2014-2015 University Catalog
Film and Media Studies Minor
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Banner Code: FILM
Phone: 703-993-2768
Web: fams.gmu.edu
Faculty
Cynthia Fuchs, Program Director
Thomas Britt, Film and Video Studies; Julie Christensen, Modern and Classical Languages; Mark Cooley, Art and Visual Technology; Jeremy Freer, School of Music; Timothy Gibson, Communication; Stephen Groening, English; Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor; Gary Kreps, Communication; Alison Landsberg, History and Art History; Carla Marcantonio, English; David Miller, Communication; Janine Ricouart, Modern and Classical Languages; Jessica Scarlata, English; Benjamin Steger, Film and Video Studies; Gail Scott White, Art and Visual Technology; Martin Winkler, Modern and Classical Languages.
The interdisciplinary minor in film and media studies explores mass culture in its visual manifestations and helps students develop an informed awareness of culture and media, ideological tendencies, and effects on daily experience. Committed to interdisciplinary studies, the program addresses the increasing complexity and multiplicity of visual cultures and offers students the tools with which to read a variety of texts, including film, television, video, and new media.
Most course work is offered through the Departments of Communication and English, with other courses available through the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the Program in Film and Video Studies. The two required courses provide an introduction to the languages of film and popular media and modes of analysis appropriate to each. They are prerequisites for all advanced work in the minor. Students select four additional courses designed to introduce a more specialized level of study. Students may decide to focus on film, television, or the study of mass culture, or they may choose some mix of courses that suits their interests.
This program of study is an interdisciplinary minor offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences .
For policies governing all minors, see the Academic Policies section of this catalog. |