Film and Media Studies Minor

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A minor in Film and Media Studies consists of eight courses: an introduction to the study of cinema, two courses on the history of cinema, four courses on particular cinema topics in context, and a culmination course. Students learn to think and write critically about cinema as a significant form of culture.

Program Options

English, B.A. Major (online)

• No concentration
• Literature, film and media studies

English, B.A. Major (on-campus)

• No concentration
• Literature, film and media studies
• Writing
• Secondary school teaching, leading to licensure
• Literature

Linguistics, B.A. Major

English Teacher Licensure 7-12th Grade

Minor in Film and Media Studies (online)

Minor in Rhetoric, Composition and Professional Writing

Minor in English

• Literature concentration
• Writing Concentration

Minor in Linguistics

• Linguistics emphasis
• Language emphasis

Benefits of Earning Your Degree at MSU Denver

The English program at MSU Denver offers you opportunities to stretch intellectually, creatively and professionally through internships, student teaching, the Sigma Tau Delta Honors Society and the following:

• MSU Denver’s Annual Writing Contest
• Writing Center Internships
• Annual Undergraduate English Conference
• Metrosphere Arts and Literary Magazine
• Indian Cinema Study Abroad Course
• Student Organizations

Faculty

Chereka Dickerson

Assistant Professor Chereka Dickerson teaches African American literature and Black women writers. She is in the process of completing her Ph.D. dissertation in U.S. minority and women’s literature.

Cynthia Kuhn

Professor Cynthia Kuhn is the author of the Lila Maclean Mystery Series. Her debut novel, “The Semester of Our Discontent,” received the 2017 Agatha Award for best first mystery.

Jason Miller

Professor Jason Miller is a fiction writer, screenwriter and Pushcart-Prize nominee whose work has been published in the Starry Night Literary Review, Literary Potpourri, Ink Pot #2, Burning Word and Outsider Ink among others.

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Featured Alumni

“I’ve had wonderful professors who’ve inspired me to continue my education and get the best out of my education.”

Janet Hernandez, MSU Denver ’17, is the first student in MSU Denver history to receive a Fulbright Scholarship. During her Fulbright year she will teach English and Spanish to elementary school children in South Korea.

Read more about Janet.