The Cinema specialization includes film studies and production.
Our cinema studies curriculum takes a liberal arts approach to the study of the history, criticism, and theory of cinema. Courses address a range of topics in the areas of film analysis and film theory, film styles and genres, film authors, and the histories of documentary, experimental, and narrative film. Cinema studies prepares students for advanced academic work as well as for careers in film criticism for magazines and newspapers; in film programming for museums, festivals, and universities; and in the expanding area of film distribution.
The moving image is the basis for the cinema production emphasis. Students may work independently or in group productions in one or more of the following modes: documentary, experimental, narrative, or animation. Courses include writing for film, animation, digital postproduction, optical printing and advanced sync sound production. Students choose careers as independent filmmakers, or with a large organization producing entertainment, documentation, learning aids and experimental statements.