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Cinema Studies Courses
. For Distribution Requirement purposes, INI Cinema Studies courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses. 100-Series Courses INI115Y1 Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation. INI212Y1 An introduction to major phases of international film history from its origins to the present, including screenings and discussion of narrative films representative of film movements, technological innovations, and influential directors. Issues in the writing and reading of film history are examined. INI214Y1 A study of select classical and contemporary film theories, their medium-specific arguments, and their cultural and intellectual contexts. Investigations include the nature of film theorizing, formalist and realist traditions, first and second film semiologies, apparatus theory, and debates specific to spectatorship and film viewing. INI224Y1 Close examination of the careers and works of four auteur directors in commercial film production. (Offered in alternate years) INI225Y1 Examination of the art of popular film in its social, political, and commercial contexts, through study of selected popular films from 1970 to the present. Various critical approaches, genres, and directors are included. INI226H1 Study of fantasy and horror films with emphasis on literary background, political and social contexts and critical interpretations. INI227H1 Study of science fiction film in its role as a commercial film genre, social allegory and speculation on technology and the future. INI322Y1 Film experimentation in the context of modern art and poetry (Cubism, Dada-Surrealism) from the 1920s through the 1990s. (Offered in alternate years) INI323Y1 Feminist film criticism from mid-sixties critiques of media stereotypes of women to current issues in feminist film theory. Films to be studied include mainstream narrative fiction and films by women directors: Von Sternberg, Godard, Sirk, Arzner, Dulac, Lupino, Von Trotta, Rainer, Akerman, Duras. (Offered in alternate years) INI324Y1 A study of filmmaking in the US once the studio system was in place; consideration of industrial, economic, ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of the American studio era. Topics include the primacy of classicism, the operations of the studio system (including censorship, labour relations, marketing, and star promotion), and the cultural function of American films. (Offered in alternate years) INI325Y1 A critical survey of documentary practice including newsreels, direct cinema, cinema verité, ethnographic, and various hybrid narrative forms, with emphasis on the rhetorical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of “the art of record.” Topics include poetics, argument, and modes of address; evidence, authenticity, and persuasion; filmmaker/subject/audience nexus; historiography, hagiography, and memory; reflexive irony and performance. (Offered in alternate years) INI327Y1 Theories of cinematic representation emphasizing race, identity, and Diaspora, with an emphasis on post-colonial and critical race theories. Films include works from Africa and the black Diaspora, as well as selections from aboriginal and other diasporic communities. Films by Mambety, Julien, Dash, Cisse, Akomfrah, Moffat, Sembene. (Offered in alternate years) INI329Y1 Study of theoretical and analytical models of film genres and narratology; structuralist, cognitive, and semiotic approaches to filmic narration. Genres to be studied include westerns, crime films, art cinema, fantasy, and horror. (Offered in alternate years) INI330Y1 Film theory since the early 1970s. Topics include the critique of realism, suture, spectatorship, genre, the cinematic apparatus, race, and queer cinema. Films are screened as illustrations of the theoretical texts: Welles, Sirk, Godard, Duras, Potter, Ottinger, Julien. (Offered in alternate years) INI374H1 Advanced study of issues in film authorship through intensive examination of two major filmmakers. In 2008-2009, Michelangelo Antonioni in the setting of post-WWII Italian modernity and Won kar-wai in the setting of postmodern Hong Kong urbanism. (Offered in alternate years) INI375H1 Advanced study of issues in film authorship through intensive examination of one or more major filmmakers. (Offered in alternate years) INI380Y1 An intensive survey of world cinema since 1970, from Africa, Asia, Australia, South and North America, and Europe. (Offered in alternate years) INI381H1 In-depth treatment of a national cinema in a seminar format. (Offered in alternate years) INI382H1 Comparative study of European film production and culture: inter-war and post-war developments; contemporary tendencies (co-production, continental unification, immigration). (Offered in alternate years) INI383H1 An introduction to early animation, considering its vaudeville roots, its industrialization, and its emerging aesthetics and representational tropes. Examination of the early corpus of animation from 1900-1950 and in-depth study