Film and Digital Media Minor

The minor in film and digital media offers a foundation in visual culture and contributes important scholarly techniques of value to other disciplines. Students earn a minor in film and digital media by completing eight courses: FILM 20A and FILM 20B or FILM 20C, and six upper-division courses including three from the core curriculum of the general major and three electives. There is no production component in the minor, nor is there a comprehensive requirement.

Declaring the Film and Digital Media Minor

Students who pass FILM 20A, FILM 20B or FILM 20C are eligible to declare the film and digital media minor.

Course Requirements

Lower-Division Courses

Complete the following course:

FILM20AIntroduction to Film Studies

5

Plus one of the following courses:

FILM20BIntroduction to Television Studies

5

FILM20CIntroduction to Digital Media

5

Upper-Division Courses

Students in the minor must complete the following upper-division core curriculum.

One course from each of the following three groups:

Choose one of the following courses:
FILM130Silent Cinema

5

FILM132AInternational Cinema to 1960

5

FILM132BInternational Cinema, 1960 to Present

5

Plus one of the following courses:
FILM134AAmerican Film, 1930-1960

5

FILM134BAmerican Film, 1960-Present

5

Plus one of the following courses:
FILM136AExperimental Film and Video

5

FILM136BHistory of Television

5

FILM136CVisual Culture and Technology: History of New Media

5

FILM136DDocumentary Film and Video

5

And three upper-division elective courses to be chosen from the following:

Any three additional upper-division film and digital media critical studies courses other than production studio courses (FILM 150, FILM 151, FILM 170A through FILM 179B) that have not been used to satisfy the above upper-division core curriculum. One of the electives may be substituted from another department or institution. Course substitutions must be approved by the Film and Digital Media Department.

FILM130Silent Cinema

5

FILM132AInternational Cinema to 1960

5

FILM132BInternational Cinema, 1960 to Present

5

FILM134AAmerican Film, 1930-1960

5

FILM134BAmerican Film, 1960-Present

5

FILM136AExperimental Film and Video

5

FILM136BHistory of Television

5

FILM136CVisual Culture and Technology: History of New Media

5

FILM136DDocumentary Film and Video

5

FILM160Film Genres

5

FILM161BDocumentary Animation

5

FILM162Film Authors

5

FILM165AFilm, Video, and Gender

5

FILM165BRace on Screen

5

FILM165CLesbian, Gay, and Queer Film and Video

5

FILM165DAsian Americans and Media

5

FILM165EChicana/o Cinema, Video

5

FILM165GGender and Global Cinema

5

FILM168National Cinema and Culture

5

FILM180Writing About Film, Television, and Digital Media

5

FILM185DSound and Image in Theory and Criticism

5

FILM185RThe Film Remake

5

FILM185XEyeCandy Seminar

5

FILM187Advanced Topics in Television Studies

5

FILM189Advanced Topics in Digital and Electronic Media Studies

5

FILM194AFilm Theory Seminar

5

FILM194BElectronic Media Theory Seminar

5

FILM194CNew Media Theory Seminar

5

FILM194DFilm History Seminar

5

FILM194EInternational Cinemas

5

FILM194FFilm and the Other Arts

5

FILM194GNew(s) Media

5

FILM194SSpecial Topics Seminar

5