Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of time-based media.
2. Summarize the technological and aesthetic uniqueness of global time-based media and its contextual specificity.
3. Develop academic and creative skills to engage, research, and write on topics in the field pertaining to history, form, and aesthetics.
4. Deploy the formal tools, terms, and definitions in the analysis of global time-based media.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the scope of theoretical and practical approaches to fields of film, media, and screen cultures.
2. Identify and apply production, circulation, creative, and reception methods of analysis for global time-based media.
3. Deploy creative visual storytelling skills alongside theoretical comprehension.
4. Examine the historical, social, political, psychological, and cultural implications of time-based media.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Learn the major theories and schools of thought used to study video games.
2. Understand the commercial and organizational aspects of the video game industry.
3. Explore some of the cultural practices of video game players: who they are, why they play games, and how they organize themselves in communities that generate culture inside and outside their games.
4. Analyze the narrative strategies and genre approaches used in video games.
5. Gain a greater knowledge on how video games technology and video game mechanics are used to change people’s behaviour.
6. Reflect critically on the various social issues concerning video games.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and discuss how transnational media responds to political, social and economic landscapes of this era.
2. Explain transnationalism as it relates to contemporary media.
3. Identify the cultural components of transnational media.
4. Critically evaluate and express questions relating to transnationalism and globalization.
5. Formulate an opinion or conclusion through the experience of giving and receiving critical peer feedback.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and compare different creative sectors and examine how they intersect and overlap.
2. Demonstrate comprehension of the current challenges and opportunities within each sector.
3. Evaluate the roles and impacts of technology, cultural policy, and the global economy in shaping creative industries.
4. Analyze industry directions and career paths.
5. Practice networking and actively approaching professionals.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Practice rewarding academic and personal skills to better manage the demands of university through workshops and self-reflections.
2. Explain the difference between writing styles associated with film and media theory.
3. Use reading and writing strategies from film and media theory to craft an analytical research paper.
4. Incorporate audio-visual analysis of on-screen media into analytical research paper.
5. Develop academic skills to better manage the demands of university.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Practice rewarding academic and personal skills to better manage the demands of university.
2. Identify and describe differences between writing styles associated with film and media studies.
3. Discuss how writing styles and language are impacted across contexts and cultures.
4. Utilize reading and writing strategies from film and media theory to craft analysis of moving images.
5. Cultivate academic ability to orally discuss and dissect moving images in a classroom setting.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Accurately describe the history of horror cinema, especially in relation to political, cultural, and global contexts.
2. Discuss recurrent trends in horror using key theoretical concepts as identified by notable scholars and practitioners in the field.
3. Critically explain how the formal properties and aesthetics of horror cinema have developed to generate affective responses.
4. Construct a robust appreciation of the diversity of horror cinema, especially as it pertains socio-political contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the history and contemporary impact of new mobile connected consumer technologies on the creative industries and various industrial sectors.
2. Apply the principles and logic of coding to the use of visual programming tools to create interactive media.
3. Apply technical skills to using cloud tools for graphic design.
4. Comprehend the principles, contemporary theories, and techniques of mobile media design and develop an appreciation for the aesthetics of new media forms and mobile media genres.
5. Evaluate the new media marketplace within which mobile technologies are created, distributed, and adopted by digital publics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Review the history of Science Fiction Cinema in an historical context.
2. Articulate relationships between key concepts in the theoretical study of Science Fiction Cinema.
3. Compare re-current trends in Science Fiction Cinema across different cultural contexts.
4. Assess how the scientific discourse is mobilized in Science Fiction Cinema.
5. Break down the formal characteristics of Science Fiction Cinema.
6. Review Science Fiction Cinema in various historical forms and genres.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate the validity and limitations of historical sources.
2. Communicate their understanding of film and history in both written and oral forms.
3. Explain how history shapes film form and content.
4. Conduct historical research using online and print sources.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify specific aesthetic and theoretical movements within film studies.
2. Describe the formal and theoretical properties of cinema, as well as its relation to shifting artistic, political, social, and cultural contexts.
3. Explain key concepts in film theory through written assignments.
4. Formulate connections across weeks and engage with new material with an inquisitive and attentive attitude.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify specific aesthetic and theoretical movements that constructed and expanded the boundaries of media studies.
2. Describe the historical development of media technologies and their relations to political, social, and cultural contexts.
3. Explain key concepts in media theory through written assignments.
4. Critically evaluate major shifts in media movements and aesthetics.
5. Critically evaluate media theories and formulate an opinion or conclusion through the experience of giving and receiving critical peer feedback.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of animated film in terms of key directors, studios, films, themes, and animation techniques.
