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Nov 22, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog
Video Production, BA
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| Center |
Creatio Center for Technology, Media and Design |
| Academic Awards |
Bachelor of Arts |
| Credits Required |
122 Semester Credits |
| Faculty Lead |
Steve Smith |
| CIP Code |
10.0201 |
Degree Requirements
Video Production or Digital Filmmaking professionals are the experts in designing, recording, editing, staging and producing movies, 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 interative 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 films/videos
- 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
- Video Editor
- Animator
- Game Producer, Designer or Developer
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Core Curriculum Requirements: 57
Written and Verbal Communications: 9
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), Exercise Science (EXSC), Geography (GEOG), Information Technology (INTC), Management (BMGT), Marketing (BMKT), Philosophy (PHIL), Political Science (PSCI), Psychology (PSYC), Sociology/Anthropology (SOCI), or User Experience Design (UXDE)
Science and Mathematics: 7
- MATH xxxx - College-level Mathematics 3 credits
- SCIE xxxx - Science course with Lab 4 credits
Professional Readiness: 2
Two Core Curriculum elective credits are required to be Career Readiness credits. These credits can be earned by taking a combination of Career Readiness Courses and introductory internship and/or job shadowing experiences.
- This two-credit requirement is waived for students who transfer 57 or more credits to NU
- Students with 44-56 transfer credits are required to take one Career Readiness credit
Core Electives: 6
Select any college-level courses
Pre-Major Recommendations: 3
These courses are strongly recommended and may be applied to the Core Curriculum requirements or General Electives
Lower-Level Foundation Courses: 6
Major Course Requirements: 34
Major Electives:6
Students must choose two elective courses (total of 6 credits) from the following list of Video Production Electives:
General Electives: 19
The following courses are recommended:
Total: 122 Semester Credits
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