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FILM MINOR

 

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Undergraduate Minor in Film


Case now offers an undergraduate minor in Film. The minor is flexible, designed to accommodate both busy student schedules and a wide range of possible interests in the cinema.


Requirements

     Total credits: 15

    • Required course: ENGL 367—Introduction to Film

Take this course first or as early in the sequence as possible.


    • Up to 12 credits in any of the following:

• ENGL 368A—Introduction to Film Studies

• ENGL 368B—Topics in Film History, including History of Film: Origins to Present

• ENGL 368C—Topics In Film

Courses taught under this rubric have included: The Horror Film, Literature in Film, Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Asian Cinema and Drama, Images of Women in Films, Introduction to Film Genres, Science Fiction Films, Cinema of Rebellion, Political Cinema, Dance on Screen, and Storytelling & Cinema.

• ENGL 316—Screenwriting


    • Up to 6 credits of Elective Courses

Many courses taught across the University can qualify as elective courses, and new ones are coming along all the time.

Courses taught in the past that would qualify include: Latin American Cinema, Religion and Film, The Hollywood Musical, Topics in German Cinema, Film Music, Jewish Image in Popular Film, French Cinema, and Folklore & Myth in Japanese Film.

If you are interested in having a course count as an elective toward the minor, contact Robert Spadoni.


    Up to six credits can count toward the film minor and also a major or other minor.

To declare a Film minor

•    Complete a Declaration of Minor Form. You can get one at the Office of
      Undergraduate Studies in Sears 357 and also from Robert Spadoni.
•    Make an appointment to see Robert Spadoni, who will sign the form and keep the
      white copy.
•    Bring the yellow copy to the Office of Undergraduate Studies.