2. Analyze animated feature films from social, historical, ideological, formal perspectives.
3. Identify and compare trends in animation from different studios and different historical and geographic contexts.
4. Recognize and apply key concepts in the historical and theoretical study of animation.
5. Understand contemporary debates about animation and children’s popular culture and formulate original arguments and interpretations.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend Socio-Historical Context: Understand the intricate connections between Korean media and popular culture with the socio-historical factors that have shaped them, including significant events, societal changes, and cultural influences.
2. Cultivate Critical Analysis Skills: Develop advanced critical thinking skills to systematically analyze a wide range of Korean media forms, such as cinema, television dramas, and K-Pop. Evaluate these forms with a discerning eye, considering their cultural, artistic, and societal relevance and impact.
3. Evaluate Global Implications: Explore and assess the global reach and implications of the Hallyu (Korean Wave) phenomenon. Develop analytical tools to examine its socio-cultural and economic significance on a global scale, including its influence on other cultures and industries.
4. Foster Reflective Analysis: Practice reflective thinking to analyze how Korean media and popular culture intersect with your own life and experiences. Develop the ability to critically reflect on the influence of Korean media on personal beliefs, values, and perspectives.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the history of the Comedy Film in a historical context.
2. Apply key concepts in the theoretical study of the Comedy Film.
3. Identify re-current trends in the Comedy Film across different cultural contexts.
4. Analyze how discomfort, awkwardness, and physical humour is mobilized in the Comedy Film.
5. Describe the forms of humour in Comedy Film.
6. Contextualize the use of humour in the Comedy Film across various historical forms and genres.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate, orally and in writing, how road movies function as both a film genre and cultural form and how characters construct community, identity, and mobility in relation to place.
2. Compare, criticize, and analyze film sequences using film language.
3. Compose film reviews using the tools and theories seen in class.
4. Define and recognize the major film theories studied in class.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop knowledge of key developments of cultural technologies and their political, social and economic contexts of emergence, particularly as relates to issues of race, class, Indigeneity and gender.
2. Develop online and library research in scholarly publications, databases, archives.
3. Employ media theories and models of historical analysis from a cultural studies perspective (i.e. decoding advertising, performing ideology critique, producing feminist analysis, etc.).
4. Increase fluency in theoretical foundations of media studies and cultural studies.
5. Practice interpretation of media and cultural texts (advertising, television genres, cultural spectacle, etc.) in relation to social power and identity.
6. Understand the national and global circuits of production, distribution and consumption of media texts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate relationships between specific concepts from the major theories and schools of thought used to study popular culture.
2. Develop original thoughts to answer fundamental questions such as what is popular culture, how is it made and how does it affect us, what are its functions and the relations of power surrounding it.
3. Develop critical perspectives on media and popular culture through written analysis of a particular issue.
4. Judge different forms of popular culture and explore how various social/artistic expressions gain mass popularity.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of digital media formats, their technical properties, and usage through practical activites.
2. Demonstrating knowledge in the usage of basic production and post-production tools.
3. Implementing the basics of structuring, planning, producing, and revising in creative media project.
4. Implementing the fundamentals of film language and conventions of audiovisual storytelling in a creative project.
5. Utilize knowledge of media history and theory toward the critique of student media projects.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze which form of concept productions are most salient for the project.
2. Deploy analytical skills to refine project from initial conception to final outcome.
3. Develop an understanding of the various forms of concept development across genres.
4. Understand the importance of concept development.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate relationships between specific concepts from the major theories and schools of thought used to study digital media.
2. Assess creative works using digital theory.
3. Design short works in digital platforms, informed by digital media theory.
4. Evaluate the role of digital media in contemporary culture.
5. Review new digital media in a critical manner.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze frame design across multiple cultures/production settings/genres.
2. Construct frames and shots where aesthetic choices are aligned with conceptual ones.
3. Respond visually to master filmmakers from around the world.
4. Master basic techniques of lighting, photography, cinematography.
5. Create DIY tripods and lighting to work with mobile phones.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze Hollywood films from the 1930s to 1950s in the context of issues of genre, race, class.
2. Analyze the history of Hollywood's studio era and assess its legacies in film and media culture.
3. Apply conventions of Hollywood form and narrative to original creative projects.
4. Formulate original critical arguments relating to Hollywood cinema.
5. Identify the economic, political, cultural and historical forces that shaped the Hollywood industry.
6. Recognize and assess key concepts in film history and theory.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate and understanding of the relationship between national and regional cinemas in both written and oral forms.
2. Develop an advanced understanding of key moments and movements of cinema in the Americas.
3. Evaluate economies, political ecologies and policies related to access to media making in the Americas.
4. Form connections across weekly themes and critically engage with new material.
5. Synthesize the theories and histories of politics, economics and aesthetics in the Americas.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Cultivate an appreciation for horror cinema as it pertains to ongoing dialogues concerning socio-political structures/organizations of power, privilege, and marginalization.
