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:

FILM 20AIntroduction to Film Studies

5

Plus one of the following courses:

FILM 20BIntroduction to Television Studies

5

FILM 20CIntroduction 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:
FILM 130Silent Cinema

5

FILM 132AInternational Cinema to 1960

5

FILM 132BInternational Cinema, 1960 to Present

5

Plus one of the following courses:
FILM 134AAmerican Film, 1930-1960

5

FILM 134BAmerican Film, 1960-Present

5

Plus one of the following courses:
FILM 136AExperimental Film and Video

5

FILM 136BHistory of Television

5

FILM 136CVisual Culture and Technology: History of New Media

5

FILM 136DDocumentary Film and Video

5

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 130Silent Cinema

5

FILM 132AInternational Cinema to 1960

5

FILM 132BInternational Cinema, 1960 to Present

5

FILM 134AAmerican Film, 1930-1960

5

FILM 134BAmerican Film, 1960-Present

5

FILM 136AExperimental Film and Video

5

FILM 136BHistory of Television

5

FILM 136CVisual Culture and Technology: History of New Media

5

FILM 136DDocumentary Film and Video

5

FILM 160Film Genres

5

FILM 161BDocumentary Animation

5

FILM 162Film Authors

5

FILM 162FFemale Filmmakers

5

FILM 165AFilm, Video, and Gender

5

FILM 165BRace on Screen

5

FILM 165CLesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video

5

FILM 165DAsian Americans and Media

5

FILM 165EChicana/o Cinema, Video

5

FILM 168MNational Cinema and Culture: Morocco

5

FILM 165GGender and Global Cinema

5

FILM 168National Cinema and Culture

5

FILM 168AArab and North African Cinemas

5

FILM 180Writing About Film, Television, and Digital Media

5

FILM 185DSound and Image in Theory and Criticism

5

FILM 187Advanced Topics in Television Studies

5

FILM 185RThe Film Remake

5

FILM 185XEyeCandy Seminar

5

FILM 189Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies

5

FILM 194AFilm Theory Seminar

5

FILM 194BElectronic Media Theory Seminar

5

FILM 194CNew Media Theory Seminar

5

FILM 194DFilm History Seminar

5

FILM 194EInternational Cinemas

5

FILM 194FFilm and the Other Arts

5

FILM 194GNew(s) Media

5

FILM 194HEthics and Documentary Filmmaking

5

FILM 194SSpecial Topics Seminar

5