FILM GENRES
Explores six major film genres -- musical; thriller; comedy; horror; drama; and melodrama -- investigating their narrative and stylistic conventions and the principles underlying them. Critical, historical, and theoretical approaches examine definitional criteria and ambiguities; key elements, functions, goals, and effects; and significant subgenres, cycles, and trends.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: COM ARTS 350 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain and evaluate theories on the nature, functions, and appeals of popular storytelling Audience: Undergraduate 2. Define the concept of genre Audience: Undergraduate 3. Summarize various types of conventions informing classifications of film by genre Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe primary earmarks of specific major genres Audience: Undergraduate 5. Recount historical developments, cycles, and variations shaping particular genres Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain and evaluate theories on the nature, functions, and appeals of popular storytelling Audience: Undergraduate 2. Define the concept of genre Audience: Undergraduate 3. Summarize various types of conventions informing classifications of film by genre Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe primary earmarks of specific major genres Audience: Undergraduate 5. Recount historical developments, cycles, and variations shaping particular genres Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027