2. Develop an advanced understanding of critical concepts in horror cinema, as discussed by key scholars.
3. Form connections across weeks and critically engage with new material.
4. Synthesize, critique, and discuss cinematic texts utilizing film theory.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and discuss how contemporary world cinema responds to political, social and religious landscapes of this era.
2. Critically evaluate and express questions relating to globalization.
3. Describe the distinct modes of filmmaking in contemporary world cinema.
4. Explain media theory and intercultural communication as it relates to world cinema.
5. Formulate an opinion or conclusion through the experience of giving and receiving critical peer feedback.
6. Identify the cultural components of world cinema.
7. Recognize specific directors and themes that exemplify artistic high points of contemporary world cinema.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply and engage in course concepts through field trips, guest lectures and interviews.
2. Apply key terms such as the artist, labour, productivity, and creativity will be examined for the ways in which they are mobilized to signal new schools of thought and usher in paradigm shifts in public policy, planning, governance, finance and consumer capitalism, cultural criticism, and art and activist movements.
3. Comprehend the ways in which the romanticized, precarious life of the artist as freedom from the trappings of modernity, has become a larger economic model for precarity instituted and normalized across the contemporary workforce.
4. Evaluate the shift from the cultural to the creative industries in the context of the rise of neoliberalism and the financialization of art.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Communicate and understanding of the relationship between national cinemas in both written and oral forms.
2. Develop an advanced understanding of key moments and movements of cinema in European cinema.
3. Evaluate economies, political ecologies and representations.
4. Form connections across weekly themes and critically engage with new material .
5. Synthesize the theories and histories of politics, economics and aesthetics in European cinema.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the tools of academic critical analysis of a specific form of popular culture.
2. Build capacity and knowledge base to become critical consumers of popular culture including the media and popular cultural practices.
3. Create an enhanced understanding for students of their own consumption of popular culture.
4. Develop ability to analyze various forms of popular culture and their significance according to theoretical perspectives and concerning selected issues.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Challenge default assumptions about how media activism, in relation to climate change in particular, work.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the debates surrounding the use of rationality and emotion in addressing the environment and the climate crisis.
3. Examine the roles played by various forms of technology in addressing the environment.
4. Mobilize visual technologies to convey issues about the climate crisis.
5. Understand various forms of media activism deployed in the climate crisis.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identifying, handling, and working with historical photochemical and magnetic media.
2. Learning scanning and capture processes for photochemical and magnetic media.
3. Packaging and delivering media in archival, theatrical, and broadcast standards.
4. Remediating and restoring media digitally.
5. Understanding the ethics and responsibility in digital remediation and restoration.
6. Working with time-based digital media: usages, stability, and best practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate ethical approaches to the problem of media disinformation.
2. Critically interrogate the assertion that the past constituted a time of greater political agreement and epistemic consistency.
3. Define disinformation in a global context.
4. Expand focus from media-centric explanations of disinformation to include considerations of race, gender, economics, corporate interests, state interests, and other historical actors.
5. Understand disinformation in historical context by familiarizing with historical examples of disinformation campaigns that reinforced structural inequalities.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess the work of their peers and formulate constructive feedback.
2. Demonstrate advanced screenwriting skills through content development and revision process.
3. Develop an artistic approach and application of their ideas.
4. Develop presentational skills through pitching.
5. Gain an overview of the fundamentals of feature film development.
6. Realize film stories in short screenplay format.
7. Think critically about their creative work.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Construct a feasible writing portfolio that can service students beyond graduation.
2. Demonstrate advanced writing skills across different genres that succinctly and clearly communicates ideas pertaining to research, analysis, methodology, and intent.
3. Explain the importance of high-caliber writing when working within related arts-based sectors in Film and Media.
4. Participate in peer review processes and presentations that improve individual and group learning.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Advanced and fluent practice of media literacy skills in terms of South/North power and economy.
2. Demonstrate critical understanding of the geographic/hemispheric/national context in the creation and circulation of media and emergent media forms, audiences and access.
3. Identify the tensions and intersections between models of regional media institutions, industries and creative practices.
4. Evaluate economies, political ecologies and policies related to access to media making.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the role of video games in culture.
2. Examine the relationship between video games and gaming and social and political issues.
3. Understand the relationship between games and theories of play.
4. Deploy concepts from critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine games in theoretical frames.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Deconstruct artistic discourse and analyze the underlying politics of the artwork.
