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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 10000Cinema Seminar

0
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

CINE 10000 is zero credit hour course in which students are required to enroll every fall and spring semester from matriculation to degree conferral.

Elective Coursework

18 credit hours of coursework from the following options:

AAD 30600Imaging and Illustration

3
AAD 32200Motion Graphics

3
AAD 336003D Graphics

3
CAH 43000Arts Entrepreneurship

3
CINE 14000Introduction to Film

3
CINE 31500MicroCinema

3
CINE 32700Advanced Cinematography

3
CINE 32800Directing for Film & Television

3
CINE 33500History of Animation

3
CINE 33600Asian Cinema

3
CINE 33700Cinema and Gender

3
CINE 33800African American Cinema

3
CINE 34200The Films of the Coen Brothers

3
CINE 34300The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

3
CINE 34400Horror Cinema

3
CINE 34500The Films of Martin Scorsese

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 25600Multicamera & Event Production

3
TA 10100Acting I

3

Practical Application Coursework

3 credit hours of coursework from the following option: 

CAH 44444Internship

1-6