The History of Motion Picture Arts course explores the motion picture as an art form, a business, and a representation of society. Students will examine how film has become a dominant force in American culture through study of the birth of film, the golden age of silent films, World War II, non-Hollywood films, the New Cinema of the 1960s era, and the Hollywood Renaissance.

This specific course uses the Florida Statewide Course Numbering System (SCNS).