Summer 2026: Explore a new subject—noncredit undergraduate courses are open for registration.
Cinema Studies
Noncredit
Sophisticated works in the heterogeneous genres of personal documentary and essay film re-situate self and environment, subverting dominant practices to produce new meaning. Students examine projects from diverse cultural contexts transgressing categories of narrative, documentary, and avant-garde, critical texts from cinema and media studies to feminist theory and disability studies, producing moving image exercises in addition to written texts.
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Instructor: Fabian, Rachel
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
Prereq: CIN1510 Or CIN1030
Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
Media Studies
Noncredit
An introduction to theories of the media, visual, and performing arts. Using semiotics as a point of departure, students explore the language and iconography of visual communication. The course focuses on works of art, advertising, television, and the web as social contexts of cultural production and analyses the role that ordinary people play in the production of media.
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Instructor: Halperin, Paula
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $520
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
Communication and Media Studies
Noncredit
Examines the elements and messages in sports films that make people cheer for the underdog and care about teams, players, and sports. Using both big-budget Hollywood films and documentaries with a small scope, this course explores the ideas of team, sport, and athletics and investigates the grip that sports have on American culture.
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Instructor: Paccione, Brian
Type of Instruction: Online - Asynchronous
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Cost: $625
$25 discount for early registration, Purchase College matriculated students, employees, alumni, and Broadview Charter Members.
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