Film Studies Major

Requirements: Film Studies Major (B.A.)

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Course Number	Course Name	Prerequisites
EN 2020 CCE (minimum grade of "C")	Writing & Criticism	EN1010 (minimum grade of "C")
FR 1200 CCF (or above) (minimum grade of "C")	Elementary French & Culture II	FR1100 (minimum grade of "C")
CCI 1	Four Integrative Inquiry Courses (course type CCI) (May not overlap with major, at least one must be at AUP. All courses must be outside the major's disciplinary base.) Freshmen satisfy CCI courses as follows: FirstBridge (two courses) and two additional CCI courses outside the major discipline. FirstBridge courses may not replace major requirements. Transfer students satisfy CCI courses as follows: four CCI courses outside the major discipline; at least one CCI must be taken at AUP.
CCI 2
CCI 3
CCI 4
Math course coded CCM	Quantitative Reasoning
Lab science course coded CCS	Experimental Reasoning	MA1005CCM or higher to be taken before or at the same time

Course Number	Course Name	Prerequisites
FM1010 or CM1023	Modern Films & Their Meanings or Introduction to Media & Communication Studies	None or EN1000 OR EN1010 OR EN2020CCE
FM/CM1019	Principles of Video Production	None
FM2075 or FM2076	Introduction to the History & Analysis of Narrative Film I or Introduction to the History & Analysis of Narrative Film II	None or None
FM3027	Film Theory & Criticism	None
FM3096	Junior Seminar in Film Studies	4 Credits From Range [FM1000 To FM2098]
FM4095	Senior Project	College Level=Senior

Course Number	Course Name	Prerequisites
FM/CM2018	Screenwriting for Television	None
FM/CL2028	The Art of Screenwriting	None
FM2080	Film Directors: Orson Wells & His Inheritors	None
FM2081	Film Directors: Alfred Hitchcock	None
FM2082	Film Directors: Tarantino & his Many Fathers	None
FM2083	Scorsese & Kubrick	None
FM2087	Film Directors: Agnes Varda	None
FM2092	Women and Film	None
FM3039	Directing & Producing the Short Fiction Film	3 Credits From Range [FM1000 To FM4091] OR CM1019CCI
FM3063	Making a Documentary	CM1019CCI OR FM1019CCI
CM4028	Advanced Video Production	CM1019CCI OR FM1019CCI

Course Number	Course Name	Prerequisites
FM3072	German Cinema	None
FM3073	Asian Cinema	None
FM/CM3074	Italian Cinema	None
FM3076	Arab Cinema	None
FM3078	Iberian & Latin American Cinema	None
FM3085	Provocative Witness: Cinema & Genocide	None
FM/FR3086	French Cinema: La Nouvelle Vague	FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI
FM/FR3087	Paris Cinema	FR1200CCF OR FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI

Course Number	Course Name	Prerequisites
FM2088	Science Fiction and Fantasy on Screen	None
FM2089	Film Genre: Melodrama	None
FM2090	Film Noir	None
FM2092	Women & Film	None
FM2093	Cinema & Poetry	None
FM/PL2095	Philosophy & Film	None
FM2096	Film Genre: The Western	None
FM2097	Film Genres & Topics: European Cinema & the Body	None
FM2098	Cinema & the Political	None
FM3011	Issues in Contemporary French Film & Literature	FR1300CCI OR FR2100CCI OR FR2200CCI
FM/CL3034	Paris Reel & Imagined; Perspectives on the City of Lights	None
FM3048	Shakespeare & Film	None
FM3085	Provocative Witness: Cinema & Genocide	None
CM/AN3049	Media & Ethnography	CM1023
CM/GS3053	Media & Gender	None
CM3062	Media Semiotics	Major=Art History OR CM2051
FM3069	The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction	None
FM/CL3080	Brecht & Film	None
FM3088	Cinema & the City	None
FM3091	Topics in Film Studies	None

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

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.