Film and Television Minor

Students must pursue either film or television as a sequence of study. The film and television (FITV) minor requires six courses. Required courses are:

Course Title Credits
Departmental Introductory Course
Introduction to Communication and Media Studies (if taken before spring 2017)
Fundamentals of Communication and Media Studies
Film, Television, Identity and Difference Course
Select one Film, Television, Identity and Difference course, ordinarily taken senior year 1
FITV Sequences
Select one of the following sequences:
For students interested in pursuing the film sequence:
Understanding Film
History of Film, 1895-1950
Film Theory and Criticism
For students interested in pursuing the television sequence:
Understanding Television
History of Television
Television Theory and Criticism
FITV Electives
Select any two courses with the FITV subject code 2
1

Any course with the FIID attribute code may fulfill this requirement (see list below).

2

Any course with the FITV subject code may fulfill this requirement.

Film, Television, Identity, and Difference courses

Courses in this group have the FIID attribute.

These courses explore film and television from minority, ethnic, diasporic, postcolonial, colonial, indigenous, global, feminist, and queer traditions. They center on how race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, and disability shape the aesthetics, politics, and ethics of film and television. Fundamentally, they are attentive to the importance of intersectionality as well as social justice in theory and practice.

Course Title Credits
COMC 2277Media and Sexuality4
COMC 3240Photography, Identity, Power4
FITV 2670Television and Social Change4
FITV 3548Film and Gender4
FITV 3554African American Cinema4
FITV 3585Transnational Asian Media4
FITV 3588Global Cinema4
FITV 3604Critical Production Studies in Film and Television4
FITV 3637Queer Studies in Film and Television4
FITV 3647TV, Identity, and Representation4
FITV 3648Television, Race, and Civil Rights4
FITV 3658Italian Americans on Screen4
FITV 3688Global Television4
FITV 4554Black Experimental and Art Cinema4
FITV 4570Films of Moral Struggle4
FITV 4660Ethics of Reality Television4

Learning Outcomes

Upon graduation from the film and television major or minor, students will have achieved the following curricular goals:

  1. Develop a critically-informed understanding of film and television as a set of industries and institutions, forms of aesthetic expression, sites of cultural contestation, modes of representation, spaces of creative production, and evolving political-economic ecosystems.
  2. Be conversant in the multiple histories and theories of cinema and/or television, and be able to connect those histories and theories to current and emerging screen-based media forms.
  3. Be able to frame cinematic and televisual production, distribution and consumption within the context of regulatory, economic and policy parameters, as well as social norms and systemic and institutional exclusions.
  4. Be able to articulate the role that film and television play in the development of identities, cultures, and beliefs on local, national, and global scales.
  5. Cultivate skills necessary to ethically create and engage in varying forms of film and television writing, production, and reception, and thus develop a holistic appreciation of film and television cultures.

Availability

The minor in film and television is available at Fordham College at Rose Hill and Fordham College at Lincoln Center. Students in Fordham's School of Professional and Continuing Studies may minor in film and television only if they receive the approval of their advising dean and/or department, and their schedules are sufficiently flexible to permit them to take day courses at the Rose Hill or Lincoln Center campuses. Such students must provide the Communication and Media Studies Associate Chair at their home campus a statement confirming they are able to take day classes in order to fulfill their minor requirements.