Film Studies Minor

Upon completion of the Film Studies Minor, students will:

Know the basic terminology of analysis: e.g., mise-en-scene, wide angle, jump cut, continuity editing, auteurism, and so forth.
Know major events in world film history, which include: the birth of cinema, German Expressionism, Russian montage theory, Classical Hollywood period, Italian neorealism, French New Wave, American Independent and avant-garde, and so forth.
Have knowledge of the major analytical frameworks of cinema studies, such as auteur theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, historical/biographical analysis, feminist theory, to mention some.
Have knowledge of the major developments in film theory, which include theories of filmic realism and formalism, semiotics and structuralism, psychoanalytic film theory.
Understand the paradigms of the above developments and frameworks, well enough to be able to produce critical writings in these sub-fields of cinema studies.
Know the concepts of basic production techniques—syntax, techniques of lighting and editing, principles of sound, integration of thematic structure and logical outcomes of narrative/dramatic structure. They will know the difference between plot and theme, and form's relationship to these two.