Minoring in Global Cinema at UNC
The global cinema minor, housed in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, offers an interdisciplinary minor in global cinema studies. This five-course minor enables students to explore the changing, global face of cinema in its aesthetic, economic, historical, linguistic, literary, and social contexts. Students select a flexible, rigorous, and exciting course of study of the place of film within and across human cultures. The minor aims to provide undergraduates with grounding in the history of cinema’s development across the world as well as current trends and developments in global film production. The minor places a particular emphasis on the development of students’ critical judgment and written expression. Undergraduate students majoring in any academic unit are eligible.
| The interdisciplinary minor consists of five courses: |
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| One (1) of the following: ART 159 The Film Experience ENGL 142 Film Analysis |
| One (1) of the following: CMPL 143 Introduction to Global Cinema IDST 256 Global Cinema |
| Three (3) electives from at least two (2) different departments, chosen from the list below. |
| Electives for the Cinema Minor |
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| AAAD 250 Blacks in Film |
| AMST 268 American Cinema and American Culture AMST 336 Native Americans in Film |
| ARAB 453 Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World |
| ART 290 Topics in Visual Arts* |
| ASIA 224 Introduction to Iranian Cinema ASIA 231 Bollywood Cinema ASIA 235 Israeli Cinema: Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity ASIA 435 The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa |
| ASIA/CMPL 379 Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction |
| CHIN 244 Introduction to Modern Chinese Culture through Cinema CHIN 464 The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film |
| CMPL 220 Global Authors: Jane Austen* CMPL 223 Global Authors: Cervantes* CMPL 225 Global Authors: Shakespeare in World Cinema* CMPL 227 Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema* CMPL 254 Horror and the Global Gothic: Film, Literature, Theory CMPL 255 The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy CMPL 280 Film Genres CMPL 272 Global Queer Cinema* CMPL 281/SLAV 281 Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe CMPL 282/RUSS 281 Russian Literature in World Cinema CMPL 375 New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and Its Legacies CMPL 382 Film and Nature CMPL 420 Film, Photography, and the Digital Image CMPL 452 The Middle Ages in Film* CMPL 463 Cinema and Surrealism CMPL 494 Cinematic Uses of the Essay Form CMPL 452 The Middle Ages in Film* |
| CMPL/EURO/FREN 332H Cultural Identities in European Cinema |
| COMM 131 Introduction to Writing for the Screen and Stage* COMM 230 Audio/Video/Film Production/Writing COMM 330 Introduction to Writing Film/TV* COMM 331 Writing the Short Film* COMM 332 Writing the Feature Film I* COMM 412 Critical Theory COMM 431 Advanced Audio Production COMM 452 Film Noir COMM 534 Narrative Production COMM 543 World Media History COMM 546 History of Film I, 1895 to 1945 COMM 547 History of Film II, 1945 to Present COMM 550 American Independent Cinema COMM 551 Hitchcock and the Sign COMM 635 Documentary Production COMM 653 Experimental Video COMM 654 Motion Graphics, Visual Effects, and Composing COMM 681 Contemporary Film Theory COMM 682 History of the Moving Image: Pasts, Presents, Futures COMM 683 Moving-Image Avante-Gardes and Experimentalism |
| COMM/GERM 275 History of German Cinema |
| COMM/WMST 656 Women in Film |
| ENGL 143 Film and Culture ENGL 280 The Western ENGL 380 Film History ENGL 381 Literature and Cinema* ENGL 410 Documentary Film ENGL 465 Difference, Aesthetics, and Affect* ENGL 580 Film: Contemporary Issues ENGL 663 Postcolonial Theory ENGL 680 Film Pedagogy/Theory ENGL 682 Film History* |
| FREN 373 French New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and Its Legacies FREN 388 History of French Cinema* FREN 398 Cultural Identities in European Cinema* FREN 505 African Francophone Cinema* |
| GERM 265 Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Germany GERM 281 Freedom and Terror: Modern Philosophy from Kant to Arendt GERM 394 Topics in German Cinema: Contemporary German & Austrian Cinema* GERM 880 Gender and Sexuality in German Cinema: From Weimar to the Present* |
| GERM/WMST 250 Women in German Cinema |
| HIST 301 Screening History: Africa at the Movies HIST 490 History of Film in the West* |
| HUNG 280 Hungarian Cinema since World War II |
| ITAL 333 Italian Film and Culture ITAL 335 Special Topics in Italian Film ITAL 340 Italian America in Literature and Film |
| JAPN 490 Topics in Japanese: Japanese Culture through Film and Literature* |
| POLI 50 First Year Seminar: Movies and Politics* |
| PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film |
| RUSS 281 Russian Literature in World Cinema |
| SPAN 361 Spanish Film and Culture* |
| SPAN 362 The Quest for Identity in Contemporary Spain* |
*This course does not yet count automatically towards the minor. You will need to complete a request form.
Or, direct inquiries to: cinema@unc.edu
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