment and the digital audio workstation for editing and mixing.
Sound Design is offered at both the 100 and 200 levels; coursework will be adjusted accordingly. Students who have taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 265; students who have not taken CAMS 111 should register for CAMS 165.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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Students must have completed the following course(s): CAMS 111 with a grade of C- or better. Not open to students who have taken CAMS 165.
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CAMS 265.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 138 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 138 9:40am-10:40am
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CAMS 400 Integrative Exercise
The senior integrative exercise in CAMS is a self-directed individual or group project. Students will produce a work of significant depth that builds on and synthesizes their coursework in the major. Project options include production of a scholarly paper, screenplay/teleplay, or short film. Alternatively, students may take a written long-form essay exam. Students completing one of the project options will present their work at the CAMS comps symposium in the spring term.
Unless otherwise direct by their advisor, students writing a research paper should enroll in six credits. Students selecting the exam option, writing a short film screenplay, or creating a production project that involves enrollment in CAMS 370/371 should enroll in three credits.
- Fall 2024, Spring 2025
- No Exploration
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Student is a Cinema and Media Studies major AND has Senior Priority.
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CAMS 400.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
- Size:1
- Grading:S/NC
- Credits:6
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