Film and Screen Studies

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Department of English, College of Arts and Sciences

Chair: Benedict Robinson

Director of Undergraduate Studies: Susan Scheckel

Department Administrator and Undergraduate Advisor: Margaret Hanley

Office: English Department, Humanities 2096

Phone: (631) 632-7400

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The Minor in Film and Screen Studies (FSS) allows students to study cinema both as a specific art form with its own history and language and as a medium that participates in the broader field of literary and other cultural production.

The program encourages comparative thinking and offers students the opportunity to engage critically with various issues, and encourages students to become reflective, sensitive, and avid viewers and readers about film and related media.

Minor Requirements

All courses for the minor must be passed with a letter grade of C or higher.

Completion of the minor requires 18 credits, with at least three courses at the upper-division level.

One Core Course (3 credits):

EGL 220 - Critical Approaches to the Cinema 3 credits

One of the following courses (3 credits):

Three of the following courses (9 credits):

ARH 398 - Topics in Film and Video Art 3 credits
ARS 326 - Video Art: Narrative Forms 3 credits
ARS 329 - Video Art: Experimental Forms 3 credits
ARS 425 - Advanced New Media Art 3 credits
CCS 301 - Cinema and Media Theory 3 credits
CCS 311 - Gender and Genre in Film 3 credits
CCS 312 - Cinema and the Ancient World 3 credits
CCS 313 - Television Studies 3 credits
CCS 381 - Topics in Cinema Studies 6 credits.
CCS 382 - Topics in Media and Popular Culture 6 credits.
CCS 391 - Topics in Contemporary African Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
CCS 392 - Topics in American Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
CCS 393 - Topics in European Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
CCS 394 - Topics in Asian Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
CCS 401 - Senior Seminar in Cinema & Cultural Studies 3 credits
CLT 335 - Interdisciplinary Study of Film 3 credits
EGL 303 - Genre or Media 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
EGL 325 - Screenwriting 3 credits
THR 325 - Screenwriting 3 credits
EGL 390 - Topics in American or Anglophone Literary History 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
EGL 393 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
EGL 394 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
HUI 338 - Images of Italian Americans in Film 3 credits
HUS 290 - Latin American Cinema 3 credits (formerly offered as HUS 390)
SPN 405 - Issues in Hispanic Cultural Studies 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
SPN 420 - Topics in Spanish and Latin American Cinema 3 credits
SUS 328 - Ecofeminism, Literature & Film 3 credits
THR 403 - Media: Theory and Criticism 3 credits

One elective course (3 credits) chosen from the following:

EGL 121 - Global Film Traditions 3 credits
EGL 194 - Film: Mastering the Movies 3 credits

A 200-level film course, such as

With approval of Undergraduate Studies Director.

ARH 210 - The Art and Technology of Film 3 credits
OR
AAS 222 - Indian Cinemas and Cultures 3 credits
OR
AAS 232 - Introduction to Asian American Fiction and Film 3 credits
OR
HUF 211 - French Cinema 3 credits
OR
HUR 241 - Russian Cinema 3 credits

300- or 400-level course

A 300- or 400-level course listed in section C, when not used to apply to the 9 required credits of section C.

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Film and Screen Studies

Minor Requirements

One Core Course (3 credits):

One of the following courses (3 credits):

Three of the following courses (9 credits):

One elective course (3 credits) chosen from the following:

A 200-level film course, such as

300- or 400-level course