Film Studies Minor

The Film Studies Minor is a multi-disciplinary, humanities-based minor exploring various aspects of cinema, including but not exclusive to:  applied skills in the fields of photography, story-boarding, editing, scriptwriting, and acting; cultural analysis of genres, directors, styles, historical influences, and national cinemas; and, critical and theoretical schools of thought regarding film analysis and interpretation.

Required: 28 units (12 upper division), including:

• ARTS 255: Photography
• HIST 232:  History & Aesthetics of Cinema
• HIST 432:  Social & Critical Movements in Film

8 units from “Applied Skills”:

• ARTS 117:  Creative Visual Thinking
• ARTS 224:  Drawing
• ARTS 355:  Photography Workshop
• ARTS 394D:  Final Cut Pro Video

• COMM/ENGL 405D:  Screenwriting
• COMM/DRAM/ENGL 246E:  Introduction to Acting

8 units from “Cultural Analysis”:

• COMM/ENGL 466:  Topics in Film
• HIST 270A:  World Cinema-Asia
• HIST 270B:  World Cinema-Europe
• HIST 430DD:  Gender and Film
• HIST/SOCI 430X:  Border Conflicts in Popular Imagination
• HIST 430Z:  Hollywood & American History

Gender Studies

28 units (12 upper division), including HIST 366

• COMM 344
• HIST 273, 430D, 430P
• PSYC 314
• RELE 459 A
• SOCI 418

History 

28 units (12 upper division), including HPSC 275

• 12 units from the following courses
• HIST 105, 273
• HPSC 104, 106, 274
• 12 units chosen with departmental advisor

Latin American studies 

28 units (16 upper division), including:

• HIST 354, 355
• HPSC 275
• 16 units from the following courses:
• ANTH 325A
• HIST 430L , 430M, 440C
• SPAN 348, 428

Politics

28 units (12 upper division), including:

• HPSC 274, 275
• PLSC 374 or HIST 366
• PLSC 316 or 474
• 12 units chosen with departmental advisor

Sociology

28 units (16 upper division) including:

• HPSC 106
• SOCI 104, 404, 414
• 12 units from the following courses:
• ANTH 325
• HIST 273, 430D
• HPSC 275
• SOCI 314, 374