English - Film and Visual Culture Concentration, B.A. (FLMV)
The Film & Visual Culture Concentration is an expansive and cross-disciplinary area of study that takes the visual as an entry point to exploring storytelling and meaning-making. Students learn to investigate the social and political role of visuality, evaluate power structures of looking, and examine the aesthetic value of images. Students analyze different media—such as film, painting, photography, digital media, architecture, advertising, and design—in a variety of contexts (screens, literature, museums, galleries, and more) in order to learn how our encounters with images profoundly impact our experiences of the world.
Students graduating with a concentration in Film and Visual Culture will:
- Gain fluency in interdisciplinary viewing practices as they study a range of critical approaches to visual culture;
- Learn to effectively communicate complex visual ideas as they evaluate elements of visual rhetoric (i.e. style, irony, pastiche, coding, semiotics, audience, reception);
- Apply critical and comparative approaches to examine current scholarly debates within visual culture studies about how images generate meaning in an increasingly networked world;
- Participate in visual meaning-making through experiential learning opportunities, such as visiting neighboring museums and galleries or partaking in other high-impact activities;
- Examine how images encode race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and other aspects of social and political life.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation Courses | 30 | |
| COMM 100 | Introduction to Communications: Media and Culture | 3 |
| ENGL 210 | Essentials of Film | 3 |
| ENGL 364 | MASS MoCA Immersion | 3 |
| Writing and the Visual (Choose One) | 3 | |
| Writing and the Visual | ||
| Film and the Creative Writer | ||
| Special Topics in Visual Culture (relevant topic) | ||
| Literature and the Visual (Choose One) | 3 | |
| Coming of Age in Literature and Film | ||
| Ekphrasis | ||
| Visions and Voices: Critical Ethnic Studies in Art & Literature | ||
| Special Topics in Visual Culture (relevant topic) | ||
| Explorations in Film (Choose One) | 3 | |
| From Semiotics to Significations | ||
| Special Topics in Film 1 | ||
| Films and Filmmakers 1 | ||
| Total Hours | 48 | |
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Course can be repeated.