2. Engage with current art production in a wide-range of geopolitical contexts.
3. Identify the historical contexts of production and reception of modern, contemporary, and new media art.
4. Understand the relation between different forms of audiovisual representation and media technologies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Experience a wide-range of exhibition formats and configurations.
2. Acquire a critical-historical understanding of exhibition spaces and modes of spectatorship.
3. Identify the role of curatorial practices in contemporary economies of attention and memory.
4. Structure exhibition projects appropriate to a given work/context.
5. Mobilize curatorship as a mode of knowledge that can be deployed in research.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Challenge established visual forms of communication.
2. Express stories in new ways.
3. Incorporate non-conformist voices and perspectives within storytelling.
4. Visually interpret stories and ideas from different perspectives.
5. Test visual ideas for scripts and workshop the effectiveness of new forms.
6. Explore an effective form of communication/language between craft and directing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire skills to engage in critical analysis of representation and self-representation.
2. Critically articulate in academic writing the implications Asian and Asian North American media and art.
3. Engage in media and/or performance creation that reflects learning in the course.
4. Navigate and parse divergent perspectives on Asian/Asian diasporic media content, form, and cultural impact.
5. Understand media representation of Asians and Asian North Americans in relation to historical and social political context.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Consider the confluences and differences between works done in Anglo-Canada, Quebec, Indigenous and migrant communities.
2. Deploy critical theories in the examination of these works and contexts.
3. Examine the aesthetics of documentary, experimental, and animation in Canadian cinemas.
4. Understand the history of documentary, experimental, and animation filmmaking, policies and institutions in Canadian cinemas.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Consider the confluences and differences between works done in Anglo-Canada, Quebec, and Indigenous communities in the fictional narrative form.
2. Deploy critical theories in the examination of these works in terms of questions of national identities.
3. Examine the aesthetics of Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois(e), and Indigenous Canadian cinemas.
4. Understand the history of Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois(e), and Indigenous cinema in Canada.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze historical and contemporary Canadian films and media.
2. Explore diverse worldviews, ways of knowing, abilities, and experiences through Canadian films, programming and curation, including Indigenous, Black, LGBTQ+, and feminist perspectives, also paying attention to language diversity.
3. Apply best practices to create programs of historical and contemporary Canadian films, communicating information to a broad range of film and media audiences in ways that are accessible and inclusive.
4. Compare accounts offered by filmmakers in relation to their professional and artistic their practice.
5. Evaluate the programming strategies used in public facing venues highlighting Canadian films.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the critical intersections of gender, nationality, race, class, sexuality, and ableism to complicate technological developments often cast as gender neutral.
2. Examine cultural texts through theories, methods, and sociocultural practices advanced by feminist and queer theorists, new media scholars, and digital justice activists.
3. Understand with the role of media in hegemonic formations of gender that reproduce static binaries and dualities that structure the uneven subordination of cis and trans women to patriarchal systems.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Cultivate an appreciation for the contributions of women film and media artists, theorists and historians in a global perspective, beyond the North American and European contexts.
2. Develop an advanced understanding of critical concepts in women's film and media arts history, methods and theory in a global perspective.
3. Form connections across weeks and critically engage with new material.
4. Synthesize, critique and discuss cinema and media arts texts using theory and methods learned in-class.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize evolutions in film form and narrative within changing political landscapes.
2. Cultivate an appreciation for queer aesthetics, history, scholarship, and the integral role queer artists and scholars have played in shaping filmmaking practices and criticism.
3. Demonstrate inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussions on history, identity and representation.
4. Explain critical theoretical concepts in queer cinema studies in relation to the evolution of film form, production, history, and politics of representation.
5. Use key readings in queer theory and film studies to analyze formal and structural elements in select screenings.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess their roles as viewers/consumers/producers of cultural texts, including the ways in which they might be seduced into replicating--or potentially subvert--certain ideologies and power structures.
2. Evaluate technology as expansive and explain how it shapes personal, societal, national, and global spheres.
3. Identify and engage in a variety of cultural media/texts--theoretical, artistic, and others.
4. Research and develop a topic of interest related to culture and technology, and communicate findings through academic writing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate how film contributes to the social construction of reality.
2. Identify political symbols, motifs, affects, and moods that appear in filmic media.
3. Interpret films in order to articulate implicit or nascent elements that engage in political world-building, either symbolically or otherwise.
4. Recognize how filmic media construct, enhance, and shape worldviews according to different social contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Investigate the relationship between the history of visual culture, their institutions/industries and the history of cities.
2. Analyze how contemporary film and media makers are staging diverse, decolonial, intersectional, and differently abled visions of the city.
