Honours BA Film Studies with Vancouver Film School Diploma Program

This page is intended for Laurier students who are entering VFS (normally in Year 3). If you are a VFS student who is entering Laurier, visit https://academic-calendar.wlu.ca/program.php?cal=1&d=2029&p=4645&s=931&y=79.

Laurier has a partnership agreement through which Laurier students can complete, in 20.0 credits, the Honours BA Film Studies at Laurier and one of VFS’s Diploma programs in Film Production; Writing for Film, Television, and Games; or Acting for Film and Television. Laurier students attend Year 1 and Year 2 at Laurier, Year 3 at VFS, and Year 4 at Laurier. Laurier’s Honours Film Studies program consists of 20.0 credits, of which 15.0 are completed at Laurier and 5.0 credits can be completed at VFS.

Laurier Credits (15.0 credits):
Laurier’s Honours Film Studies program consists of 20.0 credits, of which at least 12.0 credits must be at the senior level, including a minimum of 10.0 but no more than 12.0 credits in FS courses, and no more than 1.0 may be at the 100 level. Students may also count up to 1.0 credit from senior (200- or 300-level) EN courses. At least 1.0 credit must be chosen from the annual fourth-year offerings; FS489 may be used for only 0.5 credit.

• 1.0 credit from Introductory FS courses: FS101, FS102, FS103
• 1.0 credit from Film History FS courses: FS240, FS241
• 1.0 credit from Film Theory FS courses: FS341, FS342, FS345, FS346, FS348, FS349, or FS363
• 1.0 credit from National Cinemas FS courses: FS238, FS239, FS244, FS246, FS250, FS301, FS330, FS333, FS355, FS360, FS365
• 1.0 credit from 400-level FS courses: FS443, FS444, FS489 (FS489 may be used for only 0.5 credit)
  
• 5.0 additional credits from FS courses at the senior level (including the FS credits earned at VFS).
  

Note: Students may also count up to 1.0 credit from senior EN courses. Students can only count 0.5 credits in FS production courses towards their degree (one of: FS275, FS370, FS371, FS374).

Degree Program Electives: An additional 10.0 credits including non-major electives (including non-major credits from VFS) toward the degree total of 20.0 credits, (of which no more than 5.0 credits can be at the 100 level).

VFS Credits (5.0 credits):
The student’s year at VFS counts as 5.0 credits towards the 20.0 credits of the Honours Film Studies program (depending on which program the student takes at VFS) as follows:

A. VFS's Film Production program:

• 2.0 from non-major elective 200- or 300-level (senior) credits
• 3.0 from Film Studies 200- or 300-level (senior) credits
  

B. VFS's Writing for Film, Television, and Games program:

• 2.5 from non-major electives 200- or 300-level (senior) credits
• 2.0 from Film Studies 200- or 300-level (senior) credits
• 0.5 equivalent to FS374 - Screenwriting and Directing
  

C. VFS's Acting for Film and Television program:

• 3.0 from non-major elective 200- or 300-level (senior) credits
• 2.0 from Film Studies 200- or 300-level (senior) credits