Courses by Category

Film and Media Studies degree requirement categories:

    • 0001 Art of the Moving Image (cross listed ILVS-0051, TPS-0020)

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    • 0002 Global History of Cinema (cross listed ILVS-0052)
    • 0006 Television History (cross listed TPS-0024)
    • 0036 AI in Motion: Ethics, Innovation, and Impact in Digital Media Industries 
    • 0037 Online Video Platforms: Algorithms, Content Creation, and Social Impact
    • 0044 Introduction to Media Culture and Theory (cross listed TPS-0022, ILVS-0054)
    • 0048 Visual Anthropology (cross listed ANTH-0135)
    • 0049 Political Cinema (cross listed ENG-0082)
    • 0060 Global Indigenous Film & Media (cross listed RCD-0094-04, TPS-0037)
    • 0065 Film Theory (cross listed ILVS-0061)
    • 0066 Philosophy and Film (cross listed PHIL-0054)
    • 0066 The Horror Film
    • 0081 Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology (cross listed ENG-0080, ILVS-0057)
    • 0087 Postmodernism and Film (cross listed ENG-0081)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Media Ethics (cross listed PHIL-0091)
    • 0094 Special Topics: The Horror Film: Gender, Race, and Genre 
    • 0094 Special Topics: Women's Visions in Global Film (cross listed ILVS-0091)
    • 0165 TV in the Age of Change (cross listed ILVS-0072, TPS-0121)
    • 0180 Psychoanalysis and Cinema (cross listed ENG-0180)
    • 0186 How Films Think (cross listed ENG-0186)
    • 0194 Special Topics: Media and the Environment 
    • 0194 Special Topics: Screening Paranoia 
    • 0010 Film and Media Production I: The Basics of Visual Storytelling
    • 0012 Producing for Film (cross listed TPS-0151)
    • 0013 Documentary Film: History and Practice
    • 0014 From Script to Screen
    • 0015 Crafting Your Vision: Intermediate Visual Storytelling
    • 0016 Cinematography
    • 0017 Sound in Filmmaking
    • 0018 Storytelling and Film Editing
    • 0019 Experimental Film: From Concept to Practice
    • 0020 Screenwriting I (cross listed TPS-0079)
    • 0021 Screenwriting II  (cross listed TPS-0178)
    • 0022 New Forms of Screen Narrative (cross listed ENG-0012)
    • 0023 TV Writing: Pitch to Script
    • 0024 Acting for the Camera (cross listed TPS-0052)
    • 0025 Costume Design (cross listed TPS-0071)
    • 0026 Dance and the Hollywood Musical (cross listed DNC-0085)
    • 0027 Dance on Camera (cross listed DNC-0077)
    • 0028 Scene Design (cross listed TPS-0070)
    • 0029 The Designer's Eye: History of Style & Decor (cross listed TPS-0031)
    • 0030 Creative Writing: Journalism (cross listed ENG-0007)
    • 0031 Intermediate Journalism  (cross listed ENG-0011, CVS-0041)
    • 0032 PR & Marketing: A History of Theory and Tactics
    • 0033 Social Marketing: Theory and Practice
    • 0034 Creating Children's Media (cross listed CSHD-0169)
    • 0035 The Art and Business of Crafting Compelling Media Campaigns
    • 0036 AI in Motion: Ethics, Innovation, and Impact in Digital Media Industries
    • 0037 Online Video Platforms: Algorithms, Content Creation, and Social Impact
    • 0038 Half the History: Finding, Creating, and Amplifying Women’s Historical Stories through Media (cross listed WGSS-0085, TPS, CSHD)
    • 0051 Storytelling: Radio/Podcasts (cross listed MDIA-0166)
    • 0067 Composition for Film: Film and Multimedia Composition (cross listed MUS-0017)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Acting for TV and Film (cross listed TPS-0093)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Costume Design for Film, TV, and New Media  (cross listed TPS-0094)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Solo Dance on Camera (cross listed TPS-0091-80)
    • 0134 Screenwriting III  (cross listed TPS-0179)
    • 0136 Directing for Film (cross listed TPS-0150)
    • 0137 Advanced Documentary Production
    • 0138 Advanced Filmmaking
    • 0139 Independent Filmmaking
    • 0140 Independent Filmmaking-Post Production
    • 0160 Branding Theory and Practice
    • 0187 SoundTracks: Studies in Audio-Vision (cross listed MUS-0193)
    • 0032 PR & Marketing: A History of Theory and Tactics
    • 0041 Cultures of Computing (cross listed ANTH-0136)
    • 0042 Children and the Mass Media (cross listed CSHD-0167, CVS-0147)
    • 0043 Media, Culture, and Society (cross listed SOC-0040)
    • 0045 Media Literacy (cross listed CSHD-0113, CVS-0139, TSC-0022)
    • 0046 Anthropology of Journalism (cross listed ANTH-0133)
    • 0047 Media of the Middle East (cross listed ANTH-0144, ILVS-0144)
    • 0048 Visual Anthropology (cross listed ANTH-0135)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Ethnographic Film, Video, and Beyond (cross listed ANTH-0039)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Sociology of Film (cross listed SOC-0094)
    • 0160 Branding Theory and Practice
    • 0163 Seminar: New Media, New Politics (cross listed PS-0104 & TCS-0104)
    • 0164 Seminar in Children and the Mass Media (cross listed CSHD-0267)
    • 0047 Media of the Middle East (cross listed ANTH-0144, ILVS-0144)
    • 0050 Disney Studios Meets Studio Ghibli (cross listed JPN-0083, ILVS-0078)
    • 0059 World War II on Film (cross listed ILVS-0092)
    • 0061 French Cinema (cross listed FR-0061)
    • 0063 Love and War in French Film (cross listed FR-0075)
    • 0068 From Beijing to Bollywood: Cinema of India and China (cross listed CHNS-0083, ENG-0091, ILVS-0091)
