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Department of English
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TO: Educational
Policies and Planning Committee
FROM: Michelle F. Eble, Director of Undergraduate Studies and
Curriculum Liaison, Department of English
DATE: September
1, 2009
SUBJECT: Film Studies Minor
The
Department of English Executive Committee, English department faculty, Thomas
Harriot College of Arts and Science curriculum committee, and the University
Curriculum Committee have approved the
proposed Film Studies Minor.
Film Studies Minor
This
interdisciplinary minor will be administered in the English department and
includes a curriculum structure that incorporates various inter-departmental
film offerings and allows for coordination of class offerings and schedules.
Collaborations among various units on campus have contributed to its creation.
Thank
you so much for considering this new minor.
Film Minor
Correspondence
------ Forwarded Message
From: "Fraley, Todd" <FRALEYT@ecu.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:14:45 -0500
To: <amanda.ann.klein@gmail.com>
Cc: "Holte, James Craig" <HOLTEJ@ecu.edu>, "Froula,
Anna" <FROULAA@ecu.edu>,
"Kean, Linda" <KEANL@ecu.edu>
Conversation: Support for Film Minor
Subject: Support for Film Minor
Amanda
Please consider this letter as support for the creation of the
interdisciplinary film studies minor. The
Thanks again. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Todd Fraley, PhD
Assistant Professor
Coordinator for Undergraduate Studies
School of Communication
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From: "Standish, Peter" <STANDISHP@ecu.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:20:28 -0500
To: Amanda Ann Klein <amanda.ann.klein@gmail.com>
Conversation: Minutes from the First Film Minor Planning Ad Hoc
Committee Meeting
Subject: RE: Minutes from the First Film Minor Planning Ad Hoc Committee
Meeting
As the regular teacher
of film courses in Spanish, I would like to record my full support for the
proposed minor in film studies, and hope eventually to be able to partcipate in it.
Peter Standish
Professor of Hispanic Studies
Dept. of Foreign
languages and Literatures.
From: Amanda Ann Klein [mailto:amanda.ann.klein@gmail.com]
Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 1:42 PM
To: Standish, Peter; Siegel, Robert J; Murenina,
Elena; Huang, Su-Ching; Kain, Donna; Simon, Maurice; Jones, Susanne; Middleton,
Joyce
Cc: Holte, James Craig; Froula,
Anna; Kean, Linda; Fraley, Todd; Eble, Michelle
Subject: Minutes from the First Film Minor Planning Ad Hoc Committee
Meeting
Dear Committee Members,
We had our first meeting today and it was extremely productive--we got some
good work done and have some great ideas for the future of the minor. Thanks
to everyone who came.
Please find attached the minutes from today's meeting. If you were not at
the meeting and need clarification on anything, please feel free to contact
one of us.
In order to move forward in making the film studies a formalized
interdisciplinary minor we need to hand several documents to the English
Department's Executive Committee by Feb 4.
This concerns you all because part of this process is gathering
letters/e-mails of support from interested departments. So, if you approve
of the minor structure (the document we e-mailed yesterday) then we would
appreciate a letter of support from your department. These letters can be
brief--they just need to indicate that you support the creation of this
minor and that it is fine for it to be housed in the English department.
We will need a letter from the following committee members on behalf of
their departments:
Susanne Jones (German)
Elena Murenina (Russian)
Peter Standish (Spanish)
Todd Fraley (Communications)
Maurice Simon (Political Science)
If you could send those e-mails/letters to me (Amanda) by Jan 29 (1 week
from today), that will ensure that we are able to meet the first of many
deadlines on the road to creating a minor.
We will send out e-mails as these documents make their way through various
committees and will be contacting you all again when it is necessary to have
another meeting.
In the meantime please feel free to e-mail the group with questions/concerns
and thank you in advance for your letters of support.
Sincerely,
Jim, Amanda, Anna and Todd
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Womens Studies Program
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January
28, 2009
RE: Support for Film Minor
The
Womens Studies Executive Committee supports the creation of an interdisciplinary
film minor to be housed in the Department of English.
We
anticipate utilizing its gender- and diversity-focused course offerings to
enhance the learning experiences of our own majors and minors, and we will work
closely with the lead faculty of the minor to create new WOST-prefixed courses
that focus on gender and film.
Thank
you for your hard work and vision in creating this new minor, which Im sure
will be popular with students from a variety of disciplines.
Sincerely,
Cheryl
Dudasik-Wiggs
Director,
Womens Studies Program
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From: "
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:29:07 -0500
To: <amanda.ann.klein@gmail.com>
Conversation: Film Studies minor
Subject: Film Studies minor
Amanda,
We are very happy to support the creation of the interdisciplinary
Film Studies minor, to be housed in the department of English.
