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FMA

25 courses with the subject FMA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

FMA 151Conversations in Film and Media Arts I3

A survey of current media arts with many guest speakers. Media explored includes film, photography, animation, contemporary art and criticism. Issues focused on include historical and contemporary representations of underrepresented groups in media.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 152Conversations in Film and Media Arts II3

A survey of current media arts with many guest speakers. Media explored includes film, photography, animation, contemporary art and criticism. Issues focused on include historical and contemporary representations of underrepresented groups in media.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 153Making Media: Fundamentals3

Introduces students to thinking critically and practically about time-based creative practices. Explores the use of digital media in concepts surrounding time/space, image/sound, interactivity/networks, and performance/movement. Students will work with photo, film, video, and computer.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 154Making Media: Intermediate Studio3

The theory of interdisciplinary practices will be the focus of contemporary art making and intersection of time-based media in animation, interactive technologies, installation, and performance art.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 155Intro to Film and Media Arts: Film Making0-3

Introductory filmmaking course for non-majors. Covers all the basic elements of filmmaking. From script writing to final product. In this class you will be encouraged to think both critically and practically about your creative practices. This is a studio course. Students will be making artworks.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
0
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 156Intro to Film and Media Arts: Audio0-3

Introduces students to all the basic elements of audio recording and production. Production topics will include listening, choosing microphones, identifying ideal environments, recording techniques, as well as editing and mixing. This is a studio course. Students will be making artworks.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
0
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 157Intro to Film and Media Arts: After Effects0-3

Using After Effects this course covers simple text and motion graphics designs, compositing and masking as well as working with live action footage. This is a studio course. Students will be making artworks. Students will view and analyze a variety of films to understand and evaluate them.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
0
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 158Intro to Film and Media Arts: Digital Photography0-3

This course introduces the basic skills required in digital photography: shooting camera RAW files; adjusting images in photoshop and making inkjet prints. In addition, we will work with flash and strategies to deal with a variety of lighting situations.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
0
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 251Film and Media Arts Intermediate Studio3

Builds on the basic tools and concepts introduced in FMA 153. Students explore thematic and topical problems in the media arts, while deepening their critical and technical skills.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 310Literacy, Community and Media3

This course brings University students into local public schools to offer instruction in media such as photography and video, along with writing exercises to develop projects that explore issues of identity, community and family.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 311AI for Art and Creative Industries3

Introduces students to generative AI as a creative practice and field of theoretical inquiry. Students develop skills to engage with AI systems, explore prompt design and iterative dialogue, and apply these tools to realize creative assignments.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 316Introduction to Visual Culture3

Introduction to critical approaches that illuminate how modes of visual culture function as rhetoric, commerce, art, and ideological expression. Examines how institutional frameworks shape global image circulation.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 351Film and Media Arts Advanced Studio3

This course will presume a technical ability which allows for more specialized topics of discussion/study. Students will be required to create projects in collaboration, exploring ideas in depth and understanding historical and critical precedents.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 451Building Your Audience3

Culmination of Film and Media Arts experience for graduating seniors. Focus is on refining students thesis projects and preparing for professional careers in their fields.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 499Honors Thesis Project1-6

Completion of an Honors Thesis Project under the supervision of a faculty member.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 500Selected Topics1-6

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 511Art & Environment: Animals3

An interdisciplinary course examining the lifeworld of animals and posthumanism in light of current environmental issues. Involves readings and film viewings from sciences, arts and humanities. Students make original projects in response to readings.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 512Art & Environment: Food3

An interdisciplinary course examining art and media that critiques or productively re-imagines the production, distribution, and consumption of food. Students will draw on readings and independent research to make their own projects.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 568Art & Ecology: Collage3

Students will learn and experiment with a wide variety of collage techniques and production tools. This is also an Art + Ecology course, and will be taught in the context of ecology, or the study of relations. We will think with and through key ideas in contemporary ecological thought using collage as a mode of articulation.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 600Selected Topics1-6

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 610Literacy, Community and Media3

This course brings University students into local public schools to offer instruction in media such as photography and video, along with writing exercises to develop projects that explore issues of identity, community and family.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 690Independent Study1-6

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 701FMA Graduate Seminar I3

This Film and Media Arts Graduate Seminar is designed to give students a background in critical theory as well as a space to think about your own work through a range of critical lenses.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 703FMA Graduate Seminar III: Thesis Writing3

This course focuses on the development of the written thesis paper requirement that accompanies the creative thesis work. Approaching the thesis as an active document, that articulates artistic development and outlines a professional trajectory, the aim of this paper is to create a foundation for one¿s future practice and career.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu
FMA 990Independent Study1-6

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Subject
FMA
Credits (min)
1
Credits (max)
6
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026
Catalog
2025-2026 SU Undergraduate Course Catalog
Source
coursecatalog.syracuse.edu

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