What comes next in Film Studies?

1. What comes next in Film Studies? • Film Studies at Harvard home page • http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~filmstud/ • The undergraduate Concentrations • Film Studies • Secondary field in Film Studies • Academic and student organizations • Summer study abroad • Possibilities for graduate study

2. CUE Evaluations • Course evaluations are now open and available through the ‘Courses' tab at the my.harvard portal: <my.harvard.edu/> • Please complete the course evaluation before the final exam (January 16).

3. Concentration in Film Studies • Honors Only: 14 half-courses • Required Courses • Introductory Courses (three required) • The Art of Film • Silent Cinema • Sound Cinema • Advanced Courses • Six (or seven) half-courses directly related to film and visual studies.  • At least two of these advanced courses must be advanced Film Studies seminars. • Interdisciplinary Courses • Two (or three) half-courses in other departments that provide pertinent interdisciplinary perspectives to Film Studies but are not courses whose main emphasis is film related. • Electives • Students who choose not to write a thesis will instead take two additional advanced film studies courses (these choices are subject to the approval of the Director of Undergraduate Studies).

4. Secondary field in Film Studies • Six half-courses • The Art of Film • Either Silent CinemaorSound Cinema • One course in film theory • Three additional courses in Film Studies • N.B. Only one Core class may count toward a secondary field and the Core.

5. Previews of coming attractions • VES 72. Sound Cinema • JD Connor • VES 100b. History of Video: Art in Media Culture • Carrie Lambert-Beatty • VES 173t. Contemporary Film Theory • David Rodowick • VES 175a. Autobiography & Film • Dominique Bluher • VES 178m. Modernism and Cinema • Haidee Wasson • VES 183s. Screens (seminar) • Haidee Wasson • VES 189. Exploring Culture Through Film • Lucien Taylor • VES 191s. Cold War Cinema 1948-64 • J. Hoberman

6. Important academic & student organizations • The Film Study Center • <http://www.filmstudycenter.org/> • The Harvard Film Archive • <http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/> • Cinematic • <http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~cinema> • thecinematic@gmail.com • Harvard-Radcliffe Television • http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hrtv/ • hrtv@hcs.harvard.edu

7. Summer study abroad • Harvard Summer Program in Paris, France (La Femis) • www.summer.harvard.edu/2007/programs/abroad/paris_lafemis/ • VISU S-190 Contemporary French Cinema • Dominique Bluher & David Rodowick • VISU S-59 Nonfiction Video Projects (32100) • Faculty from La Femis

8. Postgraduate Study in Film • At Harvard • Secondary field in Film & Visual Studies • <http://www.gsas.harvard> • At other universities • In film and/or video production

9. Questions? • DUS for VES • Robb Moss <robbmoss@fas> • CCVA 105; 496-6614 • DUS for Film Studies • J. D. Connor <jdconnor@fas> • Sever M-07 (4th floor); 496-6799 • DGS for Film & Visual Studies • D. N. Rodowick <rodowick@fas> • Sever M-06 (4th floor): 496-6076 • Academic Coordinator • Mike Lawrence <mlawrenc@fas> • CCVA 102; 496-4469