The College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences are pleased to introduce the new interdisciplinary minor Cinema and Visual Culture Studies (CVC). A collaborative effort between the two colleges, the CVC program officially begins in the fall semester of 2009. At that time, students can declare CVC as a minor so to complement their studies in Communication, Criminology and Criminal Justice, English, Ethnic Studies, History, Humanities, Arts, and Religion, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Sociology.
The CVC curriculum is guided by the belief that cinema plays a tremendous influence in the worlds of art, politics, culture and economics and that film and other forms of visual culture are essential to our understandings of the politics and practices of representation. An interdisciplinary minor, CVC courses focus on film and cultural analysis, the impact of visual technologies, the meanings of media in everyday life, and the significance of historic and modern modes of exhibition.
The CVC minor also aims to expose students to orphan films, archival films, classics, and contemporary and cutting edge cinema, as well other kinds of screens and their images from around the world. Students in the CVC program can gain professional experience by assisting in the development and organization of film series, film festivals, and cinema forums for the NAU campus and the Flagstaff community.