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BUS 610 - Economics for Business This course teaches students the economic principles used in the business decision and strategy process. It will enable students to understand why firms and markets exist and how they function. How market conditions affect managerial business decisions concerning production, product pricing, and marketing strategy. Students will be introduced to Business Cycle Theory and how the macro economy impacts business decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 625 - Organization and Responsible Leadership Students analyze organizational effectiveness using theories of leadership, management and organizational behavior. Students study leadership in a responsible business (Profit, People, Planet, Ethics, and Equity) context. Students reflect upon their own leadership styles and those of other leaders to determine how to shape their own management practice to improve their effectiveness.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 626 - Marketing and Entrepreneurship Students integrate literature (research & practice), historical perspectives, analytical tools, & theoretical frameworks to design & conduct a market analysis. Students make marketing-related decisions based on identification & analysis of target markets, marketing mix variables, & market feasibility. Students identify & analyze high potential opportunities & develop a plan to exploit those opportunities. Students contribute to the startup or growth of entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial ventures.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6 |
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BUS 631 - Global Business Students develop an “outside/in” perspective: seeing the United States, U.S.-based companies, and foreign-headquartered multinational corporations from the perspective of multi-varied constituencies around the world. Many of the readings are from Africa to provide the diversity of thought needed to break the barriers of U.S.-centric thinking. International governance structures are highlighted in the course. A two-country negotiation case applies what students have learned.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6 |
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BUS 632 - Organization & Leadership Students analyze organizational effectiveness using theories of leadership, management, and organizational behavior. Students study leadership within the context of sensitivity to cross-cultural differences, firm culture, and employee motivation. Students reflect upon their own leadership styles and that of other leaders to determine how to shape their own management practice to improve their effectiveness. Students apply frameworks for thinking strategically about human resources.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only) Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 6 |
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BUS 633 - Information Systems and Business Analytics Uses an executive information systems perspective to explore the emerging technologies that impact enterprise strategy. Focus is on understanding business analytics and its role in managing processes, resources, and people. This course reinforces the role of business analytics for creating a culture of data-driven decision-making and also addresses ethical and data governance issues in embedding business analytics in managerial decision-making.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 661 - Innovation and Technology Management Students study the importance of innovation for business success. Innovation is analyzed from three perspectives: products, processes, and organizations. Students understand the intricacies of developing new products, processes, and organizations. Students explore how information-based systems are used to address the challenges of adding value to organizations. Principles of operations management are examined to improve strategies, processes, and decision making to meet customer needs.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6 |
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BUS 662 - Marketing Management Students apply marketing frameworks to develop integrated marketing strategies that leverage market opportunities or address identified problems. Students make responsible marketing decisions based on analyses of target markets, while considering contexts and elements of the marketing mix to offer value to customers.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3 |
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BUS 670 - Database Management Examines database design and implementation using relational database management system tools. Discusses data management concepts and terminology currently in practice in the business world, including data and database administration, fundamentals of database management systems and models (network, hierarchical and relational), data sharing, retrieval, data dictionaries, data proliferation, data integrity, and queries using SQL.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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BUS 671 - Operations and Supply Chain Management This course reviews operations strategies in a global environment for optimal allocation of resources (material and personnel) by firms to gain competitive advantage in the delivery of products (goods and services). Students will develop the ability to forecast demand; manage projects, inventory, revenue, supply chain risks, capacity planning, procurement, and customer relationship management.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3 |
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BUS 681 - MBA Accounting Course examines accounting concepts, the accounting model, measurement processes, financial statements, financial analysis, the accounting cycle, monetary and fixed assets, inventory, current and long-term liabilities and equity structure. Students investigate internal reporting for use in planning and control, in making non-routine decisions and in formulating major plans and policies. Course covers cost-profit relationships, budgets, and standard variance analysis.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 682 - Global Sustainable Business In this course, you will gain an understanding of today’s global economy and the people, institutions, and environmental elements that underlie international and global commerce. You will expand your ability to manage diversity and national differences. You will learn how to manage a responsible firm’s quintuple bottom line (Profit, People, Planet, Ethics, and Equity) in a global context of interconnectedness.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 684 - Doing Business in World Regions This is a faculty-supervised project to enhance global awareness and cultural sensitivity by applying business knowledge acquired in previous courses to an international responsible business issue. The requirement can be fulfilled either through a short study trip abroad (when available) or through a written assignment.