Graduate Studies in Film and Literature
Description
The Department of English offers a Master of Arts degree with a special focus in Literature and Film-- a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of the relationships between traditional literary study and the cinema. The focus is designed for students from a wide variety of undergraduate degrees (Communication, Education, English, Film, Theater, etc.); for teachers in the broad range of language skills and art; and for professionals in the media. Its purpose is to study how the cinema engages, appropriates, and extends the forms, philosophies, and values of literature.
The degree requires no foreign language and requires that degree candidates pass an interdisciplinary master's examination.
Tracks
Track II: at least 36 hours required
Required Courses
All courses can be taken for three semester hours of credit unless otherwise indicated.
English Department (15-18 hrs.)
- English 601 Bibliography and Methods of Research
- English 604 Topics for the English Classroom: Teaching Film
- English 690 Literature and Film
- English 691 Topics in Literature and Film
Electives in modern British and American literature, rhetoric, or theory and criticism (24)
Course work in communication studies, instructional technology, history, and/or
philosophy may be used as electives with consent of adviser.
Electives from outside the department are typically chosen from those listed below:
- COMS 554 Transnational Communication and Media
- COMS 556C History of Film
- COMS 557 The Documentary Tradition
- COMS 562 Film Theory and Criticism
- COMS 566 Narrative Scriptwriting
- COMS 649 Media and Culture in Ireland
- COMS 656 Feminist Film Theory
- ETT 430 Survey of Instructional Technology
- ETT 455 Media Design Techniques
- ETT 531 Visual Literacy
- PHIL 562 Philosophy of Culture
- PHIL 633 Aesthetics
For further information, contact:
Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois 60115
(815) 753-1608
