Explore your love of cinema with our film studies program
Are you a film buff who could spend hours streaming movies on Netflix? Take your love of movies to the next level with a film studies minor.
You’ll learn to appreciate motion pictures as an art and cultural phenomenon while fulfilling the artistic expression requirements of our central curriculum.
Watch movies in and outside of class? Check.
Read books and journals and blogs about movies? Check.
Talk and write about movies? Check.
Maybe even write screenplays and shoot short features? Check.
Popcorn? It’s up to you.
Our minor in film studies introduces students to the academic study of film. You’ll learn the vocabulary of film criticism and appreciation and apply it to the analysis of American and international films of the past century.
You may take all five film studies courses to satisfy the minor or any number of film-based courses in topics such as history, English literature, political science and Jewish studies. Another option is to take screenwriting or production courses for film studies credit.
In recent years, we’ve offered courses on topics as diverse as:
Film classes taken while studying away are also often appropriate for transfer credit as film studies courses.
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Adjunct Faculty in Communications
Email Address defrancescok@susqu.edu
Phone Number 570-372-4742
Associate Professor of Communications
Email Address hastings@susqu.edu
Phone Number 570-372-4359
Adjunct Faculty in Communications
Email Address heller@susqu.edu
Phone Number 570-372-4418
Adjunct Faculty in Communications
Email Address hershberger@susqu.edu
Phone Number 570-372-4423
Kate Hastings
570-372-4359
hastings@susqu.edu