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 687 - Accounting and Finance Students: read, understand, & use corp. financial statements & published accounting reports; examine alternative costing methods & how cost information can be used for decision making; explore both financial & non-financial performance measures for evaluating business strategies & business unit success; prepare & analyze financial statements & projections for an investment; create a corporation, and/or a proposed project; and evaluate resources of financing for new & existing ventures.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 691 - Business Strategy As the culminating experience of the MBA program, students integrate the knowledge from earlier courses and apply it in the same manner demanded of business, government, and non-profit general managers. As an experiential learning exercise, students plan, organize, implement, and control a business in a competitive, simulated market. Simulated internal and external data are analyzed to formulate the vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and policies needed to implement a business strategy.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 692 - Professional Development Seminar Students will prepare to use the MBA to promote their career by working on value clarification, goal setting, networking, resume and LinkedIn profiles, impression management, and interviewing. Students will create clear and meaningful goals for post-MBA graduation and have a plan to successfully execute them.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 694 - Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship This course addresses the formulation and implementation of a responsible business strategy to create, sustain and renew competitive advantage for both established firms and startups. As an application of the concepts, students will design and validate innovative entrepreneurial and corporate business models.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3 |
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BUS 695 - Special Topics Studies a particular topic in the major; must have a research component. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6 |
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BUS 696 - Hybrid EMBA Study Sessions Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 697 - Independent Study Graduate independent study under the direction of a tenure track faculty member. The student must prepare a study proposal approved by the appropriate faculty member and graduate adviser prior to registration. Must have a research component.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4-6 |
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BUS 698 - Applied Business Strategy Capstone Through an experiential learning exercise, students will integrate knowledge gained in earlier courses and apply it to run a virtual company in a simulated market competition. Students will conduct environmental analysis, business planning, manage corporate performance and consider ethical implications of business decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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BUS 699 - Graduate Capstone A capstone contributes to the disciplines or the professions by adding to technical/professional knowledge or by providing an original application of technical/professional knowledge in both management and information technology disciplines. Examples include a field study, a project, applied research, or a professional article of publishable quality. Students also master basic principles of strategic planning, including stakeholder management. Cross-listed as CST 699 .
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Units: 4 |
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CAD 90 - College Reading and Writing Support We read and write all the time, both in our personal and academic lives. But scientists read differently from historians, who read differently from business people. And they write differently too. That’s what we’ll explore in this class, and you’ll develop your own theory to explain it. In the process, you will practice what you study. We will focus not just on improving your skills but also on understanding when and how to apply those skills. This course provides support for the completion of work in CAD 102.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CAD 102) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CAD 94 - Introduction to Writing Provides students with tools and activities for identifying their areas of reading and writing strengths and needs, and anticipates the expectations of the college curriculum with attention to habits of mind and skills necessary for academic success. Early Start program.
Typically Offered: Administrative Use Only
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CAD 95 - Integrated Reading Writing Integrates learning and improvement in reading and writing by exploring texts produced by members of various social, cultural, and academic communities, including students’ own writing. Designed to prepare students for college-level reading and writing through understanding of the processes of reading, writing, thinking and oral communication skills; the development of reading, writing and thinking skills; and the experience of reading and writing as problem solving, reasoning, and reflection. Not for baccalaureate credit; however, the course grade will show on student transcripts.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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CAD 100B - Oral and Written Communication Semester 2 This two-semester course focuses on mindful, strategic, ethical, and skillful oral and written communication in all contexts: this class, other classes, and life outside of college. Students will study and practice rhetoric in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in order to develop individual theories of communication. Through examination of rhetorical situations, students will develop their understanding of multiple perspectives. Only completion of both CAD 100A & 100B will meet the A1 requirement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CAD 100A OR ESCAD 100A) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CAD 101A - Reading and Writing 1 We read and write all the time, both in our personal and academic lives. But scientists read differently from historians, who read differently from business people. And they write differently too. That’s what we’ll explore in this class, and you’ll develop your own theory to explain it. In the process, you will practice what you study, taking two semesters not just to improve your skills but to understand when and how to apply those skills. Only completion of both CAD 101A and CAD 101B will meet the A2 requirement. CAD 101A is a pre-requisite forCAD 101B .
