Graduate Syllabus
MA Preliminary (for 2 years MA program)
MA Preliminary (for 2 years MA program)
1631 MFM 110: Computer Applications for Professionals
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This Course aims at teaching students history of Narrative, Documentary and Experimental films from (1895 to till now).
MFM 502: Film Appreciation
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Sociology and Anthropology studies the evolution of human society as well as social relationships, interactions, and cultures around the world. It includes a detailed examination of how human beings communicate with each other as well as with society and nature as a whole. Moreover, it tries to analyze social problems and paradoxes that permeate human society. As a subject, it has been researched widely in connection with anthropology. Psychology, History, Political Science, and Law, amongst others.
0314 MFM 111: Sociology and Anthropology
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Sociology and Anthropology studies the evolution of human society as well as social relationships, interactions, and cultures around the world. It includes a detailed examination of how human beings communicate with each other as well as with society and nature as a whole. Moreover, it tries to analyze social problems and paradoxes that permeate human society. As a subject, it has been researched widely in connection with anthropology. Psychology, History, Political Science, and Law, amongst others.
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
The main purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to the basis and principles of research methodology. The course also aims at stressing the importance and needs for research in Film and Media sector. It prepares students to plan and carry out research projects during their studies. The course fits integrally with research methodology where the principles learned are applied in reading and evaluating the literature.
0414 MFM 202 - Public Relations
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
The purpose of this course is to provide a general overview of the practices of public relations and to provide exposure to a number of selected topics in the field of public relations such as history, law, ethics, and the international nature of public relations. The course will provide a comprehensive understanding of public relation's role in organizations and society; how public relations has developed as a discipline; and the contemporary roles of public relations in organizations and society. Basic public relations principles and theories will be examined in addition to applied perspectives. Students will discuss public relations issues and trends as well as international and ethical considerations involved in the practice of public relations. Students will be encouraged to think more broadly considering the globalized communication function of public relations and having their own ideas about public relations through the discussion of misunderstandings and misperceptions about the field of public relations.
0215 MFM 101: History of Film
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This is a beginning course which addresses History of World Film. This course contains Pre-History of world cinema to 1950th as well as the contemporary cinema history of the sub-continent. This course provides the basics of Film History where they will know the major inventions, persons and countries important for film history. Understanding different kind of film style in the world is another part of the course. It is not only gathering information but also Film Students will teach the technical and technological development of film history. Understanding history and culture of a country and as a film director how to put on the elements in your film to create someone's own identity is another part of the course.
0215 MFM 102: Writing for Film and TV
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is designed to addresses concepts of script writings, history of scripts writing, technical issues of writing scripts and screenplay for Film and Television. This course contains the necessity of script writing and defines the relations of script writers between other parties included with film making. Developing ideas to synopsis, Synopsis to script & screenplay, script writing tools and techniques and different terms of writing will be taught by the course. This is the most fundamental course of film making process as well as visual making process.
0211 MFM 103: Videography
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Video, by nature, is the best medium for conveying both knowledge and messages. It is more engaging and has more impact than plain text. Introduction to Videography is a beginner-level course. Students will learn about the technical skills needed to create videos through demonstration of the camera and its components. This course provides the basis for Lighting for Film and Digital Media, Digital Cinematography, Videography Specialization and Digital Technology in Filmmaking.
0211 MFM 104: Video Editing
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is the Introduction to the technical and aesthetic aspects of non-linear digital video editing. This course teaches the technical skills and creative principles required for post-production software using Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro. At the end of the course, the student should be able to set up video clips, include video transitions, apply video effects, acquire audio and export same using appropriate format required for publishing or distribution.
0211 MFM 105: Television Production
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Students will generate an idea to a script, shooting script and complete the production and post-production. The course emphasizes on how to create a proper production design for television. Students will get a scope to make one exercise production individually. Students will understand supervision of the instructor throughout the production, technical team will provide camera and other technical equipment.
0215 MFM 106: Direction for Film
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course will provide an introduction to the narrative and stylistic techniques used in filmmaking in order to more fully understand how meaning is constructed, conveyed, and interpreted in film. This course covers the role and responsibilities of a director in script development, pre-production, production, and post-production. This course will prepare Students to tell a story cinematically, use the camera as a tool, prepare a script analysis and engage in the casting and rehearsal process with actors.
