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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Florida

Film and Media Studies

A student wishing to concentrate in Film and Media Studies (FMS) should normally take ENG2300: Film Analysis, five FMS courses numbered 3000 and above, and 5 courses either within or outside the FMS group. The FMS courses numbered 3000 and above must include three courses from Section One and at least two courses from Section Two. Since most FMS courses are 4 credit hours, the five required FMS courses would normally require majors to take a minimum of 35 credit hours of course work to earn an English BA in Film and Media Studies.

The English BA in Film and Media Studies, unlike the Interdisciplinary BA in Film and Media Studies, does not require its students to enroll in production courses. The English FMS student is also encouraged to take at least two of the required college electives in approved film-theatre courses offered in other departments and programs.

The following list of courses provides an English FMS model with a broad background in film history and theory, cultural studies, and video production.

SECT. I: History and Theory [3 courses]:

  • ENG 3115: Intro to Film: Criticism and Theory
  • ENG 3121: History of Film, Part I
  • ENG 3122: History of Film, Part II

SECT. II: Cultural and Applied (Select 2):

  • ENC 3414 Hypermedia
  • ENG 3113: The Movies as a Narrative Art
  • ENG 4130: Race and Ethnicity in Film
  • ENG 4133: Screenwriting
  • ENG 4134: Women and Film
  • ENG 4135: National Cinemas
  • ENG 4136: Film and Video Prod.
  • ENG 4139: Television and Electronic Culture
  • ENG 4310: Film Genres, Directors and Periods

SECT. III:

The remaining 5 courses of FMS work may be selected from the Film and Media Studies list above or other English department course offerings. Students should consider approved courses offered by other departments and programs to fulfill college electives.

Recommended Film/Media courses in other departments:

Afro-American Studies

  • AFA 4905 Individual Study

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

  • CHT 3391 Chinese Film and Media
  • CHT 3523 Hong Kong, Taiwan and the New Global Cinema
  • FRT 3520 French Cinema
  • FRT 3561 Women in French Literature and/or Film
  • FRT 4391 Concepts of French Cinema
  • FRT 4523 European Identities, European Cinemas
  • GET 3520 Early German Cinema
  • GET 4521 Women and German Cinema
  • GET 4523 New German Cinema 1945-Present
  • ITT 3521 Italian Cinema
  • JPT 3391 Introduction to Japanese Film
  • PLT 3520 Polish Cinema
  • PRT 3391 Brazilian Cinema
  • SPT 3930 Topics in Latin American and Spanish Culture Film

Theatre Performance and Performance Training (Please consult with the director of the film studies program)

  • TPP 2260 Acting for the Camera
  • TPP 3311 Directing II

For more information regarding UF’s programs and courses of study in Film and Media Studies, consult the Film and Media Studies website.

Faculty

Department of English faculty who regularly teach courses in this model include:

  • Pietro Bianchi – Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Film Theory
  • Richard Burt – Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama; Film, Mass Media and Digital Media; Literary and Media Theory
  • Terry Harpold – Media Theory, Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis, Science and Literature
  • Kenneth Kidd – 19th-Century Literature and Culture, Children’s Literature and Media, Lesbian and Gay Studies
  • Barbara Mennel – International Cinema, Feminist and Queer Studies, German Studies
  • Trevor Mowchun – Filmmaking, Film-Philosophy, Aesthetics, Film Theory and Criticism
  • Robert Ray – Film, Critical Theory, World Literature, Poetry Writing, Popular Music
  • Mark A. Reid – African and African Diaspora Studies in Film, Media and Literature, Cultural Studies, Womanism and Gender Studies
  • Anastasia Ulanowicz – Children’s Literature and Media, 20th-Century American Literature, Religion and Literature, Trauma Studies