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Program Minimum Units
29 Units
University Minimum Units
18 Units
Interests
Art: Visual & Performing, Media, Communications & Marketing, Technology
Academic Areas
Humanities & Arts, Design

Overview

Upon declaring the minor, students select an advisor with whom they plan their study and electives. A proposed course of study must be approved by the advisor and placed in the student’s departmental file.

Minors must attend an orientation session presented by the professional staff of the Art & Architecture Library, which introduces the many tools of research and reference available on campus or through the Internet. This requirement should be completed before the quarter following the minor declaration.

Requirements

Program Requirements

Conditions

Courses may not be offered every year and are subject to change. Consult the Student Services Specialist if a course is not listed below.

Courses that use film and media to simply illustrate a cultural topic may not be considered. Only those courses that center on film and media and use the methods of film and media study may be used toward completion of the minor.

Required Courses

Complete all of the following course(s):
FILMEDIA 4

Introduction to Film Study

4-5 Units
FILMEDIA 6

Media and Mediums

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 102

Theories of the Moving Image: The Technologically Mediated Image

4 Units
FILMEDIA 100A

History of World Cinema I: Silent Cinema and Modern Life

5 Units
or
FILMEDIA 100B

History of World Cinema II: Film as Industrial Art

4 Units
or
FILMEDIA 100C

History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World

3-5 Units

Elective Courses

Students must complete 3 additional FILMEDIA and FILMPROD courses. Up to two Film Production (FILMPROD) courses may count toward completion of the minor. Current FILMEDIA and FILMPROD course offerings can be found on Navigate Classes opens in a new tab.

Complete at least 3 of the following courses:
COMM 1B

Media, Culture, and Society

5 Units
FILMEDIA 50Q

The Video Essay: Writing with Video about Media and Culture

3 Units
FILMEDIA 101

Close Cinematic Analysis: Poetic Cinema

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 110N

Coming-of-Age Movies

3 Units
FILMEDIA 114

Reading Comics

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 114Q

Reading Comics

3 Units
FILMEDIA 120

Superhero Theory

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 129

Animation and the Animated Film

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 135

Around the World in Ten Films

3-4 Units
FILMEDIA 140

An Architectural Imagination

4 Units
FILMEDIA 167

The Hollywood Musical

4 Units
FILMEDIA 192

AI Art, Performance, and Aesthetics

5 Units
FILMEDIA 210

Documentary Perspectives I

3 Units
FILMEDIA 211

Documentary Perspectives II

3-4 Units
FILMEDIA 211N

Childish Enthusiasms and Perishable Manias

3 Units
FILMEDIA 216

Media and the Environment

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 226

The Films of Richard Linklater

5 Units
FILMEDIA 253

Aesthetics and Phenomenology

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 267

Intimacies as Method: Studying Black and Brown Relation

4-5 Units
FILMEDIA 270

German Media Theory

3-5 Units
FILMEDIA 275

The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde

5 Units
FILMEDIA 281

Contemporary Asian Filmmakers

5 Units
FILMPROD 101

Screen Writing I: Visual Writing

5 Units
FILMPROD 101M

Science/Fiction: Screenwriting about Science

5 Units
FILMPROD 101T

Writing the Television Pilot

5 Units
FILMPROD 102

Topics in Screenwriting: Inside the Writers' Room

5 Units
FILMPROD 104

Screenwriting II: Intermediate Screenwriting

5 Units
FILMPROD 105

Script Analysis

4 Units
FILMPROD 105C

Crafting Story for Film and Television

3-4 Units
FILMPROD 107

Industry Immersion: Film and Media

1 Units
FILMPROD 110

Screen Writing III: Advanced Screenwriting

5 Units
FILMPROD 114

Introduction to Film and Video Production

5 Units
FILMPROD 117

Filmmaking: Ethno-fictions and Shared Anthropologies

4 Units
FILMPROD 118

Remixing the Moving Image

4 Units
FILMPROD 119

Documentary Cinematography

3-4 Units
FILMPROD 151

16mm Experimental Film Workshop

3-5 Units
FILMPROD 210

Elements of Filmmaking: Sound Design

3-4 Units

For courses cross-listed between Film and Media Studies and another Stanford department or program, FMS minors should enroll for the FILMEDIA course listing.