The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (FTDM) offers students a uniquely diverse and comprehensive array of courses designed to prepare its graduates to be industry leaders, creative contributors and/or impactful scholars in arguably the most pervasive and influential field of the 21st century.
State-of-the-art department resources include HD studios, soundstages, professional editing suites, a green screen studio, a campus radio station and a full complement of HD field production and grip equipment. The Gwendolyn P. Tandy Memorial Film Library houses more than 15,000 titles.
The department offers bachelor degrees of arts and science in four majors:
NEW: Business of Entertainment Media
Students shadow members of the “Landman” crew.
Interested in working as a leader in the field of entertainment media? This major provides essential real-world applications and skills as it prepares students for successful careers as leaders and managers in influential entertainment-focused organizations, in a variety of positions including brand managers, creative consultants, marketing strategists, producers, production managers, social media coordinators, and many related others. Its emphases on both business and content-related industry aspects enable graduates to emerge with substantial knowledge of media business practices and terminology, development and production processes, marketing fundamentals, legal essentials, and a range of additional educational insights necessary for personal and professional success in this exciting and rapidly changing field.
Cinema and Media Studies
Tandy Film Library
In this scholarship- and research-oriented sequence, students practice the critical analysis of visual media (including film, television, streaming video, social media, and virtual reality), with the goal of understanding how we are continuously influenced and shaped, as a culture and as individuals, by the media texts that have become essential components of our everyday lives.
Cinema and Media Studies is offered as a Bachelor of Science degree. A Film and Media Studies minor is also available.
Film, Television and Digital Media
FTDM Instructor Charity Robinson (center) works with her Documentary Production students. (James Anger)
In this sequence, students combine various production courses with offerings in critical studies and industry studies to prepare them for success in the competitive and increasingly global media industries.
Film, Television and Digital Media is offered as both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science.
Sports Broadcasting
Sports Broadcasting students learn production skills in the control room in Moudy South. (Jeffrey McWhorter)
In this sequence, students acquire the technical skills to produce sports programs at the professional level as well as the analytical skills to understand and articulate the social and cultural roles sports events play in countries around the globe.
Sports Broadcasting is offered as both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Science.