    • 0069 Latin American Cinema (cross listed HAA-0084)
    • 0075 World of Japanese Animation: Culture, Cult, and Commerce  (cross listed JPN-0081)
    • 0076 Arab and Middle Eastern Cinema (cross listed ILVS-0087 & ARB-0057)
    • 0077 Italian Film (cross listed ITAL-0075)
    • 0078 Japanese Film (cross listed JPN-0080)
    • 0079 German Film (cross listed GER-0085)
    • 0080 Russian Film: Arts, Politics, & Society (cross listed RUS-0080)
    • 0083 Latinx Theatre and Film (cross listed TPS-0016, LST-0051)
    • 0084 Jewish Experience On Film (cross listed ILVS-0143, JS-0142, REL-0142)
    • 0085 Film & Nation: Russia & Central Asia (cross listed ILVS-0086 & RUS-0085 )
    • 0086 Classics of World Cinema (cross listed ILVS-0100 & WL-0101)
    • 0088 Introduction to Chinese Cinema (cross listed CHNS-0080, ILVS-0100)
    • 0090 Major Japanese Film Directors: The World of Studio Ghibli (cross listed JPN-011)
    • 0091 New Chinese Cinema (cross listed CHNS-0081, ILVS-0081)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Imagining Black Europe (cross listed RCD-0094-03, ILVS-0093-03, AFR-0047-01)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Iranian Cinema and Theatre (cross listed TPS-0094)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Politics of Middle East Film (cross listed ARB-0092-01)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Russian & Eastern European Cinema  (cross listed ILVS 0091)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Screening Palestine (cross listed ARB-0092)
    • 0094 Special Topics: The Sonic Middle East (cross listed ARB-0091)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Third Cinema and its Geographies (cross listed ARB-009)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Women's Visions in Global Film (cross listed ILVS-0091)
    • 0169 Latin American Cinema (cross listed FAH-0184)
    • 0175 Visualizing Colonialism (cross listed ARB-0155, ILVS-010, CST-0010)
    • 0178 War & Cultural Memory in Literature and Cinema of Middle East (cross listed ARB-0157, ILVS-0157)
    • 0181 New Latin American Film (cross listed SPN-0151)
    • 0183 Mexican Cinema and Identity (cross listed SPN-0184)
    • 0194 Special Topics: Film Representation in Latin America (cross listed SPN-0155)
    • 0137 Advanced Documentary Production
    • 0163 Seminar: New Media, New Politics (cross listed PS-0104 & TCS-0104)
    • 0164 Seminar in Children and the Mass Media (cross listed CSHD-0267)
    • 0165 TV in the Age of Change (cross listed ILVS-0072, TPS-0121)
    • 0169 Latin American Cinema (cross listed FAH-0184)
    • 0175 Visualizing Colonialism (cross listed ARB-0155, ILVS-010, CST-0010)
    • 0176 The Horror Film
    • 0177 Religion and Film (cross listed REL-0100)
    • 0178 War & Cultural Memory in Literature and Cinema of Middle East (cross listed ARB-0157, ILVS-0157)
    • 0179 Film and the Avant-Garde (cross listed FAH-0159, ILVS-0091)
    • 0180 Psychoanalysis and Cinema (cross listed ENG-0180)
    • 0180 Psychoanalysis and Cinema (cross listed ENG-0180)
    • 0182 Dark Places: Sound in Noir, Horror, and SciFi (cross listed MUS-0194)
    • 0184 Film and Modernism (cross listed ILVS, FAH-0150, ENG)
    • 0186 How Films Think (cross listed ENG-0186)
    • 0187 SoundTracks: Studies in Audio-Vision (cross listed MUS-0193)
    • 0194 Special Topics: Media and the Environment
    • 0194 Special Topics: Screening Paranoia 
    • 0194 Special Topics: Seminar in English: Political Cinema (cross listed ENG-0191)
    • 0062 Imagining the Holocaust on Stage and Screen (cross listed TPS-0025, TPS-0125, JS-0025)
    • 0064 The Music of John Williams and Star Wars (cross listed MUS-0055)
    • 0070 Histories of Film, Part One 1895-1955 (cross listed VMS-0010)
    • 0071 History of Film II: 1955-Present (cross listed VMS-0011)
    • 0072 Cinematic Cities (cross listed VMS-0105)
    • 0073 History and Aesthetics in Hitchcock (cross listed VISC-010)
    • 0074 Neo-Noir and Its Contexts (cross listed VMS-0101)
    • 0082 Music On Film, Film On Music (cross listed MUS-0056)
    • 0089 African American Theater and Film (cross listed TPS-0018 & AFR-0048)
    • 0092 Film Noir and the American Tradition (cross listed ENG-0088)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Cinema of Apocalypse (cross list JPN-0091, ILVS-0091)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Directions in Contemporary Film (cross listed VMS-0193)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Eastern European Cinema (cross listed ILVS-0092, RUS-0092)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Media Culture Now (cross listed SMFA-0182)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Migrant Narratives (cross listed ILVS-0092)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Philosophy of Humor (cross listed PHIL-0091)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Directions in Contemporary Film (cross listed VMS-0193-04)
    • 0094 Special Topics: Eastern European Cinema (cross listed ILVS-0092, RUS-0092)
    • 0095  Creative Careers and Artistic Life Seminar (cross listed TPS-0100)
       
    • 0195 Directed Study
    • 0198-01 Senior Honors Thesis 1/Production Projects
    • 0198-02 Senior Honors Thesis 1/Written Projects
    • 0199-01 Senior Honors Thesis 2/Production Projects
    • 0199-02 Senior Honors Thesis 2/Written Projects