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2024-2025 General Catalog [Current] 
    
2024-2025 General Catalog [Current]

Film and Screen Studies (Minor)

Location(s): Main Campus


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Program Summary

This minor focuses on the critical study of film, television, and other screen-based storytelling mediums. It teaches students to critically analyze and interpret texts that function in visual and audio modalities. It helps them develop the faculties to apply critical thinking and participate in the discourse of the discipline. It is for students who are interested in a deeper understanding of film, television, and other screen-based mediums.

Program Information

  • All courses must be passed with a “C-” (1.7) or better to be counted in the minor.

Film and Screen Studies Minor Curriculum (18 Credits)


Core Required Courses (12 Credits)


Survey Course (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Elective Course (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Total Credits, Minor: 18


Program Learning Outcomes


  • Identify, describe, and compare the structural features of film, television, and other visual narratives using medium-specific critical language.
  • Interpret cinematic texts, employing critical positions and scholarly research through both written and multimedia essays and presentations.
  • Analyze cinematic texts and narratives from various cultures and historical periods to recognize and value different human perspectives and experiences.

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