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Film Studies Minor

Faculty: Professor Trolander; Associate Professors Anton, Bucher, and Countryman; Assistant Professor Mejia
Location: Evans 230
Telephone: (706) 233-1758

The minor in film is interdisciplinary and is not administered through a
specific academic department. Its faculty are drawn from disciplines throughout
the humanities, the arts and the social sciences. The minor has been
designed to reflect the recent explosion of scholarly interest in film, as well
as the diverse cultural responses to the medium. While the aesthetic
appreciation of the medium is the minor’s point of departure, the student
can expect to take courses emphasizing film as a document of social history
or as a research tool for examining differences in culture.
Students in film will acquire skills for its formal and semiotic analysis,
as well as an appreciation for its incredibly rich historical development.
Minors will also come to see cinema as a significant historical force in its
own right. Students can expect to take courses that range from historical
surveys to surveys of particular film genres, from courses that focus on a
specific director to courses in cinematic adaptation of literary genres.
The minor in film is appropriate for anyone wishing to gain an in-depth
appreciation of a medium that pervades the modern psyche and popular
imagination. It is particularly useful to those students whose major interests
are in film or video production, media studies, English or foreign literatures,
theatre, music and history. Directed readings that treat specific directors,
national cinemas, cinematic genres, or special projects can be arranged.
Students who initiate course work in their sophomore year can complete
the minor by graduation.
Students interested in the minor should contact one of the faculty listed
above.

Students minoring in film must also complete an additional six hours in
FLM 350 and/or FLM 418.