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
Major Coursework
48 credit hours of coursework from the following options:
General Education Coursework
3 credit hours of coursework with the following GE designation: GE-Human Culture: Philosophy or GE-Human Culture: Religion:
Elective Coursework I
3 credit hours of coursework from the following options:
Elective Coursework II
3 credit hours of coursework from the following option:
Or Any 30000-level course addressing GE-Human Culture: Literature
Elective Coursework III
6 credit hours of coursework from the following options:
Elective Coursework IV
18 credit hours of coursework from the following options:
Seminar Coursework
Zero credit hour course in which students are required to enroll every fall and spring semester from matriculation to degree conferral.
Additional Coursework
- 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.
No duplication of coursework is permitted within the program.