The joint minor in Film Studies is sponsored by the College of Communications and the College of Liberal Arts and is designed to foster an interdisciplinary community of thinkers interested in study of film. The minor offers an opportunity to learn more about a visual medium that relates in many ways to other fields such as theater, literature, history, philosophy and art. The courses that support the fulfillment of the minor focus on critical, aesthetic and historical studies of film, not on the art of filmmaking.

Requirements for the minor:
In addition to two basic required core courses (6 credits), students enrolled in the minor will take 12 Credits from a list approved by the Interdepartmental Film Studies Committee. Six of these credits must be at the 400 level. All required and most supporting courses are taught in English. A grade of C or better is required for all courses in the minor.

Prescribed core courses (six credits):
COMM 150 The Art of the Cinema
COMM 250 Film, History and Theory

Supporting Courses (12 credits of which six must be at the 400 level):
Am St 402W American Themes, American Eras
CAS 415 Rhetoric of Film and Television
CAS 438 Rhetoric of Documentary
CMLIT 153 International Cultures Through Literature and Film
COMM 451 The American Cinema
COMM 452 International Cinema
COMM 453 Narrative Theory: Film and Literature
COMM 454 Documentary in Film and Television
COMM 455 Advanced Film Theory & Criticism
ENGL 403 Literature and Culture
FR 138 French Culture Through Film
Fr 487 Topics in French Film History & Theory I (1895-1945)
FR 488 Topics in French Film History & Theory II
FR 489 French Literature & Film
GR 489 Introduction to German Film History & Theory in Context
IT 475 Modern Italian Literature & Cinema
JPNS 453 Japanese Film
Jewish Studies 497 Food, Film and Culture
PHIL 05 Philosophy, Art and Film

Schedule of film viewings at University Park campus:
TBA

Film minor questions:
Matt Jordan
mfj3@psu.edu

Thomas Hale
tah@psu.edu

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