Film and Media Studies | Johns Hopkins University

Students in the Program in Film and Media Studies can get a bachelor’s degree or minor in film and media studies. Choose from a broad range of small, hands-on courses that combine theory and practice in film, television, popular culture, and new media.

Courses are taught by renowned faculty who include award-winning filmmakers, screenwriters, animators, sound designers, composers, film critics, historians, and theorists.

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Undergraduate

Meld the study of filmmaking with hands-on experience. Students focus on critical study or film production to complete their degree.

Faculty

Our faculty has a wide range of experience in film and media, and facilitate connections with industry and alumni for students.

JHU-MICA Film Centre

Our program is based at the state-of-the-art film centre in the Station North Arts District. Take classes, use the recording studio and soundstage, or check out tools from the equipment cage.

News

January 22, 2021

Karen Yasinsky, Film and Media Studies lecturer explores new teaching methods in her animation course.

In the age of a pandemic, Karen Yasinsky has explored teaching new and old techniques and styles of animation with her students. We’re grateful for our faculty’s ability to adapt to new environments of learning and encourage our students to do the same. Read the article here.

November 18, 2020

Film and Media Studies Siblings Work Together on Nurikabe

Curtis and Thomas Nishimoto were featured in the fall 2020 Arts & Sciences Magazine for their film Nurikabe, which Thomas wrote and Curtis will direct. The 12-minute movie, to be shot next summer, is described as a dark fantasy in the vein of 2006’s Pan’s Labyrinth and incorporates elements of Japanese folklore. The brothers discuss what drew them to Film and Media […]

May 27, 2020

Director Meredith Ward wins Excellence in Advising Award

Congratulations to Meredith Ward, Faxon director of the Film and Media Studies Program, who won the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 2020 Excellence in Teaching and Advising Award for Faculty Undergraduate Advising. Some of the student nominations for Meredith Ward are below. “If the most basic role of an advisor is to give advice, […]

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