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Minor in English, Film Studies

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.
  • One course may be shared between the English minor and the English major.
  • to declare the minor, complete the School of Liberal Arts online declaration form: https://liberalarts.iupui.edu/admissions/update-major-form.html

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