3. Evaluate in written and creative form the diverse experience of cities, cinema and representation.
4. Explore representations of global cities and how representations open spectators to the plurality of urban life.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze a cross-section of genres (documentary, ethnographic, narrative fiction), platforms (podcasts, blogs, social media), texts (scholarly, press, artistic), and interventions (art-activism).
2. Construct and communicate an effective argument and research findings diverse forms of expression.
3. Form connections between mediums, institutions, and bodies of knowledge in relation to issues of authority, authenticity and cultural difference.
4. Understand research trends and creative practices in Cultural Studies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an advanced understanding of critical concepts in film and media theory, with specific regard for feminist, queer, and critical race studies.
2. Form connections across weeks, critically charting historical developments in technology and society.
3. Recognize the recurrence of technologies, aesthetics, and images from the 1990s in today's culture.
4. Synthesize, critique, and apply key theoretical concepts to texts screened in-class.
5. Understand 1990's history and its impact on artistic strategies in filmmaking and beyond.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze how advertising creates and affects meaning using approaches from semiotics, film and media theory and cultural studies.
2. Assess ways that consumer culture is constructed, challenged, and subverted in popular culture.
3. Formulate arguments based on research and case studies.
4. Identify intersections between subjectivity, citizenship, technology, and consumer culture.
5. Understand and apply key concepts and arguments in cultural and media theory as they relate to consumer culture and advertising.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze how political and cultural discourse is mobilized in Media Studies.
2. Apply key concepts in the theoretical study of Media.
3. Contextualize the role of media across various historical and contemporary forms and genres.
4. Describe the theoretical applications of Media Studies.
5. Identify re-current trends in Media Studies across different cultural contexts.
6. Understand the history of Media Studies in an historical context.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze examples of alternative media (films, video, social media) using critical media theory.
2. Apply knowledge of media histories and social histories to contemporary media.
3. Create activist media that reflects knowledge garnered through course discussions.
4. Describe how media technologies and networks have been used differently by activists and the mainstream.
5. Identify the influence of past media and media-makers on those coming later.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire skills to engage in critical analysis of speculative media.
2. Critically articulate in academic writing the implications of speculative media in relation to representation, authorship, audience, and/or capital.
3. Engage transmedial fandom through participant observation.
4. Evaluate speculative media practices, personally and globally.
5. Navigate and parse divergent perspectives on speculative media content, form, and cultural Impact.
6. Understand speculative media from a perspective of fiction, fans, and franchises.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a multiperspectival, historically rich and socially conscious analytical method to review cultural products like television.
2. Produce academic research papers demonstrating critical media literacy while also developing creative thinking and actively try and publish their work.
3. Understand developments in contemporary televisual storytelling alongside ongoing political developments by seeing their tendencies as reciprocal.
4. Understand the relation of visual aesthetics and techniques to create mood and communicate story.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess the work of their peers and formulate constructive feedback.
2. Demonstrate advanced screenwriting skills through group work in simulated writer's rooms.
3. Develop an original series concept, a series bible, and a series pitch that can service students beyond graduation.
4. Gain an overview of the historical development of the episodic form.
5. Identify elements of scene craft, character development, and narrative structure of serial content.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply knowledge of historical social inequalities in film and video archiving to contemporary social movements and marginalized people's filmmaking.
2. Gain practical skills in film and video inspection, preservation, and digitization.
3. Synthesize, critique, and apply key theoretical concepts in the Department of Film and Media Archives and the Queen's University Archives.
4. Understand the history of film and video formats and be able to identify audiovisual material.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical film viewing and writing skills.
2. Gain a theoretical understanding of experimental documentary media forms, methods, and histories as the basis for students own documentary production.
3. Work on technical skills to plan, research. produce, direct and edit a documentary.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the ability to plan, execute, and deliver an intended visual approach from pre-production to production and post-production.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use lighting, frame composition, and camera awareness to create mood or to communicate story.
3. Understand image and sound capture tools: control methodologies, media and formats, production logistics and approaches.
4. Understand key lighting and production tools and uses.
5. Understand the relation of visual aesthetics and techniques to create mood and communicate story.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze animated films with attention to technical processes and social and historical contexts.
2. Evaluate the aesthetic possibilities unique to animation and use them to make moving-image media.
3. Apply technical skills in a variety of 2D animation methods to create short animated sequences.
4. Synthesize specific interests within the field of independent animation to develop a personal visual style.
5. Apply traditional frame-by-frame animation skills with control over timing and spacing.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Connected documentary aesthetics to ethics and politics.
2. Familiarized yourself with classical and alternative documentaries genres.
3. Learned the basic historical timeline of documentary.
4. Practiced constructing arguments about individual documentaries and their critics.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical writing skills from course literature.
2. Produce a research-based essay.
3. Co-organize and deliver a seminar based upon given and student-researched material.
4. Analyze and discuss animation works within the context of their production.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Configuring project settings and devices used for 3D sculpting.
