Introduction to video and audio production and post-production techniques. Experience is gained using cameras, audio and video equipment, as well as appropriate editing software.

Students learn to write in the proper script style for a variety of media formats. Writing workshop approach.

Students receive a thorough grounding in the financial processes and economies in the industry to better understand the basic business and operational framework of film and television. Topics covered range from project development and product distribution to forward funding future projects.

An exploration of the art and craft involved in the process of cinematic image creation. Emphasis is placed on hands-on application of lighting, lens choices and camera movement.

Explores the art and technique of sound design. An emphasis is placed on professional recording techniques, creating sound effects, and mixing across a variety of visual mediums including television, film and games.

A project-based course covering the applications and process of design as they relate to motion media, along with methods for creating motion graphics and animation in 2d and 3d environments.

Students spend time in and out of the classroom developing intermediate editing skills, utilizing techniques that will advance their knowledge and professionalize their editing abilities.

Pre-production preparation for film and television directors, including working with performers, casting, script analysis and visualization.

Learn the skills - from pre-production through marketing and distribution - that it takes to produce a short fiction film. Students take an existing script and work through all of the stages to make that script ready for production.

Designed specifically for the ever-changing live sports media world. Students explore the various aspects of sports television. Students explore various production roles, including motion media graphics and game-related social media content.

Students learn the layout and game development process using Unreal Engine. Utilizing blueprint logic, students learn how to create a character with seamless and responsive movement and intelligent gameplay by creating two games.

Analysis and practice in the development of media for the corporate world. In the context of real-world projects, students learn about budgets, schedules, contracts, audience and objectives.

Students engage with critical texts and primary sources in the forms of video games, online video, VR, and interactive projects.

Explores the role of culture, economics, politics and technology in determining the nature of television content in different countries, how television programming travels around the globe and the geopolitical impact of US media in other parts of the globe.

Students explore aesthetics through a variety of film and television texts. Emphasis on developing a critical eye as both a media viewer and producer.

MU Radio or MUTV staff members can receive 1-3 credit hours depending on number of hours worked. S/U grade assessment.

Observation, participation, and experience in a radio, television, cable, or corporate setting. Augmented with selected readings, papers or conferences with adviser. 0 credit will be SNC/UNC grade assessment; 1-3 credit(s) will be S/U grade assessment.

Advanced video, audio and post production techniques as applied to professional level work. Emphasis on development of a portfolio and career preparation. Must have taken at least two Intermediate production courses.

Students create a single original non-fiction short film in a small group. Applying and building on digital media concepts, students gain a better understanding of documentary style, tone and storytelling technique. Students also practice and refine the essential technical skills needed to make a compelling non-fiction short film. Additional exercises are designed to help cultivate students’ voice and perspective on documentary, with an emphasis on ethical practice.

Create a short film, executing each step of production (pre-production to post-production). Professional film crew roles are stressed. Rotate through many of the technical positions of a small production team (camera operator, sound recordist, gaffer, DIT, editor, etc). Emphasis on skills mastery and portfolio development.

Development and writing of scripts for short films and television. Emphasis on development of writing portfolio and career preparation. Writing workshop approach.

Students learn the basics of creating real-time animated short films and game cinematics using the Unreal Engine and apply those concepts towards creating their own short, animated film. Topics include environment creation, modeling, character animation, motion and facial capture and photogrammetry.

Students explore the many ways in which real-time game engines are being used to enhance film and TV production workflows. Topics include virtual location scouting, previz, camera and light tracking, real-time compositing, and LED wall based environments. Students use the Unreal Engine to create a short film incorporating live actors into virtual environments in real-time.

Focuses on contemporary problems in media law and policy. Emphasis is placed on the Internet, mobile and social media, broadcasting, broadband and emerging technologies and on the most current legal and policy controversies and debates affecting those media. Students debate and seek to resolve law and policy problems while also studying and critiquing policymaking processes.

Historical, cultural and commercial growth of American radio and television, with special emphasis on programming, from pre-network origins to the present. Covers key genres, persons, issues, trends and developments.

Considers the near hundred-year history of non-fiction film and video known as documentary. Introducing key films from history, students contemplate the social, cultural, and technological forces that went into the establishment of a "canon" of films and filmmakers, while also deconstructing the values and preconceptions these filmmakers had within a decolonial frame. Students investigate how documentary form has progressed from its early days; how documentary is related to resistance movements; and how documentary shapes our notions of history and truth. Analytic projects are supplemented with short creative "thinking through making" projects.

Focuses on the analysis of television’s creative processes, programs, the economic side of television production, the contexts in which television programs are viewed, television audiences and how they read and interpret content, and to understand television’s true societal impact.

Examines digital campaigns that focus on political or social action issues. Goal is to develop more informed consumers and critics of political and social action communication campaigns. Exposure to relevant theories, methods and ideas, and application of that knowledge to current campaign activity. Explores how campaigns have changed over time, campaign planning, how attitudes are influenced, opinions are created and behaviors are triggered and campaign design and evaluation.

Various topics in digital media to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Includes screenings and/or other activities. Lecture/lab format.

Special subjects of seminar to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Variable topics. Does not count for senior capstone

Various topics in digital media to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Includes screening and/or other activities.

Faculty-supervised, independent study/research of a specific area or topic in digital media.

The application of rigorous methodology in developing and writing a thesis under the direction of an adviser.

Students create a single original non-fiction short film in a small group. Applying and building on digital media concepts, students gain a better understanding of documentary style, tone and storytelling technique. Students also practice and refine the essential technical skills needed to make a compelling non-fiction short film. Additional exercises are designed to help cultivate students’ voice and perspective on documentary, with an emphasis on ethical practice.

Development and writing of scripts for short films and television. Emphasis on development of writing portfolio and career preparation. Writing workshop approach.

Focuses on contemporary problems in media law and policy. Emphasis is placed on the Internet, mobile and social media, broadcasting, broadband and emerging technologies and on the most current legal and policy controversies and debates affecting those media. Students debate and seek to resolve law and policy problems while also studying and critiquing policymaking processes.

Historical, cultural and commercial growth of American radio and television, with special emphasis on programming, from pre-network origins to the present. Covers key genres, persons, issues, trends and developments.

Considers the near hundred-year history of non-fiction film and video known as documentary. Introducing key films from history, students contemplate the social, cultural, and technological forces that went into the establishment of a "canon" of films and filmmakers, while also deconstructing the values and preconceptions these filmmakers had within a decolonial frame. Students investigate how documentary form has progressed from its early days; how documentary is related to resistance movements; and how documentary shapes our notions of history and truth. Analytic projects are supplemented with short creative "thinking through making" projects.

Focuses on the analysis of television’s creative processes, programs, the economic side of television production, the contexts in which television programs are viewed, television audiences and how they read and interpret content, and to understand television’s true societal impact.

Various topics in digital media to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. Includes screenings and/or other activities. Lecture/lab format.