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Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Advisor Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2024-25 Catalog Program: Film and Media Studies

Film and Media Studies

(Film & Media Studies major requirements are listed below. Follow this link for the Film and Media Studies Minor requirements.)

Students must complete all of the following requirements to graduate with a bachelor of arts in this program. Some courses may apply toward multiple requirements.

College Requirements:

Degree Requirements   

Students are required to complete all standard college requirements.

Major Requirements:

Total major units: 13-17, depending on language proficiency.

Two Units from the Film and Media Studies Core Courses:

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
FMST 201 - Introduction to Film Studies: Form and History on the Big Screen
FMST 301 - Introduction to Film Theory

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing

FMST 302 - Introduction to Media Studies

Six Additional Units of Film and Media Studies Electives:

Anthropology

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
ANTH 364 - Global Tibet Through Film

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211 

ANTH 397 - Media Persons Publics

Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201 or ANTH 211 

Art

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
ART 151 - Introduction to Visual Narrative
ART 190 - Art and Photography I
ART 196 - Digital Video and Coding Interactivity
ART 251 - Making Graphic Novels

Prerequisite(s): One 100-level studio art course

ART 291 - Art and Photography II

Prerequisite(s): ART 190 

ART 293 - Internet Literacy, Culture, and Practice

Prerequisite(s): One 100-level studio art course

ART 305 - The Camera in South Asia

Prerequisite(s): ART 201 

ART 335 - (Trans)Nationalism and Indian Cinema
ART 354 - Performing Mediation (Video Art, 1960-2000)

Prerequisite(s): ART 201 

ART 374 - New Media/Old Media-Experiments in Optical Media and Computation

Prerequisite(s): One 200-level studio art course

ART 376 - Photography as Daily Practice

Prerequisite(s): ART 190, or one 200-level studio art courses.

Chinese Literature

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
CHIN 280 - Introduction to Hong Kong Cinema
CHIN 346 - Modern China on the Silver Screen: from Allegories to Documentaries

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing. For Chinese credit, CHIN 212 or equivalent.

English

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
ENG 261 - Introduction to Film
ENG 271 - Games, Play, and Stories
ENG 381 - Film and New Media Studies

Prerequisite(s): Two ENG courses at the 200-level or higher

ENG 383 - Adaptation across Media

Prerequisite(s): One ENG course at the 200-level or higher

ENG 386 - Word and Image

Prerequisite(s): Two ENG courses at the 200-level or higher

Film and Media Studies

⇒One of the following may apply to the six additional units if not used for the “core” requirement, above.

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
FMST 201 - Introduction to Film Studies: Form and History on the Big Screen
FMST 301 - Introduction to Film Theory

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing

FMST 302 - Introduction to Media Studies

French Literature

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
FREN 390 - Postwar French Cinema (1945-1975)

Prerequisite(s): FREN 212 or equivalent

German Literature

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
GER 347 - Ecocinema

Prerequisite(s): For German credit: GER 212 or equivalent

GER 349 - Cinema and Politics

Prerequisite(s): For German credit: GER 212 

Literature (in English translation)

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
LIT 220 - Introduction to Hong Kong Cinema
LIT 300 - Israeli Cinema: Myth, Memory, and History
LIT 302 - French Connections: The Intertwined Histories of French and American Cinema
LIT 313 - Modern China on the Silver Screen: from Allegories to Documentaries

Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing

LIT 347 - Ecocinema
LIT 349 - Cinema and Politics
LIT 362 - Red Sci-Fi: Science Fiction in Soviet Literature and Film
LIT 388 - From Lenin to Putin: Soviet Experience and its Aftermath through Film, Literature, & Human Document
LIT 394 - Documentary Resistance in Latin America and Spain

Music

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
MUS 207 - Musical Dialogues Across Disciplines

Religion

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
REL 362 - Religion and Media

Prerequisite(s): REL 201 

Russian Literature

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
RUSS 362 - Red Sci-Fi: Science Fiction in Soviet Literature and Film

Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 220 

RUSS 388 - From Lenin to Putin: Soviet Experience and its Aftermath through Film, Literature, & Human Document

Prerequisite(s): For Russian credit: RUSS 220 

Spanish Literature

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
SPAN 372 - Documentary Resistance in Latin America and Spain

Prerequisite(s): For Spanish credit: SPAN 321 

Theatre

Course NameTermCompleted?Group Req.
THEA 328 - Performance Technology

Prerequisite(s): THEA 202 

Two Additional Units in the Division of the Arts

  • Art
  • Dance
  • Music
  • Theatre

One Additional Unit in Literature

Proficiency in a non-English language, demonstrated by one of the following:

  • Successful completion of Reed language courses:
    ⇒ Two units in two non-English languages
    OR
    ⇒ Four units in one non-English language
    OR
    ⇒ One unit in one non-English language at the 300 level or higher
  • Department approval of language courses taken elsewhere, including:
    ⇒ Successful completion of language courses taken in secondary (high) school or at another college/university, 
    AND/OR
    ⇒ Successful completion of a language placement examination at Reed;
  • Department approval following an individual assessment of language proficiency.

Junior Year Requirement:

  • Junior qualifying examination

Two Units of Thesis:

  • FMST 470
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