Undergraduate Program

Minors

Film Studies

This interdepartmental minor integrates courses that treat film as a major art form or that use film as a specific and unique analytical device in the study of literature, history, arts, or national cultures. It offers a broad introduction to importance and influence of film, variety of film studies methodologies, and history and criticism of the modes of cinema across the world.

This minor satisfies the Thematic Sequence requirement of the Miami Plan.

Minor Requirements

These two:

FST 201 Introduction to Film Criticism and History (3)
FST 401 Seminar in Film Study (3)

Twelve semester hours from these:

ENG/ Creative Writing: Screenwriting (3)
FST/COM 146 Media Aesthetics (3)
FST/COM 205 American Film as Communication (3)
FST/COM/IDS 206 Diversity and Culture in American Film (3)
FST/ENG 220 Literature and Film (3; maximum 6)
FST/ENG 221 Shakespeare and Film (3)
FST/ENG 235 Classics of Film (3)
FST/ENG 236 Alternative Traditions in Film (3)
FST/HST 250 History and Popular Culture (3)*
FST/HST 252 Representations of History in Film and Video (3)
FST/GER 261 Survey of German Cinema (3)
FST/ITL 262 Italian Cinema (3)
FST/RUS 263 Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema (3)
FST/CHI 264 Chinese Cinema and Culture (3)
FST/FRE/ European Jewish Cinema (3)
FST/ Survey of Japanese Cinema (3)
FST/ENG 350 Topics in Film (3; maximum 6)
FST/FRE 366 French Cinema (3)
FST/LAS 415 Cuba in Revolution (3)
FST/FRE 460 Topics in French Cinema Study (3)
Movies and American Society (3)
PHL 241 Aesthetics (4)
PHL 410 Special Topics (1-4)*
POL 220 Movies and Politics (2)