of the artistic, social and cultural mileux from which animation derived. (Offered in alternate years) INI384H1 The practice of film criticism with concentration on film reviews and scholarly articles. The study of examples of such work is the focus of the seminars supplemented by practical sessions involving process writing and collaborative editing. (Offered in alternate years) INI385Y1 Critical study of Canadian cinema from its inception to the present. (Offered in alternate years) INI386H1 The range of French-language filmmaking in Quebec within the context of efforts to establish a distinct national identity from the 1940s to the present day. (Offered in alternate years) INI390Y1 Examination of contemporary Chinese films in their three production centres: the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Production, commercial and aesthetic trends, and international reception; major auteurs and genres. Directors include Chen Kaige, Zang Yimou, Edward Yang, John Woo, and Wang Kar-wai. (Offered in alternate years) INI396Y1 Seminars in special topics designed for specialist and major students in Cinema Studies. INI397H1 Study of cult and exploitation cinema both as an institutional category (e.g., "B" movies) and as camp appropriation (e.g., fanzines, "cult" audiences), focusing on contexts of production, exhibition, and reception. INI398H1 This course looks at American animation--the industry, the art form, the cultural phenomenon--after World War II. It considers animation's place in the rise of television and television's place in changing animation aesthetics and practices. It will also examine the role of animation in the emerging counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, the transnationalization of the American industry at around the same time, and, finally, how animation's move into the digital has changed animation practices, audiences, and aesthetics. Along the way we will pay close attention to animation's always troubled and troubling relationship to something we call the real. INI423H1 Intensive study of theoretical issues raised by melodrama, including gender, class, and spectatorship; emotion and the non-representational. Psychoanalytical and historical factors shaping the “melodramatic imagination” are emphasized. INI426H1 A study of international film comedy, including its historical development, and the difficulties that comedy poses for genre and auteur approaches. INI428H1 Film’s emergence from urban culture of the nineteenth century: the modern industrial city and the cinematic imagination between the world wars; the critical alignment of urbanism and the cinema. INI429H1 Examining the mediation of political struggle from 1964-1974, this course analyzes both how specific political issues were represented in popular media, and attempts to politicize and question representational regimes. Its primary focus will be cinematic and televisual, but by necessity it will also touch upon radio and the recording industry. INI460H1 Consideration of film noir’s roots, its status as a genre, and its enduring appeal, the latter evidenced by continued critical interest and neo-noir offshoots. INI461H1 Advanced survey of a variety of approaches to the filmic text, including structuralist variants, textual analysis, and neo-formalism. INI462H1 Historiographic and theoretical issues raised by German Cinema. INI463H1 Investigation of film from the beginnings of the medium until the advent of the feature film in the mid-teens: early cinema’s technological, formal, economic, and cultural dimensions; questions of audience composition, spectatorial address, and intermediality. INI465H1 How technology influences the operations and study of cinema. Includes technology’s relationship to realism, apparatus theory, and cinematic style; study of widescreen, sound, colour, and emergent technologies. INI475H1 Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in Cinema Studies. INI476Y1 INI477H1 INI478H1 Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by Cinema Studies faculty. Open to advanced Specialist and Major students in the Program. Applications must be submitted to the Program Office by June 1 for a Fall course, by November 1 for a Spring Course, and by April 1 for a summer course. INI482Y1 Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in Cinema Studies. INI483H1 In its audiences, its theory, and its workers, film has a long and intimate association with children and childhood. This class examines that complex relationship, exploring arguments about the effects of movies on children, child stars and their place in arguments about culture and society, and the historically specific representation of childhood in films. INI484H1 This is a fourth-year seminar course on major international film festivals. The course will study the industrial formations of dissemination of film texts, production of authorship by film festivals, and the history and structures of film festivals as para-industrial organizations in a geo-political circuit of cultural transnationalism.
