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2024-2025 Catalog

Liberal Arts AA - Cinema Studies Option


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Code: AA.LA.CINST

The Cinema Studies option comprises a series of classes within a Liberal Arts context that allows students to learn about how films are made; how significance is created within films; the history of film; and other more specific topics such as American Cinema and Women in Cinema. The program offers Special Topics courses whose topics change; some that have been offered include Films of the 1970s, Film Noir, and Latin American Cinema.

Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

  1. Interpret films through a variety of aesthetic, cultural, historical, and theoretical frameworks.
  2. Use the terminology and analytic approaches specific to film analysis.
  3. Articulate thoughts about film in writing and speaking.
  4. Watch a film properly, in silence and darkness, without interruption.

CAREER PATHWAYS

RECOMMENDED SEMESTER SEQUENCE


First Semester


Subtotal: 15 Credits


Second Semester


Subtotal: 15 Credits


Third Semester


Subtotal: 16 Credits


Fourth Semester


MAT/ CIS/ INF


Mathematics/ Natural Science/ Technology Elective -

Subtotal: 14 Credits


GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS


Subtotal: 9 Credits


History Electives *


Subtotal: 6 Credits


Humanities Electives**


  • General Education Humanities course (but not in History [HIS]). 3 Credit(s) ** 
  • General Education Humanities course (but not in History [HIS] & not in the Arts [ART, MUS,THR, CIN)]. 3 Credit(s) ***

Subtotal: 9 Credits


Social Science Electives *


Two courses (6-9 cr.) to be selected from the following fields: Economics (ECO); Geography (GEO); Political Science (POL); Psychology (PSY); Sociology (SOC) and Anthropology (ANT).

Subtotal: 6 Credits


Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology


  • Natural Science Electives 8 Credit(s) *

Mathematics *


Subtotal: 12 Credits


Diversity Elective


Recommended:

Subtotal: 3 Credits


Subtotal: 45 Credits


Subtotal: 9 Credits


Free Electives


Subtotal: 6 Credits


Total Credit Hours: 60


Students are encouraged to take their courses in semester sequence order.

Please note that required courses may have prerequisites. Click on each course to view details.

General Education Elective(s) 

‡ Recommended: IST-123 Success 101 .

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