- Program Description
- Student Learning Outcomes
- Portfolio Review Course Requirements
- Degree Requirements
- Required Courses
- Course Descriptions
The BA in video production is a comprehensive course of study, balancing a solid grounding in theory with extensive hands-on experience. Field and studio production classes work with state-of-the-art technology, focusing in areas that include documentary, narrative, corporate, and experimental video.
Successful graduates from this program will be able to:
- plan and execute a video production.
- communicate ideas through visuals alone
- demonstrate proficiency with field production techniques, technically and aesthetically.
- demonstrate an ability to edit for continuity and for affect
- communicate ideas verbally using appropriate terms and concepts for the medium and express themselves clearly in writing, using the same terms and concepts.
- use studio equipment and techniques to complete a video project.
- demonstrate proficiency with postproduction and delivery applications other than basic editing.
- demonstrate a clear ethical, professional, and cultural understanding and display a readiness to work in a global market.
- express a unique aesthetic.
Portfolio Review Course Requirements
- EPMD 1000 Introduction to Media Production
- MEDC 1010 Introduction to Mass Communications
- VIDE 1810 Video Production I
- VIDE 2520 Video Production II
- Any 3-credit-hour upper division video production class
- 66 required credit hours
- 36 general education credit hours
- 26 elective credit hours
| AUDI 1000 Audio Production I for Non-Majors | 3 hours |
| EPMD 1000 Introduction to Media Production | 3 hours |
| PHOT 1000 Photo I | 3 hours |
| MEDC 1010 Introduction to Mass Communications | 3 hours |
| MEDC 1050 Introduction to Media Writing | 3 hours |
| VIDE 1810 Video Production I | 3 hours |
| FLST 2060 Modern World Cinema | 3 hours |
| MEDC 2200 Ethics in the Media | 3 hours |
| VIDE 2520 Video Production II | 3 hours |
| MEDC 2800 Cultural Diversity in the Media | 3 hours |
| SCPT 2900 Scriptwriting | 3 hours |
| VIDE 3060 Advanced Video Production | 3 hours |
| INTM 3580 Delivering Digital Media | 3 hours |
| VIDE 3890 Video Post-Production | 3 hours |
| FILM 3900 Lighting for Film and Video | 3 hours |
| MEDC 4100 The Law and the Media | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4620 Senior Overview* or MEDC 4950 Professional Media Practicum |
3 hours |
| *Capstone Course |
In addition a minimum of 9 production and 6 theory credit hours are to be chosen from the following:
Production - 9 credit hours
| INTM 1600 Introduction to Interactive Digital Media | 3 hours |
| INTM 2200 Visual Design for Interactive Digital Media | 3 hours |
| FILM 2320 Filmmaking I | 3 hours |
| VIDE 3090 Television Studio Production | 3 hours |
| VIDE 3150 Topics | 3 hours |
| SCPT 3400 Scriptwriting | 3 hours |
| INTM 3580 Delivering Digital Media | 3 hours |
| ANIM 3550 Compositing | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4251 Documentary Video Production | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4253 Experimental Video | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4254 Music Video Production | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4255 Television Advertising Production | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4890 Video Engineering | 3 hours |
| VIDE 4900 Pro-Seminar in Video Production | 2-4 hours |
Theory - 6 credit hours
| FLST 1800 Film Appreciation | 3 hours |
| FLST 2050 History of Film | 4 hours |
| BRJN 2070 History of Broadcasting | 3 hours |
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