Course designated to fulfill requirements for non-thesis master's students when all other credits have been previously completed.

Provides graduate students the opportunity for application of film & digital media skills and knowledge carried out under the supervision of a professional employer in a media-related organization.

Study of the psychological effects of media on the thoughts, feelings, and actions of viewers and users. We consider the negative and positive impact of various types of media. Features a special focus on media use and well-being, as well as coverage of the usage and effects of interactive media.

Selected topics in the film or electronic media. Topics may be chosen from the following: mass communication theory, film or broadcasting history, media effects, media regulation, new communication technologies, and political communication. May be repeated once with a different topic.

Selected topics in corporate telecommunication. Topics may be chosen from the following: telecommunication management, training and development, diffusion of innovations, and impact analysis. May be repeated once with a different topic.

Selected topics in media aesthetic criticism. Topics may be chosen from the following: film theory, semiotic analysis, visual literacy, and approaches to film criticism (i.e., cinema). May be repeated once with a different topic.

Advanced production-oriented workshop with emphasis on enabling students to practice their craft and work towards completion of festival-worthy productions. Particular emphasis on preproduction, research and concept development, production, and post-production. May be repeated once in a different semester for a total of six semester hours.

Major issues and concepts that have been taken up by film theorists and critics in the years following World War II, with particular concentration on cultural studies, ideological criticism, race, gender, politics, spectatorship, and new digital technologies.

Exploration of current and emergent forms of storytelling in media, including analysis of the current state of motion picture and television industries, virtual and augmented reality, interactive media, transmedia, and streaming media distribution, with an emphasis on how changes in media consumption practices are changing storytelling forms.

This is a workshop course in which each student will work on a film or screenwriting project(s) for the entire semester. This may be an assigned project with a particular topic, or it may be a self-created project which they currently developing and/or in production or postproduction on. The professor will provide continuous feedback and evaluation on the progress made on the project. Each class meeting will consist of student presentations and professor and peer feedback on each project. Projects may be in various stages during the course. Students are expected to make significant progress on their project over the course of a semester.

Students will master on-set production techniques and protocols, learn to manage production challenges and gain experience in collaborative filmmaking and creative decision-making. Particular focus on the role of the producer including budgeting and scheduling.

Students will actively workshop preproduction for their next film. Students will take a film project from script up to the point of beginning production. Faculty will guide this process, ensuring students consider all aspects of responsible production. Students will create budgets and shooting schedule, will scout locations, perform casting and file for necessary permits.

Focus on film and sound editing, special effects, workflow and finishing a film in preparation for festival submission and exhibition. Students will master editing techniques on industry standard systems.

Exploration of the skills and techniques needed to work effectively with actors. Students will learn to take the actor's point of view, analyze dialogue with the aim of understanding character needs and objectives, and master appropriate casting and rehearsal strategies.

Students will pursue an understanding of film as visual and aural and how consideration of these dictates effective screenwriting. They will develop an understanding of what makes a good story and will evaluate existing film narratives while crafting their own original work.

Students will write, produce, and direct a short film under the guidance of the professor-mentor.

Designed to give individual students opportunities for additional work in their area of concentration in film and digital media. May be repeated in a different semester for up to a total of six semester hours.

Satisfies the non-thesis option for the master of communication studies. Under the direction of a supervising professor, a student will select a problem or topic in film and digital media and will write a substantial paper or produce a substantial project for submission to the faculty. Maximum three credit hours.

Research, data analysis, writing, and oral defense of an approved master's thesis. At least six hours of FDM 5V99 are required.