Minor in Cinema Studies

Since their first successful projection a century ago, motion pictures have grown into a significant medium of entertainment, business, education, persuasion, and art. In varying degrees, films have reflected, criticized, and shaped the world of the twentieth century. The Cinema Studies Program, recognizing the profound significance of the cinema and its offshoot, television, in the modern age, has designed a minor in Cinema Studies with the aims of a liberal arts education in mind. Because the cinema has aesthetic, philosophical, historical, social, literary, technological, and economic implications, the program draws from a number of disciplines in different colleges to enable students to examine the cinema from a variety of perspectives.

The cinema studies minor consists of:

• 15 hours, including Cinema Studies 281
• 3 hours chosen from Cinema Studies 235, 236, or Journalism and Electronic Media 336; and
• 9 additional hours from any courses in cinema studies, courses cross-listed with cinema studies, or from the following list of approved courses:
  • Journalism and Electronic Media 275, 336, 436.

It is strongly recommended that Cinema Studies 281 be taken before any other courses in the minor.

For further information about the minor, consult Dr. Chuck Maland of the cinema studies program. Courses related to cinema studies and not listed may be applied to the minor with the approval of the chair of the program.

 

Contact Information

Dr. Chuck Maland, Chair
Professor of English
413 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN, 37996-0430

Phone: (865) 974-6963
Fax: (865) 974-6926
Email: cmaland@utk.edu