Film Studies
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Errata
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Due to a technical error, the availability of some units of study is incorrectly listed. |
21/01/2022 |
| 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 Haunted Screens: Film and Memory |
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 Studio Foundation units in the Bachelor of Visual Arts N ARHT2053 or ARHT2653 |
Semester 1 |
| ARBC2210 Screening the Arab World |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Arabic Languages and Culture or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies |
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 |
Intensive July 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 |
| ENGL2617 Postmodernism |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 6 credit points at 1000 level in English and AMST1001 or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1076 or HSTY1023)) or 18 credit points at 1000 level including ENGL1011 N ENGL2017 |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL2627 Screening Sexuality |
6 | P 6 credit points at 1000 level in the English major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Film Studies major N ENGL2027 |
Semester 1 |
| ICLS2635 Science Fiction: The Future is Now |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level from ICLS or English or Film Studies or 12 credit points at 1000, 2000 or 3000 level from Arabic Language and Cultures or Chinese Studies or French and Francophone Studies or Germanic Studies or Modern Hebrew or Indonesian Studies or Italian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies or Spanish and Latin American 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 2022 |
6 | P 18 junior credit points |
Semester 1 |
| PHIL2658 Philosophy in Film This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 2022 |
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 |
| FILM3002 Cinema Spectatorship |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major N ARHT2655 or ARHT3677 |
Semester 1 |
| 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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 major or Art History major or Design Computing major or Film Studies major or (6 credit points at 1000 level and 6 credit points at 2000 level in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major) 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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature |
Semester 1 |
| ITLN3679 Filming Fiction: The Italian Experience |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level or 2000 level or 3000 level from Italian Studies or 6 credit points at 1000 level or 2000 level or 3000 level from Italian Studies and 6 credit points at 2000 level from: Arabic Language and Cultures or Asian Studies or Chinese Studies or English or European Studies or Film Studies or French and Francophone Studies or Germanic Studies or International and Comparative Literacy Studies or Modern Hebrew or Indonesian Studies or Italian Studies or Japanese Studies or Korean Studies or Modern Greek Studies or Spanish and Latin American Studies N ITLN3706 |
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. | |||
| FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| FILM3999 Interdisciplinary Impact This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |