Learning Goals

Students in the Film and Media Culture Department learn to

Study and analyze a wide range of film and media, including narrative and nonnarrative forms, using disciplinary vocabulary.
Situate film and media in relationship to one another and within their larger historical, institutional, and cultural contexts.
Understand film and media as art, craft, culture, and industry.
Analyze film and media as sites of representation and aesthetic practices in relation to their creators, industries, audiences, and technological and cultural contexts.

Acquire skills and competencies in producing original creative works in collaboration with peers.
Develop their voices as media creators through hands-on creative work and engagement with a creative community.
Learn to respond productively to feedback and provide constructive criticism to peers.

Create media in dialogue with historical, theoretical, and aesthetic practices.
Critically engage with scholarly conversations around film and media, applying theoretical concepts to specific works in critical writing for a range of audiences.
Participate in the field through critical conversation and/or sharing of creative work.

Demonstrate understanding of film and media within diverse national, transnational, and historical contexts.
Think critically about issues of access, inclusivity, diversity, and decolonization within media production and media studies.
Understand how access to production and representation are politically contested.
Critically analyze the ideological work of media texts and their political implications, and of the mutually reinforcing relationship between media and power.