Overview

While the Cinema and Media Arts (CMA)  program offered by Vanderbilt University encourages new ways of thinking, looking, and making, it also develops the traditional learning skills of a liberal education. A core curriculum in film and media theory, history, and both fiction and non-fiction filmmaking is supplemented with classes in the related arts, disciplines, and national cinemas. '

Key facts:

• CMA courses are taught by thirteen core film faculty as well as over twenty professors from more than a dozen different departments and programs throughout the College of Arts & Science and the Blair School of Music. Affiliated faculty coordinate their course offerings to create an intellectual and creative environment that uses cinema to bridge the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
• CMA students undertake individual research projects in the capstone senior seminar and the honors program. Recent projects include: web-based comedy series, senior thesis on representations of the law and legal theory, senior thesis on disability studies and film, 16mm short film on Nashville’s Mexican immigrant community, a full-length screenplay on a fictional Chicago gangster.