<div style="text-align: left; margin-top: 2%; padding: 0; width: 800px; border: solid 1px #999999;"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: #C3C1C1;"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="249"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/wir/atmo.jpg" alt="" title="HFF Muenchen" height="249" width="800" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="24" class="hauptmenue" valign="center"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/wir/index.html" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/wir/nav_ov.gif" alt="HFF München" title="" height="22" width="88" id="wir" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/studium/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/studium/nav.gif" alt="Studium" title="" height="22" width="57" id="studium" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/bewerbung/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/bewerbung/nav.gif" alt="Bewerbung" title="" height="22" width="78" id="bewerbung" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/filme/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/filme/nav.gif" alt="Filme" title="" height="22" width="36" id="filme" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/organisation/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/organisation/nav.gif" alt="Organisation" title="" height="22" width="96" id="organisation" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/dialog/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/dialog/nav.gif" alt="HFF im Dialog" title="" height="22" width="47" id="dialog" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/alumni/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/alumni/nav.gif" alt="Alumni" title="" height="22" width="49" id="alumni" /></a> </td> <td style="padding-left: 25px;"> <a href="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/kontakt/" target="_top"><img src="http://www.hff-muenchen.de/kontakt/nav.gif" alt="Kontakt" title="" height="22" width="57" id="kontakt" /></a> </td> </table></td> </tr> </table> <div style="margin-top: 1em;"></div> <div style="margin-top: 2em;"> <h1>Department I - Communication and Media Studies</h1> <p><br/> <strong>Heads:</strong><br/> <strong>Professor Dr. Thomas Gruber</strong><br/> <strong>Professor Dr. Michaela Krützen</strong><br/></p> <p><img src="Abt1.jpg" alt="Beispielbild" border="0"> </p> <p>Department I offers a survey of the basics of communication and media studies, without which any training for a media career today would be incomplete. The Department I curriculum is divided into a <em>basic</em> and a <em>main course</em> of study:<br/></p> <p>During their <strong>basic course</strong> of studies, students attend a series of four lectures on film and television history: „Film History I“ examines the period from 1895 to 1927 and „Film History II“ the years 1927 to 1945. „Film History III“ deals with the years 1945 to 1960 and „Film History IV“ presents the developments from 1960 to 1985.<br/></p> <ul> <li>A compulsory course for all <em>first-semester</em> students is Introduction to Media and Communication Studies. The course discusses such concepts as star, genre, author, stereotype, film theory, ratings, program planning, television theory, broadcast forms, and the convergence of TV and Internet.<br/><br/></li> <li>During the <em>second semester</em>, students must attend a reading course. The important basic reading texts for this course include: film theoretical essays by Balázs, Kracauer, Eisenstein, Benjamin, Bazin, and Deleuze; texts on television by McLuhan, Enzensberger, Baudrillard, Postman and Flusser. Moreover, the attendance of a Film Analysis course is obligatory.<br/><br/></li> <li>During the <em>third semester</em>, students choose from a variety of advanced courses. The courses focus on varying topics, from Lars von Trier, or sitcoms, to „Broadcasting as a System“. Students examine the content of their advanced course by writing their first scholarly treatise/paper – the so-called „short seminar paper“ – at the end of the third semester.<br/><br/></li> <li>During the <em>fourth semester</em>, students end their basic course of studies in Department I with a twenty-minute intermediate oral examination.<br/><br/></li> </ul> <p>The <strong>main course</strong> of studies is composed of the following courses:<br/></p> <ul> <li>During the <em>fifth semester</em>, students choose from a variety of final courses. The courses focus on varying topics, from „Auteur Film and Auteur Theory“ or „Apparatus and Program“, to „International Information Relations“ or „The Perception of Student Films“.<br/><br/></li> <li>During the <em>sixth semester</em>, students write their thesis on a topic related to their particular final course.<br/><br/></li> <li>During the <em>seventh semester</em>, students attend three examination seminars to prepare for their 45-minute final examination.<br/><br/></li> </ul> <p>The regular curriculum is supplemented with complementary courses, which vary from year to year according to specific student requests, to accommodate individual interests.<br/></p> <p>Additional HFF curriculum components contributed by Department I are career research and alumni polling. Another field of research is the history of Munich movie theaters. The Department is also in charge of the scientific supervision of the university publication series <em>kommunikation audiovisuell</em> (since 1981).<br/></p> <p></p> </div> </div>