Certificate Candidacy
To earn a graduate certificate at Washington University, a student must complete all courses required by their department; maintain satisfactory academic progress; fulfill all academic and residence requirements; and file an Intent to Graduate. Graduate certificates are not standalone programs and are only available to current students in applicable graduate programs. Thus, graduate certificates are conferred at the same time as the student’s primary graduate program.
Program Requirements
- Total Units Required: 15
- Certificate Length: 2 semesters
- Note: Students must be enrolled in 9 graduate credits each semester to retain full-time status. As students complete their course work, if enrolled in fewer than 9 graduate credits, they must enroll in a specific Arts & Sciences graduate course that will show 0 units but does count as full-time status. Students should connect with their department to ensure proper enrollment prior to Add/Drop. Students are expected to maintain a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale in courses that count toward their credit units.
Required Courses (9 units):
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Film 5501 | Advanced Moving Image Analysis and Criticism | 3 |
| Film 5420 | Film Theory | 3 |
| Film 5421 | Film Historiography | 3 |
| Total Units | 9 |
Electives (6 units):
Students may select any 5000-level FMS courses not already taken to fulfill this requirement, including the following:
Course List
| Code |
Title |
Units |
| Film 5000 | Independent Study | 3 |
| Film 5422 | Film Stardom, Performance, and Fan Culture | 3 |
| | 3 |
| Film 5425 | Seminar in Video Games: Video Games, Gender and Sexuality | 3 |
| Film 5429 | Mass Culture and Modern Media: Fantasylands: Cinema, Spectatorship, and the Spatial Imagination | 3 |
| Film 5430 | Topics in Chinese Media Culture: Charting Identity in the Digital Age | 3 |
| Film 5432 | Global Art Cinema | 3 |
| Film 5439 | Clown Princes | 3 |
| Film 5443 | Memory, Tears and Longing: East Asian Melodrama Film | 3 |
| | 3 |
| Film 5445 | Horror in Japanese Media | 3 |
| Film 5446 | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Through Cinema | 3 |
| Film 5450 | American Film Genres | 3 |
| Film 5451 | American Television Genres | 3 |
| Film 5452 | Advanced Screenwriting | 3 |
| Film 5453 | Experiential Design for Immersive Media | 3 |
| Film 5454 | American Film Melodrama and the Gothic | 3 |
| Film 5457 | From Vitaphone to YouTube: Popular Music and the Moving Image | 3 |
| Film 5458 | Major Film Directors | 3 |
| | |
| Film 5465 | Theory and Practice of Experimental Film | 3 |
| Film 5475 | Screening the Holocaust | 3 |
| Film 5478 | Topics in Transmedia Franchises | 3 |
| | 3 |
| Film 5485 | Visualizing Orientalism: Art, Cinema and the Imaginary East 1850-2000 | 3 |
| Film 5507 | The 007 Saga: James Bond and the Modern Media Franchise | 3 |