Requirements for the Cinema Studies Major: Critical Studies in Film Track

The Cinema Studies major requires a total of 48 credits hours in the Critical Studies in Film track.

Only courses in which the student has earned a grade of at least a 2.0 may be counted towards the Cinema Studies major. Only 16 transfer credits may be counted towards the Cinema Studies major.

1. Three film core courses, 12 credits:

• CIN150 Introduction to Film, or ENG250 Film and Formal Analysis  
• CIN252 Methods of Cinema Studies (writing intensive in major)
• CIN315 Film Theory and Criticism

2. Three film history courses, 12 credits, chosen from:

• CIN300 History of Film: The Silent Era
• CIN301 History of Film: The Sound Era to 1958
• CIN302 History of Film: The New Wave and Beyond
• CIN303 History of Film: Into the 21st Century 

3. Four critical studies in film courses, 16 credits, chosen from:

• CIN265 Form and Meaning in Digital Film Production
• CIN310 Studies in Animated Film
• CIN311 Studies in Documentary Film
• CIN312 Independent, Avant-Garde, and Experimental Film
• CIN313 Gender and Sexuality in Film
• CIN314 National Cinemas and Film Cultures
• CIN320 Topics in Film History, Industry and Technology
• CIN321 Topics in Film Genres
• CIN322 Topics in Film Authors, Authorship and Aesthetics
• CIN330 Interdisciplinary Topics in Film
• CIN350 Topics in Film
• CIN415 Advanced Film Theory
• CIN450 Advanced Topics in Film
• CIN485 Field Internship in Cinema Studies
• CIN499 Independent Study in Film

Existing and New Interdisciplinary Courses (no more than two courses in the ‘Interdisciplinary’ category will be counted toward the major) 

• AH367 Film and the Visual Arts
• AN307 Culture and Society through Film
• ENG260 Masterpieces of World Cinema
• ENG309 Adaptation: Fiction, Drama, Film
• ENG350 Topics in Film
• ENG387 Screenwriting
• ENG391 Advanced Workshop in Screenwriting
• LIT251 Studies in Foreign Film
• MUS334 History of Film Music
• COM375 The Rise of Electronic Media
• COM387 Gender, Sexuality, and Media
• PS309 Politics through Film

4. One film production course, 4 credits, chosen from:

• CIN165 Introduction to Digital Film Production
• ENG387 Screenwriting

(ENG387 may fulfill “critical studies in film” or “film production” area requirement, but not both)

5. One film capstone course, 4 credits, chosen from:

• CIN415 Advanced Film Theory
• CIN450 Advanced Topics in Film
• CIN499 Independent Study in Film