By combining course offerings in Media Studies, Art and Drama, students develop technical skills in lighting, videography, motion graphics, digital audio, and video editing. In addition to building technical proficiencies, this undergraduate Certificate guides students toward developing a creative voice through digital storytelling.
The Certificate in Video Production and Digital Storytelling offers students many advantages. Increasingly, digital communication skills are necessary in a wide variety of professional fields, such as public relations, marketing, non-profit communications, journalism, film and video making, graphic design, social media management, political communications, law, and education.
Proficiency in video production is a highly marketable skill for entrants into 21st-century careers. With combined specialized training in media production and narrative construction, students will have a significant competitive asset on today’s job market, because they will be trained in the creation of powerful and effective media texts. Students can also use this Certificate as the foundation for pursuing advanced degrees in media-related fields.
Certificate Requirements
The Certificate in Video Production and Digital Storytelling contains a total of six courses totaling 18 credit hours, as follows.
Because of potential overlap between the Video Production and Digital Storytelling (Department of Drama) and the Digital Art and Design (Department of Media Studies) Certificates, students should choose to complete either one or the other, but not both.
Courses for the Certificate in Video Production and Digital Storytelling must be taken in two or more departments, with no more than four courses from a single department.
Two required core courses (6 cr total):
- MDIA 302: Media Rhetoric and Aesthetics
- MDIA 312: Media Composition
One course in Media Narratives (3 cr):
- CLAS 251: Ancient World in Cinema
- DR 305: Theater Topics III
- ENG 202: Elements of Drama
- ENG 301: Creative Writing: Fiction
- ENG 377: Film and Fiction 19th Century Adaptations
- ENG 395: Lincoln in Literature and Film
- ENG 453/454: American Film Comedy I & II
- ENG 456: Science Fiction Media
- ENG 458: Religion and Media
- ENG 460: Film and History
- ENG 470: International New Wave Cinema
- FREN 315: Literature and Film: Roman noir/Film noir
- GER 240: Weimar Culture in Film & Literature
- GER 250: Berlin in Literature and Film
- GER 345: The Haunted Screen: Art, History, and Memory in German Film
- GER 346: Nietzsche to Film Noir
- ITAL 230: Social Issues in Italian Cinema
- ITAL 231: New Italian Cinema 1980-2005
- ITAL 233: The Myth of Childhood in Italian Cinema
- MDIA 328: Clint Eastwood: Violence, Vengeance & Redemption
- MDIA 450: Film Narrative: The Coen Brothers
- MDIA 451: Film Narrative: Alfred Hitchcock
- MDIA 452: Film Narrative: Stanley Kubrick
- MDIA 459: The Documentary Mode
- MDIA 460: Film History: New Hollywood Cinema
- MDIA 464: Topics in Television Studies
- TRS 338: War, Ethics, and Film
Three courses in Production (9 cr):
- ART 236: Time-Based Media
- ART 321: Introduction to Digital Design: Motion Graphics & Graphic Design
- ART 329: Introduction Digital Photography and Photoshop
- ART 343: Introduction to Sound Production and Design
- ART 344: Multimedia Art Using Final Cut Pro
- ART 364: Advanced Multimedia Art Using Final Cut Pro
- ART 383: Video Art
- ART 384: Digital Photography and Dynamic Narrative
- ART 411: Advanced Digital Photography
- DR 207: Introduction to Design
- DR 312: Directing I
- DR 540: Scene Design
- DR 543: Stage Lighting
- DR 545: Production Design and Management
- DR 566: Screenwriting
- MDIA 385: Digital Video Editing
- MDIA 499-03: Senior Seminar in Documentary Video Production