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FILM STUDIES



REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FILM STUDIES MAJOR (10 credits, no more than three of which may be taken in a single department. This limit does not apply to the senior experience.)

A basic history of cinema:
ENGL 210 (W) History of Cinema

One course in media and society:
RHET 232 (AR) Persuasion, Propaganda, and the Mass Media
RHET 320 Mass Media and Society

One introductory course that involves students in the process of making film:
ARTS 216 (CA) Video Art I
ENGL 135 (CA; W) Creative Writing: Screenplay
RHET 125 (CA) Creative Visual Rhetoric

Two courses engaging issues of film theory:
ENGL 311 The Avant Garde as a Critical Tradition
ENGL 334 Film Genre
ENGL 335 Film Directors
ENGL 355 (W) Feminist Theory
RHET 341 Narrative Theory
RHET 361 Visual Rhetoric: Memory and Memorials
RHET 362 (W) Media Framing

A senior project, approved by the Film Studies faculty, which might be a creative or critical project. It might be satisfied by:

a) taking FS 496 Senior Project, or
b) with permission by taking FS 449 Studies in Cinema and Nationalism (and writing a senior paper), or
c) with the cooperation of faculty in another discipline and the approval of Film Studies faculty, through the successful completion of a project or seminar approved for the purpose and worth at least one credit in another department such as ARTH 496, ENGL 490, HUM 497, THTR 499 or the like. A single paper will not normally be approved as satisfying two different senior requirements and a proposal for a senior project in connection with a course in another discipline will require notification to and approval by both faculties.

Plus four additional credits, including at least one credit from each of the following three groups. No class may be counted twice.

Film art and society:
ANTH 335 Visual Anthropology
ENGL 334 Film Genre
ENGL 336 (AR) Visible Evidence
FS 449 Studies in Cinema and Nationalism
IDS 327 (AR, W) the American