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Program checklist · Minor

Film and Screen Studies

Stony Brook University · Stony Brook, NY

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Program
Award
Minor
Catalog edition
Fall 2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Description
The Minor in Film and Screen Studies (FSS) allows students to study cinema both as a specific art form with its own history and language and as a medium that participates in the broader field of literary and other cultural production.
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
196097
CourseShelf checklist
CK_196097_6ef6aa74
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

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

Minor Requirements

0 items

    One Core Course (3 credits)

    1 item
    1. EGL 220
      Critical Approaches to the Cinema 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course

    One of the following courses (3 credits)

    3 items
    1. CCS 200
      Media History 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    2. CCS 202
      Film Genres 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    3. CCS 203
      Cinema History 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course

    Three of the following courses (9 credits)

    28 items
    1. ARH 398
      Topics in Film and Video Art 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    2. ARS 326
      Video Art: Narrative Forms 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    3. ARS 329
      Video Art: Experimental Forms 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    4. ARS 425
      Advanced New Media Art 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    5. CCS 301
      Cinema and Media Theory 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    6. CCS 311
      Gender and Genre in Film 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    7. CCS 312
      Cinema and the Ancient World 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    8. CCS 313
      Television Studies 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    9. CCS 381
      Topics in Cinema Studies 6 credits.
      Not resolved to a course
    10. CCS 382
      Topics in Media and Popular Culture 6 credits.
      Not resolved to a course
    11. CCS 391
      Topics in Contemporary African Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
      Not resolved to a course
    12. CCS 392
      Topics in American Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
      Not resolved to a course
    13. CCS 393
      Topics in European Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
      Not resolved to a course
    14. CCS 394
      Topics in Asian Cinema and Cultural Studies 6 credits.
      Not resolved to a course
    15. CCS 401
      Senior Seminar in Cinema & Cultural Studies 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    16. CLT 335
      Interdisciplinary Study of Film 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    17. EGL 303
      Genre or Media 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
      Not resolved to a course
    18. EGL 325
      Screenwriting 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    19. THR 325
      Screenwriting 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    20. EGL 390
      Topics in American or Anglophone Literary History 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
      Not resolved to a course
    21. EGL 393
      Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
      Not resolved to a course
    22. EGL 394
      Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies of Science and Technology 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
      Not resolved to a course
    23. HUI 338
      Images of Italian Americans in Film 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    24. HUS 290
      Latin American Cinema 3 credits (formerly offered as HUS 390)
      Not resolved to a course
    25. SPN 405
      Issues in Hispanic Cultural Studies 3 credits (when topic is film- or screen media-related)
      Not resolved to a course
    26. SPN 420
      Topics in Spanish and Latin American Cinema 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    27. SUS 328
      Ecofeminism, Literature & Film 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    28. THR 403
      Media: Theory and Criticism 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course

    One elective course (3 credits) chosen from the following

    2 items
    1. EGL 121
      Global Film Traditions 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
    2. EGL 194
      Film: Mastering the Movies 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course

    A 200-level film course, such as

    1 item
    1. ARH 210
      The Art and Technology of Film 3 credits
      Not resolved to a course
      or: AAS 222 - Indian Cinemas and Cultures 3 credits
      or: AAS 232 - Introduction to Asian American Fiction and Film 3 credits
      or: HUF 211 - French Cinema 3 credits
      or: HUR 241 - Russian and Post-Soviet Cinema 3 credits

    300- or 400-level course

    1 item
    1. A 300- or 400-level course listed in section C, when not used to apply to the 9 required credits of section C.
      Not resolved to a course
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