About
The field of Film Studies (FMS) addresses the history, theory, and culture of this art form and asks questions about film texts themselves: modes of production, (including everything from filmmakers’ aesthetic choices to the role of the global economy); historical, national, and cultural contexts; and spectators and audiences.
Lower-Division Requirements (4 Units)
- CDM 001 / FMS 001, Introduction to Film Studies (4)
Upper-Division Requirements (20 Units)
Upper-division courses are selected from the lists below. No more than two courses may be selected from any one category, and no more than two courses from a single department or program may be offered in satisfaction of the minor requirements.
Group A: Problems and Themes in Cinema
- ANT 136, Ethnographic Film (4)
- COM 100, World Cinema (4)
- CLA 102, Film and the Classical World (4)
- DRA 115, Advanced Study of Major Film Makers (4)
- ENL 160, Film as Narrative (4)
- ENL 161A, Film History I: Origins to 1945 (4)
- ENL 161B, Film History II: 1945 to Present (4)
- ENL 162, Film Theory and Criticism (4)
- FMS 124, Topics in U.S. Film History (4)
- CDM 150 / FMS 127, Film Theory (4)
- CDM 155 / TCS 155, Introduction to Documentary Studies (4)
- CDM 163, Arts and Cinema (4)
- CDM 166, Topics in U.S. Film History (4)
- CDM 167 / FMS 125, Topics in Film Genres (4)
- RST 135, The Bible and Film (4)
- WMS 162, Feminist Film Theory (4)
Group B: Cinema, Nation, and Nationality
- CHN 101, Chinese Film (4)
- COM 110, Hong Kong Cinema (4)
- COM 112, Japanese Cinema (4)
- FMS / ITA 121, New Italian Cinema (4)
- FMS / RUS 129, Russian Film (4)
- FMS / GER 176A, Classic Weimar Seminar (4)
- FMS 176B, Postwar German Cinema (4)
- FRE 122, French and Francophone Film (4)
- GER 112, German Women and Film (4)
- GER 119, Fiction to Film (4)
- GER 142, New German Cinema (4)
- JPN 106, Japanese Culture Through Film (4)
- JPN 156, Japanese Literature on Film (4)
- MSA 131A, Modern Iranian Cinema (4)
- MSA 131B, Modern South Asian Cinema (4)
- MSA 131E, Modern Arab Cinema (4)
- RUS 129, Russian Film (4)
- SPA 148, Cinema in the Spanish-Speaking World in Translation (4)
- SPA 173, Cinema and Latin American Culture (4)
Group C: Film and Social Identities
- AAS 170, African American Film and Video (4)
- AAS 171, Black African and Black European Film and Video (4)
- AAS 175A, Black Documentary: History and Theory (4)
- AAS 185, Topics in African American Film (4)
- ANT 136, Ethnographic Film (4)
- ASA 121, Asian American Performance (4)
- CHI 160, Mexican Film and Greater Mexican Identity (4)
- CHI 165, Chicanas, Latinas, and Mexicanas in Commercial Media (4)
- CDM 165B, Italian American Cinema (4)
- JST 120, Cinema and the American Jewish Experience (4)
- WMS 160, Women, “Race,” and Sexuality in Postcolonial Cinema (4)
- WMS 164, Topics in Gender and Cinematic Representation (4)
Group D: Film and Video Production
- AAS 168, Black Documentary: History and Practice (4)
- AAS 175B, Black Documentary Practicum (4)
- ART 112, Sound for Vision (4)
- ART 114A, Intermediate Video: Animation (4)
- ART 114B, Intermediate Video: Experimental Documentary (4)
- ART 114C, Intermediate Video: Performance Strategies (4)
- ART 117, Advanced Video and Electronic Arts (4)
- CDM 100, Experimental Digital Cinema I (4)
- CDM 101, Experimental Digital Cinema II (4)
- CDM 104, Documentary Production (4)
- CDM 105, Feminist Media Production (4)
- CDM 123, Sight and Soundtrack (4)
- CDM 130, Fundamentals of Computer Graphics (4)
- CDM 131, Character Animation (4)
- CDM 108, Small Scale Film Production (4)
- DRA 116, Design on Screen (4)
- DRA 174, Acting for Camera (4)
- DRA 124E, Costume Design for Film (4)
Group E: Popular and Visual Culture
- AMS 130, American Popular Culture (4)
- AMS 139, Feminist Cultural Studies (4)
- ART 150, Theory and Criticism of Electronic Media (4)
- CDM 156, Epic Television: The Golden Age of TV (4)
- CDM 162, Surveillance Technologies and Social Media (4)
- CDM 163, Arts and Cinema (4)
- CMN 140, Introduction to Mass Communication (4)
- CMN 144, Media Entertainment (4)
- CMN 147, Children, Adolescents, and the Media (4)
- CMN 148, Contemporary Trends in Media (4)
- CMN 149, Race and Media (4)
- MUS 115, History of Film Music (4)
- POL 165, Mass Media and Politics (4)
- WMS 139, Feminist Cultural Studies (4)