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Increasingly, graduate students enrolled in a variety of different M.A. and Ph.D. programs at Rutgers are choosing to pursue advanced work in film. The Graduate Certificate Program in Cinema Studies is designed to prepare these students to engage in rigorous research and teach within this field. Students interested in pursuing the certificate should meet with the director of the Cinema Studies Program to discuss the requirements, which include:

Students satisfying these requirements will be awarded the Graduate Certificate in Cinema Studies upon completion of their degree.

Please note that this is not a stand-alone program. In order to pursue this Certificate, students must already be enrolled in an M.A. or Ph.D. program at Rutgers. Current certificate students, for example, are completing doctoral work in Comparative Literature, Spanish and Portuguese, German, English, and other related fields.