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Cinema Arts, BA

60 credit hours

The Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Arts instructs students in strategies, styles, and hands-on techniques for filmmaking. The degree connects students’ studies of the liberal arts with the process of telling stories with moving pictures.

Students in the Bachelor of Arts in Cinema Arts program will:

  • Create films that are engaging works of cinematic storytelling.
  • Be able to understand the style and technique of filmmaking.
  • Be versatile media producers, able to apply a wide variety of tools and technology to the art of cinematic storytelling.
  • Build and draw on a broad knowledge of the liberal arts in managing the collaborative creative process.

Requirements

AAD 12000Digital Foundations

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

One (3 credit hours) of the following courses:

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

Four of the following courses (3 credit hours):

AAD 32200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 32900Concept Design

3
AAD 336003D Graphics

3
AMC 43000Arts Entrepreneurship

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

One of the following courses (3 credit hours):

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