Cinema Studies Minor

Program Director:

Robert Goulet
English Department

The Department of English offers a minor in Cinema Studies.

Mission

The program is devoted to the study of media and of formats related to the moving image, including recent developments in digital technology. Students will not only acquire the vocabulary necessary to a full appreciation of cinematic techniques but also develop an appreciation for the aesthetic and methodological values of the discipline. In addition, by implicitly acknowledging the intersections of art, technology, and commerce in cinematic texts, courses in the program help to prepare students for careers in the new age of global media institutions and projects.

Curriculum

Students in the Cinema Studies program take at least six courses, which must include one 200 – level introductory course (see the list below), at least three 300 – level courses (see the list below), and two electives from either level.

• CO 220 Understanding Film
• CO 321 Film Genres
• CO 323 Film Censorship and American Culture
• EN 271 Film and Story
• EN 272 Film History
• EN 273 Hitchcock
• EN 322 World Cinema
• EN 323 Film Industry
• EN 324 Television Drama
• EN 325 Film and Ideology
• EN 326 American Cinema
• EN 327 European Cinema
• EN 329 Race in American Film
• EN 337 Film and Gender
• EN 422 Seminar (offered periodically by English instructors in cinema studies as part of the regular departmental rotation of seminar assignments)

Students will make course choices after consultation with a faculty advisor in either the English or the Communication department.