Semester Requirements
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Film studies explores the role of cinema in the contemporary global culture. Using methodologies and perspectives from a variety of disciplines, such as English, anthropology, philosophy, fine arts/visual culture, political science, history, and modern languages, the film studies minor investigates the cinema’s mass appeal as a form of entertainment, but also the power it wields as a disseminator of ideas, history, values, aesthetics, behavior, and cultural norms.
Electives–Choose five of the following:
ANTH-265 Native Americans in Film
ANTH-430 Visual Anthropology
FNRT-200 Anime
FNRT-372 American Film of the Studio Era
FNRT-373 American Film Since the Sixties
FNRT-440 Deaf Art and Cinema
ENGL-410 Film Studies
ENGL-425 Global Cinemas
HIST-450 Modern Japan in History, Fiction, and Film
HIST-275 Screening the Trenches: The History of World War I through Film
MLFR-351 French Films and Hollywood
MLSP-352 Caribbean Cinema
PHIL-313 Philosophy of Film
POLS-490 Politics through Film