Wellesley Course Catalog

Cinema and Media Studies Minor

The CAMS minor consists of 6 units, as detailed below.

Students are required to take the following:

1. CAMS 201 Technologies of Cinema and Media
2. CAMS 202 Aesthetics of Cinema and Media

3. Three courses from this list:

AMST 245/CAMS 245 Speculative Media in the US since 1973
AMST 254/CAMS 254 Carceral Cinema in the US
ARTS 108/CAMS 138 Photography I
ARTS 110 4D Design Intro to New Media
ARTS 165/CAMS 135 Introduction to Video Production
ARTS 208/CAMS 238 Photo II
ARTS 221/CAMS 239 Digital Imaging
ARTS 255/CAMS 255 Dynamic Interface Design
ARTS 260/CAMS 230 Moving Image Studio
ARTS 265/CAMS 235 Intermediate Video Production
CAMS 100 Introduction to Media and Screen Cultures
CAMS 101 Introduction to Cinema and Media Studies
CAMS 203 Chinese Cinema
CAMS 208/ENG 208 Writing for Television
CAMS 212 Global Hollywood and World Cinema
CAMS 216 Creative Media Manipulation
CAMS 217 Viral Media
CAMS 218 Theories of Media from Photography to Internet
CAMS 219 Ecological Approaches to Cinema and Media Studies
CAMS 221 21st Century Documentary
CAMS 222 Documentary Film and Media
CAMS 225 From the Fairground to Netflix: Cinema in the Public Sphere
CAMS 227 Television
CAMS 228 Avant-Garde and Experimental Film
CAMS 233/JWST 233 American Jews and the Media
CAMS 234/ENG 204, The Art of Screenwriting
CAMS 234/ENG 204 The Art of Screenwriting
CAMS 246 Global Cinema in the 21st Century
CAMS 261 African Cinema
CAMS 270 Dark and Light of the Internet
CAMS 272 The Ludic Imagination: Histories and Theories of Games and Play
CAMS 286/GER 286 Fantasy Factories: Film and Propaganda in Nazi Germany and Beyond
CAMS 277 Film Noir (formerly CAMS 292)
MUS 275 Computer Music: Synthesis Techniques and Compositional Practice

4. One course at the 300-level to be selected from this list: