Training
•The major's core sequence runs a two-semester history of silent and sound film, a course on documentary and avant-garde film, and a film theory course, layered with electives in genre, filmmaker, and national-cinema studies plus Digital Video and Screenwriting production courses.
Professional Development
•Internship placements at the Archive and Bay Area production companies support graduates moving into archival, editing, criticism, and independent-filmmaking careers alongside law and graduate-school pathways.
Facilities
•Students draw on the Pacific Film Archive, an internationally recognized cinematheque screening films six nights a week, hosting visiting filmmakers, and holding the largest collection of Japanese film outside Japan — and on the cross-department Digital Media Labs Consortium for production equipment and courses.