Brad
Brad Lockerbie
Professor & Chair
Department of Political Science
Thomas Harriot College of Arts & Sciences
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
252-328-6189
252-328-4134 (fax)
February 2, 2009
Dr. Amanda Ann Klein
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Department of English
Bate Building 2147
Dr. Klein,
The Department of Sociology endorses the establishment of the proposed Interdisciplinary Film Studies minor to be housed in the Department of English, and plans to support the program with the course Sociology 3025: Sociology of Mass Media and other relevant special topics. If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
Yours sincerely
Leon C. Wilson, PhD
------ Forwarded Message
From: "Romer, Frank" <ROMERF@ecu.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:36:45 -0500
To: Amanda Ann Klein <amanda.ann.klein@gmail.com>
Conversation: Letters of support for Interdisciplinary Film Studies Minor (due Feb 3)
Subject: RE: Letters of support for Interdisciplinary Film Studies Minor (due Feb 3)
Dear Amanda Klein:
Our department supports you proposal for a Film Studies Minor, and we support its being housed in the English Department. It is our understanding that the Film Studies Minor Committee will be interdisciplinary in its composition.
Frank Romer
Professor
Department Chair
Foreign Languages and Literatures
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From: "Robinson, Lisa Beth" <ROBINSONLI@ecu.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:04:15 -0500
To: "Klein, Amanda" <KLEINA@ecu.edu>
Cc: "Drought, Michael" <DROUGHTM@ecu.edu>
Conversation: letter of support for the interdisciplinary film minor
Subject: letter of support for the interdisciplinary film minor
Dear Professor Klein,
The School of Art and Design is pleased to support the creation of the
interdisciplinary film studies minor. The creation of this program will
provide our students with a welcome range of opportunities and courses that
will enhance their academic experience. If you need more assistance, please do
not hesitate to contact us.
Michael
Michael H. Drought
Director
School of Art and Design
East Carolina University
2000 Jenkins Fine Arts Center
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
252.328.6665 Office
252.328.6441 Fax
droughtm@ecu.edu
**** Ad Astra!
Lisa Beth Robinson
East Carolina University
School of Art & Design
Greenville, NC 27858
robinsonli@ecu.edu
252/328-5480
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Catalog copypg. 137
Film
Studies Minor
James Holte, Coordinator, 2211 Bate
Building
The minor in film
studies provides students with an opportunity to study the history, theory, criticism,
cultural uses, aesthetics, and production practices of cinema. The courses are
designed to help students meet the new challenges they will encounter as
citizens and workers in the information age and to learn how to analyze and
engage critically with the visual media that has become a fixture of
contemporary life. This curriculum complements a wide range of liberal arts
majors by teaching students textual analysis, critical thinking, and writing
skills.
This interdisciplinary
minor asks students to forge connections between the discipline of film studies
and other disciplines, including literature, creative writing, rhetoric, music,
communications, history, foreign languages, sociology, and political science,
among others. Courses in the minor will address cinema within its social,
political and cultural contexts including an understanding of how race,
ethnicity, gender, religion and class are constructed through the cinematic
image. Courses taken towards the minor must come from at least 3 different
prefixes (ART, COMM, ENGL, GERM, MPRD, RUSS, SOCI, SPAN, or POLS). Other
appropriate courses may be considered for inclusion as electives change or upon
review by the director. Minimum degree requirement is 24 s.h. of credit. For more
information go to: http://www.ecu.edu/english/filmstudies/
1. Core
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6
s.h.
Choose one of the following:
ENGL 2900. Introduction to Film Studies (3) (F,S) (FC:HU) (P: 1000-level writing intensive
course
or advanced placement or
consent of instructor)
MPRD 2260. Image Theory and
Aesthetics (3) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of instructor; COMM
1001,1002)
Choose one of the following:
ENGL 4530. Special Topics Seminar (3) (WI*) (F,S) (P: Consent of
instructor; ENGL 1200)
COMM 4060. Special Problems in Communications (3) (F,S,SS) (P: COMM
major or minor or consent of instructor; COMM 1001, 1002)
2. Cognates
,
...
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..
..9 s.h.
