The Cinema Studies Associate of Arts Degree offers students an in-depth study of the history, aesthetics, production and social relevance of this major art and communication form. Students learn to analyze audiovisual language including cinematography, editing and sound, and how meaning is created through narrative and genre.
Our courses explore how motion pictures reflect, and contribute to, representations of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and nationality, past and present. Film production courses offer students hands-on experience with the production process and a means to deepen their understanding of film language and aesthetics.
Demonstrate audiovisual literacy through using film terminology to analyze the aesthetics and meaning of screenwriting, mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, sound, narrative, documentary and genre in a motion picture.
Career Option
Director, Film editor, Camera operator, Producer, Location manager, Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Sound design, Animation, Broadcast presenter, Production Assistant, VFX artist, Film criticism, Lighting, Production designer, Cinematography, Editor, Film, Makeup Artist, Sound engineer, Videographer, Film and video sound, Hairdresser, Media Researcher
