Full Course List
Note that some of these courses may have prerequisites or other restrictions depending on your major.
ENGL 142 Film Analysis
ENGL 143 Film and Culture
ENGL 149 Networked and Multimodal Composition
ENGL 244 Queer Cinema
ENGL 251 Film Performance and Stardom
ENGL 252 National and Transnational Cinemas
ENGL 255 Introduction to Media Studies
ENGL 256 Crafting the Dramatic Film
ENGL 257 Video Games and Narrative Cinema
ENGL 281 Media and Literature
ENGL 287 Black Horror and the Moving Image
ENGL 318 Advanced Multimodal Composition
ENGL 323 American Cinema of the 1970s
ENGL 324 Creating the Video Essay (CI)
ENGL 378 Film Criticism
ENGL 380 Film History
ENGL 381 Literature and Cinema
ENGL 399 Film and the Museum
ENGL 389 Major Film Directors
ENGL 410 Documentary Film
ENGL 494 Research Methods in Film Studies
ENGL 680 Film Theory
ENGL 681 Topics in Contemporary Film and Media
CMPL 142 Visual Culture II
CMPL 143 History of Global Cinema
CMPL 144 Engaging Film and Media
CMPL 150 Critical Theory: Fear, Love, Laughter, and Loss — Film Genres and Spectatorship
CMPL 180 Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood Productions and Beyond
CMPL 212 The Cinematic City
CMPL 225 Global Authors: Shakespeare in World Cinema
CMPL 227 Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema
CMPL 230 Global Crusoe: The Desert-Island Idea in Film and Fiction
CMPL 240 Introduction to Film Theory
CMPL 254 Horror and the Global Gothic
CMPL 255 The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy
CMPL 257 The Crisis of Modernity in World Cinema
CMPL 262 Film and Politics
CMPL 267 Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema
CMPL 266 Weimar Cinema
CMPL 271 Women in German Cinema
CMPL 272 History of German Cinema
CMPL 280 Film Genres
CMPL 281 Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe
CMPL 282 Russian Literature in World Cinema
CMPL 375 New Wave Cinema
CMPL 382 Film and Nature
ASIA/CMPL 379 Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction
CMPL 452 The Middle Ages in Film
CMPL 463 Cinema and Surrealism
CMPL 490 Film, Photography, and the Digital Image
CMPL 494 The Essay Film: Adventures in Modern Cinema Since 1945
CMPL 520 Cinema, Painting, and the Frame
Electives from other departments:
AAAD 250 The African American in Motion Pictures |
AMST 268 American Cinema and American Culture AMST 336 Native Americans in FilmAMST 371. LGBTQ Fiction and Film, from 1950 to the present |
ARAB 453 Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World |
ARTS 106 Video I
ARTS 206 Video II ARTS 309 3D Animation |
ASIA 224 Introduction to Iranian Cinema ASIA 231 Bollywood Cinema ASIA 235 Israeli Cinema: Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity ASIA 435 The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa |
ASIA/CMPL 379 Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction |
CHIN 244 Introduction to Modern Chinese Culture through Cinema CHIN 464 The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film |
CMPL/EURO/FREN 332H Cultural Identities in European Cinema |
COMM 130 Introduction to Production
COMM 230 Audio/Video/Film Production and Writing
COMM 330 Introduction to Writing for Film and Television
COMM 331 Writing the Short Film
COMM 335 Film Story Analysis
COMM 337 Visual Storytelling for Screenwriters
COMM 412 Critical Theory
COMM 430 History of American Screenwriting
COMM 431 Advanced Audio Production
COMM 534 Narrative Production
COMM 535 Introduction to Screen Adaptation
COMM 550 American Independent Cinema
COMM 635 Documentary Production
COMM 644 Documentary Production: First Person Film Making
COMM 645 The Documentary Idea
COMM 653 Experimental Video
COMM 654 Motion Graphics, Compositing, and Special Effects
COMM 681 Contemporary Film Theory
COMM 682 History of the Moving Image: Pasts, Presents, Futures
COMM 683 Moving-Image Avant-Gardes and Experimentalism
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COMM/GERM 275 History of German Cinema |
COMM/WMST 656 Women and Film |
FREN 386 French New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and Its Legacies FREN 388 History of French Cinema I FREN 389 History of French Cinema II FREN 398 Cultural Identities in European Cinema FREN 505 African Francophone Cinema |
GSLL 260 From Berlin to Budapest: Literature, Film, and Culture of Central Europe
GSLL 281 Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe GSLL 283 Hungarian Cinema since World War II GSLL 683 Moving-Image Avant-gardes and Experimentalism GERM 250/WMST 250 Women in German Cinema GERM 265 Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Germany GERM 266/CMPL 266 Weimar Cinema GERM 267/CMPL 267 Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema (taught in English) GERM 268 Auteur Cinema GERM 271/CMPL 271/WGST 271 Women in German Cinema CMPL 272/GERM 272 History of German Cinema GERM 367 Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema (taught in German) GERM 479/CMPL 479 What is a Medium? German Media Theory from Aesthetics to Cultural Techniques GERM 382 Representations of Violence and Terrorism in Contemporary German Literature and Film GERM 880 Gender and Sexuality in German Cinema: From Weimar to the Present (THT) |
GERM/WMST 250 Women in German Cinema |
HIST 301 Screening History: Africa at the Movies HIST 490 History of Film in the West |
HUNG 280 Hungarian Cinema since World War II |
ITAL 333 Italian Film and Culture ITAL 335 Special Topics in Italian Film ITAL 340 Italian America in Literature and Film |
JAPN 490 Topics in Japanese: Japanese Culture through Film and Literature |
PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film |
RUSS 281 Russian Literature in World Cinema |
SPAN 361 Spanish Film and Culture |
SPAN 362 The Quest for Identity in Contemporary Spain |
Note: courses marked THT indicate that a Tar Heel Tracker adjustment will be required in order for the course to count.
Graduate Film Courses
ENGL 881 Studies in Cinema
AMST 880 American Film and Media History
COMM 758 Studies in Film and Television
COMM/WGST 858 Feminist Studies of Film
FREN 714 French Drama and Film
GERM 880 German Cinema
GERM 889 Special Topics in German Literature, Culture, and Film
ROML 707 Film Theory and Criticism
SPAN 713 War, History, and Society in Iberian Narrative and Film