Film Studies

Abigail Cheever, Coordinator (English)
Professor Addiss (Art and Art History)
Associate Professors Bower (Modern Literatures and Cultures), Cheever (English), Ferman (Latin American and Iberian Studies), Siebert (English)
Assistant Professor Lurie (English)

The film studies major is designed to furnish an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to the academic study of cinema, providing work in film history, theory, and aesthetics and considering U.S., international, and indigenous/minority films.

The Film Studies Major

Note: A grade of C (2.0) or better is required in all coursework comprising the Film Studies major.

• FMST 201/ENGL 220 Introduction to Film Studies

• ENGL 374 Film Theory

• FMST 400 Research Seminar

• Six electives chosen from the following list, at least two of which must be outside of mainstream U.S. film:

  ART 282 Values in World Film

  ENGL 361 Literature and Film

  ENGL 364 Special Topics: Film Directors

  ENGL 367 Indigenous Cinema in North America

  ENGL 368 History and Aesthetics of Film

  ENGL 369 American Culture / American Film

  ENGL 370 Special Topics in Literature After the Early to Mid-19th Century

  ENGL 374 Film Theory

  ENGL 380 Special Topics: Film Genres

  ENGL 387 Writing for the Stage and Screen

  FREN 465 French Film

  FREN 467 French Film Festival

  JOUR 307 Documentary Journalism I: Evolution of the Social Narrative

  JOUR 308 Documentary Journalism II: Study and Practice

  LAIS 471 Latin American Cinema

  MLC 235 Special Topics in Japanese Film

  MLC 331 Russian Cinema

  MLC 365 German Film in Context

  MLC 397 ST: Asian Cinema

  THTR 312 Special Topics

FMST 201 Introduction to Film Studies

FMST 400 Research Seminar

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