Minor Requirements

Requirements for the Minor (21 semester hours)
Choose at least one from each group, no more than two from Technical Aspects. 21
Foundation Course
FMS/ENG-284 Language of Film Analysis  

Film and Media Studies (choose at least two)
FMS-250 Global Film History: Origins-1960
  
FMS-251 Global Film History: 1961-Present  
FMS-252 American Film History: Origins-1960  
FMS-253 American Film History: 1961-Present
  
FMS-260 Great Performances in Film  
FMS-286 Writing Short Screenplays for the Digital Cinema  
FMS-300 Special Topics in Film and Media Studies  
FMS-340 Film and Media Audiences  
FMS-342 Artists of the Cinem  

Theory, History and Aesthetics (choose at least one)    

AMS-214* Special Topics: The Films of Stanley Kubrick (P.O.D.)  
AMS-214* Special Topics: New York Directors--Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee (P.O.D.)
  
AMS-214* Special Topics: Steven Spielberg in America (P.O.D.)
  
AMS-215 Alfred Hitchcock in America  
ENG-381 Studies in Film Genre  
ENG-382 Comparative Film Directors  
ENG-383 Global 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 (choose at least one)
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)  
GLS 306 Ethnographic Film  
LAW-204 Law, Literature and Film in America  
LAW-395* Women Lawyers in Film (P.O.D.)
  
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  
SOC-252 Media, Culture, and Society
  
SPA-412 Hispanic Theater and Film (prerequisite: SPA 201, placement test at 300-level or above, or SPA 300 or above) SPA-426
  
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 (choose at least one)   

COM-131 Fundamentals of Video Production  
COM-331 Television Production (prerequisite COM 131 or COM 230)
  
COM-234 Audio Production  
COM-235
 Digital Filmmaking
  
ENG-312 Creative Writing: Screen Writing  
THE-200 Acting for the Camera (prerequisite: THE-107)  

Students must complete a minimum of FIVE (5) of the seven Film and Media Studies Program courses uniquely counted toward the 21-credit minor. In other words, no more than TWO courses counting toward the 21-credit FMS minor can be used toward major or minor requirements in other areas, whether in English, Communication, American Studies, Law, Foreign Languages and Literature, etc.

Special Topics courses (*) outside FMS offerings can be taken for credit only with permission of the Film and Media Studies Program Director.

 

 


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