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The Penn Cinema and Media Studies program offers both major and minor tracks focused on analyzing film and media through historical, theoretical, and aesthetic lenses. Mirroring the interdisciplinary essence of this field, our faculty come from diverse departments throughout SAS and the wider university. We collaborate with numerous academic units - including Africana Studies, Anthropology, Communications, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, English, Fine Arts, German, History, Art History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Women's Studies - to offer cross-listed courses. This multidisciplinary approach exposes students to various analytical frameworks for studying film and media, making Cinema and Media Studies an excellent complement to a second major.
International applicant should have completed a program of secondary education that would enable you to enter a university in your own country (e.g., A-levels, Abitur).
A strong command of the English language is necessary for successful study at Penn. Applicants whose families do not speak English at home, or applicants who have not attended a high school or secondary school where the primary language of instruction is English, are asked to take the TOEFL, the Test of English as a Foreign Language, administered by the Educational Testing Service. In the event the TOEFL is not readily accessible, Penn will accept results from the IELTS, the International English Language Testing System.