Film Studies, Minor

Introduction

The Film and Video Studies minor exposures students to a wide variety of national cinemas and film genres and theories — simply to enhance your understanding of film, or in preparation for graduate work in film studies, social sciences, humanities and the arts. This interdisciplinary minor allows students to take film courses offered in Media Arts, English, political science, world languages and other academic fields.

Minor Requirements: 20 Credits

All of the Following: 8 Credits

MEDA 120 - Film History and Analysis 4 credit(s)
MEDA 401W - Advanced Film Analysis 4 credit(s)

Electives: 12 Credits

4 credits must be upper division.

ANTH 317 - Pop Culture: Cultural Studies 4 credit(s)
ENGL 236 - Postmodernism in Film and Literature 2 credit(s)
ENGL 336 - Postmodernism in Film and Literature II 2 credit(s)
GER 400W - German Film 4 credit(s)
MEDA 112 - Media in Society 4 credit(s)
MEDA 220 - Film and Society 2 credit(s)
MEDA 331 - Sundance Film Festival Travel 2 credit(s)
POLS 221 - Politics in Literature & Film 2-4 credit(s)
POLS 301 - Politics and The Media 4 credit(s)
SPAN 403 - Film: Spanish-Speaking World 4 credit(s)
Any approved film or literature-related courses offered by other departments including, but not limited to, English, Politics and Government, and World Languages.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Identify the historical and theoretical relations of media to structures of power, economics, and ideology of a selection of international and American films and media.
Demonstrate media literacies through the development of critical, analytical and argumentation skills and dependent research.
Identify and describe key terms and concepts and major trends and periods related to various modes of production (narrative, documentary, experimental, and/or animation), film history, and theory.