Film Studies Minor
Description:
The main purpose of the Film Studies minor is to develop a conscious awareness of film as a basic and widespread medium of cultural communication. The Film Studies minor provides students with the critical tools necessary for analyzing and evaluating film texts, and for beginning to understanding film technologies. It prepares students to pursue academic and/or creative paths for advanced study and/or professional interests in film.
Requirements for the Minor:
A minimum of six approved courses from at least two of the following categories: Film History and Culture, Film Theory and Criticism, Film Technologies (see listings below). In some cases, film courses entail prerequisite requirements; please consult catalogue for prerequisite information. Most Film Studies courses are taught in English, though not all. Consult catalogue for prerequisites for Film Studies courses not conducted in English. All courses for the Film Studies minor must be approved by the Film Studies Program Directors.
Program Directors: Prof. Chilcoat (Modern Languages and Literatures) and Prof. Feffer (History)
- FILM HISTORY AND CULTURE
- AAH 220 History of Photography I
- AAH 221 History of Photography II
- ANT 188 Pacific Cultures Through Film
- EGL 243 Introduction to American Indian Literature and Film
- EGL 247 Irish Literature and Film
- EGL 286 Film: The American Western
- HST 333 Hollywood Film: An American History
- MLT 201 Chinese Cinema (Also EAS 201)
- MLT 273 Re-Viewing Spanish Cinema: From Dictators, Bullfighters and Flamenco to Nationalisms and Globalization
- MLT 281 Screening Identities in Latin American Cinema (Also WGS 220)
- MLT 286T Gender and Identity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (Also WGS 286T)
- SPN 302 Open Your Eyes: Spanish Culture through Film since 1929
- SPN 402 Dressing Up the Canon: Cross-Dressing in Hispanic Literature and Film (Also WGS 402)
- FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM
- ANT 111 Ethnographic Film
- ANT 160 Photographing Culture
- ANT 240 Culture and Technology
- CLA 142 Special Topics in Classics: The Ancient World in Film and Literature.
- GER 402 German Film Studies
- HST 331 Representing America: United States History in Film
- EGL 285 Film as Fictive Art: American and European Films
- MLT 261 Cinema, Crimes, and Punishment
- MLT 212 Sex Lives and Videotape: Casting Sexuality in French and Francophone Film (Also FRN 402 and WGS 228)
- MLT 287 Filming Margins: Cinema Verité and Social Realism in Latin America
- PHL 135 Philosophy of Film
- PSC 247 Politics and Film
- WGS 495 Capstone Course on Women and Gender Theory
- FILM TECHNOLOGIES
- AVA120 Photography I
- AVA220 Photography II
- AVA320 Photography III
- AVA160 Digital Art
- AVA262 Real and Recorded Time
- CSC 385 Computer Graphics
- ECE 347 Image Processing
- FILM PROJECT
- IDM 490-492 Independent film project over one or two terms. Prerequisite: Four other film courses from the lists above and project proposal approved by the Program Directors.
