The program offered by teaches students how to discern the cinematic and narrative features that are used in cinematography and how culture can influence them. The study of film encourages critical thinking, respect for cultural diversity, and detailed knowledge of film as a text of facts and ideas.

Strengths of the program

• Explore acclaimed national and international films, both commercial and independent, many of which are unavailable for rental.
• Choose from a wide array of courses that will enhance both your perception of and respect for the diversity of cultures in this country and around the world.
• Courses in the minor can help you recognize cinematographic features that enhance film viewing.
• Learn about modern communication techniques and develop your media literacy skills.
• Learn to analyze the nature, history, and function of film in an interdisciplinary manner that broadens your horizons and provides training in critical thought.
• The film studies minor is a strong complement to several majors that examine societal issues.
• This program incorporates courses from most departments in the College of Liberal Arts, including comparative ethnic studies, English, foreign languages and cultures, and sociology.

Career

The film studies minor brings together a broad range of interdisciplinary courses that can serve as both an ideal foundation for and a complement to most majors in liberal arts. The study of film enhances one?s ability to understand and address issues in areas as varied as aesthetics, human relations, the diversity of cultures, communication, advertising and consumption, socioeconomic concerns, and politics. Whatever the precise focus, all film courses provide firm, foundational knowledge about people, society, and the world, as well as the critical-thinking skills and human insights that are important for leadership in all professions.?

Graduates with a film studies minor can enter every profession imaginable and are employed as teachers and professors on all levels, librarians, journalists, archivists, editors, photographers, advertising executives, public relations consultants, business people, lawyers, and television workers.