Road Maps

These are not requirements, but recommended collections of courses around particular areas of study or skillsets for students who want to develop more focused expertise within film and media. Course descriptions for these courses are available on the Arts & Science Academic Calendar and specific course offerings for the upcoming 2022-23 academic cycle will be posted on our FILM & MEDIA website by May 6th.


Animation

ANIM 200: Introduction to Animation

FILM 222: Animated Feature Films from Disney to Ghibli 

FILM 200: Introduction to Video Game Studies 

FILM 316: Video Games and Culture 

FILM 356: Introduction to Animation Production

FILM 369: Advanced Animation Production

FILM 377: Animation for AR and VR

FILM 378: Computational Cinema 

FILM 394: Post Production

FILM 316: Video Games and Culture

FILM 368: Animation Theory and Criticism

ANIM 400: Special Topics in Animation

FILM 401: Special Effects


Sound

FILM 250: Fundamentals of Media Production

MAPP 200: Media and Performance 1

FILM 216: The Rockumentary

MAPP 493: Visual Music

MAPP 311: Sound Production

FILM 389: The Music Video

FILM 451: Production: Special Topic (when the topic is Sound & Synthesis)


Media

FILM 250: Fundamentals of Media Production

MAPP 200: Media and Performance 1

FILM 214: Mobile Communications

MAPP 300: Media and Performance 2

FILM 390: Open Media

FILM 391: Advanced Open Media

FILM 377: Animation for AR and VR

FILM 316: Video Games and Culture

FILM 317: Art as Technology

FILM 330: Gender and Media

FILM 320: Media and the Arts

FILM 335: Culture and Technology

FILM 339: Media and Culture at the End of the 2Oth Century

FILM 342: Studies in Alternative Media

FILM 389: The Music Video

FILM 416: Material Media Studies: Things, Ecologies, Affects

MAPP 400: Media and Performance Major Project

FILM 455: Cross Platform Storytelling

MAPP 493: Visual Music

FILM 394: Post Production

FILM 240: Media and Popular Culture

FILM 260: Digital Media Theory


Cinema

FILM 215: Science Fiction Cinema

FILM 250: Fundamentals of Production

FILM 257: Film and Media Concept Development

FILM 300: Hollywood: The Dream Factory

FILM 301: Cinemas of the Americas

FILM 325: Cinemas in Canada: Anglo-Canadian, Québécois, Indigenous

FILM 331: Women and Film

FILM 332: Queer Cinemas

FILM 336: Film and Politics

FILM 388: Indigenous Film and Media

FILM 312: Screenwriting

FILM 351: Documentary Production

FILM 353: Narrative Film Production

FILM 387: Cinematography

FILM 392: Video Production

FILM 393: Advanced Video Production

FILM 394: Post Production

FILM 303: World Cinemas

FILM 305: European Narrative

FILM 422: Canadian Cinema: Special Topic


Power and Society

FILM 301: Cinemas of the Americas

FILM 325: Cinemas in Canada: Anglo-Canadian, Québécois, Indigenous

FILM 330: Gender and Media

FILM 331: Women and Film

FILM 332: Queer Cinemas

FILM 336: Film and Politics

FILM 303: World Cinemas

FILM 342: Studies in Alternative Media

FILM 388: lndigenous Film and Media

Film 435: Culture and Representation: Special Topic

FILM 430: Bodies on Fire: Exploring the Archive of Canadian Lesbian Filmmaking

DEVS 305: Cuban Culture & Society

DEVS 306: Cuban Culture and Society l 

DEVS 307: Cuban Culture and Society ll Havana 


Curation and Archives

FILM 318: Screen Curatorial Practices

FILM 350: Moving Image Archives: The Politics of Preservation and Circulation

FILM 477: Festival Spaces: Local Markets, Global Circulation

FILM 420: Advanced Approaches to Media Studies: Media Archaeologies

FILM 430: Bodies on Fire: Exploring the Archive of Canadian Lesbian Filmmaking


Writing

FILM 226: Critical Inquiry

FILM 206: Research, Writing, and Presentation Methods

FILM 207: Writing Foundations for Film and Media

FILM 312: Screenwriting

FILM 456: The Video Essay

FILM 257: Concept Development

CWRI 295: Introduction to Creative Writing in Short Fiction & Poetry

CWRI 397: The Literary Screenplay