Urban and Community Studies Courses

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Academic Year 2024-2025

Urban and Community Studies Courses URBN 2400

2400. City and Community in Film

Also offered as: AMST 2400

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: None.

Grading Basis: Graded

Aesthetics, history, and contemporary relevance of American films that feature the urban, suburban, and/or small town landscape as a major "character" shaping plot and story. Films read closely as texts that make meaning through a range of tools, including narrative, mise-en-scene, editing, camera work, and genre conventions. CA 1.