FILM TV 274AResearch Design 1: Initial Research Design
Film and Television · 6 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Introduction to components of dissertation prospectus including development of fields of study, situating one’s work in relation to fields of audio/visual material. Study helps prepare students for comprehensive examinations and decide which fields of study best align with chosen methodological approaches. Establishment of a literature review, work plan, bibliography, filmography, and/or archive of visual/audio media. Development of research questions, bibliographic research, literature review, methodology of evidence gathering in relation to project. Setting and justification of project scope.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.