The Screen Cultures major is an innovative and interdisciplinary program that provides students with a flexible course of study. It offers a solid understanding of foundational issues related to the study and understanding of the moving image while also allowing students to focus their studies on a range of specific issues and areas.
As a humanities-based course of study grounded in the field of film studies, but drawing on neighboring disciplines such as cultural studies, area studies, media arts, and media theory, Screen Cultures allows students to study in depth the theory, aesthetics, history, and cultural and institutional contexts of film, television, and related screen media from interdisciplinary perspectives. The degree emphasizes international and multicultural foci and is attentive to the role that the moving image plays in the construction of national, racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities.
The degree also provides opportunities for experiential learning in the form of on-campus and off-campus internships and projects in collaboration with a variety of film festivals on campus and throughout Ithaca, ensuring that students graduate not only with core liberal arts skills, but with a keen understanding of the important role that visual media play in the contemporary world and in national/international public discourses and multiple industries.
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Screen Cultures (B.A.)
Screen Cultures (B.A.)
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Writing for Film, TV, and Emerging Media (B.F.A.)
Writing for Film, TV, and Emerging Media (B.F.A.)
The greatest stories of this generation are being told on multiple screens and platforms to vastly diverse audiences. Blockbuster and independent films screen in packed theaters. College students play video games with their friends and families on computers, television sets, and tablets. Breaking stories and updates stream from news and social media sources to our smartphones.
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A powerful scriptwriter can craft a message that touches audiences via many formats, and as a student in the Writing for Film, Television, and Emerging Media B.F.A. program you’ll learn how to identify the platform that works best for the story you want to tell. You'll train to become a versatile, intellectually nimble writer who can create a universe that spans film, television, video games, and the web—bringing your characters and stories to the audience, wherever they may be.
Professors will help you identify and hone your unique narrative voice and teach you to develop complex characters and compelling story worlds. By studying professional media and the work of fellow students, you’ll learn to analyze and critique other writers, addressing their strengths and weaknesses along with your own. As your technical skills and creative talents grow, you’ll learn to write as a member of a team. Collaborative class projects will give you a real writer’s room experience with peers who are also serious about developing professional-level creative work.
Our semester-long Los Angeles program will introduce you to many realities of a life in creative media in a world-renowned entertainment hub. While taking courses, you’ll intern for the people who may go on to become professional connections for your future career. The working relationships you foster with fellow students will likely form the basis of lifelong partnerships in the industry.
Television, Photography, and Digital Media (B.S.)
Television, Photography, and Digital Media (B.S.)
The Bachelor of Science in Television, Photography, and Digital Media is a four-year curriculum designed to prepare students for careers in digital media communications, including producing film and series television, social media, live broadcast production, directing, on-camera performance, postproduction, audio production, photography, and other related communication professions. From their very first semester, students get hands-on experience with the tools and techniques of production in television, photography, and digital media. Additionally, each student will select a concentration that focuses on the student’s unique educational goals.
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Concentrations
The Photography Concentration offers pre-professional preparation for students across a wide variety of areas including documentary, photojournalism, creative, and commercial photography. The concentration provides a grounding in photography’s history, exposure to contemporary representational debates and controversies, and knowledge of the medium’s socio-political functions. Additional emphasis is on photography’s connections to the increasingly intertwined world of media practices – film, television, audio, information exchange (documentary and journalism), writing, etc.
Course offerings include: History of Photography, Intermediate Photography, Contemporary Photographic Genres, Media Law, Photo Workshop, and more!
The Emerging Media Concentration prepares students to understand, develop, and lead the role of technology in society. The concentration combines content in media analysis and design, social analysis, and industry competency, with computation-based content in the Computer Science courses. The mission of the Emerging Media concentration is to engage and support students to become ethical leaders within the evolving discipline of emerging media, whether as designers and creators of media and technology, as entrepreneurs creating media products, or as researchers exploring the effects of media technology.
Course offerings include: Design of New Media, Utopias and Dystopias of Emerging Media, Media Law, Emerging Media Research Methods and Critical Inquiry, and more!
In the Television and Digital Media Production Concentration, students can choose from a variety of production-focused studio courses that will provide a guided pathway to the Capstone experience while allowing students flexibility to choose courses based on their specific interests.
Course offerings include: Writing for Screen Media, Television Series Production, Editing, Audio Production, Nonfiction Production, Live Event Production, and more!