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August 8, 2024

As part of a campus wide hiring initiative, the Department of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Native American/Indigenous People's Media with an expected start date of July 1, 2025.

If you’re interested in applying, see Job #JPF04490(link is external) on the Berkeley Recruit website.

The Department of Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley seeks applications for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the area of Film and Media Historiography with an expected start date of July 1, 2025.

If you’re interested in applying, see Job #JPF04533(link is external) on the Berkeley Recruit website.

Applications will continue to be accepted until Tuesday, Oct 15, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time).

April 30, 2024

The following course may be of interest to Film graduate students:

EA Lang 204: Topics in East Asian Studies: “Environmental Media/Art in the Anthropocene”

April 11, 2024

March 13, 2024

Enrollment is now open for Summer Sessions. Film & Media courses are available during Session A (May 20 – June 28) and Session D (July 1-August 9).

Pre-approved extra-departmental Film & media electives are also available during Summer Sessions.

February 1, 2024

ETHSTD 122AC –Ethnicity and Race in Contemporary American Films

CHICANO 135C(link is external)– Latino Documentary Films

MEDIAST 138(link is external) –Ethnographic Film and Documentary Form: History, Ethics and Aesthetics of Reality Based Media

October 26, 2023

2024 Film & Media Commencement Ceremony*

Wednesday, May 15, 2024
2PM | Zellerbach Auditorium

Tickets are now available here: https://secure-tickets.berkeley.edu/23688/23689(link is external)

Basic Department Commencement FAQs for students* (more info to follow)

How long is the ceremony?
The ceremony starts promptly at 2pm and lasts approximately 2 hours.

October 3, 2023

ART 171 001 – STD 001(link is external) Video Projects (Priority enrollment for Art Practice majors and intended Art Practice majors)

ART 172 001 – STD 001(link is external) Advanced Digital Media: Computer Graphics Studio (Priority
enrollment for Art Practice majors and intended Art Practice majors)

April 3, 2023

February 25, 2023

AMERSTD 110: From Portraits to Snapshots: Memory, identity, and photography in American culture

ANTHRO 138A(link is external): History and Theory of Ethnographic Film
In-Person / Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences breadth

ANTHRO 138B(link is external): Field Production of Ethnographic Film
In-Person / Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences breadth

October 18, 2022

AMERSTD 101(link is external)Examining U.S. Cultures in Time: A History of the Present from 9/11/2001 to 1/6/2021
Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences L&S Breadth

August 18, 2022

The Department of Film & Media is now accepting applications for the position of Assistant Professor – Critical Race Theory and Media.

If you’re interested in applying, follow this link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03502(link is external)

August 3, 2022

ART 171:(link is external) Video Projects
Meets Arts & Literature breadth

ASAMST 138:(link is external) Topics in Asian Popular Culture
Meets Arts & Literature breadth

June 30, 2022

The Department of Film & Media is now accepting applications for the position of Assistant/Associate/Full Professor – Global Digital Media Studies.

If you’re interested in applying, follow this link: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03503(link is external)

March 23, 2022

ANTHRO 138A(link is external): History and Theory of Ethnographic Film
In-Person / Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences breadth

ANTHRO 138B(link is external): Field Production of Ethnographic Film
In-Person / Meets Social & Behavioral Sciences breadth

October 25, 2021

HISTART 108(link is external): Cities and the Arts: Projecting Ancient Rome

ETHSTD 190(link is external): Advanced Seminar in Comparative Ethnic Studies: “Displaying Race, Displaying Culture: Exhibitions, Film, Photography”

May 27, 2021

KOREAN 186(link is external): Introduction to Korean Cinema
*This course fulfills Global Media requirement.

KOREAN 187(link is external): History and Memory in Korean Cinema