The Minor in Film Studies allows鈥痵tudents to study cinema both as a specific art form with its own history鈥痑nd "language" and as a medium that emerges in the broader context of鈥痩iterary and other cultural production. Courses focus on specific鈥痜ilmmakers, movements, genres, and eras, as well as on special themes and鈥痗ritical topics in film studies.
The program encourages comparative thinking鈥痑nd offers students the opportunity to engage critically with various issues鈥痠ncluding the place of technology and visual culture in modernity; the鈥痯olitics of the screen image; the relation between literature and cinema; 鈥痶he role of cinema in globalism and consumer culture; and how the continuing鈥痚volution of the moving image and "screen culture" situates us as readers and as viewers.
Requirements for the Minor in Film Studies
4.0 full credits in English are required, of which at least 1.0 credit must be at the C- or D- level.
They should be selected as follows:
1. How to Read a Film
2. Cinema and Modernity
3. 0.5 credits from either Literature and Film for Our Time: Visions and Revisions OR Literature and Film for Our Time: Dawn of the Digital
4. 1.0 credit from any of the FLM courses
5. 1.5 additional credits in English
Note: Film courses selected from other departments and discipline will be approved for the Minor in Literature and Film Studies on a case-by-case basis.
For more details on program requirements, visit the . Questions about the program should be directed to Professor Garry Leonard.
Interested in learning more about how our courses are structured and how you might develop your own path through your Minor in Film Studies? Visit our Routes and Threads page.