Film & Media Culture Requirements

FILM AND MEDIA CULTURE MAJOR REQUIREMENTS: Students must complete ten courses to satisfy the requirements for a major in Film and Media Culture. Before declaring a Film and Media Culture major, the student must have completed or be currently enrolled in one of the basic core courses. Those courses are as follows:

Basic Core Course Requirements: FMMC 0101 Aesthetics of the Moving Image, FMMC 0102 Film History, FMMC 0104 TV and American Culture, one production course - either FMMC 0105 Sight and Sound or FMMC 0106 Writing for the Screen I. The basic core courses must be completed by the end of the junior year.

Required Advanced Courses: One 0300 level course in theory -- FMMC 0354, FMMC 0355, FMMC 0357, FMMC 0360, or another approved 0300 level course -- to be completed during the student’s junior year; and FMMC 0700 Film and Media Senior Tutorial.

Electives: Four additional FMMC courses, with no more than two of these being a production or screenwriting course. With the prior permission of a student's academic advisor, one winter term FMMC course may be counted as an elective. Students taking courses focused on film and media taught in a foreign language, either at Middlebury or abroad, may request major elective credit from the FMMC chair. Note that courses may not count toward both FMMC and another department's major or minor. Courses transferred from other institutions will normally count only as an elective toward the FMMC major, not to fulfill core requirements.

Minor: Three required courses - FMMC 0101 Aesthetics of the Moving Image, FMMC 0102 Film History, FMMC 0104 TV and American Culture. In addition, minors must take three additional courses that are listed or cross-listed as FMMC. At least one of the three electives must be at the 0300 or 0400-level. Only one of the three electives may be from the production/screenwriting area.

Joint Major: The joint major with FMMC is a combination of two disciplines, culminating in a joint senior project; the plan for joint majors is negotiated between the student and the two departments in which the joint program of study is pursued at the time of declaring the joint major. The senior project must combine aspects of both majors and in most cases will require approval, supervision, and evaluation from either departments or programs. The film and media culture part of the joint major requires a minimum of seven courses, including the FMMC core requirements, FMMC 0700 Flim and Media Senior Tutorial, and any courses required or appropriate prior to undertaking the joint senior project. FMMC supports concentrations in American Studies, Environmental Studies, and International Studies, as detailed on their respective pages.

Honors: The faculty of film and media culture will award honors to select students based on their overall excellence in film and media coursework and on the merit of their senior project.