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 cinema’s mass appeal as a form of entertainment, but also the power it wields to disseminate ideas, history, values, aesthetics, behavior, and cultural norms.
| Course | |
|---|---|
| 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 |