Film & Visual Media - Additional Major
If students wish to declare an additional major (also sometimes called a double major) in Film & Visual Media, curriculum requirements will depend upon your primary major declaration. Because some of the same courses are required for each of the 5 major programs in the department, students who have primary majors in English have an amended set of requirements for additional majors in order to account for course overlap.
- Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Outside of the Department of English
- Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Within the Department of English
Curriculum for Student with Primary Majors Outside of the Department of English:
Curriculum: 12 courses, 108 units minimum
Required Introductory Courses (2 courses, 18 units):
76-239 Introduction to Film & Visual Media Studies
76-310 Advanced Studies in Film & Visual Media
Production Core Courses (2 courses, 18 units minimum):
76-292 Introduction to Film Production
xx-xxx one additional elective production course
Options include but are not limited to:
54-191 Acting for Non-Majors
60-110 Foundations: Time-Based Media
60-125 IDeATe: Introduction to 3D Animation Pipeline
60-141 Black and White Photography I
60-218 IDeATe Portal: Real-Time Animation
60-220 IDeATe: Technical Character Animation
60-245 Portrait Photography
60-333 IDeATe: Animation Rigging
60-415 Animation Studio
60-416 Advanced ETB: Documentary Storytelling
76-374 Mediated Narrative
76-481 Introduction to Multimedia Design
Screenwriting Core Courses (2 courses, 18 units):
76-269 Intro to Screenwriting
76-469 Screenwriting Workshop
Digital Media Core Courses (2 courses, 18 units minimum):
Options include but are not limited to:
15-104 Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice
60-125 Introduction to 3D Animation
60-142 Digital Photography I
60-242 Digital Photography II
62-150 IDeATe Portal: Introduction to Media Synthesis and Analysis
76-314 Data Stories
76-388 Coding for Humanists
76-429 Intro to Digital Humanities
Literary & Cultural Studies Core Courses (2 courses, 18 units):
Options include but are not limited to:
76-203 Literature Culture in the 18th Century
76-210 Banned Books
76-221 Books You Should Have Read By Now
76-232 Introduction to Black Literature
76-241 Introduction to Gender Studies
76-245 Shakespeare: Tragedies and Histories
76-247 Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
76-259 Topics in Film History
76-313 Creative Visual Storytelling in Film Production
76-317 Contemporary American Fiction
76-333 Race and Controversy in the Arts
76-337 Intersectional Feminism
76-353 Transnational Feminisms: Fiction and Film
76-439 Seminar in Film
76-440 Postcolonial Theory: Diaspora and Transnationalism
76-448 Shakespeare on Film
Topics in Film & Visual Media Studies Courses (2 courses, 18 units):
Options include but are not limited to:
76-243 Intro to Television
76-259 Topics in Film History
76-312 Crime and Justice in American Film
76-339 Topics in Film (can be taken more than once as topics vary by semester)
76-367 Fact into Film: Translating History into Cinema
76-409 History of German Film
76-439 Seminar in Film
76-448 Shakespeare on Film
76-449 Race and Media
76-454 Rise of the Blockbuster
79-214 Paris in Revolt: History, Literature, and Film
79-225 West African History in Film
79-270 Century of Russian Film
79-306 Fact into Film: Translating History into Cinema
79-308 Crime and Justice in American Film
79-309 The Chinese Revolution through Film (1949-2000)
79-319 India through Film
79-326 German History through Film
79-341 The Cold War in Documents and Film
79-391 Stardom, Gender, and American Film
79-427 Radicals, Heretics, and Hackers: Russian Outlaws in History, Literature, and Film
79-434 Literature, Politics, Film in Russia and East Europe
79-438 The Film Festival: The New Chinese Cinema
82-215 Arab Culture through Film and Literature
82-278 Japanese Film and Literature: the Art of Storytelling
82-284 Multicultural Pittsburgh: A Creative Media Exploration of Community, Language and Identity
82-296 A Century of Russian Films
82-355 Topics in Hispanic Studies (The Hispanic World through Film)
82-411 Filmothea: Interdisciplinary Film Workshop
82-428 History of German Film
82-455/56 Topics in Hispanic Studies (subject to variation by semester: only some sections have a significant film component)
82-533 Visions of China: Modern Chinese Society and Culture through Documentary Films and New Media
Curriculum for Students with Primary Majors Within the Department of English:
for Primary Majors in Creative Writing
for Primary Majors in Literature & Culture
for Primary Majors in Professional Writing
Please note: Students with a primary major in Technical Writing are required to complete the same requirements for the additional major in Film & Visual Media as students who are not majors in the Department of English.