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3 |
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CAD 101B - Reading and Writing 2 We read and write all the time, both in our personal and academic lives. But scientists read differently from historians, who read differently from business people. And they write differently too. That’s what we’ll explore in this class, and you’ll develop your own theory to explain it. In the process, you will practice what you study, taking two semesters not just to improve your skills but to understand when and how to apply those skills. Only completion of both CAD 101A & 101B will meet the A2 requirement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CAD 101A or CAD 100A or ESCAD 100A) General Education: A2 Written Communication Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CAD 102 - College Reading and Writing Studio We read and write all the time, both in our personal and academic lives. But scientists read differently from historians, who read differently from business people. And they write differently too. That’s what we’ll explore in this class, and you’ll develop your own theory to explain it. In the process, you will practice what you study. We will focus not just on improving your skills but also on understanding when and how to apply those skills. CAD 90 is a co-requisite for CAD 102 and provides support for completing the work in 102.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Coreq: CAD 90) General Education: A2 Written Communication Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CAD 105 - Revising and Editing Often when we write, we are simply getting our ideas on paper without imagining how those words will affect the readers of our work. In this class, we¿ll consider how to most effectively and efficiently re-see our writing to improve it and better achieve our purposes.
Typically Offered: Summer term only
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CAD 195 - Special Topics Specialized study of a particular topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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CAD 200 - Academic Language Support Social Sciences CAD 200 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in social sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2 |
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CAD 201 - Academic Language Support Business CAD 201 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in business, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better) Typically Offered: Fall term only
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CAD 206 - Academic Language Support Arts and Humanities CAD 206 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in the arts and humanities, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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CAD 208 - Academic Language Support Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science CAD 208 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in mathematics, statistics, and computer science; the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field; and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2 |
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CAD 212 - Academic Language Support Physical, Earth, and Life Sciences CAD 212 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in the sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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CAD 304 - Business Communication Academic Language Support The focus of this course is on business communication for visiting students. Examines ethical & socially responsible behavior through case studies. Students learn & demonstrate empathetic written & oral communication skills, problem-solving strategies, & analytical skills applicable to real world business issues & events.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)] Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CAD 395 - Special Topics Studies a particular topic in Global Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6 |
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CART 195 - Special Topics Studies a particular topic in Cinematic Arts & Technology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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CART 200 - Introduction to Filmmaking Introduces students to the processes, concepts and techniques of cinematic production. Through hands-on exercises and projects students learn to write, storyboard, shoot, and edit narrative, documentary, and experimental films. Students will analyze cinematic examples and contextualize their work within film theory and media art history.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CART 202 - Fundamentals of Production Lighting Students learn basics of production lighting design.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
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CART 203 - Pre-Prod Research Methods Seminar class addresses creative concept development and feasibility assessment of ideas.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
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CART 205 - Production Management Seminar class outlines production management role, responsibilities, and tasks.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
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CART 206 - Marketing Strategies Seminar class provides overview of marketing, promotion, and press planning and execution.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
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CART 208 - Business for Filmmakers Seminar class provides overview of general business skills for creative production, such as not-for-profit and contractor status, contracts, etc.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
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CART 210 - Sound Production for Media Arts Introduces the theoretical and practical fundamentals of audio production, technology, and terminology. The may include exercises using available equipment, an introduction to the lexicon of audio production, and an understanding of the selection and use of audio tools that support radio, television, video, film and multimedia production. Students will have practice in the field and studio for broad/podcast and screen.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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CART 211 - Picturing the Environment An exciting, multidisciplinary historical survey examining the depiction of the environment across the arts. Students will track artists’ adventures and how they shaped the way we understand our ecology and environment, communities and ourselves.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3 |
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CART 212 - Charlie Don’t Surf: War, Culture & Cinema The course examines representations of armed conflict in cinema across different cultures. Fictionalized accounts of war, documentaries and satires are viewed and analyzed, examining social and psychological effects of armed conflict, attitudes toward nationalism and heroism, power structures, the morality of violence, and the ethical responsibilities of the individual.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng Typically Offered: Spring term only
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CART 216 - Art of the Film Pitch An introduction to the art of pitching film ideas in an engaging and effective way. Students will learn how to develop an effective film pitch, how to adapt that pitch to different pitching contexts, as well as performance and presentation strategies.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
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CART 217 - Podcasting Workshop An introduction to the fundamentals of podcast production focusing on audio storytelling techniques with practical skills in audio recording and editing.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2 |
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CART 219 - Storyboarding Workshop An introduction to the work of creating storyboards including, but not limited to: defining what storyboards are; determining how they function at different levels of production; drawing tips; building your own storyboards and receiving feedback.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
