Spring 22 Course List

Spring 2022 Course Offerings, Cross-Departmental List

Any course on this list (except for the First Year Seminars) may count as an elective for the Global Cinema Minor or the Film Studies concentration in English and Comparative Literature.. Some of these courses, however, may not automatically count, and in those cases you will need to request a Tar Heel Tracker adjustment from the program advisor.

Keep in mind that some restrictions may apply to film/media production courses. Be sure to check Connect Carolina for specifications by the department offering the course.

We recommend that you take courses from a wide range of faculty members. If you have already had the same professor for as many as four or five courses, you should branch out and take full advantage of the variety our curriculum offers.

Note to grad students: you may receive credit for any 400-level CMPL course and any 600-level ENGL course listed here. If you are PhD student in English and Comparative Literature, you can fulfill seminar paper requirements in these courses if your instructor makes allowances for you to write and revise a long research paper.

First Year Seminars

AAAD 51 – 001 First-Year Seminar: Masquerades of Blackness

TuTh 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Charlene Regester

This seminar is designed to investigate how the concept of race has been represented in cinema historically, with a particular focus on representations of race when blackness is masqueraded. Its intent is to launch an investigative inquiry into how African Americans are represented on screen in various time periods, how we as spectators are manipulated by these cinematic constructions of race, and how race is marked or coded other than through visual representation. Students will view films that deal with ¿passing¿ from the various historical periods and will utilize theoretical concepts introduced in class to read these visual representations. Films selected for viewing include the pre-World War II Era, the Civil Rights Era, and the ¿Post-Racial¿ era. Students will be required to write three papers that reflect their ability to apply theoretical concepts to reading racialized representations on screen in these three historical periods to demonstrate their understanding of how racial masquerades have evolved over time and continue to persist in contemporary culture.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURES:

*First-year students who are not enrolled in a fall 2020 FYS will register online when their registration appointment begins.

*First-year students who enrolled in a fall 2020 FYS will be able to enroll in a spring 2021 FYS beginning Monday, December 14th (12:01am).

Enrollment in FYS is limited to first-year students. Students can enroll in a maximum of two FYS in any one semester, and a maximum of two FYS across their first two semesters at Carolina. Enrollment in a third FYS can only occur with an approved petition from the Associate Dean of First Year Curricula (fys_admin@unc.edu), and will not be approved for a third FYS in a single semester.

ASIA 52 – 001 First-Year Seminar: Food in Chinese Culture

TuTh 2:00PM – 3:15PM

Gang Yue

Examines the cultural practice and meanings of food, cooking, eating, and drinking through Chinese literature and cinema. Main themes include food and rituals, gourmandism and poetic taste, cannibalism and the grotesque, and hunger and revolution.

ENGL 71H – 001 First-Year Seminar: Doctors and Patients

MoWeFr 10:10AM – 11:00AM

Kym Weed

This course explores the human struggle to make sense of suffering and debility. Texts are drawn from literature, anthropology, film, art history, philosophy, and biology.

GSLL 60 – 001 First-Year Seminar: Avant-Garde Cinema: History, Themes, Textures

TuTh 12:30PM – 1:45PM

Richard Langston

Students explore the international history, filmic techniques and cultural meanings of non-narrative cinema of the 20th century. Students also transform in-class discussions and individual essays into video projects. Previously offered as GERM 60.

General Course List

AAAD 202 – African Film and Performance

MoWe 3:30PM – 4:45PM

Samba Camara

This course examines the misrepresentation of Africa and Africans in western colonial films and how African filmmaking and performing have responded to the colonialist narrative.

AAAD 250 – 001 The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present

Tu 3:30PM – 6:20PM

Charlene Regester

This course will analyze the role of the African American in motion pictures, explore the development of stereotypical portrayals, and investigate the efforts of African American actors and actresses to overcome these portrayals.

ARTS 209 – 001 2D Animation

MoWe 2:30PM – 5:15PM

Sabine Gruffat

Enrollment Restrictions

This course carries departmental enrollment restrictions. For more information, visit:

https://art.unc.edu/courses-and-degrees/studio-art-courses/

Prerequisite, ARTS 104. This class explores several techniques of 2D character animation, including storyboarding and conceptualizing, pencil testing and timing animation, animating simple sequences with Photoshop, experimenting with coloring and materials under a film camera, and compositing in After Effects.

ARTS 657 – 001 Movie Making Machines: Learning About Cinema in the Maker Space

MoWe 9:05 AM – 10:45 AM

Sabine Gruffat

Prerequisite, ARTS 105, 106, 209, or COMM 130; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. This projects-based seminar will introduce students to the fundamental optical and technological principles of motion pictures. By using the Maker Space to design and fabricate pinhole cameras, zoetropes, and 16mm film strips, students will gain a deep understanding of the material and technological foundations of the cinema, and the operating principles that are behind not only the classic films of Hollywood’s past, but the high-definition digital imaging technologies of the present.

ASIA 231 – 001 Bollywood Cinema

TuTh 5:00PM – 6:15PM

Afroz Taj

This course explores the development of the Indian cinema, with particular emphasis on the Hindi-Urdu films produced in Mumbai (Bollywood).

ASIA 231 – 601 Bollywood Cinema

Fr 12:20PM – 1:10PM

Staff

This course explores the development of the Indian cinema, with particular emphasis on the Hindi-Urdu films produced in Mumbai (Bollywood).

ASIA 231 – 602 Bollywood Cinema

Fr 1:25PM – 2:15PM

Staff

This course explores the development of the Indian cinema, with particular emphasis on the Hindi-Urdu films produced in Mumbai (Bollywood).

ASIA 231 – 603 Bollywood Cinema

Fr 9:05AM – 9:55AM

Staff

This course explores the development of the Indian cinema, with particular emphasis on the Hindi-Urdu films produced in Mumbai (Bollywood).

ASIA 358 – 001/JWST 358 Religion and Tradition in Israeli Cinema, TV, and Literature

TuTh 2:00PM – 3:15PM

Yaron Shemer

This research-intensive course focuses on the ways religion and religious practices are represented in Israeli literature and media. The greater part of the semester will explore the variety of religious traditions in Israel within the framework of Zionist thought, gender and sexuality issues, and ethnic differences.

ASIA 425 – 001 Beyond Hostilities: Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges and Partnerships in Film, Literature, and Music

TuTh 12:30PM – 1:45PM

Yaron Shemer

Focuses on the various collaborations, exchanges, and mutual enrichment between Israelis and Palestinians in the realm of culture, particularly literature and cinema. These connections include language (Israeli Jewish authors writing in Arabic and Palestinian writers who choose Hebrew as their language of expression), collaborating in filmmaking, and joint educational initiatives.

CMPL 143 – 001 History of Global Cinema

TuTh 9:30AM – 10:20AM

Inga Pollmann