Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Production

Literacy in visual and aural “texts” has become a necessity in our world, and as technologies develop, individuals’ and cultures’ reliance on the visual and aural increases. Thus, the moving image arts have become a primary global means for communicating values. The Department of Moving Image Arts at Oklahoma City University recognizes the centrality of visual and aural communications and responds to the continual emergence of new technologies by providing interdisciplinary liberal arts curricula focused on both the critical and the physical production studies of moving image content. Students study and create today’s dynamic products of artistic and informational communications. Through required courses, students majoring in film production will learn how to create recorded content and understand the effects of recorded content as both a narrative and nonnarrative imaginative language of visual and aural art. Beyond the core course work, students will have extensive elective course choices that will properly prepare and fulfill different professional objectives to enhance his or her specific career direction. The flexible moving image arts programs of study will • prepare students for professions in the current industries of the moving image arts or to pursue advanced studies in graduate programs; • educate students in the history, theories, and concepts of the moving image arts as a global art form and of their impact on social, economic, and cultural constructions; • allow students to develop individual talents, skills, and creative voices by offering an intensive, hands-on production education coupled with a broad exposure to the liberal arts as a foundation to successfully engage in art and culture; • add value to the studies of other majors, especially those in the established programs of music, theatre, and dance, by providing allied course work to expand expertise into recorded as well as live performance. The Department of Moving Image Arts offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film production. The undergraduate degree requires completion of moving image arts core courses, in addition to the university general education requirements. The degree additionally requires specific major courses and a number of interdisciplinary electives from a pool of diversified subjects. As part of its professional emphasis, the department provides an opportunity for practical work in both the classroom and the field. Internships are strongly encouraged.