2. Managing workflows: software fundamentals (examining a variety of software tools and their differences and commonalities), media management (merging objects, autosave settings, file size, render settings).
3. Ability to create 3D content: box modeling, 3D sculpting, titles, shapes, characters, basic animation and key frame manipulation.
4. Rigging 3D Models: creating a joint system to create a PLA (point level animation) necessary for augmented reality and virtual reality, spline animation.
5. Making use of procedural animations such as Pose Morph, Deformers, Xpresso, Mograph effects in Cinema 4D.
6. Integrate audio: reactive sound, sound design, foley, score, dialogue editing, sound mixing.
7. Implement a wide variety of post-production and SFX techniques: colour correction, compositing effects, adding/creating CG elements.
8. Integrating motion-captured data with rigged characters.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquaintance with the history of computer-generated imagery and graphical interfaces.
2. Critically analyse the aesthetics of operational and interactive images.
3. Incorporate virtual simulation and computer vision techniques in a filmmaking workflow.
4. Understand the relation between media technology, the military/surveillance complex, and hacker subcultures.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Discuss theory and practice pertaining to mixed reality and 3D animation.
2. Manage edit workflows.
3. Create 3D content and rig 3D Models necessary for augmented reality and virtual reality, as well as for avatars/playable characters.
4. Integrate soundscapes: sound design, Foley, score, dialogue editing, sound mixing.
5. Implement post-production and SFX techniques.
6. Use AR/VR software platforms.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and deconstruct the ways in which spectatorship is shaped by the material conditions of production and reception as well as the intersections of gender, race, class, and ability.
2. Implement methods of analysis learned through scholarly readings and critical and creative responses.
3. Participate in critical debates about how audiences gaze, witness, consume, and participate in live and mediated events.
4. Understand methods and modes of spectatorship.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the ability to plan, execute, and deliver an intended visual approach from pre-production to production and post-production.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use lighting, frame composition, and camera awareness to create mood or to communicate story.
3. Understand image and sound capture tools: control methodologies, media and formats, production logistics and approaches.
4. Understand key lighting and production tools and uses.
5. Understand the relation of visual aesthetics and techniques to create mood and communicate story.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and reframe film and video sequences using film and media language.
2. Describe the distinct modes of filmmaking in Indigenous cinema.
3. Discuss how Indigenous cinema responds to political, social, and religious landscapes of this era.
4. Recognize specific Indigenous directors and themes that exemplify artistic high points of Indigenous cinema.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate the music video in terms of historical, geographical, and economic contexts.
2. Evaluate what makes a music video successful in various contexts.
3. Synthesize the broader cultural impact of the music video beyond its promotional function.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply design principles to print, web, installation, performance and video projects.
2. Apply design principles to projects integrating text, image, sound, and space.
3. Apply new technology, tools, and specialist knowledge shared online in the design of technical workflows.
4. Comprehend a broader familiarity with contemporary media practices.
5. Evaluate and critique work across media.
6. Evaluate practical needs when planning for and working with physical sites: conduct site surveys, address lighting concerns, calculate projector throw distances, etc.
7. Synthesize significant texts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply concepts in graphic, web, sound, and interaction design.
2. Apply methodologies for integrating research and creative work.
3. Situate digital technologies of media production in historical context.
4. Theorize, explain and critique digital media projects.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess and critique aesthetic, theoretical and social issues in one's own work and the work of others.
2. Design lighting appropriate for the style and subject of a video.
3. Examine a variety of contemporary contexts for professional and artistic video production.
4. Implement a wide range of editing techniques and strategies.
5. Implement the planning, producing, and revising a media project with well founded artistic strategies.
6. Manipulate effectively key aspects of cinematography and sound production.
7. Recognize a variety of aesthetic approaches to video production.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Write, produce, direct, shoot, and digitally edit.
2. Identify and analyze established field video genres and techniques.
3. Refine their conceptual and aesthetic styles, as well as their practical and technical skills.
4. Identify where their particular interests and abilities lie and discuss learning and career paths.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand editing language in relation to both theory (effects of shot choice, duration and sequencing) and practice (maintaining scene geography, continuity).
2. Manage edit workflows: NLE fundamentals (examining a variety of software tools and their commonalities), media management (assembly, rough cut, fine cut), logging, transcoding, output, bouncing to and from other software tools, and image management (codecs, export).
3. Demonstrate ability to use motion graphics: titles, transitions, basic animation, and key frame manipulation.
4. Design post-production soundscapes: sound design, foley, score, dialogue editing, re-recording mix, ADR, sound mixing.
