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Program checklist · B.A.

Film and Visual Media

Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
B.A.
Credential class
ceterms:BachelorDegree
CIP
50.0601
Credits (computed from items)
1606
Catalog edition
2026-2027
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
211440
CourseShelf checklist
CK_211440_b6178f18
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 59

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Required courses (5 courses)45 units

5 items
  1. 76-239
    Introduction to Film Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  2. 76-259
    Film History
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  3. 76-269
    Introduction to Screenwriting
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  4. 76-292
    Introduction to Film Production
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  5. 76-469
    Screenwriting Workshop
    Not resolved to a course
    9

Production elective (1 course)9-12 units

electives · 28 items
  1. 51-368
    Moving Pictures
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  2. 54-191
    Acting for Non-Majors
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  3. 60-110
    Foundations: Time-Based Media
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  4. 60-125
    IDeATe: Introduction to 3D Animation Pipeline
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  5. 60-141
    Black and White Photography I
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  6. 60-143
    Photography Can Be Fun!
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  7. 60-166
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  8. 60-218
    Intermediate Studio: Real-Time Animation
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  9. 60-220
    IDeATe: Technical Character Animation
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  10. 60-224
    Intermediate Studio: Expanded Cinema
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  11. 60-241
    Black and White Photography II
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  12. 60-245
    Portrait Photography
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  13. 60-375
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  14. 60-415
    Advanced ETB: Animation Studio
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  15. 60-416
    Advanced ETB: Documentary Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  16. 62-141
    Black and White Photography I
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  17. 62-282
    Staged Photography
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  18. 62-375
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  19. 76-212
    Introduction to TV Writing
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  20. 76-310
    Advanced Studies in Film and Media
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  21. 76-313
    Creative Visual Storytelling in Film Production
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  22. 76-320
    The Writer's Room: TV Writing
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  23. 76-358
    Making the Documentary
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  24. 76-374
    Mediated Narrative
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  25. 76-381
    AI Filmmaking and Creative Arts Lab
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  26. 76-394
    The Video Essay: Theory & Practice
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  27. 76-481
    Introduction to Multimedia Design
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  28. 82-265
    Third Cinema: People, Language, and Culture in Documentary Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9

Digital Media Courses (2 courses)18-20 units

12 items
  1. 15-104
    Introduction to Computing for Creative Practice
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  2. 51-229
    Digital Imaging
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  3. 60-120
    Foundations: Digital Media
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  4. 60-125
    IDeATe: Introduction to 3D Animation Pipeline
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  5. 60-142
    Digital Photography I
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  6. 60-202
    Intermediate Studio: Animation Fundamentals
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  7. 60-212
    Intermediate Studio: Creative Coding
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  8. 60-218
    Intermediate Studio: Real-Time Animation
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  9. 60-219
    Intermediate Studio: Stop-Motion Animation
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  10. 60-220
    IDeATe: Technical Character Animation
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  11. 60-222
    Intermediate Studio: 3D Animation
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  12. 60-224
    Intermediate Studio: Expanded Cinema
    Not resolved to a course
    10

60-228

14 items
  1. 60-242
    Digital Photography II
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  2. 60-281
    Intermediate Digital Photography
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  3. 60-333
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  4. 60-415
    Advanced ETB: Animation Studio
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  5. 62-142
    Digital Photography I
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  6. 62-150
    IDeATe Portal: Introduction to Media Synthesis and Analysis
    Not resolved to a course
    10
  7. 76-314
    Data Stories
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  8. 76-374
    Mediated Narrative
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  9. 76-381
    AI Filmmaking and Creative Arts Lab
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  10. 76-388
    Coding for Humanists
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  11. 76-394
    The Video Essay: Theory & Practice
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  12. 76-429
    Introduction to Computational Humanities
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  13. 82-183
    AI for the Humanities: Learning, Reflection, and Creative Practices
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  14. 82-250
    Digital Realities: An Introduction to Immersive Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9

