ART2105 Introduction to Digital Filmmaking (3). Demonstrative lectures, studio exercises, and collaborative tasks, expose students to rudimentary principles and practices governing formal elements of the moving image. Project-based instruction balances historical context, aesthetics, technique, and safety. Equipment provided.  Offered every semester.

ART3205 Non-Fiction Filmmaking (3). Analytical viewings and collaborative, project-based learning highlight the moving image as a medium for creative non-fiction.  Offered every fall semester.  Prerequisite: ART2105.

ART4005 Digital Audio for the Moving Image (3). Collaborative, project-based learning emphasizes the aesthetic and rhetorical contribution of sound to the moving image. Students record, edit, and enhance, location and replacement dialogue; multi-track music; foley, effects, and atmospheres. Prerequisites: ART2105 and Philm Candidacy. Offered spring of odd years.

ART4205 Internship in Digital Filmmaking & Photography (3).  Supervised by assigned faculty advisors, students secure professional placement relevant to both the academic discipline and their own career aspirations. Specific duties and assessment standards to be negotiated by contract in advance. Prerequisites: Philm Candidacy, and permission of instructor.  Offered by arrangement.

ART4405 Narrative Filmmaking (3). Intensive study of exemplars informs a capstone media production project. Students employ cumulative proficiencies of knowledge and skill to produce a short film and distribute it competitively. May be repeated once for credit.  Fulfills Gen Ed Keystone Experience.  Prereuisites: ART2105 and Philm Candidacy.  Offered every fall.

ARTH 3540 Cinema History (3).  Analytical viewing of exemplar works contextualizes major genres, artistic movements, theories, and national cinemas, in a broader history of the moving image. Highlighting the work of significant creative contributors fosters appreciation for the medium as an art form.  Offered spring of even years.