Requirements for the Minor - 21 semester hours

Choose at least one from each group, but no more than two from Technical Aspects.

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

Film and Media Studies
FMS 300 Special Topics in Film and Media Studies: The Blockbuster
FMS 340 Film and Media Audiences

Theory, History and Aesthetics
AMS 214 * Special Topics: The Films of Stanley Kubrick
AMS 214* Special Topics: New York Directors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee
AMS 214* Special Topics: Steven Spielberg in America
AMS 214* Special Topics: American Gothic
AMS 215 Alfred Hitchcock in America
ENG 280 Special Topics: Film Memory
ENG 381 Studies in Film Genre
ENG 382 Comparative Film Directors 
ENG 383 Survey in National Cinemas 
ENG 384 Film Adaptation 
ENG 484 Seminar in Cinema Studies
GER 307 German Literature and Film (prerequisite: GER 201, placement test at 300-level or above, or GER 300 or above)
MUS 309 Film Music

Film, Media and Culture
BHP 300  Cultural Politics: Cinema, Spectacle, Literature  (BHP students only)
COM 291 Documentary Film
COM 328 Sitcoms in American Culture
FRE 422 Cultural Expression in French Film and Television (prerequisite: FRE 201, placement test at 300-level or above, or FRE 300 or above)
GMS 306 Ethnographic Film
LAW 204 Law, Literature and Film in America
LAW 395* Women Lawyers in Film
LAW 405 Crime and Justice in the Media
LIT 322  German Literature and Film in English Translation
POL 306 Political Film
PSY 375  Psychology and Film
SPA 412 Hispanic Theater and Film (prerequisite: SPA 201, placement test at 300-level or above, or SPA 300 or above)
SPA 426 Latin American/Latino Film and Fiction (prerequisite: SPA 201, placement test at 300-level or above, or SPA 300 or above)

Technical Aspects
COM 131 Fundamentals of Video Production
COM 331 Television Production
COM 234 Audio Production
ENG 312  Creative Writing: Screen Writing
THE 200 Acting for the Camera (prerequisite: THE-107)

+In order to qualify for the FMS Minor, English majors with a Cinema Studies Concentration and Communication majors 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 courses beyond the two cinema courses required for the concentration.
* Examples of Special Topics courses that, in any given semester, could be approved by the Film and Media Studies Program to fulfill the above categories