Undergraduate
Minors
Minor in Film
The minor in film studies provides the skills for understanding film in its aesthetic, popular, and ideological dimensions. Students with a minor in film studies will have a knowledge of film history, theory of film, genres and authorship, interpretive approaches to films, and film as a cultural artifact.
A minor in Film Studies (FILM) requires satisfactory completion of the following requirements:
- Completion of properly distributed credit hour requirements for the baccalaureate degree in effect when the student was admitted to their home school.
- Completion of 15 credit hours, with a minimum grade of C in each course.
- Completion of 6 credits at IU Indianapolis
- One course may be shared between the Film minor and the English major.
- to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form here.
Required:
- FILM-C 292: Introduction to Film (3 cr.)
Electives-choose twelve credit hours (12 cr.) from the following list:
- COMM-M 373: Film and Video Documentary (3 cr.)
- ENG-W 260: Film Criticism (3 cr.)
- ENG-W 302: Screenwriting (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 350: Film Noir (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 351: Musicals (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 352: Biopics (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 361: Hollywood Studio Era: 1930-1949 (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 362: Hollywood in the 1950s (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 380: French Cinema (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 390: The Film and Society: Topics (Variable Title) (3 cr.)*
- FILM-C 391: The Film: Theory and Aesthetics (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 392: Genre Study of Film (Variable Title) (3 cr.)*
- FILM-C 393: History of European and American Films I (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 394: History of European and American Films II (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 491: Authorship and Cinema (Variable Title) (3 cr.)
- FILM-C 493: Film Adaptations of Literature (3 cr.)
- GER-G 370: German Cinema (3 cr.)
- GER-G 371: Der deutsche Film (3 cr.)
*FILM-C 390 and FILM-C 392 may be repeated for credit with different topics
