Film and Digital Media

The minor in Film and Digital Media (FDM) introduces Wabash students to the study and practice of film and digital media from a wide range of critical and disciplinary perspectives. This minor incorporates courses from across the College that analyze film as an artistic form with a rich history, as a mode of cultural expression, as a medium shaped by literature and the visual arts, as well as a form of popular entertainment. The courses in the minor require students to engage with films from a range of genres and styles, both 168体育平台下载_足球即时比分-注册|官网stern and non-168体育平台下载_足球即时比分-注册|官网stern. Students also actively participate in the creative process through a required digital media production course. The remaining electives allow students to foster their interests from either a critical- or praxis-based perspective.?

The minor in Film and Digital Media helps students strengthen their critical thinking skills through the exploration, analysis, and hands-on production of film and media. This minor offers students a background in film and media that is both highly marketable and grounded in the liberal arts. An excellent complement to many different majors, a minor in Film and Digital Media enhances a student’s understanding of the ways in which film and media shape our society, but also animates and encourages the interdisciplinary connections foundational to a liberal education.

Student Learning Goals

To understand?film and digital?media as artistic?forms with rich?histories, and as?modes of?cultural?expression.

To perceive the?ways in which?film and digital?media connect?with other fields?of inquiry.

To comprehend?as well as create?original digital?media works?that bridge and?form?connections?with other fields?of inquiry.?

To acquire?abilities in?analytical?reasoning,?problem solving,?and critical?decision making.

To?develop the?facile written?and oral skills?needed to?communicate?effectively and?ethically.

To?gain a basic understanding?and skill of?digital film?technology,?techniques, and?terminology.

To encounter?productively,?engage, and?manage diverse?life?experiences,?worldviews,?and cultures.