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:
Plus one of the following courses:
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 |