Global Cinema Minor < University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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:

Course List
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

Course List
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 150	Critical Theory: Fear, Love, Laughter, and Loss - Film Genres and Spectatorship	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
CMPL 520	Cinema, Painting, and The Frame	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 534	Aesthetic and Technical Considerations in Making Short Videos	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
ENGL 143	Film and Culture	3
ENGL 244	Queer Cinema	3
ENGL 251	Film Performance and Stardom	3
ENGL 252	National and Transnational Cinemas	3
ENGL 253	Space and Place in Literature/Film ^H	3
ENGL 255	Introduction to Media Studies	3
ENGL 257	Video Games and Narrative Cinema	3
ENGL 323	American Cinema of the 1970s: New Hollywood and Beyond	3
ENGL 324	Creating the Video Essay	3
ENGL 378	Film Criticism	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/CMPL 387	French New Wave Cinema	3
FREN/CMPL 388	History of French Cinema I: 1895-1950	3
FREN/CMPL 389	History of French Cinema II: 1950 to the Present	3
GERM 265	Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi Germany	3
GERM/CMPL 266	Weimar Cinema	3
GERM/CMPL/WGST 271	Women, Gender and Sexuality 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
GERM/CMPL 467	Contemporary German and Austrian Cinema	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.