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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Film and Media Studies
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Professors: Kuzmanovich, Lerner, McCarthy, (Chair), Peña, Shen
Associate Professors: Fache, Martinez, Miller
Assistant Professors:
Visiting Professor:
The Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Minor promotes the development of multimedia literacy among our students, providing an interdisciplinary understanding of the history, theory, language, and cultural aspects of film and other screen media. Combining introductory and advanced courses in film and media studies with electives from the humanities and the social sciences, the interdisciplinary minor seeks to create critically sensitive readers of film and media while fostering insight into one of the principal forms of art and communication in the contemporary era. Courses incorporate aesthetic, thematic, and theoretical analysis and include a variety of national cinemas in addition to the Hollywood tradition, promoting the multicultural sensitivity essential to mature world citizenship. Experience in film or video production helps to prepare students to function more effectively and participate more actively in the ever-developing multimedia culture of the 21st century.
Some departments offer seminars or permit independent studies in film and media. Check with the faculty liaison for specific approval (prior to enrollment) to include one of these in the interdisciplinary minor.
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1. Satisfactory completion of six courses to include:
Four electives selected from the following courses:
- AFR 266 - Africa Shoots Back, in transl. (=FRE 366)
- ANT 372 - Visual Anthropology
- CHI 207 - Engendering Chinese Cinema
- CHI 405 - Chinese Cinema and Modern Literature (in translation)
- CLA 252 - Classics in the Cinema
- COM 315 - Media Effects (= SOC 315)
- DIG 215 - Death in the Digital Age
- DIG 240 - Art and Electronic Media
- ENG 205 - Screenwriting
- ENG 211 - Filmmaking
- ENG 292 - Documentary Film - History, Theory, and Production of Documentary
- ENG 293 - Film as a Narrative Art
- ENG 409 - Television: Queer Representations (=GSS 401)
- ENG 493 - Film Art
- FMS 321 - Interactive Digital Narratives
- FMS 323 - Special Topics in Digital Media and Film
- FMS 385 - Video Game Music (= MUS 385)
- FRE 366 - Africa Shoots Back (=AFR 266)
- GER 241 - Race, Gender, Migration (in trans.)
- GER 242 - Hollywood Alternatives, From Germany and Beyond (in trans.)
- GER 336 - Memory on Film (in trans.)
- GER 363 - Contemporary German Film & TV
- GSS 341 - Race, Gender & Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Film
- GER 342 - Cultural, Filmic and Digital Studies (taught in English)
- GSS 401 - Television: Queer Representations (=ENG 409)
- HIS 454 - Filming Southern History
- HIS 474 - Bollywood, Business, and India
- MUS 228 - Film Music
- MUS 383 - Herrmann & Hitchcock
- MUS 385 - Video Game Music (=FMS 385)
- SOC 315 - Media Effects (= COM 315)
- SPA 352 - Contemporary Latin American Cinema
- SPA 353 - Contemporary Spanish Film
- SPA 356 - Seminar
2. At least one production course (but no more than two) must be included in the interdisciplinary minor.
3. Only one independent study may be included in the interdisciplinary minor.
4. No more than two courses in the interdisciplinary minor may also be in the student’s major field of study.
5. No more than two courses taken away from Davidson may be counted toward the interdisciplinary minor.
6. A grade of “C-“or higher must be earned in all graded courses applied toward the interdisciplinary minor.
Application Procedure
The Film and Media Studies Interdisciplinary Minor is administered by the Film and Media Studies Advisory Committee. The faculty liaison is Dr. Maggie McCarthy. Students submit a written application to the Advisory Committee by the last day of the fall semester of the junior year. The application will specify the courses to be used to satisfy the interdisciplinary minor requirements. If one of the proposed electives is an independent study, the student shall provide for the Advisory Committee’s approval a complete description of that course prior to the term of enrollment. Certification of completion of all the requirements for the interdisciplinary minor is made by the Registrar upon the recommendation of the Film and Media Studies Advisory Committee.
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