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Film Studies

Rochester Institute of Technology · Rochester, NY

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Program
Award
Minor
Total credits (published)
15
Catalog edition
2026-2027 RIT Undergraduate Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
Film studies explores the role of cinema in our contemporary global culture. Using methodologies and perspectives from a variety of disciplines, such as English, anthropology, philosophy, fine arts/visual culture, political science, history, and modern languages, the film studies minor investigates cinema’s mass appeal as a form of entertainment, but also the power it wields as a disseminator of ideas, history, values, aesthetics, behavior, and cultural norms.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
195003
CourseShelf checklist
CK_195003_7d68730c
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Curriculum

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    Electives

    Choose 5 of the following · Select five of the following: · electives · 25 items
    1. Select five of the following:
      Not resolved to a course
      15
    2. ANTH 265
      Native Americans in Film
      Not resolved to a course
    3. ANTH 310
      African Film
      Not resolved to a course
    4. ANTH 430
      Visual Anthropology
      Not resolved to a course
    5. ENGL 319
      Anime
      Not resolved to a course
    6. ENGL 410
      Film Studies
      Not resolved to a course
    7. HIST 275
      Screening the Trenches: The History of WWI Through Film
      Not resolved to a course
    8. HIST 450
      Japan in History, Fiction and Film
      Not resolved to a course
    9. MLFR 151
      Film, Animation, Comics, and French Culture
      Not resolved to a course
    10. MLFR 351
      French Films and Hollywood
      Not resolved to a course
    11. MLFR 352
      The French Heritage in Films
      Not resolved to a course
    12. MLIT 351
      Italian Cinema from Neorealism to the New Millennium
      Not resolved to a course
    13. PHIL 313
      Philosophy of Film
      Not resolved to a course
    14. POLS 490
      Politics Through Film
      Not resolved to a course
    15. VISL 100
      Introduction to Visual Arts 1
      Not resolved to a course
    16. VISL 120
      Introduction to Film 1
      Not resolved to a course
    17. VISL 140
      Introduction to Visual Culture 1
      Not resolved to a course
    18. VISL 210
      Vision, Media and Technology in Rochester
      Not resolved to a course
    19. VISL 320
      Contemporary Cinema: Fact and Fiction
      Not resolved to a course
    20. VISL 365
      Queering Cinema
      Not resolved to a course
    21. VISL 366
      Decoding Popular Film and Television
      Not resolved to a course
    22. VISL 372
      American Film of the Studio Era
      Not resolved to a course
    23. VISL 373
      American Film Since the Sixties
      Not resolved to a course
    24. VISL 440
      Deaf Art & Cinema
      Not resolved to a course
    25. WGST/MLCH-352
      Globalization and Gender through Chinese Cinema: From Kungfu to World Factory
      Not resolved to a course
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