Filmmaking BA

Within the framework of a liberal arts curriculum, the Bachelor of Arts in Filmmaking provides students with hands-on, comprehensive coursework in creating film, online, episodic, and emerging media. The curriculum is built with the understanding that each student will have an immersive, transformational experience exploring their individual creative potential while cultivating a spirit of collaboration. Graduates of the program will apply the skills honed in the program to a number of professional fields such as narrative and documentary filmmaking, television, content creation, social advocacy, and more.

From their first semester, students learn the foundations of filmmaking and develop their authentic voices. Simultaneously, they will be developing critical thinking skills, cultivating a sound understanding of film history and theory from a global and intercultural perspective, and addressing the ethical and cultural concerns of media production and consumption. 

The program will prepare students to be innovative and  collaborative storytellers in contemporary professional film and emerging media. Students complete a set of core courses and then select a concentration in one of three areas: Directing, Postproduction, or Screenwriting.

A program is also offered.

In order to meet the Program Goals, students will:

• Develop proficiency in filmmaking: story structure and screenwriting, cinematography and lighting, editing, film audio creation and editing, documentary and narrative fiction directing, and producing;

• Acquire and apply advanced skills in one or more areas of filmmaking to produce advanced work;

• Practice creative risk-taking and problem solving to develop their unique voice as a filmmaker;

• Develop media literacy, ethics, civic responsibility, and accountability and apply these in the work produced;

• Develop collaboration skills that are needed to work as a production team to see a project to completion; and,

• Acquire knowledge of the history of film and television and the ability to analyze media from diverse theoretical frameworks.