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Tufts Film and Media Studies

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FALL 2025

FMS Academic Programs

Film and Media Studies majors and minors take core courses in film and media analysis, history, theory, and media practice supplemented by electives in a variety of departments to foster an interdisciplinary,  individualized  approach. Through the study of film and media as craft traditions, art forms, cultural forces and industries on a global scale, students become more discerning and active users of media, able to understand and employ them in meaningful and impactful ways. 

Item List

Core (1): Required

Art of the Moving Image

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FMS-0001-01

MW 10:30-11:45

Denise Cummings

Core (1): Required

Art of the Moving Image/Screening

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FMS-0001-01R

MW 6:00-8:30

Denise Cummings

Core (1): Required

Art of the Moving Image/First-Year

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FMS-0001-02

MW 1:30-2:45

Denise Cummings

Core (1): Required

Art of the Moving Image/Screening

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FMS-0001-RA

MW 6:00-8:30

Denise Cummings

Core (2): Choice

A Cultural History of the Internet

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FMS-0094-01

Th 1:00-4:00

Mat Rapapport

Core (3): Seminar

Film and Media Studies Seminar

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FMS-0190-01

T 3:30-6:00

Malcolm Turvey

Core (3): Seminar, Upper Level

Storytelling in Film and Television

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FMS-0194-01

T 3:30-6:00

Malcolm Turvey

Core (3): Seminar, Upper Level

Storytelling in Film and Television: Screening

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FMS-0194-01R

M 6:00-10:00

Malcolm Turvey

Media Studies

AI in Motion: Ethics, Innovation, and Impact in Digital Media Industries

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FMS-0036-01

F 10:30-1:30

Mat Rappaport

Media Studies

Ethnographic Film, Media, and Beyond

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FMS-0039-01

TTh 10:30-11:45

Amahl Bishara

Media Studies

Children and the Mass Media

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FMS-0042-01

F 9:00-11:30

Julie Dobrow

Media Studies

Special Topics: Media Ethics

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FMS-0094-04

MW 1:30-2:45

Benedetta Giovanola

Media Studies [+Upper Level]

Seminar in Children and the Mass Media

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FMS-0164-01

W 1:30-4:00

Julie Dobrow

Social Science

Media, Culture, and Society

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FMS-0043-01

TTh 1:30-2:45

Sarah Sobieraj

Social Science

Media, Culture, and Society

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FMS-0043-01

TTh 1:30-2:45

Sarah Sobieraj

Theory

Film Theory

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FMS-0065-01

MW 3:00-4:15

Malcolm Turvey

Theory

Film Theory: Screening

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FMS-0065-01R

T 6:15-9:00

Malcolm Turvey

Practice

Film and Media Production I: The Basics of Visual Storytelling

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FMS-0010-01

MW 10:30-11:4

Kyle Petty

Practice

Documentary Film: History and Practice

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FMS-0013-01

Th 1:30-4:00

Natalie Miink

Practice

Sound in Filmmaking

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FMS-0017-01

Th 10:30-1:00

Howard Woolf

Practice

Screenwriting I

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FMS-0020-01

T 5:00-7:30

Pamela Corkey

Practice

Screenwriting I/First-Year

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FMS-0020-02

W 9:00-11:30

Khary Jones

Practice

Costume Design

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FMS-0025-01

W 1:30-4:20

Linda Ross Girard

Practice

Dance on Camera

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FMS-0027-01

TTh 10:30-11:45

Jaclyn Waguespack

Practice

Creative Writing: Journalism

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FMS-0030-01

W 1:30-4:00

Ravi Shankar

Practice

Creative Writing: Journalism

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FMS-0030-02

M 1:30-4:00

Ravi Shankar

Practice

Storytelling: Radio/Podcasts

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FMS-0051-01

M 3:30-8:30

Riccardo Giacconi

Practice

Composition for Film: Film and Multimedia Composition

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FMS-0067-01

MW 3:00-4:15

Kareem Rouston

Practice

Storytelling and Film Editing

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FMS-0094-02

W 1:15-3:45

Khary Jones

Practice

Storytelling and Editing

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FMS-0094-02

W 1:15-3:45

Khary Jones

Practice

Directing Fundamentals for the Screen

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FMS-0094-03

T 1:30-4:00

Pamela Corkey

Non-U.S.

