<p>I looked at the website, and there are a few film classes available at Penn…</p>
<p>To anyone who knows from experience: are these classes any good? How is the film program? (not really a program, but you get it). </p>
<p>thanks</p>
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<p>Not only does Penn have film classes, they offer a Cinema Studies major. I'm not sure but they may also offer a minor in cinema studies. Anyway, I am also curious to the strength of this program as it seems quite interesting to me. when I was there they mentioned how film students could study abroad at places like the Cannes Film Festival, etc. Sounds pretty cool, but I would like also to hear from someone who has had experience with it.</p>
<p>I haven't had direct experience with it, but one of my friends is a cinema studies major and absolutely loves it. She took a cinema studies class first semester freshman year and loved the content and professor so much that she decided to continue with it. Hope that helped!</p>
<p>It depends on what you are interested in...If it is film-making, then Penn has somewhat limited options...the Cinema Studies major is largely academic and theory-driven...But the major incorporates the theory classes with film-making classes, and even with screenwriting if you want. It's still kind of a fledgling program, but a strong one nonetheless.</p>
<p>cool, thanks. sounds interesting. if I'm interested in documentary filmmaking as well as regular filmmaking, what kind of classes should I pursue? Communications/journalism??</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>Don't forget that Penn has the Annenberg School of Communications, one of the best such schools around...</p>
<p>yeah the Annenberg School provides a lot of great classes dealing with media, entertainment, film, etc. </p>
<p>Also just in case you are interested...if you want to study the business side of film (or media & entertainment) the wharton school offers some classes in the field or you can create an individualized concentration focused on these industries...I, for example, an doing an individualized concentration in Media & Entertainment Finance and am currently working at one of the major studios.</p>
<p>The Penn Parents' Spring 2006 Newsletter contains two articles about Penn's film and media programs (<a href="http://www.pennparents.org%5B/url%5D">www.pennparents.org</a>, click on About the Program, click on Spring 2006 Newsletter).</p>
<p>The first article discusses the role of Penn parent, Jeff Berg (Chairman and CEO of International Creative Management) in launching Wharton's Undergraduate Media and Entertainment Club. Berg has also been heavily involved in Penn's Cinema Studies Program in the School of Arts and Sciences (<a href="http://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu%5B/url%5D">http://cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu</a> ).</p>
<p>The second article describes Penn's Digital Media Design Program (<a href="http://www.dmd.upenn.edu%5B/url%5D">www.dmd.upenn.edu</a> ), which offers a combined education in computer graphics and animation.</p>
<p>In addition, Penn's Gregory College House offers a residential Film Culture Program (<a href="http://gregory.house.upenn.edu/fcp%5B/url%5D">http://gregory.house.upenn.edu/fcp</a> ).</p>
<p>yeah j.berg is the man...he came to speak at our inaugural meeting for Wharton Undergrad M&E. This upcoming year we'll be having a huge M&E conference.</p>