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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

  • Offered: Fall 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis WR2 Writing Requirement 2
  • Tags: CAMS Core Courses CL: 100 level

  • CAMS  110.01 Fall 2025

  • Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
  • FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am

  • Sophomore Priority.

    Extra Time Required: Evening screenings

• CAMS 295 Cinema in Chile and Argentina — Storytelling in Context 6 credits

  This course offers a broad historical and cultural overview of Chile and Argentina through a study of fiction and documentary films. It examines significant political and cultural developments including New Latin American Cinema, cinematic diasporas, dictatorship and the return of democracy, commercial consolidation of film industries, and recent films targeting international audiences. The goals of the class are to provide cinematic and culture histories from the 1960s through the present, to equip students with critical and cultural approaches for interpreting and analyzing cinematic practices, and to prepare students for the December OCS study trip to Santiago and Buenos Aires.

  Open only to participants in Carleton OCS CAMS Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina Winter Break Program

  • Offered: Fall 2025
  • Liberal Arts Requirements: IS, International Studies LA, Literary/Artistic Analysis CX, Cultural/Literature
  • Prerequisites:

    Student is a member of the OCS Cinema and Storytelling in Chile and Argentina winter program.

  • Tags: CAMS Elective CL: 200 level LTAM Electives LTAM Pertinent Courses POSI Elective/Non POSC

  • CAMS  295.01 Fall 2025

  • Faculty:Jay Beck 🏫 👤
  • Size:25
  • M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
  • FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm