电影和媒体研究将电影，电视和新媒体的理论，历史和批评课程与电影，视频，动画和游戏的编剧和制作教学结合在一起。分析和创造力的结合使学生可以在选择自己的媒介时寻求更深层次的探究，从而运用多种思维方式。达特茅斯电影与媒体研究系通过至少一门与制作相关的课程，使学生增强对学科的理解。鼓励学生通过在系外学习至少一门与他们的学习重点相关的课程来塑造他们的学习重点并增加他们的理解广度。学生可以与另一个相关学科一起修改电影和媒体研究，而电影和媒体研究可以是修改后的专业中的专业或辅修专业
In our courses, majors and non-majors learn how to make media and how to analyze it critically. Our major seeks the integration of theory and practice. We believe that to understand and participate fully in our world today, one must be trained to think critically about various media and their histories, while making creative work as well as analyzing it. Students develop sophisticated vocabularies for producing and critiquing media texts in our classes in film history, theory, animation, documentary, video, screenwriting, game design, TV studies, among other topics. Faculty and staff are committed to inclusive pedagogy. The major provides the common basics for all students in the theory, history, and criticism of film and television, while at the same time it asks that students take at least one course with a production component. Beyond this, the major allows students not only to shape their own emphasis within it (for instance, history and criticism or screenwriting), but also to take at least one additional course relevant to their emphasis outside the department.