Cinema and Media Studies

Our students analyze moving images from every angle.

Lights...Camera...Action!

Explore cinema and media theories and techniques in an interdisciplinary minor in Cinema and Media Studies! Cinema and Media Studies students learn how to read and instrumentalize the building blocks of film form to both analyze film and media texts as well as produce and edit media of their own.

Ranking in the top 5 U.S. media markets, our Boston location offers countless exciting and rigorous internship and career opportunities. Simmons Cinema and Media Studies students go on to jobs in content creation and media production across web, tv, and film, as well as graduate programs in Film, Cinema/Media Studies, Communications, Cultural Studies, and more!

Required:

LTWR 195	Art of Film	4
LTWR 221	The Critical Lens: Introduction to Film and Media Theory	4

Electives

Choose 3, 1 of which is a production class.

ART 138	The Poetry of Photography	4
ART 139	Color Photography CSI	4
ART 232	Advanced Digital Workshop	4
ART 237	Advanced Black and White Photography	4
ART 239	Art of the Real: Documentary Photography	4
ART 249	History of Photography	4
ART 256	Approaches in Contemporary Photography	4
AST 202	Introduction to Black Popular Culture	4
AST 307	Black History at the Movies	4
AST 245	Tweeting Into the Future: Race, Technology & Social Media	4
MUS 165	Music in Film	4
CHIN 214	Contemporary Chinese Cinema	4
COMM 120	Communications Media	4
COMM 121	Visual Communication	4
COMM 124	Media, Messages and Society	4
COMM 163	Radio Operations and Podcasting	4
COMM 220	Video Production	4
COMM 222	Animation	4
COMM 246	Digital Imaging for Design	4
COMM 262	Media Convergence	4
COMM 263	Social Media Journalism	4
LTWR 327	Psychoanalysis, Race and Sexuality	4
LTWR LTWR 354	Studies in Film: Melodrama	4
LTWR 398	Feminist Media Studies	4
FREN 314	Topics in French and Francophone Cinema	4
HIST 254	History Through Novels & Film	4
HIST 329	Film and History Representation	4
HIST 374	Modern U.S. History: Digital Humanities	4
PHIL 152	Philosophy Through Literature and Film	4
PHIL 225	Social Media, Digital Technology, and Ethics	4
SPAN 314	Hispanic Culture as Seen Through Film	4

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