FILM AND MEDIA STUDIESConcentration

The Film and Media Studies Concentration promotes the development of multimedia literacy among our students, providing an interdisciplinary understanding of the history, theory, language, and cultural aspects of film and other audio-visual media. Combining introductory and advanced courses in film and media studies with electives from the humanities and the social sciences, the concentration seeks to create critically sensitive readers of film and media while fostering insight into one of the principal forms of art and communication in the contemporary era. Courses incorporate aesthetic, thematic, and theoretical analysis and include a variety of national cinemas in addition to the Hollywood tradition, promoting the multicultural sensitivity essential to mature world citizenship.  Experience in film or video production helps to prepare students to function more effectively and participate more actively in the ever-developing multimedia culture of the 21st century.

Requirements

1. Satisfactory completion of six courses to include:

a.   CIS 220 Introduction to Film and Media Studies;
b.   CIS 420 Seminar in Film and Media Studies;
c.   4 electives selected from the following courses:

ANT 382 Anthropology of Visual Culture
CHI 207 Engendering Chinese Cinema
CHI 405 Ideology, Narrative, and Apparatus in Chinese Cinema
ENG 293 Film as Narrative Art
ENG 393 Studies in Literature and the Visual Arts
ENG 395, 396 Independent Studies in Film
ENG 493 Film Art
FRE 365 French Film (in French)
GER 231 Fascism on Film (in English) or Gender on Film (in English)
GER 421 German-American Relations in Film (in German)
GER 455 Angst and Desire in German Cinema (in German)
HIS  383 Asian Nationalism and Martial Arts Film
MUS 228 Film Music
PSY 357 Psychology Goes to the Movies
SPA 353 Contemporary Spanish Film  (in Spanish)
SPA 356 Contemporary Latin-American Film (in Spanish) or
Plural Spain in Film and Literature (in Spanish)

2. No more than two production courses may be included in the Concentration.

3. Only one independent study may be included in the Concentration.

4. No more than two courses in the concentration may also be in the student’s major field of study.

5. No more than two courses taken away from Davidson may be counted toward the concentration.

6. A grade of “C-“ or higher must be earned in all graded courses applied toward the concentration. 

Application Procedure

The Film and Media Studies Concentration is administered by the Film and Media Studies Advisory Committee. The faculty liaison is Dr. Alan Singerman.  Students shall submit a written application to the Advisory Committee by the last day of the fall semester of the junior year.  The application will specify the courses to be used to satisfy the concentration requirements.  If one of the proposed electives is an independent study, the student shall provide for the Advisory Committee’s approval a complete description of that course prior to the term of enrollment.  Certification of  completion of all the requirements for the concentration is made by the Registrar upon the recommendation of the Film and Media Studies Advisory Committee.

The Video Editing Studio

The VideoEditing Studio, formerly  in VAC 220, has been relocated to B-29 in the North Basement of Chambers. It includes both analog (Sony/Panasonic/Zenith)and digital (Casablanca/Avio/Broadway) editing with rudimentary sound editing (Mackie/CoolEdit).  

Access to the Studio is controlled by Instructional Support as are the cameras to be used for the production of academic projects.

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