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Graduate Minor in Cinema Studies The Graduate Minor in Cinema Studies promotes the graduate-level study of cinema and related screen media and their cultural and institutional contexts and offers formal recognition of such work, undertaken alongside and in conjunction with Illinois graduate students' primary fields of study. The Unit for Cinema Studies administers the Minor. Requirements for Admission Applicants to the Graduate Minor program must be in residence and in good standing in a qualifying master's or doctoral program at illinois and must designate Cinema Studies as a field/area of concentration for the master's or the doctoral degree and have that designation formally accepted by the student's home department. Applications to the Unit's Director are accepted by April 15 each Spring semester for admission in the following Fall semester. The Unit's Associate Director will monitor students' advancement toward completion of the Minor. Requirements for Completion of the Minor A student pursuing the Graduate Minor in Cinema Studies must fulfill the following requirements before the completion of her/his degree. 1) The student must successfully complete a minimum of four graduate level courses in Cinema Studies (with a minimum of three to be taken at illinois), consisting of two core courses and two electives, as follows: Core Courses CINE 503 Historiography of Cinema ..... (4 hours) CINE 504 Theories of Cinema..... (4hours) Electives Two 400 or 500-level courses in cinema or related media, chosen with the prior approval of the Minor Advisor. (6-8 hours) (One of the two electives may be satisfied by an independent study course or by an approved graduate-level course taken at another institution.) 2) The student's master's examination (if applicable) or preliminary /qualifying examination must include a Cinema Studies topic. 3) If the student's master's thesis or doctoral dissertation deals in whole or in part with a Cinema Studies or related screen media topic, a member of the Unit for Cinema Studies must be a formal member of the student's committee. Upon completion of these requirements and those of the master's or the doctoral degree, the student will receive formal documentation from the Unit for Cinema Studies indicating that the student has satisfactorily completed the Graduate Minor in Cinema Studies. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unit for Cinema Studies rleskosk@illinois.edu 5.16.2008 rjl