This versatile minor offers the study of films through multiple modes, allowing students to write films, write about films, and study films from several different critical points of view and an array of genres. Students will learn how to "read" film and gain greater insight into how films are created and how they can become the object of academic study. The Film Studies Minor consists of three categories, and you must choose from each category. The minor can be earned with 15 credit hours. 

Required Core Course:

• CMLT-C 190 Introduction to Film Studies (3 cr.)

1.  Theory, Aesthetics, and Genre: Choose 1 for 3 cr. 

• CMLT-C 297 Film Genres (3 cr.) 
• CMLT-C 391 Film Theory and Aesthetics (3 cr.) 
• CMLT-C 392 Genre Study in Film (3 cr.) 

2.  Writing and Film: Choose 1 for 3 cr. 

• ENG-W 260 Film Criticism (3 cr.) 
• ENG-W 302 Screenwriting (3 cr.) 

3.  Film Electives: Choose 2 for 6 cr. 

• CMLT-C 390 Film and Society (3 cr.) 
• CMLT-C 395 The Documentary Film (3 cr.) 
• ENG-L 295 American Film Culture (3 cr.) 
• ENG-L 394 Film and Literature (3 cr.) 
• ENG-L 395 British and American Film Studies (3 cr.)