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all INI Urban Studies courses are classified as SOCIAL SCIENCE courses. JGI216H1 Examines the process of globalization, mass urbanization and economic change taking place in cities around the world. Includes interdisciplinary exploration of the industrial and economic changes that have ensued as a result of globalization, as well as social and cultural manifestations associated with the emergence of global cities. INI235Y1 Explores the culture, thoughts, institutions, policies, and processes shaping our urban areas. Emphasis is placed on understanding the problems and prospects associated with growth and change in the city. Disciplines used to provide various interpretations include Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Design and Planning. JIE307Y1 This course critically examines the concept of urban sustainability in theory and application. Case studies of ongoing urban sustainability programs in the developed world help students assess the successes and failures of these programs. The course also examines the current state of research and implementation efforts toward urban sustainability. INI308H1 Examines the struggle to create a civic society within Toronto as it becomes a global city. Sample topics include: the neighbourhood and the city, the outer city and the urban region, planning and sprawl, public and private transportation, the natural and the urban environment, housing and homelessness, levels of government, civic culture and multiculturalism. INI309H1 Examines the importance of infrastructure to urban societies from a technical, environmental, political, historical, and social perspective. Students study energy and communications systems, transportation, water, solid waste disposal, parks and recreation facilities, schools, hospitals, and community facilities and services. Key issues include growth management, financing and maintenance, public-private partnerships, and international development. INI335Y1 In this course, students develop an understanding of the city as a dynamic organism that is constantly changing as a result of economic, social and political pressure. The course material is organized around a series of industry cluster case studies including: automotive, culture, information technology and health care. The emphasis of the course will be on the extension and refinement of theories and arguments developed in INI235Y1. INI336Y1 A prominent thesis in the fields of planning and economic geography is that the presence of creative occupations in a city correlates positively with the overall health of urban regions. This course will investigate the nature of this link from theoretical and empirical perspectives and examine its potential usefulness in a planning/policy context. INI337H1 This course will focus on an examination of the immediate difficulties facing Toronto and by extension all Canadian cities. Instruction will consist of a combination of lectures by the instructor and by noted experts/practitioners in a range of topic areas including urban governance, finance, planning, environmental sustainability and social welfare. JGI346H1 Urban planning mechanisms, the legislation, and its goals. Planning issues from negotiation to legislation to appeal. Urban and regional problems facing planners in Ontario compared with those emerging in other provinces; Ontario’s legislative solutions contrasted with those developed elsewhere. (Given by the Department of Geography and Innis College) INI430Y1 Examines contemporary urban problems and policy issues through seminar discussions, readings and field research. Emphasis is placed on developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban problem solving. INI431Y1 INI432H1 INI433H1 From time to time, the Urban Studies Program organizes community outreach and information sessions. At the discretion of the Director, students may enroll in a special topics course and investigate these issues more deeply under the supervision of an agreeable faculty member. Proposals including a letter from an agreeable faculty member should be submitted to the Director by June 1 for a Fall or Year-long course, or by November 1 for a Spring course. INI434Y1 INI435H1 INI436H1 Designed to allow strong students in the Major and Specialist programs to extend a piece of urban research under the supervision of a faculty member from any aligned departments. Choice of ‘H’ or ‘Y’ session pursuant to the scope of the research envisioned, the proposed supervisor’s assessment of depth of the inquiry, and the approval of the program director. Proposals including a letter from an agreeable supervisor should be submitted to the program director by June1 for a Fall or Year session course and by November 1 for a Spring session course. INI437Y1 A method of studying city issues that combines readings, seminar discussions, and lectures with an internship in the office of a municipal politician, local government, or non-profit research/community organization. Readings focus on community development, urban planning, economic development and local government. Students must fill out a ballot for the course (available from the College Secretary) by June 1. Enrolment in this course is competitive and at the discretion of Dr. Shauna Brail (Director, Urban Studies Placement Program). JGI454H1 This course will focus on the role of a planning practitioner in contemporary society using a wealth of examples drawn from recent issues and debates in Canadian cities and regions. The course will walk students through the demands made of planners in terms of both technical expertise as well as political necessity and ask them to think actively about how to prepare for the extraordinary growth of cities during the next century. Examples of issues that will be discussed in some detail include the myths surrounding the city vs. the suburbs, the creativity and passion involved in planning work and the new City of Toronto Act.
