69 courses with the subject FST, 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.
FST 110Concepts in Film3
Introduction to key concepts in film studies and film production. Designed for non-majors in film studies.
Introduction to film study, including analysis of cinematography, editing, mise-en-scène, sound, and narrative. Films drawn from various national cinemas, representing diverse styles, periods, and genres. Intended for prospective majors in film studies.
Study and application of cinematic concepts and techniques. Students complete a series of collaborative exercises exploring narrative, documentary, and experimental film forms.
FST 200 . Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Restricted to PFST or FST majors. University Studies: Explorations Beyond the Classroom Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Major Restriction Pre-Film Studies or Film Studies
FST 204The Business of Film3
Introduction to business aspects of the motion picture industry, including the life cycle of a film product from development through distribution and marketing. Emphasis on decisions regarding creative development, financing, legal issues, budgeting, scheduling, marketing, and exhibition.
Survey of key tendencies in international cinema from the silent era to the present. Case studies include films from Europe, the Soviet Union, Asia, Africa, and the Americas, examined within their historical contexts.
This course is designed to teach students a variety of perspectives on filmmaking and film studies. Combining presentations by local and visiting filmmakers with lectures and film screenings conducted by film scholars, the course introduces students to a wide variety of film styles, film scholarship, and professions in the industry.
Project-based approach to learning fundamental principles of 3-D computer graphics using high-level software tools. Modeling of objects, geometrical transformations, surface algorithms, lighting and shading, alternative rendering techniques, and providing background skills necessary to create animated movies.
ART 260 or ART 282 . Additional Restrictions/Requirements:
FST 230Women in Film3
Survey and analysis of films by women filmmakers throughout the world. Diverse film styles, periods, and genres will be represented. Screening and discussion of cinematic works in their original language with English subtitles when needed.
A comprehensive practicum in motion picture preproduction, production, and post-production, concentrating on documentary, narrative or experimental cinema. May be repeated under different subtitles.
FST 304Legal Issues in Film and Entertainment Law3
Study of the legal issues impacting the film and entertainment industry, including the legal aspects of business organization, contracts, torts, agency, employment law, environmental regulation, and intellectual property rights.
Instruction and practice in the techniques of writing essays about film. Writing assignments might include reviews, features, scholarly articles or theoretical essays.
ENG 204 ; or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Writing Intensive Crosslisting: ENG 317 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
Corequisite
FST 205 ; or
FST 318Screenwriting I: Introduction to Screenwriting3
Theory and practice of screenwriting with an emphasis on the fundamentals of narrative structure. Students write original scripts, including a short screenplay for possible use in FST 495 .
FST 201 ; or CRW 207 or CRW 208 or CRW 209 . Additional Restrictions/Requirements: Restricted to FST majors, PCRW or CRW majors, or consent of instructor. Crosslisting: CRW 318 Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 320Computer Animation3
Basic principles of animation using 3-D computer-generated animation and basic processes for animating synthetic objects through structured exercises. Principles of designing and producing 3-D computer-generated animation through the creation of advanced motion studies. Projects focus on developing higher-level skills in model building, animation and color, and lighting.
Focuses on duties of a producer through a project “life cycle”: development, financing, pre-production, production, post-production, marketing, and distribution. Emphasizes production management, budgeting, and scheduling. May be repeated under a different subtitle.
FST 201 , or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Additional
FST 3346x1: Variations on the One-Minute Film3
Instruction and practice in alternative/experimental forms of filmmaking (16mm hand-processing, stop motion animation, cameraless filmmaking, and collage) through the creation of six 1-minute projects.
Introduction to the history and critical interpretation of film music, with a focus on feature-length narrative films. Survey of film scoring styles and evolving sound technologies from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 371History of Documentary Film3
Historical overview of non-fiction filmmaking. Emphasizes critical approaches to documentary film practices and traditions.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 372History of Avant-Garde Film3
Historical overview emphasizing critical approaches to avant-garde film practices.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 373History of Animation3
Historical overview of modes, traditions, and theories of animation.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 375Studies in Global Film History3
Historical overview of an international cinema or a period in global cinema. Teaches approaches to film historiography. May be repeated under different subtitles.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum
FST 376American Cinema 1927-19603
History and aesthetics of American cinema from the beginning of sound film until the break-up of the studio system, focusing on the height of the Hollywood studio era. Classical genres and styles, and prominent Hollywood filmmakers.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 377American Cinema Since 19613
History and aesthetics of American cinema since the end of the studio era, emphasizing the continuities and breaks with the “Classical Hollywood Cinema.”
