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  "college": "berkeley-city-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "Arts and Cultural Studies",
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  "name": "Film Studies",
  "award": "A.A. Degree",
  "department": "arts-and-cultural-studies",
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      "markdown": "##### Program Description\n\nFilm Studies at BCC offers an interdisciplinary and liberal arts approach to studying film history and film analysis. Students are introduced to the rich field of Film Studies. Depending on their interests, Film Studies students can explore film's historical development, film genres, films relationship to issues of diversity and identity, cinematic global contexts and traditions, and digital and multimedia developments in cinema.  A Film Studies AA degree prepares students to transfer and provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in various related majors at four-year institutions, such as Film, Cinema, or Media Studies.\n\n**\n\n##### Career Opportunities\n\n**\n\nFilm Studies degree prepares students to transfer into a number of related majors at four-year institutions, such as Film, Cinema, or Media Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, Multimedia Studies, Liberal Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies, Cultural Studies, or Humanities.\n\n**\n\n##### Learning Outcome(s)\n\n**\n\n1.  Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of major historical developments, both artistic and technological, that have influenced cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.\n2.  Demonstrate the ability to critically analyze, interpret and write about film using the specialized vocabulary of film studies as it has developed in the academic context and in the film industry.\n3.  Demonstrate critical understanding of film's role in developing, sustaining, and reflecting different personal, community, and nation-specific identities (around notions of race, ethnicity, class, gender, language, culture, etc).\n4.  Demonstrate an understanding of significant movements, genres, and styles within film history globally and transnationally, as well as the theoretical frameworks that have shaped, supported, or countered them."
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          "text": "Group 1: The Formal Elements",
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          "code": "HUMAN 21",
          "title": "Film: Art and Communication",
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          "text": "Group 2: Cinema and Identity",
          "units": "6-8"
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Choose two courses from the following list:",
          "units": "0"
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 55",
          "title": "The Representation of Immigration in Cinema and Television",
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Only one of the following courses may be taken:",
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 52",
          "title": "Women and Cinema",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "WS 52",
          "title": "Women and Cinema",
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          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Group 3: Genres, Movements, and Theories",
          "units": "9-12"
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        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Choose three courses from the following list:",
          "units": "24"
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        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 26",
          "title": "Global Cinema",
          "units": "4",
          "indent": false
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 57",
          "title": "Film Directors and Artists",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 53",
          "title": "Comparative Film Genres",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "MMART 123",
          "title": "The Art of Documentary Film",
          "units": "3",
          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 15",
          "title": "Popular Culture",
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          "indent": false
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Only one of the following courses may be taken:",
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          "code": "ART 182",
          "title": "Introduction to Visual Culture",
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          "indent": false
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          "type": "course",
          "code": "HUMAN 182",
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