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  "college": "uc-irvine",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "FLM&MDA",
  "name": "Film and Media Studies",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/flm_mda/",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 75",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "75",
      "title": "Media and Identities",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines how media give expression to cultural and social identities, through onscreen representations and behind-the-scenes practices. Studies how media reflect and influence cultural politics.",
      "notes": [
        "(IV and VII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 76",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "76",
      "title": "Global Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines global media, including different approaches to their study, focusing on how film, television, streaming, and digital media circulate across borders and shape cultural identities, industries, and power relations.",
      "notes": [
        "(IV and VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA H80",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "H80",
      "title": "Honors Seminar: Race Sport Media",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Honors seminar examining the intersection of race, sports, and media in everyday U.S. popular culture (film, TV, advertising, gaming, social media) and political culture.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Campuswide Honors Collegium only",
        "(IV and VII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 85",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "85",
      "title": "Introduction to Film and Visual Analysis",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces the language and techniques of visual and film analysis. Teaches students to analyze the moving image; emphasize framing, camera movement, and sound; and conveys how editing produces meaning, reproduces historical ideologies, fosters or disrupts narrative, and cues spectators. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [
        "(IV)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 14,
          "open": 12,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-85"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 86",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "86",
      "title": "Introduction to Television Analysis",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfaction of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces critical approaches to the study of television from a range of theoretical perspectives. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [
        "(IV)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 87",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "87",
      "title": "Introduction to New Media and Digital Technologies",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the UC Entry Level Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The study of digital media, computer-mediated communication, and Internet cultures, from historical and theoretical perspectives. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [
        "(II and IV)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 101A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "101A",
      "title": "History of Film I: The Silent Era",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from its invention to the adoption of synchronous sound. Includes early exhibition, developments in narrative and editing, the formation of the studio system, and avant-garde film movements. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 101B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "101B",
      "title": "History of Film II: The Studio Era",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from the 1930s through the 1960s. Includes the Hollywood studio system, propaganda films, Italian neorealism, post-war Japanese cinema, and the French New Wave. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 101C",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "101C",
      "title": "History of Film III: The Contemporary Era",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical developments of cinema in the U.S. and internationally from the late 1960s to the present. Includes New Hollywood and independent U.S. films, ethnic cinemas, postcolonial cinemas, East-Asian new waves, and digital filmmaking. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 101D",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "101D",
      "title": "History of Radio and Television",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical development of radio and television. Includes rise of broadcasting, transition to cable, and emergence of streaming. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 8,
          "open": 6,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-101d"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 101E",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "101E",
      "title": "History of Digital Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The aesthetic, industrial, and socio-historical development of digital media. May include history of video games, computing, and social media. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 110",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "110",
      "title": "Film and Media Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85 and FLM&MDA 86 and FLM&MDA 87 and (FLM&MDA 101A or FLM&MDA 101B or FLM&MDA 101C or FLM&MDA 101D or FLM&MDA 101E). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Survey of major directions in film and media theory. Various theories of mass culture, realism, auteurism, semiotics, feminism, cultural studies, and theories of other media, with an emphasis on developing the student’s ability to analyze and articulate a theoretical argument. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-110"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 111",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "111",
      "title": "Film and Media Theory and Practice",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85 and FLM&MDA 86 and FLM&MDA 87 and FLM&MDA 120A and (FLM&MDA 101A or FLM&MDA 101B or FLM&MDA 101C or FLM&MDA 101D or FLM&MDA 101E). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Seminar focusing on issues in film and media production and editing. Reading and exercises to understand aspects of film and media production (montage, sound, film movement, directing, and mise en scène), and how ideology works in tandem with style.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 112",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "112",
      "title": "Topics in Genre Study ",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Critical approaches to the serial productions we call \"genre\" films such as westerns, weepies, musicals, horror films, and others; televisual genres such as sitcoms, drama, comedy, news, docudrama, police; Internet categories such as chat-rooms, listservs, Web pages.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-112"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 113",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "113",
      "title": "Topics in Narrative/Image ",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "What relations do sound, image, and story assume in film, television, video, and Internet narratives? In what ways do these media interact with and borrow from each other and traditional story-telling media? How have the new media explored non-narrative strategies?",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 115",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "115",
      "title": "Topics in Authorship ",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Theoretical and analytical discussions of visual media authorship, focusing on case studies of directors, producers, scriptwriters, and film, video, and digital artists.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-115"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 117A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "117A",
      "title": "Introduction to Screenwriting",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the technique and format of the screenplay, with a particular focus on its three act structural elements: coverage, treatment, and 60 beat outline. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-117a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 117B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "117B",
      "title": "Intermediate Screenwriting",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 117A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Exercises in the development of screenplays, with emphasis on formal and structural considerations of character development. Students work with the hero structure and other character development methodologies, such as method acting. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 118A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "118A",
