Reflecting the hybrid nature of the field of Cinema Studies, our faculty members are housed in departments across SAS and the university, and we cross-list courses with various departments and schools, including Africana Studies, Anthropology, Communications, East Asian Language and Civilizations, English, Fine Arts, German, History, History of Art, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Women’s Studies. This truly interdisciplinary program will introduce students to the wide range of methodologies used to study film and media, and this intersection with other disciplines makes Cinema Studies an ideal component of a double major.

Our majors and minors graduate with the ability to think critically and express complex ideas well, both orally and in writing; contextualize historically contemporary media practices; and make informed judgments on the aesthetic value of a particular work.