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Majors and Courses of InstructionEnglishFilm StudiesWriting Resource CenterWORLD LITERATURE — one course (select from ENG 300.4, 342 [may not also be usedas a British literature course], HMCL 255, 260, 265);NON-PRINT MEDIA — one course (select from 254 or 310 [may also count as upper-levelwriting]);ETHNIC OR WOMEN WRITERS — one course; courses used to fulfill this requirementmay also be used to fulfill other requirements (select from 224, 266, 268, 273, 278,300.4, 350, 352, 354, 362, 369, 372, 374; other courses in English or humanities-classicsmight be used to fulfill the requirement as well, depending on their content—check withyour instructor or education advisor).Film StudiesMinorThe film studies minor is an interdisciplinary minor which provides students interested in filmstudy an opportunity to declare and document this interest. Studying film develops both visualliteracy and linguistic analysis skills. In a media-saturated culture, these skills are especiallyimportant ones for students to cultivate. Motion pictures are no longer confined to the big screen,but are viewed by millions of people worldwide on screens of all sizes. The advent of relativelyinexpensive, highly portable, and user-friendly video cameras and editing equipment has vastlyexpanded the number of people worldwide who are making and distributing movies. The skill toanalyze and comment intelligently on these ubiquitous cultural artifacts is essential to the liberallyeducated in the Twenty-first Century.The minor consists of five units.Core Curriculum: ENG 254 (required); three to four units from among the following: ART 353,ART 355, ENG 224 (Images of Black Women in Fiction and Film; Black Women Filmmakers;African Diasporan Filmmakers); ENG 319, ENG 480 (specialization in screenwriting); ENG490 (focus on film); ENG 491 (focus on film); FREN 190.2, FREN, GERM, SPAN 490 (focuson film); FREN 300.1 (French Language Film), HMCL 300.5 (East Asian Film), PHIL 310(Philosophy Through Film), PSYC 499 (Movies and Maladjustment), SPAN 368, SOAN 365.Cognate Courses: No more than one course from among the following will count toward theminor: ART 111, ART 112, ART 113, ENG 150, ENG 226 (Westerns), ENG 484 (Shakespeare,Postmodernism, and Film), HONS 190.3 (Zombies 101), SPAN 300.6 (The Child inContemporary Latin American Literature and Film), FREN 259, HMCL 226, MUS 105, THEA210.The WritingResource CenterThe Writing Resource Center, located in the R.W. Corns Building as part of the Sagan AcademicResource Center, operates to provide professional tutorial instruction, writing practice, andevaluation/criticism for students needing to improve their writing skills to remove an unsatisfactorynotation (“U”) from their academic records, or for their own satisfaction. The Writing ResourceCenter is available without charge through referral by an instructor or through self-referral. WritingResource Center instructors work with the problems of unity, organization, and development ofshort expository papers and with mechanical, syntactical, and stylistic problems at the sentencelevel. Furthermore, professors frequently remand students to the Writing Center for instructionon correct documentation and blending of sources. In addition, learning-disabled students and113