      "title": "Writing Television I",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 86. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the technique and format of the television screenplay. Focuses on character, storytelling, structure, and scene development; culminating in a one-hour drama series treatment and first act of the pilot.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-118a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 118B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "118B",
      "title": "Writing Television II",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 118A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Intermediate-level screenwriting class exploring the one-hour television drama format. Students write and workshop an original pilot, continuing work started in 118A, and finish a complete draft of the pilot script.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 120A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "120A",
      "title": "Basic Production",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the basic apparatus of video/film production. The elementary essentials of production, including the use of camera and lenses, lighting, editing, and sound. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-120a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 120B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "120B",
      "title": "Intermediate Production",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 120A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students work on individual and group projects, utilizing skills and insights introduced in Film and Media Studies 120A. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 120C",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "120C",
      "title": "Production Workshop",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 120B. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "As film and video are collaborative media, students form production groups and ultimately produce final 10-15-minute film/video projects. Materials Fee",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 130",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "130",
      "title": "Multicultural Topics in the Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Investigation of media representations of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States. Topics include media images of and by one or more minority groups in the United States, including African Americans, Asian Americans, Chicano/Latinos, Native Americans, gays, and lesbians.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-130"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 139W",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "139W",
      "title": "Writing on Film and Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85 or FLM&MDA 86 or FLM&MDA 87. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Writing on cinema, television, and/or digital culture, emphasizing identification of reliable sources, close readings, addressing academic, professional, and/or popular audiences. Requires at least 4,000 words of assigned composition.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Film and Media Studies majors only",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-139w"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 143",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "143",
      "title": "Critical Theory of Television",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 86. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to critical, theoretical, and scholarly understandings and analyses of television, which offer in-depth analyses of television programming, audience reception practices, and industry strategies of address.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 144",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "144",
      "title": "Studies in New Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 87. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Advanced analysis of the technologies, texts, theories, and cultures of computers, video games, networks, or platforms.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-144"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 145",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "145",
      "title": "Topics in Popular Culture and Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Considers the forms, ideologies, consumption, and marketing of popular entertainment and technologies. May focus on cultural studies methods, transnational approaches, and synergy between media.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-145"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 146",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "146",
      "title": "Topics in Sound Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on the production, theories, and meanings of sound recordings, music, and/or audio technologies. Topics may include the cultures of popular music and audio devices, music television, and theories of film sound.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 151",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "151",
      "title": "Topics in Documentary and Experimental Film and Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines nonfiction and/or experimental cinemas and media, such as documentary, the historical avant-garde, video art, and activist media. Students consider the specific aesthetics and ideologies of forms distinct from narrative feature films.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 160",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "160",
      "title": "National/Regional Cinemas and Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "National schools, period styles, or cultural movements beyond U.S. cinema, as defined by national borders or by geographic regions, such as Latin America. May be approached from a comparative perspective.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-160"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 161",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "161",
      "title": "Global/Transnational Cinemas and Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Analyzes the multinational production, circulation, and reception of film and media texts beyond singular national borders or specific geographic regions. Topics may include transnational co-productions, exports, and diasporic reception.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 162",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "162",
      "title": "Topics in US Cinema ",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores the modes of production and distribution, aesthetics, and contexts that have shaped cinema in the United States. Topics may include classical Hollywood, American independent cinema, or periods such as 1970s cinema.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 185",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "185",
      "title": "Topics in Television and New Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 86 or FLM&MDA 87. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Advanced seminar focusing on special topics in television and new media. Past examples have included courses on media marketing and brand identity; television and sound; game theory; and other issues related to popular culture, broadcast media, and new media technologies.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 190",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "190",
      "title": "Special Topics in Film and Modern Media",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Special issues concerned with film and media history, theory, and criticism.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 191",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "191",
      "title": "Special Topics in Critical Practice",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 85. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Integrates critical analysis, historical, and theoretical methods with creative projects to illuminate film and media production and industries. May include courses in adaptation, writing television, media activism, writing the short film, performance studies, and movie title sequences.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 192",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "192",
      "title": "Special Topics in Advanced Film Production",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 120A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on special topics in production. Culminates in final 6-10-minute group film projects. Topics include producing, acting, and/or directing in short films, experimental films, documentaries, television, and other media.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-192"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 193",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "193",
      "title": "Special Topics in Advanced Screenwriting",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 117A or FLM&MDA 118A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on special topics in screenwriting. Topics include adaptation, alternative screenwriting, writing the first feature, act two construction, and rewriting.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 194",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "194",
