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SCWR 398 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 399 Independent Studies
0 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 420 Senior Writing Project
3 semester hours
Specially directed projects in writing for film, television, or other media from initial concept through finished form.
The student must provide a professional copy of all senior thesis-level projects to the school of film and television in partial fulfillment of degree requirements.
Lab fee.
Prerequisites: SCWR 320 and SCWR 321 .
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SCWR 421 Rewriting the Senior Writing Project
3 semester hours
Practical experience revising the senior project draft.
Majors/minors only.
Prerequisite: SCWR 420 .
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SCWR 498 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 499 Independent Studies
0 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 502 Adaptation
3 semester hours
Broad survey of the wide range of adaptation concepts, practices, and processes.
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SCWR 510 Producing and Directing for Feature Film Screenwriters
3 semester hours
Practical experience in the television development process; includes taking an idea to script and the directing, producing, and post-producing of a short, in-studio multi-camera video project.
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SCWR 511 Introduction to Television Producing
3 semester hours
Course centers on understanding the craft of storytelling and character development as probably the most important task at hand when mounting a production and properly servicing the script for the writer, executive producer, and studio. Making wise choices in the areas of camera, lighting, and special effects to non-linear post-production, etc.
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SCWR 520 Intermediate Screenwriting
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a first draft feature-length screenplay.
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SCWR 521 Rewriting the Feature
3 semester hours
Practical experience rewriting the feature screenplay.
Prerequisite: SCWR 520 .
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SCWR 530 Intermediate Writing for Narrative Production
3 semester hours
Intermediate screenwriting techniques as applied to short films intended for production
Prerequisite: SCWR 501 .
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SCWR 540 Elements of Future Film Screenwriting
3 semester hours
Elements of feature film screenwriting related to idea, character, story and structure development, scene and sequence construction, and elements of genres.
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SCWR 541 Intermediate Feature Project
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a first draft feature film screenplay; includes analysis of character development, plot, and story structure.
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SCWR 550 Elements of Television Writing
3 semester hours
Elements of dramatic writing include emphasis on the television art form and the practical aspects of writing television genres.
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SCWR 551 Seminar in Feature Writing
3 semester hours
WPTV majors only.
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SCWR 552 Writing for the Internet
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing for Internet television shows.
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SCWR 553 Writing for Reality Television
3 semester hours
Practical experience in writing for reality television.
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SCWR 598 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 599 Independent Studies
0 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 602 Seminar in Critical Writing in the Arts
3 semester hours
An intensive investigation of the aims of the contemporary cinema through screenings and encounters with working filmmakers, joined with practical experience in the composition of professional level film criticism.
Prerequisite: FTVS 512 .
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SCWR 611 Television Planning, Budgeting, and Scheduling
3 semester hours
Practical experience as a producer managing the planning, budgeting, and scheduling of the episodic television art form.
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SCWR 620 Writing for Narrative Production Thesis
3 semester hours
Writing the thesis narrative project and preparing the script for production.
Prerequisite: SCWR 530 .
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SCWR 625 Writing the Situation Comedy
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing an episode of a current half-hour situation comedy.
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SCWR 627 Advanced Writing: The Situation Comedy
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a “spec” teleplay of a current half-hour situation comedy or writing a half-hour pilot for a new situation comedy series.
Prerequisite: SCWR 625 .
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SCWR 629 Writing the One-Hour Drama
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing an episode of a current one-hour drama.
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SCWR 630 Advanced Writing: The One-Hour Drama
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a “spec” teleplay of a current one-hour drama or writing a one-hour pilot for a new drama series.
Prerequisite: SCWR 629 .
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SCWR 635 Advanced Motion Picture Script Analysis
3 semester hours
Analysis of feature films from the screenwriters point of view and an in-depth study of each story’s dramaturgical elements. This study will deepen the understanding of these principles and techniques for the student’s own creative work.
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SCWR 650 Advanced Screenwriting Project
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a feature-length screenplay.
Corequisite: SCWR 640 .
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SCWR 651 Rewriting Advanced Screenwriting Project
3 semester hours
Practical experience rewriting the feature film screenplay.
Prerequisite: SCWR 650 .
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SCWR 660 Writing Episodic Drama
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a “spec” episode of a current one-hour drama.
Prerequisite: SCWR 550 .
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SCWR 661 Writing the Drama Pilot
3 semester hours
Practical experience creating an original one-hour drama series and writing the pilot teleplay.
Prerequisite: SCWR 660 .
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SCWR 670 Writing Episodic Comedy
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing an “spec” episode of a current half-hour situation comedy.
Prerequisite: SCWR 550 .
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SCWR 671 Writing the Comedy Pilot
3 semester hours
Practical experience creating an original half-hour situation comedy series and writing the pilot teleplay.
