Required core courses are offered under the MIMS (Moving Image Studies) designator. Elective courses are offered under more than a dozen different departmental designators. Offerings of elective courses approved for the Moving Image Studies minor change on a semester-by-semester basis, and are posted here once they have been approved. Additional courses will be posted here in the near future, as soon as they are approved.
| Course | Name | Instructor |
| ARTS 5630 | Advanced Experimental Video | |
| ARTS 5640 | Advanced Animation | Steve Paul |
| COMM 5211 | Critical Media Studies: Theory and Methods | Catherine Squires |
| CSCL 5411 | Avant-Garde Cinema | Hisham Bizri |
| CSCL 5910-001 | Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Russian and Eastern European Film Theory | Alice Lovejoy |
| CSCL 5910-003 | Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Bombay Social Film | Keya Ganguly |
| CSCL 5910-004 | Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Political Documentaries | Rembert Hueser |
| MIMS/SCMC 5002 | Advanced Film Analysis | John Mowitt |
| MIMS 8003 | Historiography of the Moving Image | Alice Lovejoy |
| Course | Name | Instructor |
| ALL 5920 | Topics in Asian Culture: Chinese New Media and Intermediality | Jason McGrath |
| AMIN 5402 | American Indians and the Cinema | Angela Lawson |
| ARTS 5490 | Super 8 Guerilla Filmmaking | Sam Hoolihan |
| ARTS 5610 | New Media: Making Art Interactive | |
| ARTS 5620 | Narrative Digital Video | Lynn Lukkas |
| ARTS 5640 | Advanced Animation | Steven Paul |
| COMM 8210-001 | Seminar: Selected Topics in U.S. Electronic Media: New Directions in Media Studies | Laurie Ouellette |
| COMM 8210-002 | Seminar: Selected Topics in U.S. Electronic Media: Role of the Critic | Gilbert Rodman |
| CSCL 5910-001 | Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Neorealism | Cesare Casarino |
| CSCL 5910-003 | Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: Film Music | Richard Leppert |
| ENGW 5205 | Screenwriting contact Kathleen Glasgow (kglasgow@umn.edu) to register | |
| MIMS 5002 | Advanced Film Analysis | John Mowitt |
| TH 8120 | Performance Theory, Performance Studies | Margaret Werry |
For Past courses offered see the MIMS approved course archive
A graduate minor bringing together courses and faculty from thirteen College of Liberal Arts departments.