5. Implement a wide variety of post-production and SFX techniques: colour correction, compositing effects, adding/creating CG elements.
6. Develop skills in various software platforms (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Media Encoder, After Effects).

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, handle, and work with the motion-picture film medium.
2. Use motion-picture specific equipment (cameras, editors, and projection).
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the photochemical process (exposure and workflow).
4. Demonstrate an understanding of how traditional photochemical processes inter/relate to current media-making practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, handle, and work with specialized audio recording equipment.
2. Identify and mitigate common issues with location audio.
3. Understand and execute a creatively focused sound design that complements pictorial elements.
4. Demonstrate understanding of acoustic and physical space through mixing and spatializing.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of non-diegetic sound and effects on a central story.
6. Understand the entire aural workflow in a traditional film and video production.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze the representation of globalization, borders, migration, and displacement in film and media.
2. Formulate original critical arguments and interpretations about film, geography, space and place.
3. Situate recent film and media works within social, political, and cultural debates about globalization.
4. Understand and apply concepts, terms and debates in film and geographical theory to film and media projects.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Devise personal, experimental strategies for creating moving-image special effects.
2. Develop skills in working with the cinematic apparatus and software tools.
3. Understand the politics and history of technological development for the moving-image.
4. Investigate historical narratives through a critical lens.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate critical understanding of the role of diaspora in the creation and circulation of media and emergent aesthetic forms.
2. Develop advanced and fluent practice of media literacy skills.
3. Evaluate economies and policies related to access to media making for those in the diaspora.
4. Identify the tensions and intersections between models of identity in media institutions, industries and creative practices.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply knowledge of best practices for media archives, their conservation, and digitization.
2. Create an archival project based on topics considered in the course.
3. Hone critical media literacy skills.
4. Identify power structures that exist in archives and propose solutions reflective of the needs of marginalized communities, filmmakers, and artists.
5. Understand issues and debates related to intellectual property, Indigenous knowledge sovereignty and structures, cultural property, policy and Repatriation.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend media as tactile, physical, durable, and embodied.
2. Cultivate a critical awareness of material media in everyday life and social life.
3. Develop an ability to chart media ecologies.
4. Form connections across units and key issues.
5. Synthesize and apply key theoretical concepts of material media studies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze Media Studies methods of analysis with the direct application to the production of audio and visual materials.
2. Contextualize Media Theory as a mode of historical and critical understanding.
3. Convey factual information and scholarly opinion on the function of Media Theory.
4. Produce critically and theoretically informed research in the field of Media Studies.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a greater understanding of the pervasive themes in Canadian narrative films.
2. Employ theory from readings and beyond to produce well-articulated formal film analyses.
3. Identify possible interventions in Canadian film scholarship through closely engaging with selected texts.
4. Understand the historical trends of Canadian film, including policy, funding, and exhibition.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussion on history, identity, and representation.
2. Develop capacity in self-guided historical analyses as it relates to the realms of film criticism and theory.
3. Display advanced understanding of the major debates and trends in film theory and criticism, nationally and/or globally.
4. Hone writing skills for publication in diverse contexts.
5. Practice diverse modes film criticism.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize evolutions in authorship theory and practices against changing political landscapes.
2. Cultivate an appreciation for the cultural politics of identity, social value, and cultural impact of artists and scholars attending to new forms of authorship.
3. Demonstrate inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussion on history, identity, and representation.
4. Engage with peers using readings and texts from the course, as well as individual research to develop meaningful class discussion in relation to the course topics.
5. Generate efficiency in self-guided historical analyses as it relates to the realms of cultural film movements as pertaining to specific filmmakers.
6. Produce new and inventive criticism of past and contemporary issues of the course focus in reflective writing assignments.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Cultivate an appreciation for new material and become comfortable participating in class discussion related to major topics and trends in culture and representation.
2. Demonstrate inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussion on history, identity, and representation.
3. Explain the difference between writing styles associated with film and media theory.
4. Incorporate visual analysis of representation and aesthetics in on-screen media into analytical research paper.
5. Practice rewarding academic and personal skills to better manage the demands of university through workshops and self-reflections.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze non-narrative film and media practices in relation to their contexts of production and reception.
2. Cultivate an appreciation for new material and become comfortable participating in class.
3. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of major debates in non-narrative cinema.
4. Explain the differences between forms of non-narrative film and media.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze narrative film and media practices in relation to their contexts of production and reception.
2. Cultivate an appreciation for new material and become comfortable participating in class.
3. Demonstrate advance, inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussion on debates in narrative film.
4. Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of major debates in narrative cinema.
5. Explain the differences between forms of narrative film and media in national and/or global contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess the multi-modal nature of festivals as events in terms of content, curatorial choices, and audience.
