Film Studies offers the opportunity to develop your critical, historical and practical understanding of film. It will be of interest to those students seeking careers in the various film and film culture industries through to those students wishing to pursue more advanced academic study. Students are able to study the history of cinema, film theory and criticism, film aesthetics and style, as well as the relationship between film and other disciplines.

Students are also able to undertake a range of practically orientated film and screen arts courses at AFTRS (the Australian Film Television and Radio School). Undertaking courses at AFTRS, Australia's national screen arts and broadcast school, provides students with the opportunity to combine the practical and creative aspects of film production with the more historical and critical awareness of film developed in other areas of the program.

Film is a global form, and this is reflected in the ambitions of the program. Students are able to study film from many different countries and in many different cultural contexts. Units of study within the Film Studies program also take into account the changing nature and form of the film image, and recognise that film is now a significant presence (as art object or archival object) in art galleries and museums as well as in cinemas, and that it intersects with television and new media of all forms.