Digital Innovation, Film and Television, B.A.

The Digital Innovation, Film and Television program cultivates students to become responsible, adaptable, and innovative leaders in a complex and rapidly converging digital environment. With a concentration on digital media production and the art of visual storytelling, we endeavor to prepare students through hands-on learning, cross-disciplinary study, team building, and community engagement. Digital Innovation, Film and Television prepares graduates for careers in the creative and corporate digital environments of film, television, broadcasting, producing, multimedia, content creation and in technology areas that are emerging.

Requirements for the Digital Innovation, Film and Television major

Core Curriculum Requirements

See Undergraduate Core Curriculum , including:

CSCI 170 (For SAI Students)(Math Core)

Major Requirements

36 credit hours, as follows

27 hours from:

6 hours of Elective A

Select 2 courses from:

ARTS 215 - Web Design
COMM 237 - Elements of Copy & Design
DIFT 355 - Documentary Field Production
DIFT 340 - Audio Production
DIFT 451 - Introduction to Video Graphics
DIFT 454 - Advanced Video Editing
ENGL 310 - Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 318 - Creative Nonfiction
INNV 101 - Create: Innovation Eng I
THTR 120 - Acting I
THTR 331 - Lighting Design

3 hours of Elective B

Select 1 course from:

Internship

DIFT majors are strongly encouraged but not required to complete an internship in their Junior or Senior year.

TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours

Notes

A 2.000 cumulative average must be attained in the communication arts courses of each major.
It is important that students work closely with their academic advisors in the choice of these electives.

B.A. Digital Innovation, Film and Television

This block serves as a guideline for progress toward a degree. See your academic advisor.

Freshman Year

Fall Semester

PHIL 100 - Ethics as Intro to Philosophy
General Elective
DIFT 210 - Art of Film
Second Language I
THEO 111 - Theological Foundations or CORE 100 - First Year Seminar

Spring Semester

CSCI 170 - Computer Science I
THEO 111 - Theological Foundations or CORE 100 - First Year Seminar
Social Science Elective
Second Language II
ENGL 101 - English Composition or ENGL 115 - Rhetoric

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester

COMM 206 - Writing for the Media
DIFT 213 - Non-Fiction Film
General Elective
Scientific Perspectives elective
PHIL 200 - Philosophial Perspectives

Spring Semester

Historical Perspectives elective
DIFT 215 - Aesthetics and Tech Post-Prod
Literature and Moral Imagination 205
General elective
Creative Perspectives elective

Junior Year

Fall Semester

DIFT 250 - Screenwriting and Story Craft
DIFT 254 - Intro To Video Production
General elective
Nat. Sci. elective
Humanities elective

Spring Semester

DIFT 354 - Field Prod and Story Telling
Theological Perspectives elective
General elective
General elective
Major DIFT elective

Senior Year

Fall Semester

DIFT 459 - SR Sem-Elect Media: Adv Prod
Major course (E/RS elec.)
General elective (Diversity Flag)
Major DIFT elective
General elective

Spring Semester

DIFT 460 - Sr Sem Elec Media Adv II
Major DIFT elective
Major DIFT elective
General elective
General elective

Notes

All students must elect one each of oral communications, quantitative reasoning and writing-intensive flagged courses; many of these are available within the core or major.