2023-2024 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

Cinema Studies Minor

Program Overview

The interdisciplinary minor in cinema studies is for students interested in developing a critical understanding of the moving image. Audio-visual media play a dominant role in our culture and in our lives, and this course of study will provide students with the skills to create, understand, and interpret various forms of the moving image. The minor is multidisciplinary in method (drawing on courses from different departments in the university) and multicultural in scope as it seeks to look at media in an international and cross-cultural context. This course of study regards cinema as an art form, as social practice, and as cultural artifact. Courses in the minor cover the history, theory, criticism, and practice of the moving image, with the aim of creating active and critical viewers of films and other audio-visual texts.

The curriculum for cinema studies may include coursework in film history, production, film theory, national cinemas, genre studies, authorship, visual culture, history, philosophy, and aesthetics. All courses in the curriculum are devoted primarily to study or production of the moving image. A rigorous curriculum will be grounded first of all in a basic understanding of production along with cinema history and theory. Students may then elect to focus on production courses, critical studies courses, or a combination of both.

Requirements: (18 credits)

Required Courses:

either

COMM 227Introduction to Television Production

3

or

COMM 228Introduction to Digital Film Production

3

and

CINE 201The Language of Film

3

or

COMM 220/CINE 220Introduction to History of Film

3

Total Credit Hours:6

Electives:

12 credits of electives
Total Credit Hours:12

Production Electives

COMM 427Studio Production

4

COMM 428Digital Film Production II

4

COMM 487TV Documentary

4

COMM 488Film Documentary

4

COMM 495Special Topics in Strategic Communication

3 to 4

Critical Studies Electives

CINE 201The Language of Film

3

CINE 220/COMM 220Introduction to History of Film

3

CINE 270/HUM 270Studies of World Culture Through Cinema

3

CINE 319/COMM 319Filmic Narrative

4

CINE 350Laughter, Blood, and Tears: Studies in Film Genre

3

CINE 365Nonfiction and Documentary Film

3

CINE 380/COMM 380Women and Film

4

CINE 382/COMM 382American Cinema

4

CINE 460/ENG 460Shakespeare and Film

3

CINE 465/ENG 465Global Cinema

3

CINE 466/ENG 466American Cinema in the 60s and 70s

3

CINE 467/ENG 467Hitchcock

3

CINE 480Topics in Cinema Studies

3

CINE 489/ENG 489Studies in Film Adaptation

3

CINE 490Cinema Studies: Independent Study

3

COMM 495Special Topics in Strategic Communication

3 to 4

PES 111War & Peace through Films

3

Total Credit Hours: 18