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Any Time Start
300-level
ARTS395	Internship
Description	What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships
Occurrences	ARTS395-12A (C) Any Time Start 2012
Points/EFTS	30 points, 0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Special application and interview, with permission of Internship Director. RP: Students should attend UC Careers CV writing and Interview skills workshops prior to submitting internship application.
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Semester One
100-level
CINE101	What is Cinema?
Description	An introduction to the fundamental principles of film form and style. Each class focuses upon a specific filmmaking technique in order to analyse its cinematic function and effect.
Occurrences	CINE101-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
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200-level
CINE201	Hollywood and Genre
Description	An historical and critical study of genre in Hollywood film. Students will analyse the evolution and transformation of the conventions of key genres, such as the Science Fiction film, the Musical, Film Noir and Horror.
Occurrences	CINE201-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Pre-requisites	30 points of CINE at 100 level, or any 45 points at 100 level, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator. RP: CINE101 and CINE102Either 15 points of CINE at 100 level with a B pass, or 30 points of CINE at 100 level, or any 45 points at 100 level, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator. RP: CINE101 or CINE102
Restrictions	AMST239
CINE212	Hardboiled LA: Los Angeles in Fiction and Film
Description	This course examines the way Los Angeles has functioned as an imaginative landscape in American fiction and film. The course focuses on the noir genre, because LA noir -with its fantastic convergence of tough guy realism, sex, guns, desperation, and disillusionment-provides one of the most trenchant critiques of the American dream.
Occurrences	CINE212-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Any 30 points at 100 level, or with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.
Restrictions	AMST223, AMST309, AMST323, ENGL237
CINE214	European Novels and Film Adaptations
Description	A study of important European novels and film adaptations.
Occurrences	CINE214-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Any 45 points, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.
Restrictions	EULC204, EULC304
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300-level
ARTS395	Internship
Description	What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships
Occurrences	ARTS395-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
Points/EFTS	30 points, 0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Special application and interview, with permission of Internship Director. RP: Students should attend UC Careers CV writing and Interview skills workshops prior to submitting internship application.
CINE302	Documentary: From the Margins to the Mainstream
Description	This course examines the artistic and political principles that govern the representation of reality in contemporary documentary film.
Occurrences	CINE302-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012
Points/EFTS	30 points, 0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	30 points in CINE at 200-level, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.45 points of film related courses at 200-level as approved by the Programme Coordinator, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.
Restrictions	CULT322
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Semester Two
100-level
CINE102	World Cinema in the 21st Century
Description	This course charts recent trends in world cinema in the light of the political, artistic and technological changes that have affected film since 2000.
Occurrences	CINE102-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Restrictions	TAFS102
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200-level
CINE211	Popular Culture and Media Convergence
Description	This course introduces key theories and concepts designed to understand contemporary media from a variety of culturalist perspectives. Its emphasis is on television and its audiences, but it will refer to film and other media as well.
Occurrences	CINE211-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Any 30 points at 100 level, or with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.
Restrictions	AMST214, AMST330, AMST333, CULT204, DRAM211
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300-level
ARTS395	Internship
Description	What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships
Occurrences	ARTS395-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012
Points/EFTS	30 points, 0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Special application and interview, with permission of Internship Director. RP: Students should attend UC Careers CV writing and Interview skills workshops prior to submitting internship application.
CINE301	Film History: The Sixties and the New Wave
Description	A survey of the New Wave movements which swept cinema in the 60's, with an emphasis on the nouvelle vague in France.
Occurrences	CINE301-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012
Points/EFTS	30 points, 0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	30 points in CINE at 200-level, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.45 points of film related courses at 200-level as approved by the Programme Coordinator, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator.
Restrictions	CULT321
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Summer Nov
300-level
ARTS395	Internship
Description	What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships
Occurrences	ARTS395-12SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2012 start
Points/EFTS	30 points, 0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Special application and interview, with permission of Internship Director. RP: Students should attend UC Careers CV writing and Interview skills workshops prior to submitting internship application.
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Not Offered Courses in 2012
Any Time Start
Postgraduate
CINE690	MA Thesis
Occurrences	CINE690-12A (C) Any Time Start 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE690 course details
Points/EFTS	1.0000 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
CINE790	Cinema Studies PhD
Occurrences	CINE790-12A (C) Any Time Start 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE790 course details
Points/EFTS	1.0000 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
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Semester One
Postgraduate
CINE401	Women/Theory/Film
Description	This course investigates the changing place of women in film: as a glamorised spectacle and cultural commodity, as spectators and consumers, and also as creators and theorists.
Occurrences	CINE401-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE401 course details
Points/EFTS	0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
Restrictions	GEND413, TAFS406
CINE402	The Essay Film
Description	This course studies the essay film, a hybrid genre which troubles conventional distinctions between documentary and fiction, as the model for a new mode of critical practice.
Occurrences	CINE402-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE402 course details
Points/EFTS	0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
CINE410	Supervised Research
Occurrences	CINE410-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE410 course details
Points/EFTS	0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
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Semester Two
100-level
CINE110	European Society in Film
Description	This course examines aspects of European society through French, German, Russian and Spanish films.
Occurrences	CINE110-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE110 course details
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Restrictions	EULC101, FREN 114, GRMN 112, GRMN 212, RUSS 104
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200-level
CINE202	Film and Theory
Description	The class sets the foundations for a working knowledge of the major debates that have informed Cinema Studies. Students will gain the necessary tools to use and understand the language of film theory and criticism.
Occurrences	CINE202-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE202 course details
Points/EFTS	15 points, 0.1250 EFTS
Pre-requisites	30 points of CINE at 100 level, or any 45 points at 100 level, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator. RP: CINE101 and CINE102Either 15 points of CINE at 100 level with a B pass, or 30 points of CINE at 100 level, or any 45 points at 100 level, or equivalent preparation with the approval of the Programme Coordinator. RP: CINE101 or CINE102
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Postgraduate
CINE404	Chinese Audiovisual Narratives in the Age of Globalisation
Description	Using contemporary Chinese narrative films, TV programmes, and/or theatrical works (most with English subtitles, the remainder in English translation) as primary texts, this course analyses the survival and success of these national AV narratives in the age of globalisation.
Occurrences	CINE404-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE404 course details
Points/EFTS	0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
Restrictions	CHIN411, CULT408
CINE410	Supervised Research
Occurrences	CINE410-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE410 course details
Points/EFTS	0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of the Programme Coordinator
CINE420	Screen Shakespeare
Description	This course focuses upon film adaptations of several of Shakespeare's plays, and will examine how the transition from literary text to screen changes and re-interprets Shakespeare's work for different purposes.
Occurrences	CINE420-12S2 (C) Semester Two 2012 - Not offered For further information see CINE420 course details
Points/EFTS	0.2500 EFTS
Pre-requisites	Subject to approval of Programme Coordinator
Restrictions	ENGL408
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