Film Studies
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| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Film Studies |
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Major |
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| A major in Film Studies requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units | |||
| (v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
| (vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in Film Studies requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units | |||
| (iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
1000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| FILM1000 Introduction to Film Studies |
6 | N ENGL1011 |
Semester 1 |
| FILM1001 Hollywood: Art, Industry, Entertainment |
6 | N ARHT1003 |
Semester 2 |
2000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| FILM2000 From Silent to Sound Cinema |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Art History major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major N ARHT2052 or ARHT2652 |
Semester 2 |
Selective |
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| FILM2001 Memory of the World: Key Films |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Art History major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major N ARHT2053 or ARHT2653 |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2039 Screen Arts: an Introduction |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2069 Screenwriting and Directing |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL2627 Screening Sexuality This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies N ENGL2027 |
Semester 2 |
| EUST2020 Screening Europe: After 1989 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 Junior credit points from Table A |
Semester 1 |
| ICLS2635 Science Fiction: The Future is Now This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in International and Comparative Literary Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
Semester 2 |
| ICLS2637 Watching Stars: Film and the Star System This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in International and Comparative Literary Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
Semester 1 |
| MUSC2663 Survey of Film Music |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| MUSC2664 Popular Music and the Moving Image This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 18 junior credit points |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2658 Philosophy in Film |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Philosophy or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
Semester 2 |
| SPAN2641 Filmmaking in the Latin American Context This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Spanish and Latin American Studies or Film Studies or SPAN3001 |
Semester 2 |
3000-level units of study |
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Core |
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| FILM3000 Cinematic Transformations |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Digital Cultures or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT3601 |
Semester 2 |
Selective |
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| FILM3001 Cinematic Time |
6 | P 12 credits at 2000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major N ARHT3676 |
Semester 2 |
| FILM3003 Screening Reality Since the 1960s |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies N ARHT2673 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3633 Contemporary Australian Art and Film |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2633 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3662 On Photography and the Wretched Screen |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History N ARHT2662 |
Semester 1 |
| ARIN3630 Digital Arts |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Digital Cultures or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Design Computing N ARIN2630 |
Semester 2 |
| ASNS3616 Japanese Cinema and Society |
6 | P 6 Senior credit points in Asian Studies or 18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011 N JPNS3675 |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL3710 Utopias and Dystopias: Literature; Films; TV |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature |
Semester 1 |
Interdisciplinary project |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| FILM3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| FILM3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major. |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |