MA & PhD Tracks
Film and Media Studies
Course distribution requirements for the graduate track in Film and Media Studies are as shown below. For more information regarding UF’s programs and courses of study in Film and Media Studies, see this page:
- Film & Media Studies (Page will open in a new browser window)
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MA,
Thesis |
MA,
Non-thesis |
PhD |
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| required |
related |
elective |
required |
related |
elective |
required |
related |
elective |
| 3 courses in Film and Media Studies |
2 courses in concentration |
3 courses |
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|
4 courses |
3 courses in Film and Media Studies |
3 courses
in concentration |
1 course |
Notes
- As a new discipline, Film Studies embraced contemporary theory more rapidly and thoroughly than almost any field in the humanities. Students without a strong theoretical background will not be competitive in job searches.
- More jobs each year ask for “some production experience.”
- Historically, the most important foreign language for Film Studies has been French. Unless a graduate student has particular reasons for needing a different language, French should be the first choice.
- Because many media studies jobs appear in English departments, students should develop an additional concentration in either literature, composition, or theory.
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Faculty
Department of English faculty who regularly teach courses in this track include:
- Roger Beebe – Experimental Film & Video Production, Popular American Cinema(s), Critical Theory, Cultural Studies
- Richard Burt – Shakespeare & Renaissance Drama; Film, Mass Media & Digital Media; Literary & Media Theory
- Terry Harpold – Media Theory, Narrative Theory, Psychoanalysis, Science & Literature
- Kenneth Kidd – 19th-Century Literature & Culture, Children’s Literature & Media, Lesbian & Gay Studies
- Scott Nygren – Film & Media Studies, Video Production, Media & Cultural Studies, Film & Literature
- Barbara Mennel – International Cinema, Feminist and Queer Studies, German Studies
- Amy Abugo Ongiri – African American Literature & Culture, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality
- Robert Ray – Film, Critical Theory, World Literature, Poetry Writing, Popular Music
- Mark A. Reid – African & African Diaspora Studies in Film, Media & Literature, Cultural Studies, Womanism & Gender Studies
- Maureen Turim – Film History & Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Feminist & Gender Theory, Deconstruction, Comparative Art Theory
- Anastasia Ulanowicz – Children’s Literature & Media, 20th-Century American Literature, Religion & Literature, Trauma Studies
- Greg Ulmer – Comparative Literature & Theory, Pop Culture, Media Studies, Computers & Writing
- Phil Wegner – 20th-Century American, British, & World Literatures; Marxism; Science Fiction; Utopias; Cultural Studies; Theory; Film & Media Studies
