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Cinema Arts, BFA

81 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

AAD 20300Adobe Certification in Photoshop

3
AMC 43000Arts Entrepreneurship

3
COM 10900Cinema Seminar

0
COM 14000Introduction to Cinema Arts

3
COM 15400Video Production

3
COM 25600Television Production

3
COM 30700Writing for Visual Media

3
COM 32700Media Literacy

3
COM 35400Producing for Film and Video

3
COM 35700Editing for Film and Video

3
COM 35900Short Film Production

3
COM 36110Cinematography

3
COM 36550Sound for Film and Video

3
COM 37000History of World Cinema

3
COM 41700Narrative Screenwriting

3
COM 45101Cinema Capstone I

3
COM 45102Cinema Capstone II

3

One (three credit hours) of the following courses:

Any course addressing either GE-Human Culture: Philosophy or GE-Human Culture: Religion.

One (three credit hours) of the following courses:

ARTH 22200History of Western Art to 1300

3
ARTH 22400History of Western Art from 1300

3
ARTH 22600History of Non-Western Art

3
COM 37500-37599Topics in Media Studies

1-3
TA 11700Introduction to the Theatrical Arts

3
TA 37000History of Theatre

3
TA 37100History of Theatre I

3
TA 37200History of Theatre II

3

One (three credit hours) of the following courses:

ENGL 22200Writing about Reality

3
Or Any 30000-level course addressing GE-Human Culture: Literature

Six (18 credit hours) of the following courses:

AAD 32200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 32900Concept Design

3
AAD 336003D Graphics

3
COM 37100-37199Topics in Production

1-3
COM 37200-37299Topics in Post-Production

1-3
COM 37300-37399Topics in Producing

1-3
COM 37400-37499Topics in Scriptwriting

1-3
COM 37500-37599Topics in Media Studies

1-3
COM 37600Asian Cinema

3
DCS 40000Contemporary Audience Analysis

3
GAM 469003D Animation

3

Two (six credit hours) of the following courses:

AMC 44444Internship

1-6
COM 30131Applied Mass Communication-Video I

1
COM 30132Applied Mass Communication-Video II

2
COM 30133Applied Mass Communication-Video III

3

The Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinema arts also requires the following:

  • An overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher
  • Satisfactory scores on assessment of program-level student outcomes in a review of the student’s portfolio upon completion of COM 35900.