FST 205 , or consent of instructor. University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society, Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 379Studies in Film History3
Historical overview of a major period in film. Approaches to film historiography. May be repeated under different subtitles.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated. Maximum
FST 380Introduction to Bollywood Cinema3
Survey of India’s Bollywood cinema from the silent period to the present. Emphasizes historical and critical approaches to Bollywood cinema, as well as studies of censorship, cinephilia, and popular visual culture.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 381History of Russian and Soviet Cinema3
Survey of Russian and Soviet cinema from the 1900s to the present, focusing on Sergei Eisenstein, Dziga Vertov, Andrei Tarkovsky, and other directors, as well as the cultural, political, and economic forces that influenced their films.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Building Competencies/Information Literacy Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 382Contemporary Latin American Cinema3
Critical examination of the production and distribution of contemporary Latin American film, with an emphasis on film style, genre, economics, and globalization.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 383Introduction to Latin American Cinema3
Survey of the history and aesthetics of Latin American film, from the “Golden Age” of Mexican cinema to the development of the New Latin American Cinema of the 1960s, up to more recent work of the contemporary renaissance.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. University Studies: Approaches and Perspectives/Living in a Global Society Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 384Contemporary French Cinema3
Recent tendencies in French cinema, including new filmmakers, movements, genres, critical approaches, theories, formats, and filmmaking styles.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 385Japanese Cinema3
Japanese cinema from the classical period to the present day. Emphasizes critical and historical approaches to Japanese cinema, as well as studies of key filmmakers, including Kurosawa, Mizoguchi, Ozu, Suzuki, and Kitano.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 386Introduction to German Cinema3
Analysis of films from the “Golden Age” of the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the New Wave, East German films, and current German and Austrian cinema. Works by Lang, Riefenstahl, Wenders, Reitz, Fassbinder, von Trotta, and recent films.
Analysis of selected films from the silent era to the present, including the classical period, the New Wave, Francophone cinema, and recent French cinema, situated in their historical contexts.
FST 205 , or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 388Introduction to Spanish Cinema3
Analysis of representative films by Spanish directors including Luis Buel, Carlos Saura, Pedro Almodar and Bigas Luna, as well as a discussion of recent cinematic works by filmmakers of the younger generation. Films represent a diversity of styles, periods, and genres.
Introduction to the process of studio film production, from development to distribution. Topics include locations, production design, casting, cinematography, make-up, costume design, film sound and scoring, editing, and post-production. Lecture and discussion, guest speakers, and on-site observation at Screen Gems Studios and other filmmaking sites in Wilmington.
Exploration of digital image and video representation and manipulation for motion-picture visual effects. Includes image storage and compression, film and video formats, compositing, filtering, scripting for graphics and visual effects, photorealistic lighting and rendering, virtual cinematography, camera tracking, and particle effects.
Modes of media production in expanded cinema. Topics may include video installation, video mapping, building interactive media environments, creating experimental animations, and live cinema. May be repeated under different subheadings.
Applied instruction in selected animation forms and techniques. Topics might include motion graphics, gif animation and character animation. May be repeated under different subtitles.
A study of major schools of film theory, such as genre theory, historical criticism, reception theory, auteur theory, formalism, cognitivist film theory, and structuralist and post-structuralist film theories.
Rhetorical issues related to cinema, emphasizing the ways in which cinema creates meaning visually and stylistically. Rhetorical and cinematic criticism will be stressed.
FST 451 and permission of department chair. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated.
FST 475Advanced Studies in Global Film History3
Advanced study of an international cinema or a period in global cinema. Teaches approaches to film historiography. May be repeated under different subtitles.
Investigation under faculty supervision beyond what is offered in existing courses. For further information, consult the Directed Individual Study section in this catalogue.
Intensive study of a major topic in film studies. Emphasis on individualized work, which may include reports, a longer research project, or a research essay. May be repeated under different subtitles.
Hands-on application of editing theory and post-production techniques, practices, and technology. Students create a finished film using raw footage from previous FST 495 projects; exceptions upon approval.
Study and practical work experience related to film studies, supervised and evaluated by faculty. May be repeated with permission of the chair of Film Studies.
