Current and Recent Courses

Graduate coursework in Film & Media Studies is designed to provide a solid foundation in criticism, history, theory, and genres. Seminars offer opportunities to explore special issues and to refine research agendas in film, television, and new media studies.
Recent seminar topics include:

Film Theory & Criticism
Multicultural American Cinemas
Media Industries: The Origins of Cinema and the Dawn of Mass Media
Genre Studies: Film Noir and Global Crime Cinema
Genre Studies: The Western
Genre Studies: Science Fiction
Adaptation: Narrative across Media
Latin American Cinema & Manifestos
Planes, Trains, and Telephones: Time, Space, and Technology in the Cinema
Green Cinema: Environmentalism & Media Arts
“iCinema”: Contemporary Media Theory & Interfaces
Historicizing Movie Aesthetics
Developments in Narrative Theory
Visualizing Swing: Jazz in 20th Century Film
African American Literature & Film
The Vietnam War and Its Representations