Prerequisite: SCWR 670 .
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SCWR 675 Rewriting the Television Pilot: Comedy and Drama
3 semester hours
Rewriting original pilot projects.
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SCWR 681 Television Post-Production
3 semester hours
A “real life” experience writing and producing a television series; includes producing and post-producing pilot presentation and a final professional presentation to an audience and faculty committee.
Prerequisite: SCWR 680 .
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SCWR 682 Television Portfolio Workshop
3 semester hours
Develop new or continue to work on previously written material to raise the quality of portfolio to industry standards; includes preparing marketing materials for projects.
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SCWR 689 Acting for Television
3 semester hours
This course focuses on understanding the acting process. Writers learn how actors work in order to collaborate and create dialogue for them. The class also covers elements such as casting and production.
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SCWR 690 Thesis Screenplay Project
3 semester hours
Practical experience writing a feature-length screenplay.
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SCWR 691 Rewriting Thesis Screenplay Project
3 semester hours
Practical experience rewriting a feature film screenplay.
Prerequisite: SCWR 690 .
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SCWR 696 Television Mentoring
3 semester hours
Shadowing professionals and working in some phase of the television industry.
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SCWR 697 Feature Film Mentoring
3 semester hours
Shadowing professionals and working in some phase of the feature film industry.
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SCWR 698 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SCWR 699 Independent Studies
0 TO 3 semester hours
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SOCL 198 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SOCL 199 Independent Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SOCL 298 Special Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SOCL 299 Independent Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SOCL 301 Development of Sociological Theory
3 semester hours
An introduction to 19th century contributions to sociological thought: Comte, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and others are examined within their historical settings.
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SOCL 322 Deviant Behavior
3 semester hours
A social interactionist approach to the study of deviant behavior; an examination of the process whereby society defines and labels an act as deviant, trends in deviance theory, deviant careers, and the mechanisms involved in confronting the label.
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SOCL 331 Racial and Ethnic Communities
3 semester hours
In this course we will examine the social construction of “race”/ethnicity as well as the history and present state of racial/ethnic relations in the United States. Specifically, we will examine competing viewpoints on “race,” ethnicity, racism, ethnocentrism, and the status of groups such as White, Black, Asian, Native, Arab/Middle Eastern Americans as well as Latinos and those who are multi-racial. In exploring these dynamics and groups, we will focus on social structures, ideologies, prejudice/stereotypes/discrimination (e.g., mass media influence), individual identities and interpersonal interactions, and resistance movements that fight racial injustice.
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SOCL 332 Gender and Society
3 semester hours
An examination of processes resulting in socio-cultural sex role differences and the cultural consequences relating to opportunity, power, and prestige in society. An attempt to understand the effects of social organization and change on the status of women and men.
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SOCL 333 Men and Masculinities
3 semester hours
An exploration of masculinity through critical examination of men, women, gender, politics, identity, and social change from a social scientific perspective. Topics include: gender socialization, the diversity of masculinities, race and ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and men’s social movements.
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SOCL 334 Race and Ethnic Relations
3 semester hours
An examination of the interaction between ethnic and racial minorities and the dominant group in the light of current sociological theories of social conflict and social change.
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SOCL 335 Sociology of the Black Community
3 semester hours
A survey of the effects of long-standing discrimination and deprivation upon family structure, occupational patterns, health and education conditions, motivation, and personal as well as group identity. An analysis of the black power concept and its influence upon the concept of Afrocentrism and the focus on community control.
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SOCL 336 Social Stratification
3 semester hours
An examination of the historical roots and contemporary patterns of social and economic inequality in the United States. Distribution of income and wealth, social mobility, life chances, education, and race and ethnicity will be discussed.
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SOCL 338 Sociology of Racism
3 semester hours
An exploration and examination of the interaction between the major ethnic and racial groups in the United States with emphasis on the current context, the social contact, intergroup conflicts, and social changes affecting the various groups.
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SOCL 340 Urban Sociology
3 semester hours
An examination of the basic historical processes which have shaped cities, including spatial differentiation. Topics may include the formation of community, metropolitan deconcentration, urban poverty, housing segregation, and third world urbanization.
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SOCL 341 Community
3 semester hours
This course examines a wide range of American community studies, ranging from the 1920s to the present. Primary attention is directed toward an understanding of the scope of change in community structure and process in industrial society.
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SOCL 342 Demography and Population Analysis
3 semester hours
An analysis of major international population trends, problems of overpopulation, and population control, with an introduction to the methods and techniques of demographic and ecological analysis.
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SOCL 343 Metropolitan Los Angeles
3 semester hours
An overview of the social, economic, political, environmental, and spatial characteristics and dynamics of Metropolitan Los Angeles in the context of contemporary urbanization in the United States.
