Cinema and Media Studies Minor

The CAMS minor consists of 6 units, as detailed below.

Students are required to take the following:

1. CAMS 201 Technologies of Cinema and Media
2. CAMS 202 Aesthetics of Cinema and Media

3. Three courses from this list:

• AMST 245/CAMS 245 Speculative Media in the US since 1973
• AMST 254/CAMS 254 Carceral Cinema in the US
• ARTS 108/CAMS 138 Photography I
• ARTS 110 4D Design Intro to New Media
• ARTS 165/CAMS 135 Introduction to Video Production
• ARTS 208/CAMS 238 Photo II
• ARTS 221/CAMS 239 Digital Imaging
• ARTS 255/CAMS 255 Dynamic Interface Design
• ARTS 260/CAMS 230 Moving Image Studio
• ARTS 265/CAMS 235 Intermediate Video Production
• CAMS 100 Introduction to Media and Screen Cultures
• CAMS 101 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies
• CAMS 203 Chinese Cinema
• CAMS 208/ENG 208 Writing for Television
• CAMS 218 Theories of Media from Photography to Internet
• CAMS 219 Ecological Approaches to Cinema and Media Studies
• CAMS 221 21st Century Documentary
• CAMS 222 Documentary Film and Media
• CAMS 225 From the Fairground to Netflix: Cinema in the Public Sphere
• CAMS 234/ENG 204, The Art of Screenwriting
• CAMS 234/ENG 204 The Art of Screenwriting
• CAMS 246 Global Cinema in the 21st Century
• CAMS 286/GER 286 Fantasy Factories: Film and Propaganda in Nazi Germany and Beyond
• CAMS 288 The Laboratory of Modernity: German Film Culture from Weimar to the Studio System
• MUS 275 Computer Music: Synthesis Techniques and Compositional Practice

4. One course at the 300-level to be selected from this list:

• ARTS 308/CAMS 338 Photo III
• ARTS 313/CAMS 313 Virtual Form
• ARTS 365/CAMS 335 Advanced Projects in Lens-Based Media
• ARTS 366/CAMS 366 Advanced Projects in Film and Architecture
• CAMS 301 Surveillance Media
• CAMS 310 Film Festivals
• CAMS 314 Virtual Realities: Realism and Reality in the Digital Age
• CAMS 324 Film Genre, Genre Films