FILM AND FILM-RELATED COURSES AT ST OLAF, 2008-2009
Art 229 Narrative Video ProductIon Prof. Dave Ryan
Open to first-year students by permission only.
ALS-A MWF 0200-0400PM
Art 104A Foundation New Media Prof. Dave Ryan
MWF 0800-1000
Art 104B Foundation New Media Prof. Dave Ryan ALS-A MWF 1045-1245PM
English 374 Screenwriting Staff
MWF 0200-0255PM
Integrative Studies 214 American Film History Prof. Diana Postlethwaite
ALS-A WRI MWF 0905-1000 M 0700-0930PM
How has American film both reflected and shaped American lives? This seminar will explore both classic and contemporary Hollywood in its artistic, cultural, technological and economic contexts. Films studies will range from silent movie classics, screwball comedy, film noir and the Hollywood musical through the work of Scorsese, Coppola, and Spielberg. In addition to assigned reading and writing, students will be required to watch two films per week, one of them at a formal screening on Monday evenings. (ALS-A pending approval, WRI)
Integrative Studies 204 Censors & Degenerates (film component) Prof. Kathryn Ananda-Owens EIN MWF 1045-1140
Media Studies 160 Mass Media Prof. Bill Sonnega
MCS-D, ORC T 0935-1100 Th 0930-1050
Media Studies 260 Media/Contemp Culture Prof. Bill Sonnega
ORC T 1145-0110PM Th 1245-0205PM
Theater 275 Writing-Performance Prof. Bill Sonnega ALS-A T 0120-0245PM Th 0215-0335PM
INTERIM 09
*DANCE 150: Movement, the Camera and the Creative Process (2008-2009, Interim)*
Integrating the human body, the digital video camera, and the computer, students explore the creation and performance of movement as artistic expression. Emphasizing conceptual and practical approaches, students learn basic artistic movement technique and composition, video production and editing, and computer animation of the human form. Students produce a number of individual and group movement projects. Students perform, view, describe, and analyze class projects. Students examine and discuss a wide variety of dances made for the camera (dance films). The class culminates with an evening public showing. No prerequisites or previous dance or computer experience required. Materials fee. Offered alternate years during Interim.
French 250 Speaking of French ( film component) Staff
Open to all students who meet the requirements.
FOL-F, ORC M-F 1040-0300PM
Nursing 120: Images of Wellness in the Media (film component) Thursday, 7 to 10 pm.
This course examines how contemporary culture influences present day wellness perspectives. Values, lifestyles, daily stresses, and corresponding coping mechanisms affecting one's wellbeing are explored. Students study health behaviors as a function of social influences and, conversely, the impact of unhealthy coping behaviors on the social enterprise. An exploration of wellness from the perspective of non-western cultures is included as well.
Philosophy 260 Kant's Moral Theory in Literature and Film
Prof. Jeanine Grenberg
Prerequisite: completion of BTS-T requirement. N EIN
WRI M-F 1040-1240PM Grenberg, Jeanine
Students study the moral theory of Immanuel Kant by reading his texts and understanding the expression of their ideas in literature and film. They also clarify Kant's moral theory through comparison of his theory to other moral theories, especially utilitarianism and virtue theory. The overall purpose of the course is to help students to understand and apply moral theories generally, and Kant's theory in particular, to particular moral situations.
SPRING 2009
English 275 Literature & Film Prof. Mary Trull ALS-L MWF 0200-0255PM
German 371 Top: Postwar Film Prof. Karen Achberger
FOL-G, HWC, ALS-A Tu 0935-1100 Th 0930-1050 (taught in German)
History 290 Reel America: History/Film Prof. Judy Kutulas MWF 1045-1140
Media Studies 160 Mass Media Profs. Bill Sonnega and Megan Feeney MCS-D T 0935-1100 Th 0930-1050
Media Studies 240 World Cinema Prof. Diana Postlethwaite (and guest lecturers)
Students in Media 240 must also register for one discussion section ALS-A, MCS-G MW 1255-0150PM
M 0700-0930PM TBA
MS 240A World Cinema Discussion F 0800-0855
MS 240B World Cinema Discussion F 1255-0150PM MS240C World Cinema Discussion F 0200-0255PM
This introductory survey builds students’ “visual literacy” skills (how to “read” a film). For each region explored cinematically—Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa—we will study a “classic” film text (for a survey of 20th-century film history), as well as a “contemporary” film. Both “classic” and “contemporary” films will 1) explore the ways films negotiate the values of their respective societies, contributing to national history and identity; and 2) reflect the modern phenomenon of “globalization,” via the trans-national language of cinema. The course will feature a smorgasbord of guest lecturers from around St. Olaf .
WORK IN PROGRESS FOR NEXT YEAR :
Political Science course on Politics and Media
Courses on Chinese and Japanese Film
