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Subject: Classical Civilization (CLAS)
CRN: 40203
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 306
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Class, Civilization Major Appr
Class. Civilization Minor Appr
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing to learn
This Course focuses on analyzing and understanding Classical epic poetry, the ancient presentation of heroic figures and heroic exploits, and recognizing the influence of epic/heroic literature on the modern storytelling device of film. While the genre of epic is central to the course, other genres (both literary and cinematic) which present he-roic figures, e.g., tragedy, history, comedy, action, fantasy, will also be explored. Analyzing the works read or viewed via writing and class discussion will constitute the primary course activities; students will engage in reading, viewing and writing outside of class, while class time will include some writing, viewing and discussion. In order to allow am-ple time for discussion and analysis, the majority of films in their entirety will be viewed outside of class. The course grade will be based substantially on written analysis (i.e., essays, papers) of the texts and films studied. ENGL 203 may also be substituted for this course.
4 Credits
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9:35 am |
9:35 am |
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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 42234
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305J
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Writing Intensive
This course explores films directed by Martin Scorsese as well as the literature that inspired his screenplays, from nonfiction by Nicholas Pileggi and David Gran to fiction by Edith Wharton to critical articles and interviews examining Scorsese’s oeuvre. As an auteur survey, we will look at Scorsese’s early short films and break out films like Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976) and then continue with Scorsese’s films in the late twentieth and early twenty-fist centuries. Thematically, these films frequently feature organized crime and systemic corruption in America, exploring how crime functions within and outside the law (Casino, 1995; The Departed, 2006). Stylistically, many have been groundbreaking in their use of first-person voice over narration, a narrative device used in many noir films of the 1940s but with new vitality in films like Good Fellas (1990) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). In addition, historical dramas like Gangs of New York (2002) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) explore crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of America, illustrating a continuum of corruption into the present day. Scorsese’s films never shy away from the violence of American greed, whether it’s New York in the 1860s or the Gilded Age or the Great Depression, whether it’s in Oklahoma or on Wall Street or inside a boxing ring. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the WAC Writing Intensive requirement, an Integration in the Humanities requirement, and a Film Studies major/minor requirement. Please note that ENGL 202 is non-repeatable; students wishing to take a second 200-level Texts in Conversation course will need to register for ENGL 201, 203, or 204. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190. NOTE: This is a cross-listed course with ten seats available on the FILM 297-W01 side and ten seats available on the ENGL 202-W01 side.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 40946
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 110
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41169
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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1:35 pm |
1:35 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41042
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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3:25 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41080
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 40733
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 302
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
3:25 pm |
3:25 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 40214
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 105
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 43351
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
FILM 200 introduces students to film analysis, providing the basic tools to understand, appreciate, and analyze the technical and aesthetic dimensions of film and to understand how these elements come together to create meaning. The course will focus on specific filmmaking techniques, provide a brief overview of film history, and introduce students to the concepts of genre, ideology and style. In addition to attending class sessions, students will be required to dedicate approximately two hours per week to viewing films in lab or outside of class.
4 Credits
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1:35 pm |
1:35 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 42055
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 306
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
The subject matter of these courses will vary from year to year, but will not duplicate existing courses. Descriptions of these courses are available in Classfinder, View Searchable Class Schedule
4 Credits
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9:35 am |
9:35 am |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41911
Blended Online & In-Person | Lecture
St Paul: Murray-Herrick Campus Center 305J
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
FYE CommGood/Learning Comm
Film Studies Major Approved
Film Studies Minor Approved
Writing Intensive
This course explores films directed by Martin Scorsese as well as the literature that inspired his screenplays, from nonfiction by Nicholas Pileggi and David Gran to fiction by Edith Wharton to critical articles and interviews examining Scorsese’s oeuvre. As an auteur survey, we will look at Scorsese’s early short films and break out films like Mean Streets (1973) and Taxi Driver (1976) and then continue with Scorsese’s films in the late twentieth and early twenty-fist centuries. Thematically, these films frequently feature organized crime and systemic corruption in America, exploring how crime functions within and outside the law (Casino, 1995; The Departed, 2006). Stylistically, many have been groundbreaking in their use of first-person voice over narration, a narrative device used in many noir films of the 1940s but with new vitality in films like Good Fellas (1990) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). In addition, historical dramas like Gangs of New York (2002) and Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) explore crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of America, illustrating a continuum of corruption into the present day. Scorsese’s films never shy away from the violence of American greed, whether it’s New York in the 1860s or the Gilded Age or the Great Depression, whether it’s in Oklahoma or on Wall Street or inside a boxing ring. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the WAC Writing Intensive requirement, an Integration in the Humanities requirement, and a History/Theory requirement for Film Studies majors and minors. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190. NOTE: This is a cross-listed course with English; 10 seats are on the FILM 297-W01 side and 10 seats are on the ENGL 202-W01 side.
4 Credits
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1:30 pm |
1:30 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41404
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 209
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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9:55 am |
9:55 am |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41405
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 311
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41487
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41902
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing to learn
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41903
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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| M | T | W | Th | F | Sa | Su |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 42850
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course fulfills the Human Diversity requirement of the core curriculum at UST by addressing issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and geopolitical status. It scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 43215
Online: Asynchronous | Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course fulfills the Human Diversity requirement of the core curriculum at UST by addressing issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and geopolitical status. It scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 43257
Lecture
Online
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Global Perspective AND [Core] Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
In this course, students will view, discuss, and read and write about feature-length films from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and possibly India and/or the Middle East. Following critical viewing of films both in and outside of class, students will engage in critical reflection, discussion, and analytical writing as a way of practicing the art of film analysis. This course asks students to think critically about the ways in which cinema engages the world as a form of entertainment, as art, as historical document, and as an instrument of social change. The course fulfills the Human Diversity requirement of the core curriculum at UST by addressing issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and geopolitical status. It scrutinizes the ways in which institutionalized and structural power and privilege are reflected in the subject matter, creation, and audience reception of film.
4 Credits
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3:40 pm |
3:40 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 41171
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 105
Requirements Met:
Writing in the Discipline
The purpose of this course is to learn how to write effective narrative screenplays, with an emphasis on the creation of short scripts. In order to explore and identify basic dramatic principles of story, character, and structure, we will analyze numerous short scripts and films made from them. We will look at how the dramatic principles of short scripts have been expanded and turned into feature screenplays by exploring the work of various successful contemporary writers and filmmakers. Once we establish the basics of effective screenplays, students will apply these concepts to the development of their own original short scripts. By the end of the semester, students will have written several complete short scripts that are ready to be shot on their own, produced as part of a St. Thomas filmmaking course, or that could be developed further into feature length screenplays. This course counts as a production/practice course for students pursuing the Film Studies major or minor and also satisfies a WAC Writing in the Discipline requirement.
4 Credits
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5:30 pm |
5:30 pm |
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Subject: Film Studies (FILM)
CRN: 42501
In Person | Lecture
St Paul: Brady Educational Center 101
Core Requirements Met:
[Core] Fine Arts
This course is designed to introduce students to the filmmaking process, from script to screen. We will concentrate our attention on two main elements - understanding the technical concerns of narrative filmmaking (the apparatuses, learning camera functions and techniques, and using editing software), AND developing students' artistic voice through storytelling and film analysis. The course aims to strengthen students' ability to conceive and flesh out ideas that will lead to compelling, authentic, personally meaningful short films and give them the critical foundation of film study and production tools to execute their ideas. Students will begin to develop their own artistic vision and style through filmmaking.
4 Credits