Requirements: Film Studies Major

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS – 52 credits

(Minimum grade of “C-“ required in each course)

 

Course Number Course Name Prerequisites
FM1010 or
CM1023
Films & Their Meanings
Introduction to Media & Communication Studies
 -
EN1000
FM/CM1019 Principles of Video Production  
FM2075 or
FM2076
Introduction to the History & Analysis of Narrative Film I
Introduction to the History & Analysis of Narrative Film II
 
FM3027 Film Theory & Criticism  
FM3096 Junior Seminar in Film Studies one FM course
FM4095 Senior Project  

 

Film Pragmatics & the Art of Directing

Select three courses from the following list
Course Number Course Name Prerequisites
FM/CM2018 Writing Fiction for Television  
FM/CL2028 The Art of Screenwriting  
FM2080 Film Directors: Orson Wells & His Inheritors  
FM2081 Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock  
FM2083 Scorsese & Kubrick  
FM2082 Film Directors: Tarantino & his Many Fathers  
FM2087 Film Directors: Agnes Varda  
FM3039 Directing Fiction  
FM3063 Making a Documentary CM/FM1019
CM4028 Advanced Video Production CM/FM1019

 

International Cinema

Select two courses from the following list
Course Number Course Name Prerequisites
FM3072 German Cinema  
FM3073 Asian Cinema  
FM/CM3074 Italian Cinema  
FM3076 Italian Cinema  
FM3078 Iberian & Latin American Cinema  
FM3085 Provocative Witness: Cinema & Genocide  
FM/FR3086 French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague FR2100
FM/FR3087 Paris Cinema FR1000

 

Film Genres and Topics

Select two courses from the following list
Course Number Course Name Prerequisites
FM/FS2045 Photographie et le cinema FR2035 or higher
FM2090 Film Noir  
FM2092 Women & Film  
FM2093 Cinema & Poetry  
FM/PL2095 Philosophy & Film  
FM2096 Film Genre: The Western  
FM2097​​​​​​ Film Genres & Topics: European Cinema & the Body  
FM2098 Cinema & the Political  
FM3011 Issues in Contemporary French Film & Literature FR2050 or FR2055
FM3034 Paris reel & Imagined; Perspectives on the City of Lights  
FM3048 Shakespeare & Film  
FM3085 Provocative Witness: Cinema & Genocide  
CM/AN3049 Media & Ethnography CM1023
CM/GS3053 Media & Gender  
CM3062 Media Semiotics CM2051 or major in Art History
FM3069 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction  
FM/CL3080 Brecht & Film  
FM3088 Cinema & the City  
FM3091 Topics in Film Studies  

 

GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Course Number Course Name Prerequisites
EN 2020 Writing & Criticism (minimum grade of "C") Speaking the World: Writing & Criticism EN1010 (minimum grade of "C")
FR 1200 (or above) (minimum grade of "C") Speaking the World: Elementary French & Culture II  FR1100 (minimum grade of "C")
Courses coded Type GE100 or GE115 Comparing Worlds  
Courses coded Type GE110 or GE115 Mapping the World  
Courses coded GE110 or GE100 or GE115 Comparing Worlds & Mapping the World  
Math courses coded GE120 Modeling the World: Math  
Science courses coded GE130 Modeling the World: Science co- or prerequisite: GE120 math course

 

FREE ELECTIVES

Any courses desired – must complete a total of 128 credit hours to graduate.

 

HONORS

Students earning a GPA of 3.3 or above may elect to write a thesis or complete a creative project in order to earn honors.