Cinema and Media Studies

Administrative Committee: Professors Tomasik (World Languages and Cultures), Wolff (Communication and Visual Arts); Associate Professors Anderson (Communication and Visual Arts, coordinator), Potter (English).

Objectives

The minor in Cinema and Media Studies offers the opportunity to study the role of films and other media as artistic expressions and cultural forces. Students will learn critical and theoretical tools for analyzing motion pictures and their historically evolving role in reflecting and shaping social ideologies and norms. The minor in Cinema and Media Studies allows the small-scale but concentrated study of one important art form, and through it, our contemporary world.