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10/21/02

ST. LAWRENCE TO OFFER MINOR IN FILM STUDIES

CANTON - St. Lawrence University will offer a new minor, in film 
studies, beginning in the spring 2003 semester.
	Coordinated by Associate Professor of Modern Languages 
and Literatures Roy C. Caldwell, the program will include required 
courses in film studies (Introduction to Film Studies, History 
of the Cinema, Seminar on Film Theory) plus courses taught in the 
English, modern languages, history, philosophy, sociology and 
gender studies programs and departments.
	"The cultural impact of cinema has by no means been 
limited to the zones of popular culture," Caldwell says. "From 
the beginning, moving pictures generated important cultural debate 
and theoretical writing. At present, St. Lawrence does not offer 
any organized course of study in this important and growing 
discipline, but the demand for such a program clearly exists 
among our students."  
	Caldwell added that future course offerings will likely 
include the music department and the First-Year Program.

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