Undergraduate Study in Film & TV Studies
In this increasing global and digital age, everyone knows something - quite often a good deal - about movies and television programs. Film and Television Studies at Monash University extends our everyday ways of thinking about film and television into more specialised approaches and methods.
Film and Television Studies offers a variety of units in the film and television cultures of Australia, Asia, United States and Europe.
The first-year units FTV1050 Contemporary film studies and FTV1010 Contemporary television studies are designed to provide a foundation for all subsequent studies in film and television.
Film and television units involve historical, textual and critical approaches to film and television, and related video and new screen technologies. Film and television studies cover Australian, Asian and European national cinemas, contemporary popular Hollywood and its institutions, alternative film and video, documentary film, Australian television, popular television genres, and video practice.
Throughout the course of studies, emphasis will be given to a variety of historical, critical and theoretical methods of analysis appropriate to the study of film and television, including formal, semiotic and psychoanalytic approaches, institutional, reception and cultural studies approaches, consideration of issues to do with the intersection of ideology and culture, the representation of gender, race and class, and questions concerning the relations between film and television and new technologies.
Students are encouraged to consider combining their film and television studies with other relevant and compatible units and/or disciplines in the Faculty of Arts. Examples are drama and theatre studies, comparative literature and cultural studies, English, history, women's studies, and a range of relevant Asian and European languages.
Minor sequence
A minor sequence in film and television consists of 12 points (two units) at first-year level followed by 12 points at second and/or third-year level.
Major sequence
The major sequence in film and television consists of 12 points at first-year level followed by 12 points at second year level and 24 points at third year level, or 18 points at second year level and 18 points at third year level.
Prerequisites
Normally, entry into second and third-year level in film and television units is dependent on completion of appropriate first and/or second-year level units. However, in special circumstances, it may be possible for students who have completed appropriate equivalent studies to enter these units, with the approval of the head of section.
Enquiries
For Undergraduate and Honours enquiries Berwick, Caulfield and Clayton:
Dr. Con Verevis, email: Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au
For further details about sequences see the entry for Film and Television Studies under School of English, Communications and Performance Studies in the Arts Faculty Undergraduate Handbook
Film and Television Studies
Offers a range of graduate programs at diploma, masters and doctoral level. For more details see the entry for Film and Television Studies in the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Handbook.
For more information please contact us via the Contact the Department of Film & Television Studies web page.