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Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies

Chair
John Durham Peters

Director of Graduate Studies
John MacKay

Faculty
For faculty listings, see Film and Media Studies under Degree-Granting Departments and Programs in this bulletin.

Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies

With the world awash in moving images, sounds, words and data, the Film and Media Studies Program gives students the tools necessary to grapple with the decisive media of the past century and more: from film to television to the platform-agnostic digital images of today. That knowledge is critical and practical, analytic, and experimental, historical and theoretical. As an interdisciplinary program, Film and Media Studies draws on courses from American Studies to the History of Art, from Comparative Literature to Slavic, taught by a dedicated group of world-renowned faculty.

The Certificate in Film and Media Studies is open to students already enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Yale. Its aim is to provide graduate students in other programs, departments, and divisions the opportunity to develop and demonstrate a degree of competence in the history and theory of film and media.

Special Requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies

Students must enroll in (1) FILM 601 (Foundations of Film and Media), (2) FILM 605 in the Fall and FILM 606 in the Spring (The FMS Certificate Workshop), and (3) two elective courses. The Fall and Spring Workshops meet both collectively and individually and are designed to support the student individually in their specific needs and interests and in their path toward the final paper. Attendance at the events organized by the FMS Program, including Rough Cut, is strongly recommended. 

Requirements will be approved by the DGS of FMS and the DGS of the student's degree department, and an FMS adviser. A plan for fulfilling the requirements will be worked out in the advance, in consultation with all three of the above. A student may apply to count a course they took during their first year. 

Applications to the Certificate are due by May 15 of each year and are based on a letter of interest to be sent to the DGS of FMS and the potential Adviser.

Completion of the certificate comes with fulfilling the Certificate comes with fulfilling all requirements, including the completion of the final paper, and a summary of the student's activities, as approved by the FMS Adviser.

Additional certificate program information is available on the Film and Media Studies website (http://filmstudies.yale.edu). For information on the Ph.D. program in Film and Media Studies, see Film and Media Studies under Degree-Granting Departments and Programs in this bulletin.

Certificate Workshop

FILM 605	Film and Media Studies Certificate Workshop
FILM 606	Film and Media Studies Certificate Workshop