Film & Media Studies

This course is designed for students wishing to clarify and/or advance their career goals through a 6-week internship. It provides a structured and guided learning environment to help students make the most of their internship experience in Korea. Course components facilitate students' professional development, focusing on the transition from the role of a student to the role of a working professional. 

Media and popular culture have long played a key role in shaping and reflecting gendered power relations as well as processes of identification. This course provides an introduction to the representations and constructions of gender in contemporary culture and media. It develops students' understanding of gender, media, and culture in a period of time of rapid globalization and digitization. Through this course, students acquire theoretical and methodological tools to study gender in the media, and across a range of contemporary cultural phenomena. They apply a critical lens to the representations of gender in popular cultural media, focusing on the production, circulation, and reception of media representations of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. The course also explores the ways in which questions of gender and sexuality might shape and inform identities. It adopts an intersectional approach and analyzes the way gender intersects with race, class, and sexuality.

This course examines the core of persuasive communications: the ability to reach a deep understanding of the people you are communicating with. This means listening, thinking critically, and asking the right questions. Who are they? Where are they? What do they desire? What keeps them awake at night? How do they make sense of the world? These questions are the building blocks for crafting the insightful campaigns that transform a clients' problem into a strategic and creative public relations or advertising solution. To answer them you need the right tools to understand and analyze consumers, publics, and media audiences.

The course offers a study of the role of the director of photography and develops the necessary skills for managing cameras and other equipment. It is divided into three broad units: techniques; the camera; lighting.

This course offers an introduction to documentary filmmaking with a focus on the renewal of the Spanish and Catalan film scene of the last 15 years. It presents examples of documentary works to understand the genre. During the workshop, students complete their own documentary project.

This course focuses on theater and film in the 20th and 21st centuries. The first part of the course explores the representation of masculinities in crisis since 1945 in the major film genres (thriller, melodrama, horror, social realism, war film) of British cinema. The concept of hegemonic masculinity in British cinema is also explored. The course consists of watching and discussing short clips from films, with additional readings and a final paper. The second part of the course engages in theatrical, film, and textual analysis by providing an understanding of the issues of mise-en-scéne, adaptation, and transsemiotizing. It focuses on recent adaptations of British texts, canonical or not, to navigate between the close analysis of text, stage, and film, and the more comprehensive approach to works within their contexts. Starting with the analysis of Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan’s adaptations of two of Samuel Beckett’s shorter plays, the course questions the issue of fidelity in the light of poststructuralist theories. It then focuses on different recent scenic versions of Shakespeare’s RICHARD III, one British and two Continental ones, to show how cultural contexts and aesthetic conventions impact the receptions of the text(s). Finally, the course considers a successful contemporary play and how it was transformed to meet the demands of filmic conventions and the film industry when adapted for the big screen.

This video production course is intended for students who have acquired basic cinematography and video production skills. With ENG shootings, students create short films or music videos based on their preferences.