Minor Program

The interdisciplinary minor in cinema studies consists of seven courses distributed as follows: (1) three required courses, 01:354:201, 202 (01:354:210 may be substituted for either 01:354:201 or 202), and 01:175:425 (01:354:420 may be substituted for 01:175:425); (2) four courses from the list below, two of which must be selected from category A and two additional courses from category A or B. A minimum of three courses must be at the 300 level or above.

Students pursuing a minor in cinema studies must select five courses for the minor that are outside their major. Exception: English literature majors who pursue a cinema studies minor may include more than two 01:354 courses in their minor program, but only two of those may be counted toward the major. Students who select the film option for the English major may not pursue a minor in cinema studies.

Category A

  01:354:210 Close Readings of Cinema (3)

  01:354:315,316 American Cinema I,II (3,3)

  01:354:320,321 World Cinema I,II (3,3)

  01:354:330,331 Critical Methodology in Film (3,3)

  01:354:370 Film Genres (3)

  01:354:375 Film and Society (3)

  01:354:385 Theories of Women and Film (3)

  01:354:420 Seminar: Film Theory (3)

  01:420:305,306 The French Film in English (3,3)

  01:860:337 Ideology and the Construction of Fact (3)

Category B

  01:014:132 Black Experience and Film Medium (3)

  01:050:262 American Film and American Myth (3)

  01:354:308 Screenwriting (3)

  01:354:312 Cinema and the Arts (3)

  01:354:350,351 Major Filmmakers (3,3)

  01:354:373 The Documentary (3)

  01:354:391,392 Special Topics in Film Studies (3,3)

  01:420:371,372 Topics in French Cinema (3,3)

  01:470:349 Contemporary German Cinema (3)

  01:470:350 The Nazi Period in Film (3)

  01:506:241 Film and History (3)

  01:730:364 Aesthetics of Film (3)

  01:940:345,346 Spanish Cinema (3)

  01:940:347,348 Latin American Cinema (3)

  11:554:346 Environmental Documentation in Photography, Film, and Video (3)