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Requirements

Requirements for the Cinema Studies Major (36 semester hours)

36 semester hours, at least twelve semester hours in addition to the senior project must be at the 300 level or above. No course may be counted twice.

Introduction to Cinema Studies (4 semester hours)

  • CINE110 Introduction to Cinema Study (4)

Area 1: Production (4 semester hours)

  • ARTS121 Introduction to Digital Media (4)

  • ARTS216 Video Art (4)

  • ARTS232 Black and White Photography (4)

  • ARTS242 Photography: Experimental Processes (4)

  • ARTS331 Installation Art (4)

  • ARTS355 Advanced Photography (4)

  • ARTS357 Photography Now (4)

  • CINE394 Major Internship (1-4)

  • ENGL339W Special Topics in Creative Writing (4) (when focused on screenwriter)

  • MUSC121 Creating Music with Technology (4)

  • MUSC425 Recording Studio Music Production (4)

Area 2: Theory (4 semester hours)

  • ENGL355 Feminist Film Criticism (4)

  • RHET235W Propaganda: WWII & Cold War (4)

  • RHET240W Propaganda: 21st Century (4)

  • RHET309W Filming Identity: Israeli & Palestinian Documentary (2)

  • RHET310W Conflict & Identity: Israeli & Palestinian Feature Film (2)

  • RHET362W Telling News: Framing Reality (4)

  • RUSS235 Russian and Soviet Cinema (4)

Area 3: Cinema and Society (4 semester hours)

  • ANTH335 Visual Anthropology (4)

  • CCM258 Gender and Mass Communication in Asia (4)

  • CCM301 Asian Visual and Creative Culture (4)

  • HIST270 Cinema in the Middle East (4)

  • MUSC214 Knowing the Score: A History of Music for Film (4)

  • PHEAL120 Global Health through Film (4)

  • RHET235W Propaganda: WWII & Cold War (4)

  • RHET240W Propaganda: 21st Century (4)

  • RHET271 Telling the Internment Story (4)

  • RHET309W Filming Identity: Israeli & Palestinian Documentary (2)

  • RHET310W Conflict & Identity: Israeli & Palestinian Feature Film (2)

  • RHET362W Telling News: Framing Reality (4)

Area 4: National and Transnational Cinema (4 semester hours)

  • CCM258 Gender and Mass Communication in Asia (4)

  • CCM288 Introducing Asia to the World (4)

  • CCM301 Asian Visual and Creative Culture (4)

  • FREN241 Topics in French History through Film (4)

  • FREN275 African Cinema (4)

  • GERM241 German Cinema and Visual Culture (4)

  • HIST270 Cinema in the Middle East (4)

  • JAPN340 The Japanese Cinema (4)

  • RUSS235 Russian and Soviet Cinema (4)

  • SPAN260 Hispanic Literature in Translation (4) (when focused on cinematic adaptation)

  • SPAN380 Latin American Cinema (4)

Twelve additional semester hours

At least two courses at the 300 level, and at least two courses from a single Area (1-4). No class may be counted twice. One course may be counted by petition when the focus is in a cinema studies area.

Senior Project (4 semester hours)

A senior project, approved by the Cinema Studies faculty, which might be a creative or critical project. Projects will only be approved for which students have completed appropriate previous course work. It might be satisfied by:

  • CINE499 Senior Project (4), or

  • With the cooperation of faculty in another discipline and the approval of Cinema Studies faculty, through the successful completion of a project or seminar approved for the purpose and worth at least four credits in another department. A single paper will not normally be approved as satisfying two different senior requirements and a proposal for a senior project in connection with a course in another discipline will require notification to and approval by both faculties.

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