60 credits in Specialization

24 credits in Fine Arts: Theatre, OR Music, OR a combination of Music, and/or Theatre and/or Motion Picture Arts

36 credits of General Electives:

• A minimum of 6 credits per Faculty from two of the following Faculties: Humanities, Social Sciences, and/or Sciences.
• 24 credits from any Faculty excluding courses in Fine Arts [i.e., Motion Picture Arts (see Appendix 13), Theatre and Music]. Students are encouraged to apply these 24 credits towards a Minor.

 

 

* A maximum of 42 credits of 1st-year courses will be applicable towards the 120-credit BFA program degree.

 

First Year (30 credits in total)

15 credits in Specialization, 6 credits in Fine Arts, and 9 credits of General Electives:

 

15 credits in Specialization:

CINE-1005 - Motion Picture Arts: Form 

CINE-1206 - Photography

ENGL-1705 - Introduction to Writing and English Studies

6 credits in Fine Arts

9 credits of General Electives

 

Second Year and Third Year (60 credits total):

30 credits in Specialization, 12 credits in Fine Arts, and 18 credits of General Electives:

 

30 credits in Specialization:

CINE-2005 - Motion Picture Arts: Production I 

CINE-3005 - Motion Picture Arts: Production II

3 credits from Motion Picture Arts “Composition Theory” (Should a student take more that 3 credits of “Composition Theory,” these extra credits will be counted as part of the Motion Picture Arts “Interdisciplinary Studies” requirement.):

CINE-2036 - Theories and Practice of the Motion Picture Arts 

CINE-2046 - History of the Motion Picture Arts 

|ENGL-2847| 

6 credits from Motion Picture Arts “Composition Practice” (Should a student take more that 6 credits of “Composition Practice,” these extra credits will be counted as part of the Motion Picture Arts “Interdisciplinary Studies” requirement.):

CINE-3205 - Screenwriting 

ENGL-3556 - Principles and Practices of Workplace Communication 

ENGL-3516 - Creative Writing 

ENGL-3517 - Studies in Creative Writing

9 credits from Motion Picture Arts “Interdisciplinary Studies” (60 credits in total):

CINE-2207 - Cinematography 

CINE-2216 - German Cinema 

CLAS-2306 - The Greek Historians 

ENGL-2815 - World Cinema 

ENGL-2826 - Rhetoric of Documentory Films 

ENGL-2827 - Documentary Film Making 

ENGL-2835 - American Film Directors 

ENGL-3836 - Women and Film 

ENGL-3846 - Applied Media Aesthetics 

ENGL-3847 - Film Theory

ESPA-3226 - Film in Spain and Latin-America 

HIST-2806 - Propaganda, Politics and Film in 20th Century Europe 

HIST-2847 - Fascism on Film

|ITAL-3216| 

MUSC-2046 - Soundtracks: Music in Movies 

PHIL-2716 - Philosophy and Film 

RLST-2327 - Jesus in Film 

RLST-2365 - Religion in Film 

12 credits in Fine Arts

18 credits of General Electives

 

Fourth Year (30 credits in total):

15 credits in Specialization, 6 credits in Fine Arts, and 9 credits of General Electives:

 

15 credits in Specialization:

CINE-4005 - Motion Picture Arts: Production III

9 credits from Motion Picture Arts “Interdisciplinary Studies” (see list above)

6 credits in Fine Arts

9 credits of General Electives