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CART 220 - Haunted Screens: Horror in Film Horror films are mirrors of social anxieties, playing an influential but disreputable role in contemporary culture. The course analyzes cinematic techniques used to induce responses of fear in an audience and examines the themes of international horror cinema. Students analyze how horror films represent identity, ideology, gender, sexuality, and violence. The course explores the audience’s fascination with fear, the evolution of horror and its role in creating contemporary mythologies.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3 |
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CART 225 - Distribution Workshop Intensive workshop course provides basic production skills in distribution. Students learn to prepare and deliver media for broadband distribution.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2 |
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CART 228 - Cinematic History 1849-1960 Survey of film history from early cinema to 1960. Watch and understand film from the first flickering of projection through the golden age of Hollywood.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3 |
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CART 230 - The Art of Storytelling Introduces students to the fundamentals of the art of storytelling. The course examines diverse narrative forms to explore the elements of story structure and the role of the narrative arts in the life of the individual and the culture.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CART 231 - Movie Mania Explores film genres by theme that may change each semester, e.g. rock ‘n roll cinema, film noir, gangster movies, spaghetti westerns. Course outcomes foster independent, critical perspectives on the films viewed and help students develop a deepened understanding and appreciation of the art and craft of film making.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CART 232 - Power of Film Powerful films have changed culture, impacted the Celluloid medium and can change viewers! This course introduces the practice of narrative film analysis and appreciation through a unique combination of screenings, creative projects, writing assignments, readings and close case studies of film sequences. During the course of this class, students will engage in series of creative, reflective and analytical exercises, gaining deeper understanding for the way moving images exercise social and emotional power.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3 |
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CART 235 - Queer Film Theory Introduces students to queer film theory, its historical and cultural background, and its application as a tool for analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing films.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2 |
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CART 251 - Voice and Speech Students develop techniques for the expressive use of the voice in performance. Emphasizes the development of vocal range, the enhancement of vocal power, breath control, resonance, and articulation of language to convey emotion and meaning.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2 |
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CART 255 - The Actor’s Process Introduction to the creative process of the actor, and the elements of dramatic expression which develop a role for performance on film.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
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CART 260 - Experiments in Sound This intensive workshop course examines the history and aesthetics of sound as an art form, and studies alternative approaches to the use of sound in film. Students will research history and key topics and present information to the class, and will create their own experimental sound projects.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
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CART 280 - Animation Visual Development Introduction to character design, background design, layout, and the storyboarding process for animation pre-production. Through the study of design principles, students will learn how to express their visions through visual language.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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CART 295 - Special Topics Studies a particular topic in Cinematic Arts and Technology.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-4 |
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CART 301 - Practical Application Practical Application: Students develop collaborative production skills while working on interdisciplinary projects, including senior projects, campus-wide productions and community-based projects.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2 |
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CART 302 - Color Grading Workshop An introduction to color grading in film. The class consists of lectures, screenings, and hands on exercises using color grading tools.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2 |
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CART 303 - Media, Power, and Society This course provides a framework for understanding, interpreting and analyzing the creation of images and their impact on social and political structures. It asks students to evaluate media within a broader ethical, social, political, and economic context in order to better understand multiple perspectives. This is an advanced-level writing and oral communication course, incorporating the ethical and reasonable construction of argumentation into written papers and oral presentations.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing) University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies, GWAR Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 310 - Sound Design Students learn the art and technology of sound design for cinematic media. The course covers script analysis, the use of sound to create meaning, the recording of original sound, the acquisition of existing audio, sound editing, and sound mixing.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 311 - Women Filmmakers Examines films made by women and their contributions to content and form. Focuses on women’s experiences in the roles of writer/director, producer, cinematographer and editor. Emphasis will be given to contemporary films.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 315 - Visual Design Introduction to spatial and temporal visual design. Includes fundamentals of aesthetic principles. Outlines basic visualization techniques and design communication for moving-image media.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 318 - Introduction to Animation This course offers an introduction to the techniques, history, and cultural significance of animation. Students will explore, demonstrate, and apply basic skills in traditional and digital animation techniques. The course also covers basic pre-production and production. Projects in this course are both individual and collaborative. Incoming students need not be proficient at drawing, but should be familiar with basic digital media tools.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 319 - Motion Graphics This course offers an introduction to motion graphics design and production. Topics covered include principles of spatial and temporal design for animation, film titles, compositing, on-screen graphics.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 321 - Experimental Production Students focus on video art, web video, animation, and experimental narrative. Students develop aesthetics and techniques for conceiving, producing, and distributing experimental works. May address audio/video, still image and handheld devices. Explores emergent forms of media.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 322 - Expanded Cinema The course explores diverse forms of interdisciplinary cinema practices such as video remixes and mashups, live cinema, and audiovisual performance. Students learn and apply techniques for incorporating pre-recorded and live-feed video into performances.