0215 MFM 203: South Asian Cinema
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This module offers students an introduction to a vital aspect of contemporary South Asian culture. It is designed to give a coherent overview of the development of popular cinema within south Asian territory. The course looks at central issues in the study of South Asian cinema, focusing on the variety of cinemas in terms of ‘art’ and ‘commercial’ cinema, of ‘regional’ and ‘national’ cinemas. It pays particular attention to the evolution and nature of different film genres, the role of film music and language, and the question of film style. And also, this course uses one medium of visual representation--cinema--to explore the portrayal of South Asia. It historically traces the development of the cinematic industry in South Asia and highlights the changing images of the region. In general, this course will adopt critical approaches for looking at aesthetics and the representation of South Asia through cinema.
0211 MFM 204: Technical Script Writing and Production Design
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
A study of dramatic structure and methods of film script analysis as a preparation for directing, designing, performing. This course is to familiarize the students with the basic structure’s characteristic of most plays/films. And provide them with the analytical tools for understanding scripts, and to give them experience in skillful application of those tools.
First year – Preliminary Elective Courses
First year – Preliminary Elective Courses
0211 MFM 115: Film Appreciation
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Film Appreciation course familiarizes students to the study of film, its history, development and its application as an artist as well as social force. Students will become acquainted with basic elements, terminology and theories of critique and inquire. The course will train the students to view films critically with an informed awareness and making film.
0215 MFM 116: Theatre
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course will address theoretical ideas and practical framework of theatre. Students will be taught Egyptian Theatre, Greece and other European Theatre; Chinese-Japanese-Indian and Bangladeshi Theatre as well. They will be introduced with different Methodist and their Method in Theatre and they will do some practical work on it.
0215 MFM 117: Documentary and Non-Fiction
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Documentary Filmmaking: A rewarding career for creatively vigilant & social-minded As a form of social commentary and entertainment, documentaries have never been so popular and relevant as they are today. The industry for the documentary film is really booming. Now with the tools of the trade financially accessible to all, documentary production is limited only by the reservoir of ideas and stories. And the students will also benefit by learning to listen to and filter the critiques they receive.
0212 MFM 118: Art, Design and Direction
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Art, Design and Direction course first discusses the evolution of the historical style of film art and the application of art materials, and then understands the task of the film art design for scenes and characters, along with theory and practice in parallel with this course. This course is dedicated to the specific studies of film aesthetics values of film production design in the area of filmmaking.
0215 MFM 119: Acting for Film and TV
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is designed to introduce to the personal and group dynamics of actors’ work as well as to professional industry standards. Techniques and concepts include: warm-ups, risk-taking, awareness, blocking, monologues and improvisation. The course also introduces techniques used throughout the program: essential Stanislavski, Michael Shurtleff, Sandford Meisner and Uta Hagen. Students begin to build their toolboxes and to appreciate that their development will incorporate several disciplines. The course introduces a comprehensive process for creating a character and the techniques for perceiving the inner world of the character.
0211 MFM 120: TV and Film Graphics
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Graphic design is a complex art. This course covers the concepts and software that every designer needs to know and explains how they fit into a typical graphic design workflow. It introduces the creative process, including high-level concepts like layout, typography, and color. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator will be used to creatively adjust, repair, and retouch the kinds of images used in graphic design projects.
0321 MFM 121: New Media Journalism
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
News organizations are shifting from a traditional media model into an ever-changing digital model ripe with innovation and experimentation. This course Introduces language and style as it applies to broadcast and new media journalism.
0211 MFM 122: Cinematography
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is to introduce students to the basic fundamentals of the motion picture cinematography Which includes both technical knowledge and artistic implementation. Students will be familiar and will be given hands on experience with the modern digital cinema camera. Topic includes camera operation, framing, composition, lens choice, setting proper exposure, lighting, continuity and all aspect of visual storytelling. Students will also have practical demonstration of cinematography at indoor and outdoor shooting environment.
0321 MFM 123: Media Presentation
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course will discuss different issues related to television program and news anchoring. It will teach students speak for a tv audience, deliver live coverage and conduct on camera interviews. Course highlight include use of broadcast terminology, writing for radio and television and broadcast delivery through voicing and announcing.
Final Year Courses
Final Year Courses
0211 MFM 205: Aesthetics in Film
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course will be identified and analyzed Individuals’ concepts of the aesthetic, and the course will work on expanding the notion of the film aesthetic to include conceptions that go beyond “beauty” and convention.
0215 MFM 206: Film Analysis and Review
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is designed to addresses different analytical process of film (Marxist Film Theory, Auteur Film Theory, Psychoanalytical Film Theory etc.), which will enable students to analyze film through various windows. It will shape their thinking and writing skills with professional manner.
0215 MFM 207: Dialogue, Actor Handling and Improvisation
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course will address definition of dialogues, Types of dialogues, Functions of dialogues, writing of good dialogues. Student will be taught differences between Theatrical, TV and Film dialogue, preparing good script, Acting Style and its application, rules to follow during rehearsal and shooting. They will be introduced Actors’ Resources and Training, Some Improvisational technique and know about Actor Director Relationship.
