Film and Digital Media Minor
The minor in film and digital media offers a foundation in visual culture and contributes important scholarly techniques of value to other disciplines. Students earn a minor in film and digital media by completing eight courses: FILM 20A and either FILM 20B or FILM 20C, and six upper-division courses including three from the core curriculum of the general major and three electives. There is no production component or comprehensive requirement in the minor.
Declaring the Film and Digital Media Minor
Students who pass FILM 20A and either FILM 20B or FILM 20C are eligible to declare the film and digital media minor. To enroll in these classes, students contact the instructor and request a permission code.
Course Requirements
Lower-Division Courses
Complete the following course:
Plus one of the following courses:
| FILM 20B | Introduction to Television Studies | 5 |
| FILM 20C | Introduction to Digital Media | 5 |
Upper-Division Courses
Students in the minor must complete the following upper-division core curriculum.
One course from each of the following three groups:
Choose one of the following courses:
Plus one of the following courses:
Plus one of the following courses:
And three upper-division elective courses to be chosen from the following:
Any three additional upper-division film and digital media critical studies courses other than production studio courses (FILM 150, FILM 151, FILM 170A through FILM 179B) that have not been used to satisfy the above upper-division core curriculum. One of the electives may be substituted from another department or institution. Course substitutions must be approved by the Film and Digital Media Department.
| FILM 130 | Silent Cinema | 5 |
| FILM 132A | International Cinema to 1960 | 5 |
| FILM 132B | International Cinema, 1960 to Present | 5 |
| FILM 134A | American Film, 1930-1960 | 5 |
| FILM 134B | American Film, 1960-Present | 5 |
| FILM 136A | Experimental Film and Video | 5 |
| FILM 136B | History of Television | 5 |
| FILM 136C | Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media | 5 |
| FILM 136D | Documentary Film and Video | 5 |
| FILM 160 | Film Genres | 5 |
| FILM 161B | Documentary Animation | 5 |
| FILM 162 | Film Authors | 5 |
| FILM 162F | Female Filmmakers | 5 |
| FILM 165A | Film, Video, and Gender | 5 |
| FILM 165B | Race on Screen | 5 |
| FILM 165C | Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video | 5 |
| FILM 165D | Asian Americans and Media | 5 |
| FILM 165E | Chicana/o Cinema, Video | 5 |
| FILM 168M | National Cinema and Culture: Morocco | 5 |
| FILM 165G | Gender and Global Cinema | 5 |
| FILM 168 | National Cinema and Culture | 5 |
| FILM 168A | Arab and North African Cinemas | 5 |
| FILM 168F | Francophone African Cinema | 5 |
| FILM 168M | National Cinema and Culture: Morocco | 5 |
| FILM 180 | Writing About Film, Television, and Digital Media | 5 |
| FILM 185D | Sound and Image in Theory and Criticism | 5 |
| FILM 185R | The Film Remake | 5 |
| FILM 187 | Advanced Topics in Television Studies | 5 |
| FILM 185X | EyeCandy Seminar | 5 |
| FILM 189 | Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies | 5 |
| FILM 194A | Film Theory Seminar | 5 |
| FILM 194B | Electronic Media Theory Seminar | 5 |
| FILM 194C | New Media Theory Seminar | 5 |
| FILM 194D | Film History Seminar | 5 |
| FILM 194E | International Cinemas | 5 |
| FILM 194F | Film and the Other Arts | 5 |
| FILM 194G | New(s) Media | 5 |
| FILM 194H | Ethics and Documentary Filmmaking | 5 |
| FILM 194S | Special Topics Seminar | 5 |