(Program of Study)
Bachelor of Arts Degree for Communication Arts Film Studies Concentration
The multi-departmental Film Production Concentration is intended to complement studies for both liberal arts and professional students. Required courses in the program focus on the knowledge and skills necessary for effective production and analysis of cinematic works in a variety of applied settings.
The required courses provide a balance of the three foundational subject areas: film production, criticism/theory, and history. Students also select electives to match personal areas of interest. The program draws upon courses from the excitement that has accrued around the existing Film Studies minor (administered by Communication Arts department in collaboration with the Departments of History, English, Fine Arts, and Languages), which has grown from a handful to more than 40 students in the past ten years. The new Film Studies concentration is directly suited to the needs of students interested in developing advanced filmmaking-style electronic field production skills, which are sufficiently distinct from both the Digital Broadcasting and Production (DPB) concentration, with its primary emphasis on studio-based multi-camera and live commercial, news, and social-media-style production, and the Multimedia (MM) concentration, with its emphasis on computer-based graphic design and interactive media/web production.
Further, the new Film Studies concentration can be fully serviced with existing courses and faculty teaching in both the Communication Arts major and Film Studies minor programs. One additional benefit is that, given the number of free electives, it more easily facilitates the scheduling of dual major/dual concentration courses than any of our current concentrations.
Course sequence: COM 121, COM 122, COM 123 OR COM 221, COM 243 or COM 342 or COM/FLM 343, COM 254; COM/FLM 325, COM/FLM 222 or COM/FLM 328, COM/FLM 345, COM/FLM 441 or COM/FLM 442 or COM/FLM 444 or COM/FLM 484, COM 434 two additional upper-level COM/FLM courses and one upper-level FLM AUX course.
FLM AUX elective options include: ART/FLM 206, THR/FLM 314, ENG/FLM 338, FRN/FLM 326, HCC/HST/FLM 412, GRM/FLM 305, GRM/FLM 306, GRM/FLM 333, GRM/FLM 334, or GRM 436 TP: Intro German Cinema.
Freshman Year
First Semester
| COM 121 | Introduction to Mass Media | 3 |
| ENG 103 | Freshman English I | 3 |
| Natural Science Core | 3 |
| Elementary Foreign Language OR Elective | 3 |
THE
| Theology Core | 3 |
Second Semester
| COM 122 | Media and Society | 3 |
| COM 123 | Catholic Worldview of Media | 3 |
| OR | |
| COM 221 | Church and the Media | 3 |
| Elementary Foreign Language | 3 |
| OR | |
| Literature Core | 3 |
PHL
| Philosophy Core | 3 |
Sophomore Year
First Semester
| COM 243 | Digital Broadcast and Media Production | 3 |
| OR | |
| COM 342/ 342 | Video Production I | 3 |
| OR | |
| FLM 343/COM 343 | Video Editing | 3 |
| Intermediate Foreign Language Requirement | 3 |
THE
| Theology Core | 3 |
| American Founding Principles Core | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
Second Semester
| COM 254 | Radio/Television Scriptwriting | 3 |
| Natural Science Core | 3 |
| Intermediate Foreign Language Requirement | 3 |
| Mathematics Core | 3 |
| OR | |
ECO
| Economics Core | 3 |
PHL
| Philosophy Core | 3 |
Junior Year
First Semester
| FLM 325/COM 325 | Cinema Studies | 3 |
| Communication Arts /Film Studies Elective | 3 |
| Fine Arts Core 3 | |
HST
| History Core | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
COM/FLM 325: Course may be taken online. May occasionally be offered in the spring semester.
Second Semester
| FLM 345/COM 345 | Independent Digital Filmmaking | 3 |
| Communication Arts /Film Studies Elective | 3 |
PHL
| Philosophy Core | 3 |
| Literature Core | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
Senior Year
First Semester
| FLM 328/COM 328 | Film Analysis and Theory | 3 |
| OR | |
| FLM 222/COM 222 | Critical Television Viewing | 3 |
| FLM AUX Elective | 3 |
THE
| Theology Core | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
COM/FLM 328: Course may be taken online. May occasionally be offered in the spring semester.
Second Semester
| COM 442 | Digital Multitrack Audio Production II | 3 |
| OR | |
| COM 444/FLM 444 | Advanced Studies in Digital Media Production | 3 |
| OR | |
| COM 484/FLM 484 | Creating Motion Graphics and Special Effects | 3 |
| COM 434 | Senior Thesis | 1 |
| Elective | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
| Elective | 3 |
COM 444: May occasionally be offered in the fall semester.