Classes in hum

HUM 3 Introduction to Cinematic Arts, Film and Television 3.0 units
Description: This course provides an introduction to the cinema. The course will examine broad questions of form and content, aesthetics and meaning, and history and culture. Using a wide variety of films, filmmakers, and film movements, the course explores the diverse possibilities presented by the cinematic art form. Topics include modes of production, narrative and non-narrative forms, visual design, editing, sound, genre, ideology, and critical analysis. ADVISORY: Eligible for English 250 and 260.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Critically analyze film and television as a technology, business, cultural production/artifact, entertainment medium and art form.
2. Students will learn to analyze and interpret film and electronic media using film-specific language.
3. Demonstrate visual literacy through the application of the analytical tools of categories, theories and ideologies to understand the cinematic arts? complex role and function in society.
4. Demonstrate a recognition, description and analysis of formal aesthetics elements of the cinematic arts.
5. Prepare analytical essays regarding the technical, aesthetic, and cultural aspects of the cinematic arts


HUM 4 Introduction to American Cinema 3.0 units
Description: This introductory course in film studies is a survey of the American film industry as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of representation and communication. The course explores how Hollywood films work technically, aesthetically, and culturally to reinforce and challenge America's national self-image. ADVISORY: English 440

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate a knowledge of American film history from the silent cinema to the present day.
2. Demonstrate a recognition of and use of the basic technical and critical vocabulary of motion pictures.
3. Show an ability to identify and understand the economic structure of the film industry.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the role of genre in American film history.


HUM 6 Contemporary World Cinema 3.0 units
Description: This class introduces contemporary foreign cinema and includes the examination of genres, themes, and styles. Emphasis is placed on cultural, economic, and political influences as artistically determining factors. Film and cultural theories such as national cinemas, colonialism, and orientalism will be introduced. The class will survey the significant developments in narrative film outside Hollywood. Differing international contexts, theoretical movements, technological innovations, and major directors are studied. The class offers a global, historical overview of narrative content and structure, production techniques, audience, and distribution. Students screen a variety of rare and popular films, focusing on the artistic, historical, social, and cultural contexts of film production. Students develop critical thinking skills and address issues of popular culture, including race, class gender, and equity.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the recognition and use of the basic technical and critical vocabulary of motion pictures.
2. Identify the major theories of film interpretation.
3. Demonstrate the recognition of and the subtextual layers of cultural meanings in foreign films
4. Identify and describe the history of and emerging voices of European, Middle Eastern, Asian, African, and Latin American Cinema


HUM 10 Approaches to Contemporary Film 3.0 units
Description: Contemporary Film examines theories of film criticisms as they apply to films from 1960 to the present. Students learn technical, visual, classical, historical, cultural, ideological, and aesthetic approaches to film and sample from a representative list of foreign and domestic movies. Special emphasis is given to new voices from non-American sources and to emerging voices in American cinema. ADVISORY: Eligibility for English 250 and 260.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Relate the history of film from 1960 to the present.
2. Recognize and use the basic technical and critical vocabulary of motion pictures.
3. Recognize the technical components of filmmaking.
4. Identify the major theories of film interpretation.
5. Recognize how contemporary social forces have influenced film and how film has influenced contemporary social forces.
6. Recognize the subtextual layers of cultural meanings in film.
7. Identify contributions of various artists and filmmakers on the development of world cinema.


HUM 12 Mexican American Cultural History 3.0 units
Description: The Mexican American experience as influenced by society in the United States. Emphasis will be on the historical and contemporary contributions made by the Indian, Spanish, Mexican and Mexican American. Emphasis will also be on the social, economic, and political milieu of the Mexican American within the context of the American society. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. Also listed as HIST 12. ADVISORY: Eligible for English 1A.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Survey, examine, compare and evaluate major historical eras in Mexican American history.
2. Identify and define trends in Mexican American, Chicano, and Xicano social and political thought.
3. Critically assess theories appropriate to the discipline.
4. Appraise and critique historical and cultural literature.


HUM 22 Field Work and Service 0.5 units
Description: Supervised field work within the college and with local agencies. Students serve in useful group activities in leadership roles prescribed for them by faculty or community agencies. A maximum of six units may be completed. This is a pass/no pass course. REQUIRED: Learning contracts must be filled out and signed by the student and the supervising instructor.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. We are deactivating the class.


HUM 23 Independent Study 1.0 units
Description: Designed to afford selected students specialized opportunities for exploring areas at the independent study level. The courses may involve extensive library work, research in the community, or special projects. May be repeated until six units of credit are accrued. This course has the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass. REQUIRED: The study outline prepared by the student and the instructor must be filed with the department and the dean.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. We are deactivating this class.


HUM 25 Motion Picture Production 3.0 units
Description: This course provides an introduction to the theory, terminology, and process of motion picture production for film and television. Topics include basic cinematography including the operation, function and creative uses of production and post-production equipment, scriptwriting, camera operation, shot composition, lighting, sound recording and mixing, and editing.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate both the technical and aesthetic aspects of film and digital cinema production and demonstrate knowledge of basic production techniques.
2. Operate film/digital cinema field recording equipment correctly to acquire quality products.
3. Conceive and execute appropriate approaches to editing field footage into cohesive projects.
4. Demonstrate a hands-on ability to perform appropriate critical thinking needed for successful teamwork in television, film or other media employment.
5. Demonstrate through projects that with the power of a communicator, comes moral and ethical responsibility.


HUM 98 Special Topics 0.5 units
Description: Special topics courses examine current problems or issues of interest to students within a specific discipline area. For topic content information, consult with the appropriate department chairperson. For transfer status, check with a counselor. This course may have the option of a letter grade or pass/no pass.

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will be able to describe, analyze and apply concepts presented and demonstrated in course. Specific goals will differ for each special topic.