Video Production, BA

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Center	Creatio Center for Technology and Design
Academic Awards	Bachelor of Arts
Credits Required	125 Semester Credits
Faculty Lead	Craig Chapman
CIP Code	10.0299

Video Production or Digital Filmmaking professionals are the experts in designing, recording, editing, staging and producing movies, musical recordings, live shows, or video games. It involves technical and engineering talent as well as artistic and design skills. The goal of this program is to train the future leaders and technical specialists with the expertise and experience needed to become leaders in these fields, and it will also provide the cornerstone classes for other media arts degree programs (such as film and cinematography).

Graduates with a degree in Video Production will be able to:

Create new and innovative video productions using the iterative approach of “design thinking’ methods.
Demonstrate mastery of cinematography in the creation of a live or studio recording.
Master the conversion of raw film footage to final video production utilizing commercial video editing technology.
Collaborate with a group in the production of music, voice, and other types of recordings
Produce live events for indoor and outdoor venues with professional quality sound, lighting and video recording (Live or Live Action Concentration)
Produce professional quality animated or live motion videos (Animation and Live Motion Concentration).
Articulate how their faith informs their work in the field of video production and digital filmmaking.

Specific employment opportunities for graduates with this degree include:

Video Producer
Cinematographer
Sound Designer
Video Editor
Audio Editor
Animator
Game Producer, Designer or Developer

Core Curriculum Requirements: 60

Bible and Theology: 12

BIBL 1103 - Old Testament History and Literature 3 credits
BIBL 1203 - New Testament History and Literature 3 credits
THEO 1213 - Christian Thought 3 credits
THEO 2323 - Jesus the Messiah 3 credits

Written and Verbal Communications: 9

ENGL 1013 - Composition I: Expository Writing 3 credits
ENGL 1023 - Composition II: Rhetoric and Research Writing 3 credits
COMM 1213 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication 3 credits

Humanities: 9

6 credits in this area must be from Writing Practice courses* (see Course Descriptions for applicability)

ENGL xxx3 Any Literature course 3 credits
HIST xxx3 Any Course in History 3 credits
3 additional credits selected from the following 3 credits

Art (ARTE), Bible (BIBL), Drama (DRAM), English (ENGL), History (HIST), Language (LANG), Music (MUSI), or Theology (THEO)

Social Sciences: 9

6 credits in this area must be from Writing Practice courses* (see Course Descriptions for applicability)

Select a minimum of two disciplines from the following: 9 credits

Business Administration (BUSM), Communication (except COMM 1213), Economics, Education (EDUC), Geography (GEOG), Health & Fitness (PEDU), Information Technology (INTC), Management (BMGT), Marketing (BMKT), Philosophy (PHIL), Political Science (PSCI), Psychology (PSYC), Sociology/Anthropology (SOCI), or User Experience Design (UXDE)