Program Information and Requirements

Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) credit may not count toward the concentration but may be applied toward the total number of units needed to graduate.

Units from Study Abroad and Transfer Credit: Students may receive up to one unit of credit toward the concentration for a class taken on study abroad or at another institution. The course must first receive approval from the director of the concentration.

Requirements for the Concentration

Number of Units
Six (6) courses are required for the Film and Media Studies concentration.

Required Course
ENGL 153-RTW: Classical Hollywood (offered twice yearly, cap of 25)

Five additional courses from any of the categories below. At least two of the five courses must have film as their primary focus. The courses with a film focus have been marked with an asterisk (*).

Additional Courses:

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Film and Media Study SIPs:

The Senior Integrated Project or SIP should be viewed as the capstone experience of your studies at Kalamazoo College.  As a result, the SIP is undertaken within a department with a major or minor or as a non-departmental SIP. While K no longer allows for SIPs in concentrations (including the Film and Media Studies concentration), you can certainly do a SIP that is related to Film and Media Studies within a department you are majoring or minoring in (for example, in recent years students have analyzed films, television shows, and video games for their SIPs in the English and Religion departments). You can also complete a non-departmental SIP that is related to Film and Media Studies (for example, the non-departmental SIP of Davis Henderson, a 2025 Film and Media Studies concentrator, was a nineteen-minute-long documentary film ). Under the “Departmental SIP Pages” on the Registrar’s website, there is a list of faculty who may be willing to supervise non-departmental SIPs and the topics or subject areas they would consider.