Minor in Film Studies

This minor is available to students registered in a 120 credit hour Bachelor of Applied Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Community Design, Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Informatics, Bachelor of Management, Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Science (Medical Sciences) program. It is an inter-University program that allows students to obtain credit hours from any of the participating institutions in addition to Dalhousie: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Saint Mary’s University, and the University of King’s College.

A minimum of 24 credit hours in Film Studies above the 1000 level are required. Within those 24 credit hours, students must include:

• FILM 2311.03: Film Analysis or SMU ENGL 2511.03: Reading Film
• FILM 2301.03: Film History 1 or NSCAD AHIS 2800.03: Film History and Criticism 1890-1945
• FILM 3301.03: Film History 2 or NSCAD AHIS 2810.03: Film History and Criticism 1945-Present
• 9 credits of electives above the 2000 level

* Students are strongly advised to take the core courses as soon as they declare their film minor.

Electives

• CANA 3401.03/INDG 3401.03/FILM 3401.03: Indigenous Representation in Film
• CHIN 3050.03/FILM 3350.03: Topics in Asian Cinema
• CTMP 3302.03: Film Theory
• CTMP 3304.03/GWST 3304.03/JOUR 3304.03: Through Her Eyes: Women and the Documentary Tradition
• CTMP 3305.03: Modern Film and the Theory of the Gaze
• ENGL 2095.03: Narrative in the Cinema
• ENGL 3300.03: TV: Theory and Criticism
• FILM 2350.03: Studies in Film Directors
• FILM 2360.03: Popular Cinema
• FILM 3314.03/ENGL 3314.03/THEA 3314.03: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries on Film
• FILM 3331.03/GWST 3331.03: Film Theory II: Desire in Cinema
• FILM 3351.03: The Cinema of David Lynch
• FILM 3370.03: Animated Film
• FILM 3915.03/THEA 3915.03: Stars and Stardom on Stage and Screen
• FILM 4101.03: Short Apprenticeship
• FILM 4102.06: Long Apprenticeship
• FILM 4390.03: Special Topics in Film Studies
• FILM 4391.03: Special Topics in Popular Cinema
• FILM 4392.03: Point of View in the Cinema
• FILM 4393.03/THEA 4924.03: Special Topics in Theatre and Cinema
• FILM 4926.03/PERF 4926.03/THEA 4926.03: Creative Responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream
• FREN 2800.03: Cinema: The French Phenomenon I
• FREN 2801.03: Cinema: The French Phenomenon II
• GERM 2040.03/FILM 2040.03: Monsters and Madness in 20th Century German Film
• ITAL 2600.03/FILM 2314.03: Survey of Italian Cinema
• ITAL 3500.03: Topics in Italian Culture: Italian Neorealist Cinema
• ITAL 3600.03/FILM 3320.03: Italian National Cinema
• JOUR 3662.03: The Journalist as Documentarian
• JOUR 3663.03: Documentary Journalism
• MUSC 2016.03/FILM 2016.03: Topics in Music and Cinema
• RUSN 2036.03/FILM 2336.03: Russian Film I
• RUSN 2037.03/FILM 2337.03: Russian Film II
• RUSN 2043.03/ENGL 2043.03/FILM 2043.03: How iRead the Eye-Books: Film and Multimedia Adaptations of World Literature
• RUSN 2044.03/ENGL 2044.03/FILM 2044.03: How iRead the Eye-Books: Film Adaptations of World Literature II
• RUSN 2046.03/FILM 2346.03: East European Cinema: War, Love, and Revolutions

The following courses at NSCAD University and St. Mary's University (SMU) can count toward the Minor in Film Studies. Students will need to obtain Letters of Permission in order to take these classes for credit.

• NSCAD AHIS 3822.03: Topics in Film History: Hitchcock's Films
• NSCAD AHIS 3826.03: Topics in Film History: Film Noir and Neo-Noir
• NSCAD AHIS 3832.03: Topics in Film History: Canadian Cinema
• NSCAD AHIS 3835.03: Topics in Film History: Contemporary Cinemas of Globalization
• NSCAD AHIS 3836.03: Topics in Film History: Subjectivities in Moving Pictures
• NSCAD AHIS 3837.03: Topics in Film History: Out on Screen
• NSCAD AHIS 3839.03: The Director’s Cinema
• NSCAD AHIS 3840.03: Art Cinema Histories
• NSCAD AHIS 3841.03: Cinema and Postcolonialism
• NSCAD AHIS 3850.03: History and Criticism of Documentary Film
• NSCAD FHIS 3852.03: Cinemas of Globalization
• SMU ACST 3305.03: Moving Images of Atlantic Canada
• SMU ENGL 3313.06: Narrative in Fiction and Film
• SMU ENGL 3511.03: Film and the City
• SMU RELS 3356.03: Religions and Film
• SMU ENGL 3511.03: Film and the City
• SMU ENGL 2325.03: The Media in Everyday Life
• SMU ENGL 3826.03: Contemporary Canadian Film and Television
• SMU FREN 2260.03: Francophone Cultures through Film
• SMU FREN 2300:03: French Film Comedy
• SMU HIST SMU 3450.03: Film and History
• SMU SOSI 3346.03/CRIM 3303.03: Crime and the Media
• SMU SOSI 4452.03: Atlantic Canadian Film and Television

Contact the Fountain School of Performing Arts for more information.