Program offered is a Bachelor.

Film has emerged, in the last 100 years, as a global phenomenon with broad social, cultural, and commercial implications. National cinematic traditions have developed in virtually every corner of the world, making an understanding of film's relationship to its conditions of production and reception integral to the work of cultural historians, students of politics and communications, philosophers, and sociologists alike. Thus film is a vital subject of intellectual inquiry that is useful to a wide range of students, not merely as vocational training for media professionals.

The Film Studies program at Muhlenberg offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary experience that helps students understand both the technical and expressive components of the cinematic medium and gain practical experience in film production within the framework of a liberal arts education. Students will be exposed to many different forms and genres of film, including classic Hollywood cinema, as well as documentary, independent, experimental film and world cinema. The production component of the curriculum gives every student the opportunity for hands on experience in filmmaking and allows motivated students to pursue additional work in screenwriting, acting and directing, and advanced film and video production. Film studies is also designed to complement other major and minor programs that students might choose to pursue in art, communication, English, music, and theatre arts, among others.

The program's goal is for all students of the discipline to extend the range and quality of their viewing experiences and to become better informed interpreters of the ways in which film both shapes and represents the world around them.