Courses in Cinema & Media Studies MA

Course Requirements

A minimum of nine courses is required, five of which must be 200 level courses in film and/or television history, theory and criticism. Of the five courses, three are required M.A. Core Courses and should be taken in the first year of residence.

In addition to the five seminars, students are required to take 200: Bibliography and Methods of Research in Film and Television in the first quarter of residence. The additional 3 courses should be taken outside the MA program in at least two other programs in the department, in consultation with the MA advisor that is assigned to you. In addition, all students admitted to the MA program must demonstrate basic competence in the areas of scriptwriting, television production, or film production. Normally, competence is demonstrated through coursework, which may be used to fulfill the non-Cinema & Media Studies course requirements. However, students may also petition to use prior work to demonstrate their basic competence. Prior work may not be used to fulfill MA course requirements

206C

American Motion Picture History

208B

Classical Film Theory

217

Television History

200

Bibliography and Methods of Research in Film and Television

Seminars vary from year to year, but are selected from the following list of courses:

203

Film and Other Arts

206A

European Film History

206C

American Film History

207

Experimental Film

208C

Contemporary Film Theory

209A

Documentary Film

209B

Fictional Film

209D

Animated Film

210

Contemporary Broadcast Media

217

Television History

218

Culture, Media and Society

219

Film and Society

220

Television and Society

221

Film Authors

222

Film Genres

223

Visual Perception

224

Computer Applications for Film Study

246

Issues in Electronic Culture

270

Film Criticism

271

Television Criticism

275

Non-Western Film

277

Narrative Studies

In order to earn an MA from the UCLA Department of Film, Television, and Digital Media, students must satisfactorily complete a Comprehensive Examination. The MA Comprehensive Exam is a take-home exam that is given in the spring quarter only, generally in the sixth week. Candidates will have two full days to complete the exam, which will be evaluated by the Cinema & Media Studies faculty.

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