CIMS courses
228 courses · University of Pennsylvania · Fall 2026
- CIMS 0021 — Study of a Theme in Cinema1 section
- CIMS 0024 — Study of a Theme: Monsters in Film and Literature1 section
- CIMS 0041 — Study of a Period in Cinematic History1 section
- CIMS 0050 — In Dark Times: The Dystopian Imagination in Literature and Film1 section
- CIMS 0080 — Laughter and Tricky Topics1 section
- CIMS 0085 — Representations of Rome in Film and Literature (1848-present) - First Year Seminar1 section
- CIMS 0088 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Histories1 section
- CIMS 0090 — First-Year Seminar: Italian American Studies1 section
- CIMS 0091 — First-Year Seminar: Contemporary Italy1 section
- CIMS 0092 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Film and Media Studies1 section
- CIMS 0093 — First-Year Seminar: Race and Ethnicity in Italy1 section
- CIMS 0094 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Gender Studies1 section
- CIMS 0095 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Fashion1 section
- CIMS 0096 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Visual Studies1 section
- CIMS 0097 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Foods and Cultures1 section
- CIMS 0098 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Literature1 section
- CIMS 0099 — First-Year Seminar: Italian Innovations1 section
- CIMS 0101 — Penn’s First Moving Pictures1 section
- CIMS 0180 — Acting for the Camera1 section
- CIMS 0201 — Sci-Fi Cinema1 section
- CIMS 0274 — Russian and East European Art and Cinema since 19001 section
- CIMS 0275 — Montage and Revolution: Conceptual Cinema of Sergei Eisenstein1 section
- CIMS 0320 — Modern Hebrew Literature and Film in Translation1 section
- CIMS 0390 — Penn-in-Cannes1 section
- CIMS 0395 — First Year Seminar: Graphic Memoir: Between the Political and the Personal1 section
- CIMS 0518 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Cinema and Globalization1 section
- CIMS 0578 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: The Contemporary Graphic Novel1 section
- CIMS 0590 — Benjamin Franklin Seminar: Film Studies1 section
- CIMS 0790 — The Religion of Anime1 section
- CIMS 1001 — Introduction to Cinema Studies1 section
- CIMS 1002 — Introduction to Media Studies1 section
- CIMS 1003 — Cinema and Revolution1 section
- CIMS 1004 — World Film History1 section
- CIMS 1027 — Sex and Representation1 section
- CIMS 1050 — Metropolis: Culture of the City1 section
- CIMS 1051 — The City in Literature and Film1 section
- CIMS 1055 — Books on Film: Adapting the Victorians1 section
- CIMS 1056 — Sherlock in the Multiverse1 section
- CIMS 1070 — Fascist Cinemas1 section
- CIMS 1080 — German Cinema1 section
- CIMS 1110 — Poetics of Screenplay: The Art of Plotting1 section
- CIMS 1112 — Religion and Cinema in India1 section
- CIMS 1130 — Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding1 section
- CIMS 1146 — Queer German Cinema1 section
- CIMS 1160 — Screenwriting Workshop1 section
- CIMS 1170 — Writing for Television1 section
- CIMS 1180 — The Short Film: Writing, Producing, Directing1 section
- CIMS 1190 — Introduction to Postcolonial Literature1 section
- CIMS 1230 — Masterpieces of French Cinema1 section
- CIMS 1261 — Radical Arts in the Americas1 section
- CIMS 1271 — American Musical Theatre1 section
- CIMS 1272 — Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film1 section
- CIMS 1274 — The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim1 section
- CIMS 1275 — Broadway Musicals in the 21st Century1 section
- CIMS 1276 — Movie Musicals: From Oz to La La Land1 section
- CIMS 1280 — The Art of Revolution1 section
- CIMS 1300 — Advanced Screenwriting1 section
- CIMS 1302 — Asian American Cinema Movement: Fighting For Representation1 section
- CIMS 1351 — Contemporary Fiction & Film in Japan1 section
- CIMS 1358 — Histories of Egypt1 section
- CIMS 1359 — Filming the Middle East1 section
- CIMS 1360 — Arab/Israeli Conflict in Literature and Film1 section
- CIMS 1371 — New Korean Cinema1 section
- CIMS 1440 — Film Music in Post 1950 Italy1 section
- CIMS 1470 — Chekhov: Stage & Screen1 section
- CIMS 1520 — Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary in Literature and Film1 section
- CIMS 1525 — Science on Screen1 section
- CIMS 1640 — Russian and East European Film from the October Revolution to World War II1 section
