Create Connections Across
Programs – Fall 2018/19

FT 250 Understanding Film

WRITING FOR FILM

Film Theory
International Masterworks
Contemporary American Film
American Masterworks

EXPERIMENTAL & INDIE FILMMAKING

Avant-Garde Cinema
American Independent Film

FILMMAKING AROUND THE GLOBE

International Masterworks
New Scandinavian Cinema
City in Film

GENRE

International Horror Film

FT 303 Understanding TV

WRITING FOR TV

Comic Book TV
TV Comedy

TV MANAGEMENT

TV Industry Studies
NBC: Anatomy of a Network
Steaming TV

Film & Television Studies

Suggested electives

In addition to finding their way up the ladder of FTV Studies courses, students should take advantage of the
breadth of subjects offered at the university. Each semester, thousands of courses are offered at BU in scores of
departments. Here is a way to sort through this vast array of resources by topic. Keep in mind that there may be prerequisites to some of these courses.

American Studies

  • AM 200 – Introduction to American Studies

History

  • HI 152 – The United States Since 1865
  • HI 218 – History of Contemporary Europe
  • HI 221 – Catastrophe and Cultural Memory
  • HI 222 – Science and Technology in World History
  • HI 281 – American Governance: Foreign A airs,
    Politics and Presidents in the 20th Century
  • HI 303 – Sex, Love and Family
  • HI 338 – 20th Century United States, 1945-1968
  • HI 361 – Black Radical Thought
  • HI 484 – Revolutionary Change in Middle East
  • HI 486 – Islamic History
  • HI 537 – World War II
  • HI 102 – The Emergence of Modern Europe:
    Renaissance to the Present
  • HI 176 – World History 1500-Present
  • HI 191 – What is Europe?
  • HI 230 – Special Topics in the History of Media
  • HI 234 – Introduction to India and South Asia
  • HI 237 – Reconstructing the African Past
  • HI 247 – The Making of Modern Britain
  • HI 248 – Moden Britain, 1867 to Present
  • HI 250 – British Youth Culture from 1950 to the Present
  • HI 252 – Class, Power, and the Making of British Identity
  • HI 341 – Political and Cultural Revolution
  • HI 342 – Imperialism and Independence
  • HI 348 – Colonialism in Africa: Impact and Aft“ermath
  • HI 428 – Postwar European Culture

Asian Studies

  • HI 234 – Introduction to India and South Asia
  • AH 225 – The Arts of Asia
  • SO 328 – Contemporary South Asian Societies
  • PH 246 – Indian Philosophy
  • RN 103 – Religions and Politics in South Asia
  • XL 225 – Introduction to Comparative Literature: South Asia
  • AN 375 – Culture, Society, and Religion in South Asia
  • IR 506 – India & the World
  • IR 586 – Islam in South Asian Politics

Anthropology

  • AN 101 – Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

English

Any literature courses, British, English (or Foreign)

Sociology

  • SO 205 – American Families
  • SO 207 – Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
  • SO 241 – Sociology of Gender
  • SO 318 – Sociology of Childhood and Youth

Latin American Studies

  • HI 397 – Modern Latin America
  • HI 489 – The African Diaspora in the Americas
  • HI 584 – Social Movements in 20th Century Latin America
  • LS 452 – Topics in Latin American Literature and Culture
  • AN 314 – Cultures of Latin America
  • HI 394 – US-Mexican Borders
  • IR 425 – Women and Social Change in the Developing World

Middle East & North Africa Studies

  • AN 320 – Women in the Muslim World
  • AN 327 – Islam in Africa
  • AN 532 – Literacy and Islam in Africa

History of Art & Architecture

  • AH 210 – Learning to See
  • AH 392 – Twentieth Century Art from 1940 to 1980

Psychology

  • PS 101 – General Psychology

African-American Studies

  • AA 103 – Introduction to African American Literature
  • AA 207 – Race and Ethnic Relations
  • AA 371 – African American History
  • AA 580 – The History of Radical Thought
  • AA 558 – Women in Africa

Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Students are urged to be creative and adventurous in their course selections. Any area of enquiry has the potential to
add to their personal and professional development.