Cinema Studies Requirements

Few art forms have had a greater impact on modern culture than cinema. Over the course of cinema’s relatively brief history, film criticism and theory have grappled with some of the issues most central to the humanities, including how to represent and transform the world and how technological changes have affected the production and consumption of images. As an academic discipline, cinema studies explores moving images circulating in a variety of media platforms and formats.

The minor in cinema studies focuses on the history, theory, and practice of film and related media. It makes coherent both the historical and aesthetic dimensions of cinema, including the mutual influence of cinema with its cultural, technological, national, and transnational contexts. As a distinct field of study influenced by a range of disciplines—among them art history, English, and the sciences—the minor draws on connections among departments, while at the same time providing a core of courses foundational to the discipline of cinema studies itself.

Director, Associate Professor Steve J. Wurtzler

Advisory Committee and Faculty:  Associate Professors Dean Allbritton (Spanish) and Audrey Brunetaux (French Studies); Assistant Professors Se Young Kim (Cinema Studies) and Elena Monastireva-Ansdell (Russian); Instructor Erin Murphy (Cinema Studies)

Program Affiliated Faculty: Associate Professors Arne Koch (German), Mouhamédoul Niang (French Studies), and Maple Razsa (Global Studies); Assistant Professor Ana Almeyda-Cohen (Spanish)

Six courses, including Cinema Studies 142, 251 or 252, 321, one non-U.S. cinema studies course, and two electives selected from the list of courses approved for the minor or approved by the department chair. All courses besides CI 142 must be numbered 200 and above. No more than two courses can count toward both the cinema studies minor and another minor or major.

Cinema Studies

English

French

German

Music

Religious Studies

Russian

Spanish