Timeline for requirements
Course work (18 credits)
It is expected that students will, in average, complete 12 credits of coursework during the first year and 6 credits during the second year. On a yearly basis a minimum of 12 credits of core graduate coursework will be offered for doctoral students only by the School of Cinema. This includes the 6-credit Proseminar. A detailed description of the course requirements is as follows:
• Core: 6 credits: Proseminar
• Cluster: 3 credits: taken from four topics clusters of seminars labeled: Topics in Film and Moving Image History; Topics in Film and Moving Image Aesthetics; Topics in Film and Moving Image Theory; Topics in Film, Moving Image and Cultural Theory.
• Electives: 9 credits: taken from the graduate course offerings, research seminars in the School of Cinema, or other
Examinations (6 credits)
Synthesis and comprehensive examinations will be conducted during the second year of residency (no later than the second week of February for the synthesis examination and the second week of April for the comprehensive examination). Comprehensive examination: Four months after the reading list is approved students will receive a list of four questions. They will have two weeks to produce an essay to answer the questions. The essay will be evaluated by a jury of three faculty members, including the student's supervisor.
Thesis proposal (6 credits)
To be submitted after successful completion of the synthesis and comprehensive examinations.
Research and Thesis (60 credits)
To be submitted after successful completion of the synthesis and comprehensive examinations.
The candidate will submit his/her doctoral thesis to an examining committee consisting of at least five faculty members: the candidate's supervisor, two faculty members from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, a faculty member from another department within Concordia (external-to-program examiner), and an external-to-University faculty member.
It is expected that students will, in average, complete 12 credits of coursework during the first year and 6 credits during the second year. On a yearly basis a minimum of 12 credits of core graduate coursework will be offered for doctoral students only by the School of Cinema. This includes the 6-credit Proseminar. A detailed description of the course requirements is as follows:
• Core: 6 credits: Proseminar
• Cluster: 3 credits: taken from four topics clusters of seminars labeled: Topics in Film and Moving Image History; Topics in Film and Moving Image Aesthetics; Topics in Film and Moving Image Theory; Topics in Film, Moving Image and Cultural Theory.
• Electives: 9 credits: taken from the graduate course offerings, research seminars in the School of Cinema, or other
Examinations (6 credits)
Synthesis and comprehensive examinations will be conducted during the second year of residency (no later than the second week of February for the synthesis examination and the second week of April for the comprehensive examination). Comprehensive examination: Four months after the reading list is approved students will receive a list of four questions. They will have two weeks to produce an essay to answer the questions. The essay will be evaluated by a jury of three faculty members, including the student's supervisor.
Thesis proposal (6 credits)
To be submitted after successful completion of the synthesis and comprehensive examinations.
Research and Thesis (60 credits)
To be submitted after successful completion of the synthesis and comprehensive examinations.
The candidate will submit his/her doctoral thesis to an examining committee consisting of at least five faculty members: the candidate's supervisor, two faculty members from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, a faculty member from another department within Concordia (external-to-program examiner), and an external-to-University faculty member.