Choose
one from each cognate:
Film Theory:
ENGL
3920. Film Theory and Criticism (3) (FC:HU) (WI) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of
the instructor)
ENGL 4980. Topics in Film Aesthetics (3) (F) (May be repeated with
change of topic for maximum 6
s.h.) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of instructor)
SOCI 3025. Sociology of Mass Media (3) (FC: SO) (P: SOCI
2110)
Film History:
ENGL 3900. American and
International Film History Part I (3) (F) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of
instructor)
ENGL 3901. American and
International Film History Part II (3) (S) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of
instructor)
ENGL 4910. Survey of Film Styles and Movements (3) (WI*) (F)
(FC:HU) (P: 6 s.h. of
literature or consent of
instructor)
MPRD 2250. Classic
Documentaries, 1900-2000 (3) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of instructor;
COMM 1001,1002)
MPRD 3660. History of the
Moving Image (3) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of instructor; COMM 1001,
1002)
Multicultural/Transnational/International
Film:
COMM 4040. Media, Culture,
and Society (3) (F,S) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of instructor; COMM
1001, 1002; 15 hours COMM courses or consent of instructor)
ENGL 4920. Contemporary
American and International Cinema (3) (WI*) (S) (FC:HU) (P: 6 s.h. of literature or consent of instructor; RP: ENGL 4910)
ENGL 4985. Issues in Cinema
and Culture (3) (S) (May be repeated with change of topic for maximum 6 s. h.)
(P: ENGL 2900 or consent of instructor)
ETHN
3501. Selected Topics in Ethnic Studies: Humanities (3) (F) (FC:HU)
GERM 3700. Special Topics (3) (May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic) (P:
GERM 2210 or 2211; or consent of instructor)
POLS 3012. Politics Through Film (3) (S) (FC:SO)
RUSS 3230. Russian and Soviet Film (3) (FC:HU) (P: RUSS 2120 or
consent of instructor)
SPAN 5445. Hispanic Cinema (3) (May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic) (P:
Consent of dept. chair)
3. Electives
..
..9 s.h.
Note: Courses taken
for the core requirement or as cognates may not be repeated as electives.
ART
3080. Introductory Video Art (3) (P for art majors: ART 1015, 1030; P for
communication arts
students:
ART 2220)
ART
3081. Intermediate Video Art (3)
COMM 4040. Media, Culture,
and Society (3) (F,S) (Formerly COMM 4600; EMST 3530) (P: COMM major or minor
or consent of instructor; COMM 1001, 1002; 15 hours COMM courses or consent of
instructor)
COMM 4060. Special
Problems in Communication (3) (F,S,SS) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of
instructor; COMM 1001, 1002)
ENGL 2900. Introduction to
Film Studies (3) (F,S) (FC:HU) (P: 1000-level writing intensive course or
advanced placement or consent of instructor)
ENGL 3660. Representing Environmental Crisis (3) (F) (P: ENGL 1200)
ENGL 3900. American and International
Film History Part I (3) (F) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of instructor)
ENGL 3901. American and
International Film History Part II (3) (S) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of
instructor)
ENGL 3920. Film Theory and Criticism (3) (WI) (P: ENGL 2900 or
consent of the instructor)
ENGL 4910. Survey of Film Styles and Movements (3) (WI*) (F)
(FC:HU) (P: 6 s.h. of
literature or consent of instructor)
ENGL 4920. Contemporary American and International Cinema (3) (WI*)
(S) (FC:HU) (P:
6 s.h. of literature or consent of
instructor; RP: ENGL 4910)
ENGL
4930. Film: The Writers Perspective (3) (S)
ENGL 4980. Topics in Film Aesthetics (3) (F) (May be repeated with
change of topic for maximum 6
s.h.)
(P: ENGL 2900 or consent of instructor)
ENGL 4985. Issues in Cinema
and Culture (3) (S) (May be repeated with change of topic for maximum 6 s.h.) (P: ENGL 2900 or consent of instructor)
ENGL 5350. Special Studies in Film (3)
GERM 3700. Special Topics (3) (May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic.) (P:
GERM 2210 or 2211; or consent of instructor)
MPRD 2250. Classic
Documentaries, 1900-2000 (3) (Formerly COMM 2250) (P: COMM major or minor or
consent of instructor; COMM 1001,1002)
MPRD 2260. Image Theory and
Aesthetics (3) (Formerly COMM 2260) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of
instructor; COMM 1001,1002)
MPRD 3235. Advanced Writing for Media (3) (Formerly 3235) (P:
COMM major or consent of instructor;
COMM 1001,1002; MPRD 2210)
MPRD 3660. History of the
Moving Image (3) (Formerly COMM 3660) (P: COMM major or minor or consent of
instructor; COMM 1001, 1002)
POLS
3012. Politics Through Film (3) (S) (FC:SO)
RUSS 3230. Russian and Soviet Film (3) (FC:HU) (P: RUSS 2120 or
consent of instructor)
SOCI 3025. Sociology of Mass Media (3) (FC: SO) (P: SOCI 2110)
SPAN 5445. Hispanic Cinema (3) (May be repeated for maximum of 6 s.h. with change of topic) (P:
Consent of dept chair)