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Introduction to Film Studies

Subject code

MDC

Course Number

100

Course Title

Introduction to Film Studies

General Education Category

Arts and Humanities

Semester Offered

Fall and Spring

Prerequisite

ENG 091 with a grade of "C" or higher or reading placement test score as established by District policy

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.