2. Hone their research and writing skills through festival reviews, scholarly writing, and presentations.
3. Identify theories, frameworks, and practices in connection to festive events;
4. Understand the ways in which festive events are tied to local economies, tourist agendas, and the national imaginary.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze business considerations throughout the film production cycle, from development through production to distribution and marketing.
2. Apply course learnings to create a comprehensive feature film production and distribution strategy.
3. Explore different career paths and opportunities to develop a post-graduation plan.
4. Research and identify industry trends to predict market opportunities and threats.
5. Research, contact and interview active industry professionals to create a profile and presentation summarizing their background, career path, role and insights.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Engage in critical self-reflection and peer-critique of creative work through dialogue.
2. Apply a research creation methodology to develop a personal aesthetic and visual language.
3. Evaluate current and established norms in the field, through reflective engagement with media works by next-generation, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ voices in a specific area of media production.
4. Develop technical skills in a specific area of film and media production.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply filmmaking theory and principles, and conceptualize a narrative work across each of these different platforms.
2. Evaluate and determine which platform or technology is best suited for the story they want to tell, then create and present an actual story prototype. Iterate on this prototype, based on peer feedback and discussions.
3. Explore, analyze and compare different storytelling platforms and technologies, drawing from extensive case studies and sample works.
4. Identify, assess and discuss the potential strengths and weaknesses of each.
5. Improve their practical understanding of different media and technologies, and identify possible career interests and opportunities.
6. Prepare for the changing multimedia industry.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze traditional text-based essay writing methods of analysis with the direct application to the production of audio and visual materials.
2. Contextualize the Video Essay as a mode of historical and critical understanding.
3. Convey factual information and scholarly opinion on the function of the Video Essay.
4. Demonstrate ability to produce critically and theoretically informed works through the Video Essay.
5. Interpret Video Essay themes, narratives and imagery in relation to specific technological, social and ideological contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop industry-focused skills through experiential learning.
2. Manage time in multiple professional contexts.
3. Participate in professional media making context.
4. Reflect on professional experience and apply learning to academic skills in Film and Media.
5. Train in skills applicable to working with media events.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Create a curriculum vitea of all practicum experiences, and develop a post graduation plan.
2. Develop a comprehensive summary of practicum experiences and learnings, emphasizing critical examination of the industry and a detailed proposal for systemic change.
3. Develop industry-focused skills through experiential learning.
4. Manage time in multiple professional contexts.
5. Participate in professional media making context.
6. Reflect on professional experience and apply learning to academic skills in Film and Media.
7. Train in skills applicable to working with media events.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop industry-focused skills through experiential learning.
2. Manage time in multiple professional contexts.
3. Participate in professional media making context.
4. Reflect on professional experience and apply learning to academic skills in Film and Media.
5. Train in skills applicable to working with media events.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Build autonomy through individual research and expression, group research, critiques and presentations.
2. Critically deploy research methods in film, media, curation/programming to assess different or conflicting values.
3. Facilitate group interaction and demonstrate public speaking ability.
4. Formulate arguments and/or make creative/aesthetic decisions, and defend these choices in a critical manner.
5. Master the use of interactive presentation software and/or use of audio-visual software and hardware.
6. Participate as a member of a collaborative, critical community capable of providing strong feedback to peers in oral and written form.
7. Plan, develop, and execute a major research project.
8. Possess critical comprehension of film and media theories, genres, histories, and

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish between a variety of animation styles and techniques.
2. Use a digital animation program competently.
3. Plan a technical workflow from start to finish.
4. Plan a narrative or experimental work through storyboarding and preliminary testing.
5. Explain aesthetic, theoretical and social issues in one's own work and the work of others.
6. Implement strategies for sound-image sychonization.
7. Understand file specs and delivery issues such as video compression, frame rate, and resolution.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess the different strategies adopted by Latin American filmmakers to represent their reality and the social, political, cultural and artistic agendas behind them.
2. Deconstruct socio-political context behind the development of different Latin American documentaries and the way influences their creation.
3. Differentiate the cinematic and narrative value offered by films produced in the Latin American region.
4. Identify texts and manifestos that are key for the understanding of Latin American cinema and documentaries.
5. Recognize key documentaries in the history Latin American Cinema explain the relationship between selected films covered in class and their cultural and socio-political context, as well as the political and cultural aesthetics and trends related to them.
6. Review documentaries critically and employ specialized vocabulary when discussing them.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire skills to engage in critical analysis of Black media representation.
2. Critically articulate in academic writing the implications technologies of race and racism.
3. Navigate and parse divergent perspectives on Black media content, form, and cultural impact.
4. Understand Black visual arts in relation to historical and social political context.