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Mission 

The Filmmaking program emphasizes the art and craft of creating compelling audio-visual content for multiple media platforms. The curriculum offers students opportunities to discover and refine their capacity to conceive, plan, capture, and edit material for diverse purposes and audiences. Combined with a basic critical understanding of film history and styles, Filmmaking students use cinematic techniques to communicate impactful ideas across cultures, to participate in local, regional, national, and global civic life. 

The Filmmaking program is part of the Department of Communication, Media, and Performance, which emphasizes a liberal arts approach to learning that encourages students to develop habits of cultural awareness and respect, engaged citizenship, thoughtful professionalism, and a meaningful private life in order to contribute to a more equitable world.

The Filmmaking minor guides students through a core of four courses in film studies and filmmaking. Early courses focus on traditional elements and principles of film. Later courses apply these foundational skills to create content for the ever changing media landscape. Students may customize their minor when they choose 2 electives from a range of disciplines. The electives permit students to focus on formal aspects of cinematic storytelling: script development, camera work, acting, directing, or design. The capstone course (FILM 400) offers students the opportunity to use film as the primary way to communicate subject matter from their individual fields of expertise.

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete a minor in Filmmaking are able to:

• Use discipline specific terminology to discuss and analyze film as an art form and cultural product;
• Demonstrate proficiency in current techniques, principles, and styles of filmmaking;
• Conceive and complete a meaningful and original short-length film for a public audience

Courses

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Programs

• Filmmaking Minor

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