New, Revised, and Special Topics Courses: Summer & Fall 2026

While some PMA instructors will allow students to enroll in classes that overlap, not all do. If your proposed Fall 2026 schedule includes overlaps, please consult with the faculty in question before enrolling so that you can adjust your enrollment plans if necessary.

Instructor: Kristen Warner

Class Schedule: MTWRF 2:30pm - 3:45pm

The objective of this course is to introduce students to a core topic that unites the tracks between performing and media studies: story. Throughout the semester students will explore the structures of film, television, and new media through the lens of storytelling. We will also examine how each of these mediums function at both the level of the individual consumer as well as the level of global society.

Instructor: Kristen Warner

Class Schedule: M 7:30pm - 8:20pm

This course is created to prepare students accepted into CULA into beginning the groundwork toward their independent study projects they will complete during the Spring study away experience. Additionally, because CULA operates in part as an immersion program, this course will begin their journey into understanding practices within the creative industries, including but not limited to accessing and understanding trade journals, industry jargon, and a preliminary understanding of the business structures they will be learning about during their semester away.

Instructor: Sabine Haenni

Class Schedule: TR 10:10 am - 11:25 am
Location: Room 124, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts
3 credits

What role should moving images play in debates about transnational migration, one of the principal factors re-shaping communities and communication today? Focusing on cinema from the late 20th and early 21st centuries, with primary examples drawn from Germany, France, the United States, Italy, Denmark—in relation to Algeria, Senegal, Iran, Mexico, Korea, China, Benin, Turkey, Syria—this course explores how film re-imagines the fabric of social life affected by migration. 

Seminar-style discussion of films are paired with contextual readings and readings from film studies. Key concepts such as borders and movement, ethnoscapes and citizenship, cityscapes and place-making, mediascapes and personhood, lawfulness and illegality, labor and leisure, language and speech, art and perception, scale and non-human migration, humanity and environment, visibility and intangibility will guide our discussions of films and readings.

Instructor: Warren Dennis Cross

Class Schedule: TR 10:10am - 11:25am

The first half of the semester will focus on Location Sound Recording; boom micing, wiring actors with body mics, plant mics, room tone capture and field recording. The second half will focus on Post Production Audio Techniques; Dialogue Editing, Foley, Dialogue Replacement and Sound Effects Sweetening.