University degrees: Summer University
Course length: 1 month
Course city: Los Angeles
UCLA General Education Credit
Satisfies diversity requirement for most programs
This course will introduce students to the formal and aesthetic principles of cinema, cultivating students’ literacy in both media form and cultural representation. Many of us watch some variation of film and television each day. Though we may not realize it, the representations we see on screen can have a profound effect on how we understand social categories such as gender, class, race, sexuality, and national identity. In this course, students will gain fluency in the audio-visual language that comprises visual media and the complex ways in which that language creates cultural meaning.
Professor Jasmine Nadua Trice an assistant professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television.
Session A: June 22 – July 21
Session C: August 3 – September 11
