Global Cinema Minor
The global cinema minor is an interdisciplinary minor that 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 focused on 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.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
The interdisciplinary minor consists of five courses:
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| ARTH 159 |  The Film Experience: Introduction to the Visual Study of Film | 3 |
| or ENGL 142 | Film Analysis | |
| CMPL 143 | History of Global Cinema | 3 |
| Three electives from at least two different departments, chosen from the list below | 9 | |
| Total Hours | 15 | |
For additional information, contact the director of the global cinema minor.
Electives
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| AAAD 250 | The African American in Motion Pictures: 1900 to the Present | 3 |
| AMST 268 | American Cinema and American Culture | 3 |
| AMST 336 | Native Americans in Film | 3 |
| AMST 371 | LGTBQ Film and Fiction from 1950 to the Present | 3 |
| AMST 483 | Seeing the USA: The Film Director as Public Intellectual | 3 |
| ARAB 453 | Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World | 3 |
| ARTS 106 | Video I | 3 |
| ARTS 206 | Video II | 3 |
| ARTS 309 | 3D Animation | 3 |
| ASIA 124 | Iranian Post-1979 Cinema | 3 |
| ASIA 231 | Bollywood Cinema | 3 |
| ASIA 235 | Israeli Cinema: Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity H | 3 |
| ASIA 435 | The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa | 3 |
| ASIA/CMPL 255 | The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy H | 3 |
| ASIA/CMPL 379 | Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction H | 3 |
| CHIN 244 | Introduction to Modern Chinese Culture through Cinema | 3 |
| CHIN 464 | The City in Modern Chinese Literature and Film | 3 |
| CMPL 144 | Engaging Film and Media | 3 |
| CMPL 180 | Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood Productions and Beyond | 3 |
| CMPL 212 | The Cinematic City | 3 |
| CMPL 227 | Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema | 3 |
| CMPL 240 | Introduction to Film Theory | 3 |
| CMPL 254 | Horror and the Global Gothic: Film, Literature, Theory | 3 |
| CMPL 255 | The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy H | 3 |
| CMPL 262 | Film and Politics | 3 |
| CMPL 280 | Film Genres | 3 |
| CMPL/GSLL 281 | Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe | 3 |
| CMPL 282 | Russian Literature in World Cinema | 3 |
| CMPL 375 | New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and Its Legacies | 3 |
| CMPL 382 | Film and Nature | 3 |
| CMPL 420 | Film, Photography, and the Digital Image | 3 |
| CMPL 463 | Cinema and Surrealism | 3 |
| CMPL 494 | The Essay Film: Adventures in Modern Cinema since 1945 | 3 |
| COMM 230 | Audio/Video/Film Production and Writing | 3 |
| COMM/WGST 345 | Gender and Film | 3 |
| COMM 412 | Critical Theory | 3 |
| COMM 431 | Advanced Audio Production | 3 |
| COMM 452 | 3 | |
| COMM 534 | Aesthetic and Technical Considerations in Making Short Videos | 3 |
| COMM 546 | 3 | |
| COMM 547 | 3 | |
| COMM 550 | 3 | |
| COMM 551 | 3 | |
| COMM 635 | Documentary Production | 3 |
| COMM 647 | Advanced Projects in Media Production | 3 |
| COMM 653 | Experimental Video | 3 |
| COMM 654 | Motion Graphics, Special Effects, and Compositing | 3 |
| COMM 681 | Contemporary Film Theory | 3 |
| COMM 682 | History of the Moving Image: Pasts, Presents, Futures | 3 |
| COMM 683 | 3 | |
| ENGL 143 | Film and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 244 | Queer Cinema | 3 |
| ENGL 251 | Film Performance and Stardom | 3 |
| ENGL 255 | Introduction to Media Studies | 3 |
| ENGL 323 | American Cinema of the 1970s: New Hollywood and Beyond | 3 |
| ENGL 324 | Creating the Video Essay | 3 |
| ENGL 380 | Topics In Film History H | 3 |
| ENGL 381 | Literature and Cinema | 3 |
| ENGL 389 | Major Film Directors | 3 |
| ENGL 399 | Cinema and the Museum | 3 |
| ENGL 410 | Documentary Film H | 3 |
| ENGL 494 | Research Methods in Film Studies | 3 |
| ENGL 680 | Film Theory | 3 |
| ENGL 681 | Topics in Contemporary Film and Media H | 3 |
| FREN 386 | French New Wave Cinema | 3 |
| FREN 388 | History of French Cinema I: 1895-1950 | 3 |
| FREN 389 | History of French Cinema II: 1950 to the Present | 3 |
| GERM 265 | Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Germany | 3 |
| GERM 266 | Weimar Cinema | 3 |
| GERM 267 | Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema | 3 |
| GERM/CMPL/WGST 271 | Women in German Cinema | 3 |
| GERM 272 | History of German Cinema | 3 |
| GERM/PWAD 283 | Freedom, Terror, and Identity: Modern Philosophy from Kant to Arendt | 3 |
| GSLL 283 | Hungarian Cinema since World War II | 3 |
| HIST 302 | Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in Europe and America H | 3 |
| ITAL 333 | Italian Film and Culture | 3 |
| ITAL 335 | Themes in Italian Film | 3 |
| ITAL 340 | Italian America | 3 |
| PORT 388 | Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film | 3 |
| SPAN 361 | Hispanic Film | 3 |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
Department Programs
Majors
Minors
- Comparative Literature Minor
- Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Literacy Minor
- Creative Writing Minor
- English Minor
- Global Cinema Minor
- Latina/o Studies Minor
- Medicine, Literature, and Culture Minor
Graduate Programs
Department of English and Comparative Literature
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Chair
Marsha Collins
