Subject code
MDC
Course Number
100
Course Title
Introduction to Film Studies
General Education Category
Arts and Humanities
Semester Offered
Fall and Spring
Prerequisite
Activity
No
Course Fee(s)
No
Description
This course is an introduction to film analysis that examines critical approaches of authorship, genre, presentation, and narrative. Students will become literate in the language of cinema and learn basic film concepts, techniques, and terminology in an effort to appreciate films more completely. The course examines how films are shot, tell stories, develop characters, and depict physical reality through the combined, constructed medium of sound and image.