This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2024-25.
Faculty |
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Professor Schwarzer |
The film and media studies program engages students in a critical study of film and other media. Through the study of history and theory, formal analysis, and production experiences, the program examines how film and media serve as powerful determinants of ideology, identity, and historical consciousness. Courses offered in a range of departments and programs constitute the major and minor, reflecting the fact that cinema and media-based research cuts across disciplines.
It has been said that the mass media collectively represent the most important and widely shared context for the receipt of information and ideas in our contemporary experience. Courses in Film and Media Studies question the consequences of our passive consumption of mass media as both entertainment and information. Students learn the history and theory of film and media, analytical approaches and strategies; they also come to understand the various ways in which film and media are produced, circulated, and consumed locally, nationally, and globally.
The film and media studies curriculum encompasses history, theory, and practice, with the goal of developing in students the critical skills necessary to analyze representation and experience as they are constructed by new and emerging visual technologies, and to put theoretical and historical knowledge into practice through media production courses and exercises.
Awards
The Film and Media Studies Award — awarded for outstanding achievement in film and media studies.
Honors and High Honors
The award of honors in film and media studies is dependent on faculty evaluation of work done on an independent research project in FMST 410 and the student's GPA.
- Independent Research Project: Every major undertakes a senior project (in FMST 410) in their senior year. Upon completion, the project may be nominated for honors. If nominated, the project is prepared by the senior for a public presentation. Following that presentation, faculty decide whether the project is worthy of honors. Honors will be conferred only on work of outstanding quality, while high honors will be awarded only to exceptional work of highest distinction.
- GPA Requirements: Film and media studies majors who have a GPA of 3.30 or better in the major and 3.00 overall will be considered for Honors. Film and media studies majors who have a GPA of 3.70 or better in the major and 3.00 overall will be considered for High Honors.
Courses
The courses listed below are offered by the FMST program. As an interdisciplinary program, select courses from other departments/programs may also count toward the FMST major and minor requirements. Use the major/minor links below to find other courses that count toward these requirements.
Majors and Minors
Major
Minor
Courses
- FMST 200L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 200 - Introduction to Film and Media Studies
- FMST 210L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 210 - Global Cinema
- FMST 212L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 212 - Global Media: Flows & Counterflows
- FMST 224L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 224 - Introduction to Italian Cinema
- FMST 225 - Visual Rhetorics
- FMST 230L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 230 - Global Queer Cinema and Television
- FMST 235 - Independent Film Production (Study Group)
- FMST 288L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 288 - New Media: History and Theory from Netflix to VR
- FMST 291 - Independent Study
- FMST 303 - The Rhetoric of Data Visualization & Infographics
- FMST 325 - The Narrative in New Media
- FMST 333L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 333 - Documentary Film
- FMST 334 - Film Festivals and Exhibitions
- FMST 340L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 340 - Music, Film, and Media
- FMST 341E - Performing & Media Arts in Hong Kong (Extended Study)
- FMST 350 - Hollywood and the World: Performing Gender and Sexuality Onscreen
- FMST 360 - The Cultural History of the Internet
- FMST 362 - Ethics of AI
- FMST 364 - Desiring Machines: AI and Race in Contemporary Media
- FMST 371 - The Rhetoric of Comics
- FMST 380 - New York Media (Study Group)
- FMST 382 - Media Industries: Practice and Perspectives (Study Group)
- FMST 390L - Required Film Screening
- FMST 390 - Special Topics in FMST
- FMST 391 - Independent Study
- FMST 410 - Senior Seminar in Film and Media Studies
- FMST 491 - Independent Study