<p>I heard this is a relatively new major, but the courses sound great. Is the major good? I have been very interested in Wesleyan for film for a while, which I have heard is great, but Carleton seems to have a more diverse course selection. Can any one tell me what they think of the major or what they have heard? I am especially interested in the Jean Luc Godard and Ingmar Bergman class.</p>
<p>I really don’t know anything about it, but here is a link about a CAMS trip that might interest you:
[Carleton</a> College: Claire Weinberg’s Blog: Pictures of a CAMS Trip](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/blogs/claireweinberg/?story_id=600433]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/blogs/claireweinberg/?story_id=600433)</p>
<p>I know some CAMS majors and concentrators, from what I have heard so far it’s very good and interesting; haven’t met anyone who was dissatisfied with any of it at all. It’s a new major, and looks like more people are taking a look at it with every year.</p>
<p>I can at least vouch for the awesomeness of Carol Donelan (one of the profs in the department who teaches CAMS theory and history).</p>
<p>The major is still in it’s formative stage in my opinion. CAMS classes offer a great opportunity to take good classes outside your major, but it is still not a serious major on the carleton campus.</p>
<p>I disagree, I think it’s definitely become a serious major. The facilities planned for CAMS in the Arts Union are amazing–a basketball court is being turned into a studio, complete with a control room (I think?), plus editing labs, lounges, a smaller photography studio and more. The college definitely sees CAMS as an important part of the college’s future.</p>
<p>CAMS just hired a new faculty person who specializes in sound studies and global cinema. The prof teaching the Godard/Bergman class will be teaching another class next year with two different director-auteurs (but if you want to wax poetic about Bergman or Godard or the French new wave, find this prof because he always has Godard on the brain). The department is moving in a fiction film direction (instead of nonfiction, which was the focus a few years ago), and the Fiction I and II classes will be offered again in fall/spring. There are lots of other awesome things in the works for next year, too, but there isn’t enough room here to write them all.</p>
<p>The majors are a crazy bunch, but they all love it. You have theory kids and production kids, and some kids who do both equally. The big thing about CAMS is that everyone has to become an artist and a critic by doing both production and theory in the major, something that you don’t find in a lot of film programs. And outside of class, you have lots of kids making their own movies on Sony PD-150s, a rented RED camera or Canon 5Ds in HD (DVDfest-quality entries these are not).</p>
<p>Take a look at the senior comps guidelines on the CAMS section of the website or at this year’s course offerings for a taste.</p>