- CIMS 1650 — Russian and East European Film after World War II1 section
- CIMS 1800 — Film Culture in Residence1 section
- CIMS 1900 — Italian History on Screen: How Movies Tell the Story of Italy1 section
- CIMS 1901 — Topics in Portuguese, African and Brazilian Cultures1 section
- CIMS 1910 — Sicily on Page and Screen1 section
- CIMS 2000 — Virtual Reality Lab1 section
- CIMS 2001 — Modern Science Fiction Cinema1 section
- CIMS 2002 — Global Jewish Communities (Penn Global Seminar - PGS)1 section
- CIMS 2010 — Film Festivals1 section
- CIMS 2011 — American Independents1 section
- CIMS 2012 — Transnational Cinema1 section
- CIMS 2013 — Documentary Cinema1 section
- CIMS 2016 — Bollywood and Beyond1 section
- CIMS 2021 — Romantic Comedy1 section
- CIMS 2030 — Hollywood1 section
- CIMS 2040 — Failed Images1 section
- CIMS 2073 — Modernist Animals: How to Rethink the Human-Animal Divide1 section
- CIMS 2080 — 20th-Century Literature Seminar1 section
- CIMS 2083 — Faking it: Liars, Imitators and Cheats in Literature and Film1 section
- CIMS 2150 — Adapting & Producing Films1 section
- CIMS 2230 — Storytelling in Africa1 section
- CIMS 2250 — Artist Representation: Talent Agencies, Artist Management & The Manager-Producer’s Job1 section
- CIMS 2270 — Contemporary Russia Through Film1 section
- CIMS 2271 — Post-Soviet Russia in Film1 section
- CIMS 2355 — Classic Icons, Cinematic Images: Popular Culture in the Middle East1 section
- CIMS 2415 — Fascism and Anti-Fascism1 section
- CIMS 2420 — Cultural Studies Seminar1 section
- CIMS 2430 — Twentieth-Century Russian Literature, Film and Culture: Utopia, Revolution and Dissent1 section
- CIMS 2460 — Law and Literature Seminar1 section
- CIMS 2500 — Cultura E Letteratura1 section
- CIMS 2501 — Andrei Tarkovsky: Cinema, Spirit and the Art of the Long Take1 section
- CIMS 2506 — Ecocritical Seminar: Remediating the Environment1 section
- CIMS 2522 — Modern Italian Culture1 section
- CIMS 2550 — Intro to Media Production1 section
- CIMS 2600 — Italian Theater1 section
- CIMS 2665 — Fakes, Forgeries and Forensics in Digital Media1 section
- CIMS 2666 — Algorithmic Ethics1 section
- CIMS 2705 — Media and Culture in Contemporary Iran1 section
- CIMS 2750 — Russian History in Film1 section
- CIMS 2810 — Method Acting: From Self to Stage and Screen1 section
- CIMS 2840 — Icons in Performance: Actors and Others Who Have Shaped the Arts1 section
- CIMS 2850 — Art and Business of Film1 section
- CIMS 2900 — Post War Japanese Cinema1 section
- CIMS 2910 — East Asian Cinema1 section
- CIMS 2935 — Culture on Trial: Race, Media & Intellectual Property1 section
- CIMS 2943 — The Politics of Truth in the Global Documentary1 section
- CIMS 2951 — Digital and New Media Seminar1 section
- CIMS 2952 — Mobile Phone Cultures1 section
- CIMS 2953 — Digital Infrastructures & Platforms1 section
- CIMS 3010 — French Identity in the Twentieth Century1 section
- CIMS 3030 — Queer Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3040 — Japanese Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3045 — Screening Fascism1 section
- CIMS 3060 — Mafia in the Movies1 section
- CIMS 3100 — Cinema and Socialism1 section
- CIMS 3200 — The History of American Animation1 section
- CIMS 3201 — The History Computer Animation1 section
- CIMS 3203 — History of Disney Animation1 section
- CIMS 3204 — History of Children's TV1 section
- CIMS 3205 — American Animated Short1 section
- CIMS 3300 — Global Film Theory1 section
- CIMS 3350 — Global Genres: Western, Horror, Road Movie1 section
- CIMS 3400 — Italian American Studies1 section
- CIMS 3401 — Contemporary Italy1 section
- CIMS 3402 — Italian Film and Media Studies1 section
- CIMS 3403 — Race and Ethnicity in Italy1 section
- CIMS 3404 — Italian Gender Studies1 section
- CIMS 3406 — Italian Visual Studies1 section
- CIMS 3407 — Italian Foods and Cultures1 section
- CIMS 3410 — Italian Renaissance Studies1 section
- CIMS 3411 — Mediterranean Studies1 section
- CIMS 3412 — Italian Performance Studies1 section
- CIMS 3413 — Italian Science and Philosophy1 section
- CIMS 3414 — Italian Material Studies1 section
- CIMS 3415 — Italian Digital Humanities1 section
- CIMS 3502 — Italian Film and Media Studies1 section
- CIMS 3503 — Race and Ethnicity in Italy1 section
- CIMS 3505 — Italian Fashion1 section
- CIMS 3506 — Italian Visual Studies1 section
