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Film & Media Studies Minor

Film and Media Studies Minor (21 semester hours)

Choose at least one course from each group, and no more than two course from Technical Aspects:

Foundation Courses

  • ENG 284 Language of Film Analysis
  • SOC 252 Media, Culture, and Society

Theory, History, and Aesthetics

  • AMS 214 The Films of Stanley Kubrick *
  • AMS 215 Alfred Hitchcock in America
  • ENG 381 Studies in Film Genre
  • ENG 382 Comparative Film Directors
  • ENG 383 Survey of National Cinemas
  • ENG 384 Film Adaptations
  • ENG 484 Seminar in Cinema Studies
  • GER 307 German Literature and Film
  • MUS 309 Music and Film
  • THE 495 The Everyman Movies *
  • LAW 395 Special Topics:  Female Lawyers in Film

Film and Culture

  • BHP 300 Cultural Politics: Cinema, Spectacle, Literature (BHP students only)
  • COM 291 Documentary Film and Video
  • FRE 422 Cultural Expression in French Film and Television
  • GMS 306 Ethnographic Film
  • LAW 204 Law, Literature, and Film in America
  • POL 306 Political Film
  • PSY 375 Psychology and Film
  • SPA 412 Hispanic Theater and Film
  • SPA 426 Latin-American / Latino Film and Fiction

Technical Aspects

  • COM 331 Television Production
  • COM 334 Audio Production
  • ENG 306 Creative Writing: Drama and Screenplay
  • THE 200 Acting for the Camera
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Important Notes

  • In order to qualify for the Film and Media Studies Minor, English majors with a Cinema Studies Concentration must take four additional courses beyond the five cinema courses required for the concentration; English minors with a Cinema Studies concentration must take five additional course beyond the two cinema course required for the concentration.
  • Those marked with * are examples of Special Topics courses that could be approved to fulfill the above categories.

 

These requirements are in addition to the Core Curriculum Requirements.  Please see the Academic Catalogs for more information, including course descriptions.

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