Recent SemestersSpring 2026, Spring 2025Class SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteNone. Film and Media Studies 337 COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE 2025-2026 Official Catalog Enrollment Limitation: Enrollment is limited to Honors Program students. Details about the Honors Program can be found in the Cosumnes River College Catalog and on the College's website. Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionFMS 488 Honors Seminar: Introduction to Critical Theory Units: 3 Hours: 54 hours LEC Prerequisite: None. Film and Media Studies 337 COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE 2025-2026 Official Catalog Enrollment Limitation: Enrollment is limited to Honors Program students. Details about the Honors Program can be found in the Cosumnes River College Catalog and on the College's website. Transferable: CSU; UC General Education: Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B This course investigates questions of interpretation and representation in film, literature, media, and culture. Students examine historical and contemporary critical and cultural theories, then apply these theories in analyzing various works, including films, literary texts, commercials, music videos, and more. Theories introduced include, but are not limited to, semiotics, psychoanalysis, Marxism, critical race theory, gender theory, and postmodernism. Students intending to transfer into arts, film, literature, humanities, and cultural studies programs will find this course particularly useful in understanding the critical language of the university. As an honors course, this is a seminar with advanced teaching methods focusing on complex theories, major writing, reading, and research assignments, in-depth film analysis, student class lectures, group discussions and interactions. Distinguishing features include a deep focus on research, analysis, application, strong communication, and critical thinking. Enrollment is limited to Honors Program students. Details about the Honors Program can be found at the front of the Catalog and on the CRC website. This course is the same as HONOR 350, and only one may be taken for credit.Usually HeldTue Thu 1:30pm–2:50pm 