In addition to careers in screenwriting, directing, and producing, alumni have gone on to work in film distribution, publicity, archives, and festivals, and to attend graduate school to become teachers and scholars. Students have the opportunity to gain additional experience by taking advantage of internship opportunities with film companies, working on graduate student films, and participating in the Columbia Undergraduate Film Productions (CUFP), an active, student-run organization that provides film-making experience to Columbia undergraduate producers and directors. In the lecture classes and seminars, there tends to be a mixed population of undergraduate majors and graduate film students. Students usually declare the major toward the end of the second year by meeting with the departmental adviser together, they create a program of twelve required courses within the major, often supplemented by courses outside the department. Students choose to major in film if they want to learn more about the art form, from technology to cultural significance want to work in the film industry or are interested in a major that combines arts and humanities. The major in film studies is scholarly, international in scope, and writing-intensive. Robert King, Tuesday 9-12, Dodge 601C or