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SOCL 349 Research in Urban Society
3 semester hours
An examination of the methodologies and strategies employed by social scientists researching urban society. Case studies and research agendas are drawn from modern and postmodern cities, including metropolitan Los Angeles.
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SOCL 351 Sociology of Sport
3 semester hours
An examination of the social nature of sport in society. Topics may include the interrelation of sport and culture, sport and the socialization process, deviance and violence in sport, sport and race, the status of women in sport, and the political and economic ramifications of sport.
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SOCL 352 Political Sociology
3 semester hours
An analysis of the relationship between forms of social organization and the exercise of power in society. Among the subjects considered are: types of political regimes, cross-cultural patterns of voting, voluntary associations, social classes, social movements, and revolution.
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SOCL 353 Sociology of Emotions
3 semester hours
This course examines how culture and society influence our feelings yet also leave us with the ability to change how we feel, individually and collectively.
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SOCL 354 Social Organization
3 semester hours
The study of large-scale, highly structured groups, such as athletic teams, local school systems, colleges and universities, hospitals, businesses, and governmental agencies.
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SOCL 355 Social Psychology
3 semester hours
The interrelationships between individual behavior and the larger social order. Language and communication, the self, interaction and interactional strategy, aggression, perception and attribution theory, prejudice and discrimination, and collective behavior.
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SOCL 356 Sociology of Law
3 semester hours
A survey of the important theoretical and research traditions and recent empirical developments in sociology of law. A variety of law-related topics will be covered, including law and social structure, the economy and culture, law and inequality, law and social control, courts and alternative dispute resolution, and the legal profession.
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SOCL 357 Media and Society
3 semester hours
An examination of the social role of the media in our lives and our society. Topics include: culture, race, class, and gender, as well as alternative media and the political struggles over social change and the media system.
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SOCL 358 Medical Sociology
3 semester hours
Development of the field of medical sociology, with emphasis on changing patterns in the health care and delivery systems, doctor-patient relationships, and health care.
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SOCL 359 Sociology of Popular Culture
3 semester hours
The study of the artifacts of everyday life - newspapers, films, sports, music and such - as important sources of sociological knowledge.
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SOCL 361 Sociology of Marriage and Families
3 semester hours
A study of marriage and family as social institutions, including normative aspects, socialization activities, value orientations, family structures and behavior, and societal influences on families.
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SOCL 367 Sociology of Adolescents
3 semester hours
An examination of the adolescent society with particular focus on the high school. Topics to be discussed: peer socializations, cliques and crowd formations, lifestyles, fads and fashions, and changing patterns and relations resulting from globalization.
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SOCL 371 Social Ecology
3 semester hours
An analysis of the interaction and interrelationship of population, natural resources, and environment as they affect social organization and place limits on life on the earth.
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SOCL 372 Work and Occupations
3 semester hours
Explores the social dynamics of work and occupations in terms of culture, ideology, race, class, and gender. Topics will include the day-to-day experiences of the workplace, the politics of the economic system, and the social changes related to globalization and the international economy.
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SOCL 373 Environmental Sociology
3 semester hours
Using sociological theories and concepts, this course examines the relationships between human societies and physical environments. Topics covered include: the meaning and significance of “nature,” environmental policies, and environmental social movements.
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SOCL 374 Gender and Migration
3 semester hours
Studies the globe’s migrants and how their movements shape gender in their everyday lives, families, and workplaces-as well as ours-and in the global economy.
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SOCL 376 Sociology of Globalization
3 semester hours
Examines major approaches to and continuing debates about globalization, including the implications for people in their everyday lives. Topics address economic, political, and cultural dimensions of globalization and may include transnational capitalism and corporations; global inequality; migration and the new global labor market; transnational social movements and global civil society; and globalization and culture, including ethnicity and gender.
University Core fulfilled: Integrations: Interdisciplinary Connections; Flag: Writing.
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SOCL 377 Environmental Sociology
3 semester hours
This course introduces students to social science perspectives on the environment. Topics covered include environmental social movements, how environmental problems are defined and managed, differing constructions of nature, and environmental policy.
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SOCL 398 Special Studies
1 TO 4 semester hours
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SOCL 399 Independent Studies
1 TO 3 semester hours
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SOCL 401 Contemporary Theory
3 semester hours
A survey of the variety of 20th century sociological perspectives, including symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, functionalism, critical theory, and others.
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SOCL 422 Criminal Justice
3 semester hours
An introduction to the system of criminal justice in contemporary America with a focus on how criminal behavior is processed by the system’s agencies: police, courts, and correctional institutions. Legal concerns such as the rights of the accused and due process will also be discussed in terms of their application in each of these areas.
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