The mission of the Film Studies minor is to increase students’ ability to think critically and communicate clearly about the relationship between images, ideas, narrative, and sound. Film Studies produces a media literacy that will complement any major at IU South Bend. The Film Studies minor is open to all students and will serve them well as a discipline that will enrich the way they see and interpret the world.
IU South Bend’s interdisciplinary film Studies minor provides students with a broad media literacy education on the major art form of cinema. The Film Studies minor approaches cinema as an artistic medium, a material practice, and a cultural artifact. Students in the Film Studies minor will become scholars, critical consumers, and perhaps even producers of a socially significant and constantly evolving medium. Courses in the Film Studies minor provide students with a solid foundation in the history of U.S. and international film, and the aesthetics, techniques, ideologies, and theories of the moving image.
(with thanks to York College of Pennsylvania and Bellarmine University’s Film Studies programs)