The Minor in Literature and Film Studies allows students to study cinema both as a specific art form with its own history and "language" and as a medium that emerges in the broader context of literary and other cultural production. Courses focus on specific filmmakers, movements, genres, and eras, as well as on special themes and critical topics in film studies.
The program encourages comparative thinking and offers students the opportunity to engage critically with various issues including the place of technology and visual culture in modernity; the politics of the screen image; the relation between literature and cinema; the role of cinema in globalism and consumer culture; and how the continuing evolution of the moving image and "screen culture" situates us as readers and as viewers.
Here is a route map for navigating the Minor program (you can expand the map by right-clicking or option-clicking):
Requirements for the Minor in Literature and Film Studies
4.0 full credits in English are required, and 1.0 credit must be at the C- or D- level
1. 1.0 credit as follows:
ENGB70H3 How to Read a Film
ENGB75H3 Cinema and Modernity I or ENGB76H3 Cinema and Modernity II
2. 0.5 credit as follows:
ENGA10H3 Literature and Film for Our Time: Visions and Revisions or ENGA11H3 Literature and Film for Our Time: Dawn of the Digital
3. 1.0 credit from the following:
ENGB29H3 Shakespeare and Film
ENGB71H3 Writing About Movies
ENGB74H3 The Body in Literature and Film
ENGB77H3 Cinema and Colonialism
ENGC41H3 Video Games: Exploring the Virtual Narrative
ENGC44H3 Self and Other in Literature and Film
ENGC56H3 Literature and Media: From Page to Screen
ENGC75H3 Freaks and Geeks: Children in Contemporary Film and Media
ENGC78H3 Dystopian Visions in Fiction and Film
ENGC79H3 Above & Beyond: Superheroes in Fiction and Film
ENGC82H3 Topics in Cinema Studies
ENGC83H3 World Cinema
ENGC84H3 Cinema and Migration
ENGC92H3 Film Theory
ENGC93H3 Gender and Sexuality at the Movies
ENGD52H3 Cinema: The Auteur Theory
ENGD62H3 Topics in Postcolonial Literature and Film
ENGD91H3 Avant-Garde Cinema
ENGD93H3 Theoretical Approaches to Cinema
ENGD94H3 Stranger than Fiction: The Documentary Film
ENGD96H3 Iranian Cinema
4. 1.5 additional credits in English
Note: Film courses selected from other departments and discipline will be approved for the Minor in Literature and Film Studies on a case-by-case basis.
For more details on program requirements, visit the UTSC Calendar. Questions about the program should be directed to Professor Alice Maurice (alice.maurice@utoronto.ca).
Interested in learning more about how our courses are structured and how you might develop your own path through your Minor in Literature and Film Studies? Visit our Routes and Threads page.
For students who began their English program before 2018, the following requirements still apply. Please see our main Curriculum Changes page for further details about the 2018 curriculum updates.
Pre-2018 Literature & Film Minor Requirements
4.0 full credits in English are required:
1. 1.5 credits as follows:
ENGB70H3 How to Read a Film
ENGB75H3 Cinema and Modernity I
ENGB76H3 Cinema and Modernity II
2. 0.5 credit as follows:
ENGA10H3 Literature and Film for Our Time: Visions and Revisions or ENGA11H3 Literature and Film for Our Time: Dawn of the Digital
3. 1.0 credit from the following:
ENGB29H3 Shakespeare and Film
ENGB71H3 Writing About Movies
ENGB74H3 The Body in Literature and Film
ENGB77H3 Cinema and Colonialism
ENGC41H3 Video Games: Exploring the Virtual Narrative
ENGC44H3 Self and Other in Literature and Film
ENGC56H3 Literature and Media: From Page to Screen
ENGC75H3 Freaks and Geeks: Children in Contemporary Film and Media
ENGC78H3 Dystopian Visions in Fiction and Film
ENGC79H3 Above & Beyond: Superheroes in Fiction and Film
ENGC82H3 Topics in Cinema Studies
ENGC83H3 World Cinema
ENGC84H3 Cinema and Migration
ENGC92H3 Film Theory
ENGC93H3 Gender and Sexuality at the Movies
ENGD52H3 Cinema: The Auteur Theory
ENGD62H3 Topics in Postcolonial Literature and Film
ENGD91H3 Avant-Garde Cinema
ENGD93H3 Theoretical Approaches to Cinema
ENGD94H3 Stranger than Fiction: The Documentary Film
ENGD96H3 Iranian Cinema
4. 1.0 additional credits in English
Note: Film courses selected from other departments and discipline will be approved for the Minor in Literature and Film Studies on a case-by-case basis.