FILM-BA - Film & Media Arts

B.A. students will improve their understanding of key aspects of the shifting contemporary media landscape and their ability to contextualize their own work and planned career within that landscape.

Students will analyze contemporary social issues through media or critical inquiry, demonstrating cultural awareness and social responsibility by integrating themes of diversity, equity, justice, or social impact.

B.A. students will demonstrate technical competence in basics of video camera operation: focus, exposure, leveling, color balance.

Students will complete a short screenplay, properly formatted and professionally polished, with an appropriate balance of dialogue and description/action, and with a coherent story and at least one distinctive character.

Students will explain and apply theoretical concepts of cinema and media in writing a close textual analysis of a media text. This analysis will have a clearly articulated thesis about the chosen text, supported by specific textual evidence and integrating at least one higher-level theoretical concept. (fulfills CC Writing in the Major requirement)