- CIMS 3510 — TV and Politics1 section
- CIMS 3600 — Studies in Spanish, Latin American and Latinx Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3602 — Cyborgs, Robots, Gadgets: Technologies in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3620 — Contemporary Spanish Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3622 — Spanish Non-Fictional Film1 section
- CIMS 3624 — Crossing Borders in Spanish Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3626 — The Films of Pedro Almodóvar1 section
- CIMS 3650 — Latin American Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3652 — Crossing Borders in Latin American Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3664 — Documentary Ethnography for Museum of Exhibition practices1 section
- CIMS 3667 — Advanced Documentary Storytelling1 section
- CIMS 3700 — Cinematography1 section
- CIMS 3781 — Global TV1 section
- CIMS 3806 — Representations of Dictatorship in Latin America1 section
- CIMS 3820 — Horror Cinema1 section
- CIMS 3821 — From Movie Palaces to Netflix1 section
- CIMS 3830 — French & Italian Modern Horror1 section
- CIMS 3860 — Paris in Film1 section
- CIMS 3912 — Labor in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Film1 section
- CIMS 3934 — Cinema on the Brink of Revolution1 section
- CIMS 3940 — Chinese and Sinophone Cinemas1 section
- CIMS 3999 — Independent Study1 section
- CIMS 4000 — Blacks in American Film and Television1 section
- CIMS 4516 — One Series--Major Film1 section
- CIMS 4998A — Cinema & Media Studies Honor Thesis1 section
- CIMS 4998B — Cinema & Media Studies Honor Thesis1 section
- CIMS 4999 — Independent Study1 section
- CIMS 5002 — Hollywood Film Industry1 section
- CIMS 5010 — Environmental Documentary Media1 section
- CIMS 5020 — TV and Politics1 section
- CIMS 5030 — Transnational TV1 section
- CIMS 5040 — Media Industries and Global Creator Economy1 section
- CIMS 5045 — Film, Revolution, and the 1960s1 section
- CIMS 5050 — Religion & Cinema1 section
- CIMS 5051 — Digital Humanities Studies1 section
- CIMS 5060 — Alternative Media and the Global1 section
- CIMS 5110 — Topics in Cinema Studies1 section
- CIMS 5120 — Film Noir1 section
- CIMS 5250 — Queer Francophone Cinema1 section
- CIMS 5272 — Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Film1 section
- CIMS 5296 — Contemporary Russia Through Film1 section
- CIMS 5500 — Advanced Issues and Methodologies in Media Studies1 section
- CIMS 5550 — Terrorism1 section
- CIMS 5555 — Queer European Cinema1 section
- CIMS 5730 — Topics in Criticism & Theory: Object Theory1 section
- CIMS 5750 — Russian History in Film1 section
- CIMS 5792 — Biography and Art History1 section
- CIMS 5793 — Fake!1 section
- CIMS 5821 — Fantastic Literature 19th/20th Centuries1 section
- CIMS 5830 — Art, Sex and the Sixties1 section
- CIMS 5840 — 20th-Century Italian Fiction and Film1 section
- CIMS 5841 — Environmental Literature and Media1 section
- CIMS 5850 — Italian Thought1 section
- CIMS 5901 — The Lessons of Horror1 section
- CIMS 5910 — Cinema and the Museum1 section
- CIMS 5920 — 20th-Century Literature and Theory1 section
- CIMS 5925 — The Language of Comics1 section
- CIMS 5933 — Cinema and Media Studies Methods1 section
- CIMS 5934 — The Politics of Truth in the Global Documentary1 section
- CIMS 5940 — Media, Platform, Experience1 section
- CIMS 5995 — Digital Humanities Praxis1 section
- CIMS 5999 — Independent Study1 section
- CIMS 6001 — Theory and Methods1 section
- CIMS 6070 — Pier Paolo Pasolini: Aesthetics, Politics, Sexuality1 section
- CIMS 6300 — Global Film Theory1 section
- CIMS 6371 — New Korean Cinema1 section
- CIMS 6782 — Local Media1 section
- CIMS 6910 — East Asian Cinema1 section
- CIMS 6942 — Impossible Innocence: the Films of Luis Buñuel1 section
- CIMS 6954 — Collecting Media1 section
- CIMS 7770 — African Film & Media Pedagogy1 section
- CIMS 7800 — Ring Ring: Telephonic Intermediality1 section
- CIMS 7911 — East Asian Screen/Bodies1 section
- CIMS 7920 — Reading Against Racism1 section
- CIMS 7953 — Energy Media1 section
- CIMS 8001 — Pedagogy1 section
- CIMS 8500 — CIMS Fields List1 section
- CIMS 8510 — Dissertation Proposal1 section
- CIMS 8999 — Independent Study1 section
- CIMS 9950 — Dissertation1 section
- CIMS 9999 — Independent Study1 section
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