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 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 in the minor, nor is there a comprehensive requirement.

Declaring the Film and Digital Media Minor

Students who pass FILM 20A, FILM 20B or FILM 20C are eligible to declare the film and digital media minor.

Course Requirements

Lower-Division Courses

Complete the following course:

FILM20A

Introduction to Film Studies

5

Plus one of the following courses:

FILM20B	Introduction to Television Studies	5
FILM20C	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:

FILM130	Silent Cinema	5
FILM132A	International Cinema to 1960	5
FILM132B	International Cinema, 1960 to Present	5

Plus one of the following courses:

FILM134A	American Film, 1930-1960	5
FILM134B	American Film, 1960-Present	5

Plus one of the following courses:

FILM136A	Experimental Film and Video	5
FILM136B	History of Television	5
FILM136C	Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media	5
FILM136D	Documentary 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.

FILM130	Silent Cinema	5
FILM132A	International Cinema to 1960	5
FILM132B	International Cinema, 1960 to Present	5
FILM134A	American Film, 1930-1960	5
FILM134B	American Film, 1960-Present	5
FILM136A	Experimental Film and Video	5
FILM136B	History of Television	5
FILM136C	Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media	5
FILM136D	Documentary Film and Video	5
FILM160	Film Genres	5
FILM161B	Documentary Animation	5
FILM162	Film Authors	5
FILM165A	Film, Video, and Gender	5
FILM165B	Race on Screen	5
FILM165C	Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video	5
FILM165D	Asian Americans and Media	5
FILM165E	Chicana/o Cinema, Video	5
FILM165G	Gender and Global Cinema	5
FILM168	National Cinema and Culture	5
FILM180	Writing About Film, Television, and Digital Media	5
FILM185D	Sound and Image in Theory and Criticism	5
FILM185R	The Film Remake	5
FILM185X	EyeCandy Seminar	5
FILM187	Advanced Topics in Television Studies	5
FILM189	Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies	5
FILM194A	Film Theory Seminar	5
FILM194B	Electronic Media Theory Seminar	5
FILM194C	New Media Theory Seminar	5
FILM194D	Film History Seminar	5
FILM194E	International Cinemas	5
FILM194F	Film and the Other Arts	5
FILM194G	New(s) Media	5
FILM194S	Special Topics Seminar	5