COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College

Humanities Department
selected as representative of a type or concept. The student should
expect to pay for film screenings.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101
HUC165 Film and the Supernatural
3 credits; 4 hours
This course will explore major films which have reflected and
helped to define the concept of “supernatural horror” in Western
culture. The films will be related to the themes in folklore and fiction
that inspired their scripts. Students will learn to identify the
basic themes in supernatural film and fiction and will acquire the
basic methodology required to analyze these films as unconscious
reflections and/or semi-unconscious projections of archetypal
fears. The student should expect to pay for film screenings.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101
HUC/ENG238 Screenwriting
3 credits; 3 hours
This is a course in the art and craft of writing a fictional narrative
for the screen. Screenwriting genres and applications vary widely,
yet every one reaches its audience through storytelling. Students
examine the ways cinematic narratives show, rather than tell. Students
then create their own 10-minute movie script. They explore
scene and act structure, character development, dialogue, description,
etc. Students learn professional standards for writing for the
screen and how to use screenplay software.
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101
HUC240 Video Production Workshop
3 credits; 4 hours
This course introduces the student to the theory, vocabulary, and
production techniques of the video medium. Students, functioning
as a production team, create, and produce short video projects
during the session which culminate in a final production created,
organized, and produced by the class. Students are assigned, on a
rotating basis, specific production roles such as director, switcher,
camera operator, floor manager, audio technician, production
assistant or VCR operator. Projects vary from term to term as
deemed appropriate by the instructor.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101, MAT095
HUC241 Video Production Workshop II
3 credits; 4 hours
HUC241 gives students the opportunity to produce individual
video projects which may serve as a “reel” for transfer or for
employment in crafts and creative positions in production. The
emphasis is on production of image and sound. Students learn
standard formats such as narrative, documentary, music video and
TV commercials, and learn how to use the tools and techniques of
video production to express their personal visions. Students apply
established models for continuity editing and the principles of
montage. Students and faculty participate in critical analysis of
students’ work-in-progress and finished projects.
Prerequisite: HUC240
Pre- or Corequisite: HUC150
HUC270 American Film
3 credits; 4 hours
This course is a survey of artistic, technological and industrial
development of cinema in America. The films screened are representative
of major developments in American film history: technological,
aesthetic, industrial and socio-cultural. Through
readings and screenings, the student considers such topics as:
major genres that reflect and project American attitudes and
values, the work of the great American film artists, and the role of
films by black Americans. The student should expect to pay for
film screenings.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101
HUC/ENG272 Literature and Film
3 credits; 4 hours
This course studies the similarities and differences between literature
and film. By comparing and contrasting literary works (complete
and excerpts) with films, the course illuminates the methods,
structures and contents of the two media, as well as their interrelationship.
Writers to be considered may include Shakespeare,
Keats, Dickens, Dickinson, Wright, and West; films to be viewed
may include those made by Griffith, Chaplin, Riefenstahl, Flaherty
and Resnais.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENG102, HUC150 or HUC270
HUC275 American Film Comedy
3 credits; 4 hours
This course surveys American film comedy through the study of
comic performers and comic styles of filmmaking. It explores such
areas as the difference between physical and verbal comedy and
why we laugh at slapstick. The course includes in- class screenings
and discussions. Contributions by comedians from a variety of
ethnic backgrounds are highlighted. Suggested comic artists include
Charlie Chaplin, Bill Cosby, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers and
Mae West. The student should expect to pay for film screenings.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENC/ENG101
Photography
HUA202 History of Photography
3 credits; 3 hours
This course will examine the development of photography as an
art form. Beginning with the introduction of the camera in the
19th century, the course will focus on early photographic experimentation
and its effects on painting. Accordingly, students will
then be introduced to the work of great photographers from
Nadar to Stieglitz, and to the effects of their work on the development
and refinement of the photographic form. An overview of
photography in the modern age will conclude the course.
Prerequisite: CSE099, ENA/ENG/ESA099/ENC101
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