Tico Romao

Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
Directory

Fall Term 2024 (1890)

FS 100 - Introduction to Film Study

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

Introduction to basic formal concepts in film analysis including mise-en-scène, cinematographic properties, editing, and sound, as well as narrative qualities.

LECTURE A1 (50816)

2024-09-03 - 2024-12-09
MWF 10:00 - 10:50

LECTURE A2 (50818)

2024-09-03 - 2024-12-09
MWF 12:00 - 12:50

LAB D1 (50817)

2024-09-03 - 2024-12-09
M 18:00 - 20:30

LAB D2 (50819)

2024-09-03 - 2024-12-09
M 18:00 - 20:30



FS 317 - The Gangster Film

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

Survey of the Hollywood gangster film and related forms from the 1930s to the present. Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE A1 (54251)

2024-09-03 - 2024-12-09
MWF 14:00 - 14:50

LAB D1 (54252)

2024-09-03 - 2024-12-09
W 18:00 - 20:30

Winter Term 2025 (1900)

DRAMA 307 - Studies in Drama I

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 0-6L-0)

Prerequisite: consent of Department.

LAB/LECTURE B01 (78465)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
W 15:00 - 17:50



FS 215 - Introduction to Film Theory

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

General survey of major currents and debates in film theory, including early theories on the ontology of the film image, semiotic approaches to film as language, Marxist and psychoanalytic concepts of spectatorship and the film image, the intersections of film and ideology, and the phenomenological theory of film as an embodied experience. Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE B1 (74662)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
MWF 12:00 - 12:50

LAB H1 (70744)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
W 18:00 - 20:30



FS 318 - Science Fiction Film

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

A study of the Science Fiction film genre as an imaginative displacement of social and cultural concerns that define the context in which the films emerge. Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE B1 (78360)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
MWF 14:00 - 14:50

LAB H1 (78361)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
F 15:00 - 17:20



FS 399 - Special Topics in Film Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-2.5)

Prerequisite: FS 100.

LECTURE B1 (76485)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
W 15:00 - 17:50

LAB H1 (75738)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
01:00 - 01:00



WRITE 399 - Projects in Genre

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Lectures and workshops emphasizing innovations across genres and/or specialized writing forms. Note: variable content course which may be repeated. Prerequisite: 200-level WRITE course unless waived by Instructor; a minimum grade of B+ in the prerequisite course is strongly recommended.

LECTURE B2 (78686)

2025-01-06 - 2025-04-09
W 15:00 - 17:50