International Film Studies
This program will be effective for students starting in Fall 2013 or later.
School of Communication Core
- COMM 100: SOC Seminar
- COMM 200: Communication & New Media
- COMM 201: Media Theory and Criticism
- COMM 360: Digital Media Ethics
Foundation Courses (6 credit hours)
- COMM 130: Intro to Audio
- COMM 135: Intro to Video Production
- COMM 274: Intro to Cinema (required)
- COMM 275: Web Design and Usability
Production Electives (3 credit hours)
- COMM 130: Intro to Audio Production
- COMM 135: Intro to Video Production
- COMM 207: Photojournalism
- COMM 232: Digital Cinema Production
- COMM 275: Web Design and Usability
- COMM 308: Screen Directing
- COMM 326: Screenwriting
- COMM 339: Documentary Video Production
- COMM 359: Advanced Post-Production
- COMM 3XX: Animation
- COMM 37X: Special Topics in FDM
- FNAR 115: Photography
- FNAR 233: Computer Graphics I
- FNAR 383: Design for the Web
- MUSC 201: Intro to Music Technology
- THTR 204: Playwriting/Storytelling
- THTR 252: Intro to Design
- THTR 253: Crafts for the Stage
- THTR 261: Beginning Acting
- THTR 328: Stage Lighting: Theory and Tech I
Media and Society (9 Credits)
Choose 3 from list, max of 1 non-COMM course
- ANTH 210: Visual Representation of Culture
- ANTH 308: Media and Cultural Change
- COMM 258: Games Studies
- COMM 271: Media Culture and Communication
- COMM 276: Media and Society
- COMM 283: Global Media
- COMM 322: Guerilla Media
- COMM 323: Remixing Culture
- COMM 357: Archiving and Curating
- COMM 361: New Media Design and Criticism
- FNAR 199: Art and Visual Culture
- HIST 393: American Culture and Society on Film
- SOCL 123: Media and Society
Cinema History, Theory & Genre (12 credit hours)
Choose 4 courses from the list, max of 2 non-COMM courses
- COMM 203: Topics in Cinema History
- COMM 301: Discovering China through Film
- COMM 324: Film Genre
- ENGL 284: Intro to Film History
- ENGL 359: High and Low Culture
- FNAR 365: History of Photography
- FNAR 390: Seminar in Art and Ideas
- GERM 370: German Cinema
- LITR 204: European Film
- LITR 219: African Film
- LITR 244: Indian Film
- LITR 264: Italian Film Genre
- LITR 267: Italian Film History
- LITR 284: International Film
Capstone/Engaged Learning (3 credit hours)
Requires a minimum of 25 credits of FDM course-work and Junior or Senior standing
- COMM 38X: Film Studies Practicum
- COMM 38X: FDM Capstone
- COMM 357: Archiving and Curating
- COMM 39X: FDM Internship