Masters in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

[Berliner, Todd]

Masters in Film Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington

 

The University of North Carolina Wilmington is accepting applications for its two-year Master of Arts degree in Film Studies. The comprehensive curriculum includes advanced classes in film style and aesthetics, global cinema, film history and historiography, film theory, and film production as well as unique applied learning opportunities in writing, teaching, publishing, curating, and research. The program encourages students to tailor the curriculum toward their own educational and career goals.

 

UNCW has supported the MA program with additional faculty, a new University Film Center, and over a million dollars of filmmaking and film screening equipment, as well as infrastructure funding that includes two 4K movie theaters. Our faculty consists international scholars—with expertise in Indian, Nigerian, East and Southeast Asian, American, Latin American, avant-garde, documentary, and other cinemas—committed to student mentorship and post-graduate professional success. 

 

The MA in Film Studies at UNCW is the most affordable degree of its kind in the United States. Roughly half of the incoming class are fully funded through Graduate Teaching Assistant positions, which come with a $15,000 stipend. Other scholarship and funding sources remain available for new students, including merit and need-based grants and out-of-state tuition remission grants, which allow the strongest out-of-state students to enroll at the significantly reduced in-state rate.

 

Student mentorship and post-graduate professional success are paramount. In just four years, the program has placed five students in competitive PhD programs, while other graduates have begun work in secondary education, journalism, publishing, and archival practice. The program, moreover, is distinguished by a commitment to teacher training. In their first year, GTAs teach under the supervision of permanent faculty and, in their second year, work as instructors-of-record in classes of their own design on subjects pertaining to their areas of research.

 

The priority deadline for applications is March 1^st, with open admission until July 1^st (on a space-available basis). 

 

Graduate coordinator: Dr. Todd Berliner, berl...@uncw.edu.

 

Website: 

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     Professor Todd Berliner

    Graduate Coordinator, MA in Film Studies

    Department of Film Studies
    University of North Carolina Wilmington
    601 S. College Road
    Wilmington, NC 28403-5950

    910-962-3336
    fax 910-962-7678

    berl...@uncw.edu

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