Cinema Studies: Cinema Studies MA, PhD Courses

Not all elective courses are offered every year. The department should be consulted each session as to elective and non-CIN course offerings.

MA Core Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
Theories and Practices of Cinema
Key Developments in Film History

Plus one of:

Course CodeCourse Title
Major Research Paper in Cinema Studies
Internship in Cinema Studies

PhD Core Courses

Course CodeCourse Title
History and Historiography of Cinematic Media
Pressures on the Cinematic
Research Seminar in Cinema Studies

Elective Courses (Subject to Change)

Course CodeCourse Title
CIN1005HSpecial Studies in Cinema
CIN1008HIndependent Research and Reading in Cinema Studies
CIN1011HColour and the Moving Image
CIN1100HThe Textual Object
CIN1772HThe Politics of Non-Fiction Film
CIN3002HCinema and Nation
CIN3004HDocumentary and Non-fiction Media
CIN3006HMedia and Philosophy
CIN3008HTopics in Film and Media History
CIN3010HTopics in Film and Media Theory
CIN3101HWorld Cinemas, Cinematic Worlds
CIN3103HQueer Girls and Racial Others
CIN3105HTopics in Film Aesthetics
CIN3107HTopics in Politics of the Moving Image
CIN6153HRace and Cinema
CIN6803HIntertextuality in Feminist Cinema: The Counter-Cinematic Impulse
JFF1101HThe Art of Exploration: How to Think the World
JFF1102HAnimages/Animots/Animotions
JGF1733HAutobiographical Documentary: History, Alterity, and Performativity