Rice University School of Humanities Cinema and Media Studies Minor
Rice University School of Humanities

Rice University School of Humanities

Cinema and Media Studies Minor

Houston, USA

Bachelor's degree

English

Sep 2026

Key Summary

    About : The Cinema and Media Studies Minor provides students with a comprehensive understanding of film and media in cultural contexts. The program explores various aspects of film and digital media, including history, theory, and critical analysis. Students will engage with diverse cinematic texts and gain insights into contemporary media practices.
    Career Outcomes : Graduates can pursue careers in film criticism, media production, and cultural analysis. They may also find opportunities in public relations, screenwriting, or work within the entertainment industry as film researchers or curators.

Welcome to Rice University’s Cinema and Media Studies Minor. This interdisciplinary program offers the opportunity to study film and media from diverse historical periods around the globe. Drawing on different disciplines across the university—including faculty and resources from Art History, Visual and Dramatic Arts, Classical and European Studies, English, Religion, and Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies—the minor in Cinema and Media Studies aims to develop the critical tools for viewing and analyzing the moving image in all its manifold forms. In addition to the history and theory of cinema, courses pertaining to the minor also concentrate on more recent forms of media such as television, advertising, the internet, video art, medical imaging, and expanded cinema. Students are presented with a wide array of theoretical, historical, political, and formal approaches to the moving image in an effort not only to better understand different cultural, mainstream, and artistic approaches to cinema, but also our media-saturated world at large. This new minor's inaugural year is 2017-18.