Course distribution requirements for the graduate track in Film and Media Studies are as shown below. For more information regarding UF’s programs and courses of study in Film and Media Studies, see this page:
Film & Media Studies (Page will open in a new browser window)
| MA, thesis | MA, non-thesis | PhD | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| required | related | elective | required | related | elective | required | related | elective |
| 3 courses in Film and Media Studies | 2 courses in concentration | 3 courses | 4 courses | 3 courses in Film and Media Studies | 3 courses in concentration | 1 course | ||
Notes
As a new discipline, Film Studies embraced contemporary theory more rapidly and thoroughly than almost any field in the humanities. Students without a strong theoretical background will not be competitive in job searches.
More jobs each year ask for “some production experience.”
Historically, the most important foreign language for Film Studies has been French. Unless a graduate student has particular reasons for needing a different language, French should be the first choice.
Because many media studies jobs appear in English departments, students should develop an additional concentration in either literature, composition, or theory.
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Faculty
Department of English faculty who regularly teach courses in this track include:
Richard Burt – Shakespeare & Renaissance Drama; Film, Mass Media & Digital Media; Literary & Media Theory
Terry Harpold – Science Fiction & Film, Climate Fiction & Film, Digital Humanities, Image-Text Studies, Psychoanalysis
Kenneth Kidd – 19th-Century Literature & Culture, Children’s Literature & Media, Lesbian & Gay Studies
Barbara Mennel – International Cinema, Feminist and Queer Studies, German Studies
Trevor Mowchun – Director of the Film and Media Studies Program; Filmmaking, Philosophy of Film, Aesthetics
Robert Ray – Film, Critical Theory, World Literature, Poetry Writing, Popular Music
Mark A. Reid – African & African Diaspora Studies in Film, Media & Literature, Cultural Studies, Womanism & Gender Studies
Anastasia Ulanowicz – Children’s Literature & Media, 20th-Century American Literature, Religion & Literature, Trauma Studies
Phil Wegner – 20th-Century American, British, & World Literatures; Marxism; Science Fiction; Utopias; Cultural Studies; Theory; Film & Media Studies