0211 MFM 208: Technology of Digital Cinema
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course provides students proper knowledge about Digital Cinema that includes Digital Cinematography, Digital Non-Linear Editing, Distribution and Projection. This will be a highly technical course covering the theory and practice of Digital Imaging. The topics we will cover include digital sensors, color science, codecs, linear, gamma and log encoded video, digital exposure theory, file formats, metadata, data management, color grading and workflow from acquisition to deliverables.
0421 MFM 209: Law and Ethics in Media
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
The role of the media, now-a days, is tremendously significant. A day without media is not acceptable for a majority of people. So, it is necessary to know in greater depth about Media Law and Ethics which is the important branch of applied law and ethics dealing with the specific ethical principles and standards of media, including broadcast media, film, theatre, the arts, print media and the internet. The field covers many varied and highly controversial topics, which fosters an environment in which the mass media can determine its. recognized professional and ethical standards. The course, Media Law and Ethics, will help the students to promote and defend values such as a universal respect for life and the rule of law and legality. Moreover, Media Law and Ethics defines and deals with ethical questions about how media should use texts and pictures provided by the citizens.
0414 MFM 210: Film Production Management And Marketing
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course will introduce students to the theory and practice of managing Film production. Topics covered will include managing above-and below-the-line of film production costs, budgeting, script breakdown, scheduling, location scouting, and crew procurement. This course emphasizes the analysis of scripts and treatments to determine production costs, crewing requirements, location needs, equipment rentals, and associated production design layout costs.
0215 MFM 211: Sound design & Music for Film
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is designed to addresses concepts, applied senses and practices for the Sound Design and Music (SDM) for MA Program. Students will be informed as professional as well as technical skills about Preproduction and Postproduction plan of auditory works. They will learn on music and sound technology, design, arrangement, recording, creating and production of directorial view and have opportunity to get scientific knowledge with aesthetical height for sound setup of film making in advance level.
0211 MFM 212: Advanced Photography
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
This course is designed to addresses concepts, technical issues, applications, composition, practice, and history of Photography. Students will be taught industry-relevant technical skills and have the opportunity to work with SLR, DSLR cameras, and editing tools to shoot, process, and present professional-grade images. This course provides the basis for Videography, Digital Cinematography, and Digital Film making.
0211 MFM 211: Filmmaking
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Film is a collaborative art form; it requires a diverse group of artists to work together toward a common goal. To demonstrate the professional ability to make a short film all students have to make 20-25 minutes of fictional film or documentary under the supervision of a faculty of the department. The students have to present a proposal on the short film production for the approval of department Council. Each student is expected to prepare their production book detailing their project and any lessons learned from it. This production book along with the film will be presented before a panel of examiners and will be graded. Students will focus on directing, scriptwriting, cinematography, editing, sound designing and producing.
0211 MFM 222: Internship/Research Project (Coursework Mode)
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Students of the Film and Media Department will undertake an internship in an area of Film and media that interests them. By their final semester of study, students must seek out a suitable organization for an internship to appreciate and experience the dynamics of working in a real organization. These may be unpaid or occasionally paid, depending on the employer. The duration of the internship is usually from 8 to 12 weeks. Students are expected to work the employer’s requested hours. This is to be negotiated between the host institution and the students. Suitable employers include any reputable organization in a field related to the student’s course of study at the Film and Media Department. The student internship advisor will approve the suitability of the host institution for the student. Then, Department will give a recommendation letter to the student as a potential candidate for the host institution. The student is expected to write a report detailing their internship and any lessons learned from it. This report will be presented before a panel of Departments examiners and will be graded.
0211 MFM 223: Thesis/Dissertation (Mixed Mode)
Credit Hours: 3.00
Pre-requisite: None
Thesis will help the students to achieve advanced level knowledge and dynamic skills which will benefit them to prepare for future development. Study design, hypothesis and possible outcome is the most crucial part of a research project which will be constructed by the supervisor. Working under a supervisor and team members will also develop his/her communication skill and etiquette. The course will also help them to understand about the critical thinking, troubleshoots and problem solving approaches from the research works.
0211 MFM 220: Viva-voce
Credit Hours: 1.00
Pre-requisite: None
The master’s viva is an academic interview at which the examiners will be looking for an understanding of the subject matter of both theoretical and laboratory courses completed within academic year. An appreciation of its significance to established knowledge in the field, and an awareness of the breadth of the subject area. The viva will cover topics related to Film making, Television Production, Videography, Editing, Scripting etc. and other relevant courses which students covered in their studies.