The Film Studies major stream offers a comprehensive and innovative course of study that provides students with the critical and practical skills to understand, analyse, and work with the most popular art form of the 20th and 21st centuries. Film Studies courses include historical, theoretical, and cross-cultural studies of film as well as practical courses in video production. Our Film Studies major stream provides students with intensive study of the discipline, while also enabling them to understand the relations between the discipline and its concerns and other disciplinary fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Film Studies contributes to and has its origins in a range of disciplinary fields in the Humanities, including Philosophy and Critical Theory, Aesthetics, Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Gender Studies. For this reason Film Studies is a discipline that enables students to explore a range of debates in the Humanities as they inform—and are informed by—the film and media landscape and its impact on contemporary life. Our courses enable students to study film and related media forms in their historical, cultural, and technological contexts and provide students with an international perspective on the place and history of film in the global media culture.

Subject-specific aims of the major stream:

A student who wishes to gain a major stream in Film Studies must complete 54 units of credit including 12 uoc at level 1, at least 18 uoc at level 2 including the core course ARTS2061 Contemporary Approaches and at least 18 uoc at level 3 including the capstone course.

Students must complete the core course:

AND at least two of the following courses:

The following courses from other subject areas can also be counted towards the Film Studies major stream: