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2025-2026 Franklin & Marshall College Catalog

Film & Media Arts Major

The Visual Arts Department engages students in the creative practice and historical analysis of art, architecture, and film. We affirm the centrality of the visual and material to a liberal arts education. Our students learn to give visual form to ideas. They work in painting, drawing, sculpture, analog and digital filmmaking and photography, printmaking, and architectural design. They research and analyze art, film, and architecture across time and space, and become skilled interpreters of visual culture. Facilitated by faculty who are both effective teachers and active artists and scholars, interdisciplinary connections and global perspectives are central to our students’ understanding of visual art.


We offer three majors in the Visual Arts Department: Film and Media Arts, History of Art and Architecture, and Studio Art, and require cross-pollination among them. Each major is multidisciplinary, and each consists of ten courses.

Visual Arts Department Faculty

Professor Magnolia Laurie, Chair

Dirk Eitzen
Professor of Film and Media Arts

Richard K. Kent
Jennie Brown Cook and Betsy Hess Cook Professorship of Art

Amelia Rauser
Professor of Art History, Associate Dean of the Faculty

Kostis Kourelis
Associate Professor of Art History

Magnolia Laurie
Associate Professor of Art

Jeremy Moss
Associate Professor of Film and Media Arts

Ian Kelly
Assistant Professor of Film and Media Arts

Carol Hickey
Senior Adjunct Instructor of Architecture

Ashley Moog Bowlsbey
Adjunct Instructor of Art

Mia Pisano
Adjunct Instructor of Art

Megan Zettlemoyer
Adjunct Instructor of Art

 

Major Requirements:

A Film & Media Arts major consists of ten courses.

  • Credits: 1
  • Credits: 1
  • Credits: 1
  • One 100 or 200-level course in History of Art and Architecture (HAA)
  • One 100 or 200-level course in Studio Art (ART)
  • Two 200-level electives in Film and Media Arts (FLM)
  • Two 300-level electives in Film and Media Arts (FLM)
  • One elective in media and cultural power. Each student will work with their advisor to designate a course that fulfills this requirement. Some potential courses that will count: Revolutionary Cinema; Race, Gender, and Migration in Film; Black American Film; Outsider Films; Race, Gender, in Ethnic Studies Film.

Note:

To be considered for departmental honors in the Visual Arts Department, graduating seniors, besides meeting the College’s general requirements for honors, must complete a substantial project, usually evolving from a fall semester independent study and continuing with an independent study in the spring. Students interested in pursuing departmental honors should consult with their academic adviser in the spring semester of their junior year.

Off-Campus Study:

Majors in the Visual Arts Department have studied abroad in the following programs in recent years: Butler University England and Scotland; IAU France; IES Austria and Spain; Syracuse University Italy and Spain; Temple University in Rome; SACI Academic Semester Abroad Program; Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague, Czech Republic (CET Czech Republic Film Production or CIEE Prague Film Studies). See the International and Off-Campus Study section of the Catalog for further information.