Global Film & Cultures Minor
The Global Film & Cultures minor is centered around three facets of global film studies: history, industries, and theory/interpretation. Throughout their completion of the minor, students will retain and implement a holistic view of film, including analysis and interrogations of important power structures, ideologies, and global contexts that films and their attendant industries and cultures engage.
Each student entering the minor will take a required introductory class that will examine these three tracks–history, industries, and theory/interpretation–as a way to prime them to incorporate such methods and approaches in their subsequent study of film. Students will take one elective course in each of the three tracks. Students may not take more than one of these electives within the same course prefix. The minor will culminate in a capstone course where they will design a capstone project focused on one of the three tracks they find will be most useful in their future studies or careers. The GFC introductory course, as well as completion of 2 out of 3 elective courses, are prerequisites for the minor’s capstone course.
Minor Requirements
Required Courses: 8 sh
Electives: 12 sh
Students will take one elective course in each of the three tracks. Students may not take more than one of these electives within the same course prefix. Electives not below may be approved on a case-by-case basis after consultation with the program coordinators. Students wishing to include a course not on this list or which does not clearly indicate film content in its title may submit the syllabus of a proposed course to the coordinator for approval. No more than 4 credit hours may be completed within any one prefix/discipline.
Industries: 4 sh
| CTA3240 | Studio, Variety, and Reality Television Production | 4 sh |
| CTA3000 | Entertainment Media Business and Practices | 4 sh |
| GBL2015 | The Film Festival Experience: Hollywood & Sundance | 4 sh |
| ART3620 | Video Art and Expanded Cinema | 4 sh |
| DAN3270 | Dance for the Camera | 4 sh |
Theory/Interpretation: 4 sh
History: 4 sh
| CLA2250 | Rome Through Text and Television | 4 |
| CTA3360 | International Cinema | 4 sh |
| CTA3060 | Development and Influence of Cinema | 4 sh |
| COR3020 | Italian Cinema | 4 sh |
| POL3130 | American Politics and Film | 4 sh |
| POL3302 | Politics, Security and Film | 4 sh |
Program Outcomes
The GFC minor facilitates a critical, global, and diverse understanding of:
The ways films shape how societies make sense of themselves
The ways films shape how societies make sense of themselves
How film frames common experiences of individuals and societies
How cultures are visualized and socialized through filmic visualization
The convergences of the film artform and our experiences of global cultures
Film as a social practice and form of expression
Historical context and current practices in diversity, equity and inclusion in global film industries
Film as a way to attend to personal affective responses, questions, and elations
Total Credit Hours: 20