The Film minor allows students to work with the only Film program in the state of Arkansas. The program strongly emphasizes narrative visual storytelling and students learn the technical aspects of digital production, including computer based pre-production and pre-visualization, digital cinematography, and computer based editing, effects, and sound design.
Given the continued growth of media outlets (movie theater, TV, Internet) professionals that have the ability to use this cutting-edge technology, as well as the ability to create original content to fill these outlets, will be be in high demand.
B.A./B.S. in Film – Minor – 22 Hours
Required Courses (16 Hours):
- FILM 1305 Intro to Film
- FILM 1310 Intro to Visual Storytelling [Pre-req: FILM 1305]
- FILM 2310 Script Analysis [Pre-req: FILM 1310]
- FILM 2466 Digital Filmmaking 1 [Pre-req: FILM 2310]
- FILM 3315 Classical Film Theory or FILM 3350 Cinema History 1
Electives (6 hours): Choose from the following after consultation with a departmental advisor.
- FILM 3305 Production Design
- FILM 3316 Film Theory Since 1960
- FILM 3320 Film Editing [Pre-req: FILM 2466]
- FILM 3351 Cinema History 2 {Pre-req: FILM 3350]
- FILM 3355 Visual Effects Compositing
- FILM 3356 Animation for Visual Effects
- FILM 3363 Audio Production and Design for Film [Pre-req: FILM 2466]
- FILM 3373 Documentary Production [Pre-req: FILM 2466]
- FILM 3456 Digital Filmmaking 2 [Pre-req: FILM 2466, 60 credit hours must be completed]
- FILM 4356 Digital Filmmaking 3 [Pre-req: FILM 3456]
- FILM 4357 Digital Filmmaking 4 [Pre-req: FILM 4356]
- FILM 4380 Seminar in Film Studies [Pre-req: FILM 1310]
- FILM 4392 Topics in Digital Production (Cinematography, Directing, Etc.) [Pre-req: FILM 2466]
- JOUR 3374 Broadcast Journalism Production II
- JOUR 4313 Writing for Electronic Media
- MCOM 3307 Theories of Mass Communication
- MCOM 4323 Seminar in Mass Communication
- WRTG 3320 Forms of Scriptwriting
- WRTG 3376 Screenwriting Workshop