Film Studies Program
The Faculties of Humanities and Fine Arts jointly offer a General Program in Film Studies. This program leads to the BA degree (see General Program). Students may obtain a Minor by completing the requirements for the General Program together with a Major or Honours program or other degree program in another department or faculty (see Minor Program). Priority for admission to courses in Film Studies will go to students registered in the Film Studies Program or majoring in one of the departments offering courses in the Program.
Film Studies Minor Requirements
Students wishing to declare a Minor in Film Studies should contact the Advising Centre for their faculty after completing HA 295 (Introduction to Film Studies) with a grade of B- or better.
Students in this program are required to take 9 units of courses (except HA 295) selected from the following list:
| English |
| ENGL 413 (1.5) |
Studies in Film and Literature |
| ENGL 414A (1.5) |
American Film to 1945 |
| ENGL 414B (1.5) |
American Film Since 1945 |
| ENGL 415 (1.5) |
Special Studies in Film |
| Fine Arts |
| FA 305 (1.5 or 3.0) |
Theory and Practice of Film and Video Direction |
| French |
| FRAN 335 (1.5) |
Topics in Cinema and Literature of the French speaking World (in English) |
| FRAN 389A (1.5) |
French Cinema |
| FRAN 389B (1.5) |
Quebec Cinema |
| FRAN 389D (1.5) |
African Cinema |
| FRAN 389E (1.5) |
The Court of Louis XIV on Screen |
| German |
| GERS 356 (1.5) |
A Short History of German Film |
| GERS 433 (1.5) |
“Overcoming the Past” in Film and Text |
| GERS 437 (1.5) |
Major German Filmmakers |
| GERS 439 (1.5) |
The New German Cinema |
| GERS 483 (1.5) |
Recent German Film |
| GERS 487 (1.5) |
A Cultural History of Vampires in Literature and Film |
| Greek and Roman Studies |
| GRS 382 (1.5) |
The Ancient World on Film |
| History in Art |
| HA 312 (1.5) |
Feminism and Film |
| HA 363 (1.5 |
The Cinema and Modern Art Movements |
| HA 364 (1.5) |
Documentary Film |
| HA 365 (1.5) |
Experimental Film |
| HA 367 (1.5) |
History in Cinema |
| HA 370 (1.5) |
Popular Film and Cultural Theory |
| HA 477 (1.5) |
Advanced Seminar in Film Studies |
| HA 478 (1.5) |
Advanced Seminar in Popular Culture |
| Music |
| MUS 315 (1.5) |
Topics in Music and the Cinema |
| MUS 352 (1.5) |
Introduction to Film Scoring and Sound Design |
| Pacific and Asian Studies |
| PAAS 357 (1.5) |
Topics in Contemporary Chinese Cinema |
| PAAS 358 (1.5) |
Screening the Nation: Nationalism, Ideology, and Politics in Chinese Cinema |
| PAAS 372 (1.5) |
Southeast Asian Cinema |
| PAAS 393 (1.5) |
Humanism in Japanese Cinema to 1960 |
| PAAS 487 (1.5) |
Trends in Japanese Cinema, 1960 to Present |
| Russian |
| RUSS 304A (1.5) |
Cinema in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods I |
| RUSS 304B (1.5) |
Cinema in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods II |
| RUSS 315 (1.5) |
Sculpting in Time: The Cinematic Art of Andrei Tarkovsky |
| RUSS 416 (1.5) |
Stalinist Cinema |
| RUSS 460 (1.5) |
Forbidden Books, Forbidden Film |
| Women’s Studies |
| WS 340 (1.5) |
Indigenous Cinema: De-colonizing the Screen |
| WS 349 (1.5) |
Topics in Film, Literature and Cultural Production |
| Writing |
| WRIT 300 (1.5) |
Narrative and Mythic Structure in Film Writing |
| WRIT 312 (1.5) |
Structure in Cinema and Television Drama |
| WRIT 320 (1.5) |
Film Writing and Production Workshop |
| WRIT 329 (1.5) |
International Film Writing |
| WRIT 412 (1.5) |
Recurrent Themes in Film |
| WRIT 420 (1.5) |
Film Writing and Production Workshop |
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