This course, offered in collaboration with the Georgia Film Consortium, provides students with basic production techniques and skills, studio production practices, and professional preparation for working in the commercial film and television industries.

Equips students with skills and knowledge of set construction for the film and television industries. Students participate in class projects, including mood boards, drafting, reading blueprints, architectural models, set etiquette and safety, use of power tools, carpentry, and scenic paint. Students work on and complete a collaborative final project.

Equips students with the knowledge and skills of electrical distribution and set lighting on a motion picture or television set. The course prepares for their entry and advancement in the industry. Upon completion of this course, students will be ready to work in film and media as entry-level set lighting technicians.

Introduces students to the latest equipment and techniques for on-set grip positions. Students learn proper rigging techniques, from clamps and stands to setting up tracks for camera movements and dolly shots. Studio policies, crew communication, equipment storage and care, labor rules, safety, and etiquette are also covered.

Provides students with entry-level skills and industry-standard knowledge of practical Special Effects (SFX) Makeup for major film and television productions. Students participate in hands-on class projects, including the professional use of casting materials, makeup, sculpting, airbrushing, and safe practices.

Film aesthetics and film as an art form, including critical viewing of selected films in laboratory, and papers on topics in film and audience values.

Film aesthetics and film as an art form, including critical viewing of selected films in laboratory, and papers on topics in film and audience values.

Cultural history of the most important ethnic film makers in the American cinema from the 1920's to the present, with emphasis on stories and styles of the films, as well as on the underlying economic and social contexts.

In this introductory writing course, students learn narrative structure, writing, and storytelling for visual entertainment media. Students are required to write and workshop documents and short scripts both in groups and individually.

An overview of U.S. Latinx visual culture. Focused on cinema, the course also briefly addresses television, comics, printmaking, muralism, and other cultural forms rooted in communities of Latin American origin in the U.S., combining (audio)visual analysis of works with consideration of their social and political context.

The development of the international cinema and film practice from 1895 to 1945, with emphasis on cinema as a narrative, artistic, technological, and industrial medium.

The historical study of international cinema and film practice from the World War II era to 1990, with emphasis on cinema's global narrative, artistic, technological, and industrial developments in the post-WWII and pre-digital era.