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Cinema and Media Studies

Our students analyze moving images from every angle.

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Explore cinema and media theories and techniques in an interdisciplinary minor in Cinema and Media Studies! Cinema and Media Studies students learn how to read and instrumentalize the building blocks of film form to both analyze film and media texts as well as produce and edit media of their own.

Ranking in the top 5 U.S. media markets, our Boston location offers countless exciting and rigorous internship and career opportunities. Simmons Cinema and Media Studies students go on to jobs in content creation and media production across web, tv, and film, as well as graduate programs in Film, Cinema/Media Studies, Communications, Cultural Studies, and more!

Minor Requirements

One elective must be a production class. (Production classes are ART 138, ART 139, ART 232, ART 237, ART 239, ART 256, COMM 120, COMM 121, COMM 163, COMM 220, COMM 222, COMM 246, and COMM 262) In addition, at least one elective must be at the 200- or 300-level. No more than two photography classes will be counted toward the minor.

Required Courses:

LTWR195	Art of Film	4
LTWR221	The Critical Lens: Introduction to Film and Media Theory	4

Elective Courses:

ART138	The Poetry of Photography	4
ART139	Color Photography CSI	4
ART232	Advanced Digital Workshop	4
ART237	Advanced Black and White Photography	4
ART239	Art of the Real: Documentary Photography	4
ART249	History of Photography	4
ART256	Approaches in Contemporary Photography	4
AST202	Introduction to Black Popular Culture	4
AST307	Black History at the Movies	4
CHIN214	Contemporary Chinese Cinema	4
COMM120	Communications Media	4
COMM121	Visual Communication	4
COMM124	Media, Messages and Society	4
COMM163	Radio Operations and Podcasting	4
COMM220	Video Production	4
COMM222	Animation	4
COMM246	Digital Imaging for Design	4
COMM262	Media Convergence	4
COMM263	Social Media Journalism	4
COMM323	Digital Cultures	4
LTWR230	Postcolonial Film	4
LTWR327	Psychoanalysis, Race and Sexuality	4
LTWRLTWR 354	Studies in Film: Melodrama	4
LTWR398	Feminist Media Studies	4
FREN314	Topics in French and Francophone Cinema	4
HIST254	History Through Novels & Film	4
HIST329	Film and History Representation	4
HIST374	Modern U.S. History: Digital Humanities	4
MUS165	Music in Film	4
PHIL152	Philosophy Through Literature and Film	4
SPAN314	Hispanic Culture as Seen Through Film	4

Restrictions on Electives

One elective must be a production class Production classes are designated:

ART138	The Poetry of Photography	4
ART139	Color Photography CSI	4
ART232	Advanced Digital Workshop	4
ART237	Advanced Black and White Photography	4
ART239	Art of the Real: Documentary Photography	4
ART256	Approaches in Contemporary Photography	4
COMM120	Communications Media	4
COMM121	Visual Communication	4
COMM220	Video Production	4
COMM222	Animation	4
COMM246	Digital Imaging for Design	4
COMM262	Media Convergence	4
COMM263	Social Media Journalism	4

At least one elective must be at the 200 or 300 level. No more than two photography classes will be counted toward the minor.

Our Faculty

Pamela Bromberg

Professor Emerita

Kelly Hager

Associate Provost, Curriculum, Assessment, and Accreditation

Alister Inglis

Professor

Sarah Leonard

Associate Professor and Graduate History Program Director

Suzanne Leonard

Professor and Program Director for Gender and Cultural Studies

Briana Martino

Associate Professor and Department Chair

Saher Selod

Associate Professor

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