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Cinema Arts, BFA

57 credit hours 

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinema arts offers a rigorous focus on professional-style filmmaking. Students explore strategies, styles, and hands-on techniques for creating works of cinematic art. Students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinema arts program will

  • Create films that are engaging and meaningful works of cinematic storytelling.
  • Be able to understand and master the style and technique of filmmaking.
  • Be versatile media producers, able to make the best use of the wide variety of tools and technology appropriate to any particular cinematic story.
  • Build and draw on a broad knowledge of the liberal arts in leading a collaborative creative process.
  • Assess creative work using the standards, language and history of cinema.

Requirements

Major Coursework

36 credit hours of coursework from the following options: 

CINE 11000Video Production

3
CINE 13000Introduction to Cinema Arts

3
CINE 32000Short Film Production

3
CINE 32500Documentary Production

3
CINE 32600Cinematography

3
CINE 34000History of World Cinema

3
CINE 35000Screenwriting

3
CINE 36000Producing for Film and Video

3
CINE 37000Sound for Film and Video

3
CINE 38000Editing for Film and Video

3
CINE 41000Cinema Capstone I

3
CINE 42000Cinema Capstone II

3

Elective Coursework

18 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 32200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 336003D Graphics

3
CAH 43000Arts Entrepreneurship

3
CINE 31500MicroCinema

3
CINE 32700Advanced Cinematography

3
CINE 32800Directing for Film & Television

3
CINE 33500History of World Animation

3
CINE 33700Cinema and Gender

3
CINE 34200The Films of the Coen Brothers

3
CINE 34300The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

3
CINE 34400Horror Cinema

3
CINE 34700Cult Cinema

3
CINE 35200Advanced Screenwriting

3
CINE 35500Feature Film Screenwriting

3
CINE 36300Production Management

3
CINE 38500Advanced Post Production

3
CINE 38700Visual Effects

3
COM 25600Television Production

3
TA 10100Acting I

3

Practical Application Coursework

3 credit hours of coursework from the following option: 

CAH 44444Internship

1-6

Seminar Coursework

Zero credit hour course in which students are required to enroll every fall and spring semester from matriculation to degree conferral.

CINE 10000Cinema Seminar

0