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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CART 323 - Art of Compositing Students create special effects for film and video by combining images from different sources such as live-action digital video, digitized film, computer generated 3-D, 2-D animations, painted backdrops, digital still photographs, and text. Topics include color keying, rotoscoping, matte painting, motion tracking, and lighting.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 326 - Animation Techniques Students will learn the fundamentals of making animated films through a series of hands-on workshops. This class will cover traditional hand-drawn animation, digital flash animation, and experimental animation techniques such as cut-outs, photo-montage, direct-techniques, installation/performance, and other hybrid techniques in animation production.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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CART 329 - Contemporary Media History Survey of the history, aesthetics, production technologies and cultural impact of media arts from 1960 to present. Throughout this course students will watch, analyze and contextualize works from the some of the most exciting periods in Media History.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better) and Junior or Senior Standing) General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3 |
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CART 330 - Elements of Cinema Students are introduced to the principles of narrative theory as well as the expressive tools of cinema. Students analyze media to understand how framing, camera movement, mise en scene lighting and sound are used to express character and tell stories, applying this understanding during short exercises. Students build a repertoire of cinematic tools and techniques.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 333 - Art of Producing This course explores the craft and techniques of film and television producing. The course introduces students to the language and practice of producing and filmmaking through lectures, analysis of contemporary industry practices, readings, and individual research assignments.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2 |
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CART 340 - Screenwriting An overview of the script writing process focusing on the basics of dramatic writing across cinematic disciplines. Provides preparation for narrative and short-format screenwriting. Requires extensive reading and creative writing.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 341 - Film Directing A study of the theory and practice of directing the narrative film. Students plan and direct short films, with an emphasis on visual narrative techniques, and working with actors.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 342 - Acting for Directors An intensive workshop course that develops skills and techniques for directing actors. Through participation in the acting process and directing exercises, students will learn how to establish collaborative relationships with actors and how to give effective direction.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2 |
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CART 345 - Acting for the Screen An in-depth study of the craft and technique of acting for film, television, and other digital media. Students learn how to create and develop a character, explore the role of the actor as storyteller, and balance the creative process of the actor with the technical demands of performing on a film set.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 361 - Intro to Editing Students learn digital editing and the concepts of digitizing, editing, and outputting content using industry-standard software packages. Includes script analysis and working with directors. Applies techniques and principles for editing various types of projects including music video, documentary, and narrative.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 375 - Cinematography Students will explore the expressive possibilities of moving pictures, through aesthetic and formal investigations of lenses, shot duration, screen direction, camera movement and lighting. Students develop the skills required of a professional camera and lighting crew, with particular attention to the role of director of photography.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 376 - Documentary Production Combines study of documentary history, theory, and practice. Students learn how to plan, organize, and produce documentaries. Students produce a short documentary on video.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 395 - Special Topics Project based course developing and producing content in collaboration with other courses, the community, university, or others.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-6 |
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CART 396 - Cinematic Arts Internship Student-proposed Internship as part of an approved Individualized Learning Plan.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4 |
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CART 397 - Independent Study Student proposed course of study on select topic in Cinematic Arts and Technology as part of an approved Individualized Learning Plan.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-4 |
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CART 399S - Community-Based Media Working with community-based organizations, students will participate in service activities or projects with external communities and integrate the service experience with specific outcomes, written reflections, discussion, and evaluation.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CART 200 ) and (Junior or Senior Standing)] University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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CART 404 - Character Animation An introduction to character animation in both two and three dimensions. Topics include creating strong silhouettes, blocking, splining, tweening, working with the graph editor and dope sheet.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4 |
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CART 422 - Animated Short Films In this course, each student devotes the entire semester to the development, production, and post-production of one animated film.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 424 - Environmental Media Arts Through a series of explorations and adventures, students in the arts and sciences create media arts projects with environmental themes or science topics, while working across disciplines. Environments include urban communities, rural and agricultural settings, and military bases, as well as marine and wilderness areas.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 425 - Docu-Fiction Filmmaking Through film analysis, critical readings, and filmmaking projects, students will explore cinematic styles that call into question traditional categories of fiction and documentary: hybrid films, neo-realist features, documentary reenactments, and mockumentary.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 ) Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 440 - Advanced Screenwriting A workshop-format class which guides students through the process of outlining and writing a feature length screenplay or television pilot. Extensive reading and writing required.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 340 ) Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 461 - Advanced Editing Students learn form, style, pacing, and advanced techniques in editing including titles and effects work, and output in various formats.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 361 ) Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4 |
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CART 490 - Capstone Preproduction and Development Students practice research skills, engage in creative writing, and develop marketing and pitching proposals. The major outcome is a pre-production portfolio.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq or Coreq: CART 330 and (CART 315 or CART 318 or CART 340 ) and (CART 321 or CART 341 or CART 375 or CART 376 or CART 424 ) and Senior Standing] Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4 |
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