Pre-Film and Media Studies (Bachelor of Arts)

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. With a strong base in the liberal arts, the film and media studies major is designed to prepare students for careers in the media industry and media education, as well as archival preservation and research, entertainment law, publishing, and journalism.