Film Studies

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 45.8 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 45.8 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 26, 2025
8 place StudyQA ranking:3275 Duration:

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Description

Film Studies aims to develop critical and creative minds that can astutely view, analyze, and conceptually think about cinema within history and society. Majors who make films do not simply learn vocational skills, but come to understand the relation of their own work to the medium as a whole, its rich history, and the larger human legacy of arts and ideas. To foster this, the major first requires completion of three core courses covering the history of cinema, its genres and the methodologies for studying them; the close analysis of cinematic works; and theoretical approaches to film.

As an interdisciplinary program, Film Studies encourages students to explore the abundant variety of cinematic works and the multiple methods for studying film. Reflecting the strengths of the faculty, many of whom specialize in cinemas from around the world, the major requires students to take courses in at least two different national cinemas. To combine the conceptual and the practical sides of film, critical studies students must also take at least one production course and half of the courses taken by production students must be critical studies classes.

Film Studies majors not only explore the multiple dimensions of cinema and media, but also individually work out a specialization within the field. From the 14 credits required to complete the major, students compile a concentration composed of 6 credits. The concentration is essentially the courses a student, in conjunction with the Director of Undergraduate Studies, chooses as a curriculum that leads up to and includes the senior requirement. A student specializing in screenwriting, for instance, could build a concentration starting with Screenwriting, continuing with Intermediate Screenwriting, Language of Film Workshop, and a playwriting course, and culminating with Advanced Screenwriting. Since the concentration can also have an interdisciplinary dimension, students in the major are allowed to bring in two non-film courses if they are deemed necessary to complete the senior requirement. Someone doing a concentration on Russian film, for instance, could count a Russian literature or history course towards the major.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January Tuition fee
  • USD 45800 Year (National)
  • USD 45800 Year (International)
Start date August 2015 Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

Film Studies aims to develop critical and creative minds that can astutely view, analyze, and conceptually think about cinema within history and society. Majors who make films do not simply learn vocational skills, but come to understand the relation of their own work to the medium as a whole, its rich history, and the larger human legacy of arts and ideas.

To foster this, the major first requires completion of three core courses covering the history of cinema, its genres and the methodologies for studying them; the close analysis of cinematic works; and theoretical approaches to film (students take one of two courses).
  • Introduction to Film Studies
  • Close Analysis of Film
  • Theory of Media or
  • Early Film Theory and Modernity

Required Courses

  • Intro
  • Close Analysis
  • Media Archeology
  • Film Theory, Criticism, Culture

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Alumni Study Travel Fund

    Scholarships for students who are already attending the University of Reading.

  • Amsterdam Merit Scholarships

    The University of Amsterdam aims to attract the world’s brightest students to its international classrooms. Outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship.

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Yale University.

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