Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media Studies

The Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara is the academic home to roughly 600 undergraduate majors and 30 graduate students. As an undergraduate in the program, youll receive a liberal arts education on the history and theory of film and media practices around the world, fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, video games, interactive, and web-based digital media production, screenwriting, archival and curatorial practice, and more. The Department of Film and Media Studies is a vibrant, rapidly growing department whose faculty members include specialists from across the field of contemporary media studies. The department's strengths are fiction and nonfiction film history and theory, television and broadcasting, digital media, the Internet, video art and activism, cultural studies, political economies, and media globalization. Interdisciplinarity is encouraged by coordinating courses and program research projects with other departments such as Art, Communication, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Black Studies, Feminist studies, and Anthropology, History, History of Art and Architecture, Comparative Literature. Production is not emphasized, but all majors become familiar with the basic tools of filmmaking. Interested students may also take courses in screenwriting and advanced film production.

Demonstrate English Proficiency By:
Score 24 or higher on the ACT English Language Arts (ELA)
Score 31 or higher on Writing and Language in the SAT
Score 3, 4 or 5 on the AP examination in English Language and Composition, or English Literature and Composition
Score 6 or 7 on an IB Standard Level examination in English (Language A only)
Score 5, 6 or 7 on an IB Higher Level examination in English (Language A only)
Score 6.5 or higher on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)* examination:
Internet-based test (iBT) or iBT Home Edition or iBT Paper Edition: Minimum score of 80 or better