Film and Media Studies

专业详情

The Film and Media Studies Program offers a comprehensive education in all aspects of the art, theory, and history of the moving image. We offer courses in critical studies, screenwriting and filmmaking—narrative, documentary, experimental film, animation —within a rigorous curriculum designed to foster critical understanding and historical knowledge. Student filmmakers and scholars explore the relationship of film and media to modern cultures, literatures, art, history, and philosophy in a 20,000 square foot facility that offers an enhanced learning environment as well as all the tools available to professional filmmakers: a large sound stage, a recording studio, computer labs, editing suites, a screening room, classrooms, and state-of-the-art equipment.

Our faculty, comprised of renowned scholars and filmmakers, is known for its dedication to teaching and promoting a highly collaborative and nurturing environment. Our small size allows us to offer undergraduates an unusual amount of hands-on experience, intensive mentoring, individual attention, and access to special opportunities.

Many of our students go on to attend graduate film school or to work in the film and media industries after graduation. Among our graduates are directors, screenwriters, producers, editors, actors, cinematographers, financial and marketing executives, film scholars and curators, entertainment lawyers, agents, digital technicians, and web designers. Our rapidly growing network of alumni provides graduates with essential support and mentoring, opening doors to a wide range of opportunities in the film and media industry. In addition, our undergraduates avail themselves of generous filmmaking grants and funding opportunities from a range of resources available only to FMS majors and minors.

Because the program emphasizes the historical, cultural, and social context of cinema, Film and Media Studies is an excellent program for undergraduates interested in a broadly humanistic education as well as for those preparing for a career in the field. A departmental faculty advisor assigned to each undergraduate major helps plan individual courses of study. Undergraduates are encouraged to participate fully in all departmental activities. 

 All courses applied toward the major must be taken for a letter grade and a grade of C- or better must be earned. Courses taken at another institution that are not directly equivalent to a JHU course may not apply towards the major without permission of the Director of Undergraduate Studies.