FILM, VIDEO & NEW MEDIA

Credits to Graduate: 120   Credits in Major: 38-9
12 Upper Division Credits in Arts & Letters FAU Residence Credits: 30
Upper Division Credits: 45

Overall 2.5 GPA required for entry into major
Overall 2.5 GPA must be maintained to remain in major

Grade of "C" or better is required for each course in the major.  All courses in the major must be graded.  Pass/Fail is not accepted.

The Sequence in Film, Video and New Media is a comprehensive curriculum that includes courses in film studies, television studies, video production, computer animation, and studies and practices in multimedia, interactive media, and new technologies. As a group, these courses analyze the power and responsibility of American and international film, video and digital media from formal, historical, economic and ideological perspectives.

The sequence is committed to understanding film, video, new media and television texts in relation to the worlds they represent; the course of study emphasizes not only the meanings of these texts but also the processes by which these meanings are constructed and disseminated. The goal is to help the undergraduate understand the study and creation of visual media within the larger contexts of human visual and verbal expression, and to shape students into sophisticated readers and producers of visual culture. Courses consider both mainstream and alternative media, and include industrial and artistic approaches, linking production techniques and aesthetics to industry, history and politics.

Core
The following courses are required:

FIL 2000
FIL 3803
VIC 4943 Film Appreciation
Film Theory
Multimedia Practicum
Practicum prerequisite:
3D Computer Modeling, Fundamentals of Multimedia or
Video Production; seniors only.

Production Fundamentals
1 course from the following:

DIG 2302C
DIG 3110
RTV 3260 3D Computer Modeling for Animation
Fundamentals of Multimedia
Video Production

History
1 course from the following:

DIG 4026
FIL 4036
FIL 4037
RTV 4400 History and Theory of Computer Arts and Animation
Film to the 1940s
Film since the 1940s
Television Studies

Criticism
1 course from the following:

COM 4332
FIL 4851
MMC 4501 Studies in New Media
Film Criticism
Media Criticism

Production and Contexts
6 courses from the following two subcategories, minimum of 18 credits*:

Production

ART 1300C
ART 2205C
ART 2330C
ART 3632C
COM 3945
COM 4930
DIG 3207
DIG 3306C
DIG 3323C
DIG 4394C
FIL 4106
MMC 3711
MMC 4713
PGY 2401C
RTV 3228C
RTV 3229
RTV 3332C Drawing 1
Color Fundamentals
Drawing 2 - Figure Drawing
Digital Audio Recording and Editing
Communication Internship
Special Topics in Production
Digital Video Editing
Advanced 3D Computer Animation
Advanced 3D Computer Modeling for Animation
Advanced Digital Compositing for Animation
Scriptwriting
Interactive Multimedia
New Media Narrative
Photography I
Television Production
Experimental Video Production
Documentary Video Production

Contexts

ANT 3391
COM 4930
ENG 4114
FIL 4056
FIL 4364
FIL 4832
FIL 4843
GEB 3052
ITT 3520
MMC 3601
MMC 4263
RTV 4403
RTV 4412
RTV 4500
SPT 4720 Anthropology of Film
Special Topics in Contexts
Literature and Film
Women and Film
Documentary Film and Video
Horror Film
Studies in Asian Cinema
Intro Business of Motion Pictures
Italian Cinema: From Text to Screen
Minorities and the Media
Media, Society and Technology
U.S. Telecommunication Industry
Gender and Television
Television Programming
Spanish Literature and Film

*History, Criticism, and Production Fundamentals courses listed in the sequence may be substituted in Production and Contexts if they are not used to fill another requirement.