Literature & Cultural Studies Courses (2 courses)18 units

80 items
  1. 60-356
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  2. 76-207
    Special Topics in Literature & Culture
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  3. 76-210
    Banned Books
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  4. 76-217
    Literature & Culture of the 20th and 21st Century
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  5. 76-220
    Mystery! From Detective Fiction to True Crime
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  6. 76-221
    Books You Should Have Read By Now
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  7. 76-230
    Literature & Culture in the 19th Century
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  8. 76-236
    CMU Prison Education Project:
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  9. 76-241
    Introduction to Gender Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  10. 76-242
    American Woman Writers
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  11. 76-244
    Immigrant Fictions
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  12. 76-245
    Shakespeare: Tragedies & Histories
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  13. 76-247
    Shakespeare: Comedies and Romances
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  14. 76-268
    Comic Books & Pop Culture
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  15. 76-275
    Introduction to Critical Writing
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  16. 76-278
    Japanese Film and Literature: The Art of Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  17. 76-295
    Russian Cinema: From the Bolshevik Revolution to Putin's Russia
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  18. 76-296
    20th Century Russian Masterpieces
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  19. 76-299
    19th Century Russian Masterpieces
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  20. 76-312
    Crime and Justice in American Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  21. 76-314
    Data Stories
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  22. 76-317
    Contemporary American Fiction
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  23. 76-326
    Contemporary Global Fiction
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  24. 76-329
    Performing Race in Early Modern Drama
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  25. 76-337
    Intersectional Feminism
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  26. 76-339
    Topics in Film and Media
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  27. 76-341
    The Age of Jane Austen
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  28. 76-342
    Love: A Cultural History
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  29. 76-347
    Major Fiction
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  30. 76-348
    Adaptation: Fiction to Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  31. 76-350
    Critical Theories about Literature
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  32. 76-353
    Transnational Feminisms: Fiction and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  33. 76-362
    Reading in Forms: Nonfiction
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  34. 76-363
    Reading in Forms: Poetry
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  35. 76-364
    Reading in Forms: Fiction
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  36. 76-367
    Fact Into Film: Translating History into Cinema
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  37. 76-370
    Independent Study in Literary and Cultural Studies(instructor permission required)
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  38. 76-376
    Crafting Race in 19th-Century Britain
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  39. 76-382
    Media: Past, Present, and Future
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  40. 76-392
    Special Topics in Literature & Culture
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  41. 76-401
    Hollywood vs. the World
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  42. 76-407
    Topics in Literary & Cultural Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  43. 76-409
    History of German Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  44. 76-410
    The Long Eighteenth Century
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  45. 76-414
    Decolonial Imaginaries
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  46. 76-423
    Transnational Feminisms
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  47. 76-424
    Theories of Social Class
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  48. 76-429
    Introduction to Computational Humanities
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  49. 76-431
    Gender Play in Early Modern Drama
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  50. 76-434
    Literature & Social Change in the 19th Century
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  51. 76-439
    Seminar in Film and Media Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  52. 76-442
    Black Lives in Pre-1900 Britain
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  53. 76-445
    Milton
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  54. 76-446
    Revenge Tragedy
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  55. 76-450
    Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  56. 76-452
    Generations and Culture
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  57. 76-453
    Literature of Empire
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  58. 76-454
    Rise of the Blockbuster
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  59. 76-455
    The Pittsburgh Review of Books (PRoB)
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  60. 76-461
    Refugee Stories: Literature, Art and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  61. 76-467
    Crime Fiction and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  62. 76-468
    Space and Mobilities
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  63. 76-482
    Rise of the Art Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  64. 76-493
    Science Fictions/Speculative Futures: Utopian/Dystopian Visions in Film & Media
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  65. 76-495
    Other People's Words: The History, Theory, and Practice of Interviews
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  66. 82-253
    Korean Society through Film and Literature
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  67. 82-268
    Introduction to Italian Film
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  68. 82-278
    Japanese Film and Literature: The Art of Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  69. 82-279
    Anime - Visual Interplay between Japan and the World
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  70. 82-293
    Russian Cinema: From the Bolshevik Revolution to Putin's Russia
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  71. 82-294
    19th Century Russian Masterpieces
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  72. 82-295
    20th Century Russian Masterpieces
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  73. 82-296
    From Augustine to Avatars: Personal Narratives Across Media
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  74. 82-297
    Russian and Soviet Science Fiction
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  75. 82-298
    Radicals, Heretics, Hackers: Russian Outlaws in History, Literature, and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  76. 82-313
    Topics in Modern Arabic: Contemporary Arab Cinema
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  77. 82-355
    Tpcs in Hispanic Std: Beyond the Film Screen: The Hispanic World Through Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  78. 82-380
    Podcasting in Spanish: Unlocking Cultural Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  79. 82-428
    History of German Film
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  80. 82-439
    Black Myth: Wukong and the Journey to the West
    Not resolved to a course
    9

