Theatre, Film and Dance Department

Theatre, Film and Dance Department - Cornell University

Film Major Requirements

The department's Film Major requires a total of 50 credits in film and related courses. Students should note that a number of film courses, including two required "core" courses: (FILM 3750 and 3760), are offered in alternating years. This means that students cannot fulfill the requirements for the major in less than two years and that they should plan accordingly, in consultation with their major adviser. In particular, students must plan to be in residence at Cornell during the fall semesters of both their junior and senior years to take FILM 3750 and 3760. Within the "core" required courses, FILM 2740, Introduction to Film Analysis, is to be taken during the sophomore year. Note: Prospective majors must earn a grade of B or higher in FILM 2740 to be accepted into the major. Students may not enter the major until they have completed FILM 274 in the fall semester of their sophomore year.

Majors wishing to use the production courses in a substantial manner must plan carefully and work within certain limits. These courses are FILM 3240, 3770, 3830, 4220, 4770, 4780, 4930. Enrollment in each of these courses is limited by the nature of the work and by facilities. Enrollment in FILM 4770, 4780 and 493 depends on the quality of previous work in FILM 3770 and/or 3830; enrollment is not guaranteed. Majors without a strong interest in production can complete the production requirement with one course: FILM 3770, after they have taken FILM 2740 in their sophomore year. The total credits in production courses cannot exceed 20 hours; this limit is strictly enforced.

Requirements for the Major:	Credits
A core of FOUR film courses: FILM 2740 Introduction to Film Analysis (offered every fall semester) FILM 3750 History and Theory of Commercial Narrative Film (offered alternate fall semesters; 2006) FILM 3760 History and Theory of Documentary and Experimental Film (offered alternate fall semesters; 2007) FILM 3770 Introduction to 16mm and Digital Filmmaking (offered three semesters every four semesters)	4 4 4 4
ONE of the following theatre courses: THETR 2500 Fundamentals of Theatre Design/Technology THETR 2800 Introduction to Acting THETR 3980 Directing I	4 3 3
FOUR courses (15-16 credits) in film offered by Theatre, Film and Dance as below, or (with permission of adviser) by other departments: FILM 2650 Studies in Film Analysis: Monsters and Misfits: Hollywood's Misogynist Myths of Women FILM 2760 Survey of American Film FILM 3410 French Film FILM 3420 The Cinema and the American City FILM 3440 Film Noir FILM 3690 Fast-Talking Dames and Sad Ladies: 1940s and Now FILM 3780 Soviet Film of the 1920s and French Film of the 1960s FILM 3790 Modern Documentary Film FILM 3830 Screenwriting FILM 3860 Cinema and Social Change FILM 3910 Media Arts Studio I FILM 3930 Video: Art, Theory, Politics FILM 3960 German Film FILM 4220 Cinematography AS&RC 4350 FILM 4500 Rescreening the Holocaust FILM 4550 History of Modern Polish Film FILM 4730 Film and Spiritual Questions FILM 4740 Seminar in Cinema I FILM 4760 Seminar in the Cinema II FILM 4770 Intermediate Film and Video Projects: Documentary and Experimental Workshop FILM 4780 Intermediate Film and Video Projects: Narrative Workshop FILM 4790 1939 FILM 4930 Advanced Film and Video Projects	15 - 16 Total
15 credits of related course work inside or outside the Department of Theatre, Film & Dance (as approved by the major adviser). The courses chosen to fulfill this requirement should reinforce a major's particular interest in film and will not necessarily be film courses per se. For example, a student interested in the psychology of film, or in ethnographic film, or in film vis-a-vis intellectual or social history, or in film and social change will be encouraged to choose related course work in those areas.	15
Students must earn at least a B in FILM 2740 to enter the major. In all subsequent courses used for the major a grade of C (not C-) must be achieved. Courses in which these minimums are not achieved must be repeated if the student is to receive credit in the major.
Course work in production cannot exceed 20 credit hours.