For Distribution Requirement purposes, Writing and Rhetoric courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses, except for INI103H1, INI104H1, INI300Y1, INI301H1, INI304H1, INI405Y1/INI406H1/INI407H1, and INI408Y1/INI409H1/INI410H1 which are classified as both HUMANITIES and SOCIAL SCIENCE courses. INI103H1 Introduces the fundamentals of essay writing within an interdisciplinary context. Includes the history of the essay and its various rhetorical modes (narrative, descriptive, expository, argumentative), with a focus on humanities and social sciences essays. Both non-academic essays and essays from across the academic disciplines are examined in terms of purpose, audience, and persuasive strategies. INI104H1 Introduces the fundamentals of report writing within an interdisciplinary context. This writing intensive course focuses on improving writing skills appropriate to report writing genres. Informal, formal, research, and professional workplace reports are examined in terms of purpose, audience, structure, style, persuasive strategies, and use of visual rhetoric (tables, charts, graphs). This course also examines qualitative and quantitative research methods. INI203Y1 Designed to teach students to write persuasively and to recognize persuasive strategies at work in writing they analyze. Classical rhetorical terms, elements of style, and modes of argument are central to the course. Assignments include a rhetorical analysis, in-class essays, and a term essay. Readings include prose from a variety of disciplines, excluding fiction and poetry. Students who enrol in the course must demonstrate competence in the English language. INI204Y1 The strategy necessary to write complete pieces of non-fictional prose, especially exposition and argument. Concepts of planning and organization include: focusing, research, outlining, patterns of logical development, introduction, paragraph development, conclusion, argumentation and persuasion, documentation, and revision. Students for whom English is a second language should have an advanced level of fluency in English before enrolling. INI300Y1 Aims to teach students to recognize the rhetoric of the professional workplace and to communicate strategically and ethically using written and oral discourse appropriate to business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Case study analysis using ethical reasoning models is a central component of the course. INI301H1 Examines how the language and rhetoric of print media shape social issues. Rhetorical strategies at work in the media reporting of such controversial issues as international crises and military actions are examined. The construction of the columnist’s persona and the role of editorials are also examined. INI304H1 This seminar in critical reading, analysis, and writing focuses on the nature, the evaluation, and the use and abuse of evidence in the process of formulating and supporting an argument. The case study method will be employed to assess the level of authority, credibility, and objectivity evident in public discourse, official sources, and academic inquiry. INI305H1 The rhetorical term Ekphrasis, which refers to writing that is about visual art, is central in the examination of the persuasive power of the “conversation” or discourse that is produced when the written word attempts the evocation of visual images. Course readings will include ekphrastic texts drawn from several disciplines and genres: journalism, informal essays, poetry, and scholarly writing. INI311Y1 This workshop course examines methodological approaches to literary fiction from the perspective of the creator. Through course readings, discussion, and creative writing assignments, student writers will learn how prose writers combine stylistic techniques, point-of-view, setting, character, scenes, and structure to produce literary effects. INI405Y1 INI406H1 INI407H1 Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. INI408Y1 INI409H1 INI410H1 Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Critical Analysis. INI412Y1 Focuses on methods for analyzing how various aspects of style shape the meaning of texts in such genres as fiction, biography, oratory, legal argument, science writing, and government reports. Also considers historical and theoretical perspectives on style. Requires a research project, which for qualified students may include a translation. INI299Y1 Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 48 for details. |