      "title": "Special Topics in Interdisciplinary Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Interdisciplinary approaches to special issues concerned with film and media history, theory, and criticism.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-194"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 197",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "197",
      "title": "Professional Internship",
      "units": "2-4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Professional internship in the film, broadcast, and/or digital media industries designed to provide students with closely supervised professional experience to enhance their understanding of media from industrial, historical, and critical perspectives. Journal and final report required.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Pass/Not Pass only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 3 times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 19,
          "open": 19,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-197"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 198",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "198",
      "title": "Creative Project",
      "units": "2-4",
      "prerequisite": "(FLM&MDA 85 and FLM&MDA 117A and FLM&MDA 117B and FLM&MDA 117C) or (FLM&MDA 120A and FLM&MDA 120B and FLM&MDA 120C). Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement. Recommended: FLM&MDA 101A",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Creative project in screenwriting, filmmaking, videomaking, or Web or internet design intended to provide advanced production and creative writing training beyond the Film and Media Studies 117A-B-C or 120A-B-C series. Final project required.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 19,
          "open": 19,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-198"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 199",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "199",
      "title": "Directed Research",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Directed reading and research under supervision of a faculty member in topic areas not covered by regular course offerings. Final research paper required.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 2 times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 20,
          "open": 20,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-199"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 285A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "285A",
      "title": "Film Studies: Theory and Methods",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines canonical texts and explores current directions in film studies.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-285a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 285B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "285B",
      "title": "Television Studies: Theory and Methods",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines canonical texts and explores current directions in television studies.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 285C",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "285C",
      "title": "Digital Media and Game Studies: Theory and Methods",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines canonical texts and explores current directions in digital media and game studies.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 286A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "286A",
      "title": "Film and Media Studies Historiography",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Approaches to film and media studies historiography.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-286a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 286B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "286B",
      "title": "Media/Power/Culture",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Approaches to the study of power and culture in relation to film and media.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 286C",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "286C",
      "title": "Methods and Research Design",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores a range of research methods and trains students to design original research projects.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 287",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "287",
      "title": "Practicum in Pedagogy",
      "units": "1",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students learn best practices for teaching film and media studies.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-287"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 288A",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "288A",
      "title": "Practicum in Professionalization I",
      "units": "1",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students learn best practices for film and media studies professionalization.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-288a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 288B",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "288B",
      "title": "Practicum in Professionalization II",
      "units": "1",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students learn best practices for film and media studies professionalization.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 288C",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "288C",
      "title": "Practicum in Professionalization III",
      "units": "1",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students learn best practices for film and media studies professionalization.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 291",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "291",
      "title": "Graduate Seminar in Film and Media Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of film and media studies. Topics vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-291"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 292",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "292",
      "title": "Graduate Seminar in Film and Media Critical Practice",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Integrates critical analysis, historical, and/or theoretical methods with creative projects. Topics vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 295",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "295",
      "title": "Directed Reading",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Directed reading on a specific topic agreed upon by student and instructor.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 20,
          "open": 20,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-295"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 296",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "296",
      "title": "Reading for the Preliminary Examination",
      "units": "4-12",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 285A and FLM&MDA 285B and FLM&MDA 285C and FLM&MDA 286A and FLM&MDA 286B and FLM&MDA 286C",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Directed reading in preparation for the preliminary exam.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 20,
          "open": 20,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-296"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 297",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "297",
      "title": "Prospectus Research",
      "units": "4-12",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Research and writing of the dissertation prospectus.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 20,
          "open": 20,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-297"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 298",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "298",
      "title": "Prospectus Writing Practicum",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 285A and FLM&MDA 285B and FLM&MDA 285C and FLM&MDA 286A and FLM&MDA 286B and FLM&MDA 286C",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Offered spring quarter each year and taught in a workshop format. Assists students with the preparation and revision of the dissertation prospectus.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 299",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "299",
      "title": "Dissertation Research",
      "units": "4-12",
      "prerequisite": "FLM&MDA 298",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Research and writing of the dissertation.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 20,
          "open": 20,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-299"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "FLM&MDA 399",
      "subject": "FLM&MDA",
      "number": "399",
      "title": "University Teaching",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Limited to Teaching Assistants.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/flm-mda/#flm-mda-399"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}