Are you a film buff who could spend hours streaming movies on Netflix? Take your love of movies to the next level with a film studies minor.
You’ll learn to appreciate motion pictures as an art and cultural phenomenon while fulfilling the artistic expression requirements of our central curriculum.
电影研究内幕
在课堂内外看电影? 检查.
Read books and journals and blogs about movies? 检查.
谈论和写关于电影的文章? 检查.
Maybe even write screenplays and shoot short features? 检查.
爆米花? 这取决于你.
Our minor in film studies introduces students to the academic study of film. You’ll learn the vocabulary of film criticism and appreciation and apply it to the analysis of American and international films of the past century.
You may take all five film studies courses to satisfy the minor or any number of film-based courses in topics such as 历史, 英国文学, 政治学和犹太研究. Another option is to take screenwriting or production courses for film studies credit.
In recent years, we’ve offered courses on topics as diverse as:
恐怖电影的历史
罗伯特·奥特曼的电影
邪典电影
以色列电影
小说改编成电影
Film classes taken while studying away are also often appropriate for transfer credit as film studies courses.
辅修电影研究? 检查.
当你在萨斯奎汉纳大学注册时, you’ll be paired with an advisor and application tool to guide you in your course planning and scheduling. 以下是节选自 完整课程目录. Enrolled students follow the requirements of the course catalog for the academic year in which they declare each major and/or minor, 咨询他们的导师和学生 学术策划工具.
学习目标
Film students understand films as works of art.
Film students understand the relationship between films and their audiences and cultures.
Film students possess a vocabulary to describe and evaluate films.
Film students explore otherness through films.
辅修电影研究
的 minor in film studies is an interdisciplinary program using courses in several departments and coordinated by the Film Institute. It provides students with a broad introduction to motion pictures as an art and cultural phenomenon. 学生s minoring in film studies complete, 成绩在C以上, 20 semester hours from the following: FILM-150, 电影- 180, 电影- 210, 电影- 220, 电影- 230, 电影- 240, 电影- 260 /音乐- 260, 电影- 300, COMM-282或COMM-382. Independent Studies and COMM-502 Individual Investigation are also available for credit toward the film studies minor, with Film Institute and instructor approval.
Double-counting restriction for interdisciplinary minors
Only 4 semester hours of this minor may be double-counted toward the student’s major.
电影制作
的 交通部 offers the following film-related production courses: COMM-282 Fundamentals of Digital Video Production and COMM-382 Intermediate Digital Multimedia Production
An interdisciplinary study of film as an art and cultural phenomenon. Stresses the 历史, aesthetics and social implications of film rather than movie-making 技术s. Studies commercial cinema in connection with traditional humanistic disciplines such as literature, 历史, 和哲学. 4 SH. CC:艺术表现.
Focuses on religious, ethical, aesthetic and epistemological values as exemplified in selected films. Examines such issues as peace and war, 个人道德, 公民不服从, 欺骗, 真理, 美, 肮脏的. Emphasizes the nature of the ethical choices and value systems, and the extent to which these are adequately represented or oversimplified and distorted by films. 4 SH.
A study of films based upon literary works and their cinematic adaptations. Stresses an understanding of the relative criteria of artistic form for film and literature and problems of translating the written word into visual images, 叙述技巧, 以及真实性的问题. 4 SH.
An interdisciplinary study of outstanding foreign films as works of art and cultural artifacts. 强调电影理论和批评, as well as the appreciation of foreign films as creative exemplifications of national mores and culture. Includes particular attention to the work of distinguished directors, 比如爱森斯坦, 朗, 雷诺阿, 一身, 费里尼, 黑泽明和伯格曼. 4 SH. CC:艺术表现.
An interdisciplinary study of American film as an art, industry and cultural phenomenon. Stresses the 历史 and aesthetics of American cinema, as well as the interaction between the American film industry and major events in U.S. 1895年至今的历史. 4 SH.
This course examines the emergence and development of the female action heroine in film over the course of the last fifty years within the popular “action film” genre. This course critically evaluates visual and thematic markers of femininity, 男子气概, 性, 比赛, and class with respect to representations of female action heroines in a variety of films. 与WGST-240相同. 4 SH. CC:艺术表现, Diversity Intensive.
艺术探索, 技术, and 历史 of music developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to accompany silent movies. 4 SH.
Intensive study of advanced or specialized areas in film and its relation to the humanities and fine arts. Subjects vary and may include Imagination and the Artist, 电影理论与批评, 民族电影研究, 个人艺术家, and film-based study of historical phenomenon. May be repeated with permission of the Film Institute coordinator. 4 SH.