Media of the Middle East

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FMS-0047-01

TTH 1:30-2:45

Amahl Bishara

Non-U.S.

Women's Visions in Global Film

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FMS-0056-01

MW 6:00-7:15

Aida Vida

Non-U.S.

Love and War in French Film

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FMS-0063-01

MW 9:00-10:15

Clair Schub

Non-U.S.

Latin American Cinema

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FMS-0069-01

F 9:00-11:30

Zavala

Non-U.S.

Arab and Middle Eastern Cinema

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FMS-0076-01

M 6:00-9:00

Kamran Rastegar

Non-U.S.

Japanese Film

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FMS-0078-01

MW 3:00-4:15

Jennifer Yoo

Non-U.S.

Latinx Theatre and Film

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FMS-0083-01

TTh 10:30-11:45

Amelia Estrada

Non-U.S.

Classics of World Cinema

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FMS-0086-01

T 4:30-5:45, Th 4:30-7:30

Joel Rosenberg

Non-U.S.

New Chinese Cinema

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FMS-0091-01

TTh 3:00-5:15

Xueping Zhon

Non-U.S.

Mexican Cinema and Identity

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FMS-0183-01

MW 10:30-11:45

Pedro Palou

Non-U.S.

Disney Studios Meets Studio Ghibli

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JPN-0083-01

TTh 10:30-11:45

Susan Napier

Non-U.S.

Disney Studios Meets Studio Ghibli: Screening

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JPN-0083-01R

Th 1:30-4:00

Susan Napier

Non-U.S. [+Upper Level]

Visualizing Colonialism

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FMS-0175-01

TTh 9:00-10:15

Kamran Rastegar

Upper Level

Seminar in Children and the Mass Media

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FMS-0164-01 [UL]

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Julie Dobrow

Upper Level

Visualizing Colonialism

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FMS-0175-01 [UL]

TTh 9:00-10:15

Kamran Rastegar

Upper Level

SoundTracks: Studies in Audio-Vision

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FMS-0187-01 [UL]

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Alessandra Campana

Upper Level

Storytelling in Film and Television

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FMS-0194-01 [UL]

T 3:30-6:00

Malcolm Turvey

Upper Level

Storytelling in Film and Television: Screening

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FMS-0194-1R [UL]

M 6:00-10:00

Malcolm Turvey

Elective

Imagining the Holocaust on Stage and Screen

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FMS-0062-01

TTh 1:30-2:45

Barbara Wallace Grossman

Elective

History of Film II: 1955-Present

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FMS-0071-01

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Tina Wasserman

Elective

Hitchcock: Cinema, Gender, Ideology

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FMS-0081-01

MW 1:30-2:45

Lee Edelman

Elective

Religion and Film

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FMS-0177-01

TTh 1:30-2:45

Elizabeth Lemons

Elective

How to Pay Attention

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FMS-0189-01

T 9:00-11:30

Nick Seaver

Elective

Jazz in Film: North America, Europe, and Asia (1920-Present)

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FMS-xxxx

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Joel Smith

Elective [+ Upper Level]

SoundTracks: Studies in Audio-Vision

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FMS-0187-01

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Alessandra Campana

Elective: Directed Study

Directed Study

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FMS-0195-01

None

FMS Faculty

Elective: Internship

FMS Media Internship (4 Credits)

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FMS-0099-01

By appointment

Leslie Goldberg

Elective: Internship

FMS Media Internship (2 Credits)

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FMS-0099-02

By appointment

Leslie Goldberg

Elective: Practicum

Practicum in Film and Media Production

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FMS-0093-01

By appointment

Faculty

Elective: Sr Honors Thesis

Senior Honors Thesis 1/Production Projects

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FMS-0198-01

Th 10:30-1:00

Natalie Minik

Elective: Sr Honors Thesis

Senior Honors Thesis 1/Written Projects

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FMS-0198-02

None

None

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