Topics in Film & Visual Media Studies Courses (2 courses)18 units

47 items
  1. 54-342
    Costume Design for TV and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    7
  2. 60-356
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  3. 60-378
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  4. 60-391
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  5. 76-207
    Special Topics in Literature & CultureFall 2026 only
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  6. 76-212
    Introduction to TV Writing
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  7. 76-278
    Japanese Film and Literature: The Art of Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  8. 76-295
    Russian Cinema: From the Bolshevik Revolution to Putin's Russia
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  9. 76-312
    Crime and Justice in American Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  10. 76-320
    The Writer's Room: TV Writing
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  11. 76-334
    Pitching to the Business of Entertainment
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  12. 76-339
    Topics in Film and Media(Can be taken more than once for credit, provided the course topic is new each time).
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  13. 76-348
    Adaptation: Fiction to Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  14. 76-353
    Transnational Feminisms: Fiction and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  15. 76-367
    Fact Into Film: Translating History into Cinema
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  16. 76-382
    Media: Past, Present, and Future
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  17. 76-401
    Hollywood vs. the World
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  18. 76-409
    History of German Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  19. 76-439
    Seminar in Film and Media Studies
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  20. 76-454
    Rise of the Blockbuster
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  21. 76-456
    Independent Study in Film & Media Studies(instructor permission required)
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  22. 76-461
    Refugee Stories: Literature, Art and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  23. 76-467
    Crime Fiction and Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  24. 76-482
    Rise of the Art Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  25. 76-501
    Semester in Hollywood Program: Story
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  26. 76-502
    Semester in Hollywood Program: How to Pitch
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  27. 76-503
    Semester in Hollywood Program: Inside Hollywood
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  28. 79-220
    Screening Mexico: Mexican Cinema, 1898 to Present
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  29. 79-225
    West African History in Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  30. 79-309
    The Chinese Revolution Through Film (1949-2000)
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  31. 79-316
    Photography, the First 100 Years, 1839-1939
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  32. 79-319
    India Through Film
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  33. 79-328
    Photographers and Photography Since World War II
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  34. 79-339
    Juvenile Delinquency & Film: From Soul of Youth (1920) to West Side Story (1961)
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  35. 82-248
    Introduction to Latin American Film and Visual Arts
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  36. 82-253
    Korean Society through Film and Literature
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  37. 82-268
    Introduction to Italian Film
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  38. 82-269
    Immersive Digital Storytelling:Using VR/AR to Explore, Language Culture Identity
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  39. 82-278
    Japanese Film and Literature: The Art of Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  40. 82-279
    Anime - Visual Interplay between Japan and the World
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  41. 82-284
    Multicultural Pittsburgh: Storytelling with 360 Video
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  42. 82-293
    Russian Cinema: From the Bolshevik Revolution to Putin's Russia
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  43. 82-296
    From Augustine to Avatars: Personal Narratives Across Media
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  44. 82-313
    Topics in Modern Arabic: Contemporary Arab Cinema
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  45. 82-380
    Podcasting in Spanish: Unlocking Cultural Storytelling
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  46. 82-428
    History of German Film
    Not resolved to a course
    Var.
  47. 82-439
    Black Myth: Wukong and the Journey to the West
    Not resolved to a course
    9

Recommended Courses

2 items
  1. 76-310
    Advanced Studies in Film and Media
    Not resolved to a course
    9
  2. 76-374
    Mediated Narrative
    Not resolved to a course
    9
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