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Department Info

The department office is open M- F from 8 AM to 5 PM.

The department office is located in Manzanita Hall, Room 195. The department phone number is (818) 677-3192.

 

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Click here for a .pdf listing of the full-time and part-time CTVA Teaching & Office Schedules for Spring 2012

Click here for a .pdf listing of the Advising Schedules for Spring 2012

 

 

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CTVA MANDATORY ADVISEMENT FOR FALL 2012
(NOTES – ANY CTVA MAJOR WHO DOES NOT ATTEND AN ADVISEMENT SESSION WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENROLL IN CTVA CLASSES. THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO GRAD STUDENTS IN THE M.A. PROGRAM.)

Electronic Media Management
• Monday, April 9, 2012
5:00pm – 6:00pm in MZ 101
or
• Tuesday, April 10, 2012
1:00pm – 1:45pm in SH 380
(attend one or the other)

Film Production
Friday, May 4, 2012
• 10:00am for students who entered via portfolio Spring 2011 (with special issues or grad problems)
• 11:00am for students who entered via portfolio Fall 2011
• 1:00 pm for students who entered via portfolio Spring 2012
• 3:00 pm for new portfolio admits for Fall 2012
MZ 170 for all Film Advisement sessions

Multimedia Production
• Thursday, May 3, 2012
12:30pm – 5:00pm in MZ 308
or
• Monday, May 7, 2012
9:00am – 1:00pm in MZ 308
(attend one or the other)

Screenwriting
(including pre-CTVA students who plan to be Screenwriting majors in Spring 2012)
• Thursday, April 12, 2012
5:00pm – 7:00pm in MZ 170
or
• Friday, April 13, 2012
3:00pm – 5:00pm in MZ 170
(attend one or the other)

Television Production
• Monday, April 23, 2012
5:00pm – 6:00pm in MZ 180
or
• Tuesday April 24, 2012
5:00pm – 6:00pm in MZ 180
(attend one or the other)

Media Theory & Criticism – make an appointment to see Dr. Gateward, Dr. Schultheiss or Prof. Wynter

Radio Production – make an appointment to see Prof. Kearns


 

STUDENT ALERT -- NEW RULE REGARDING THE WRITING PROFICIENCY EXAM

The University now requires you to take the Upper Division Writing Proficiency Exam in the semester in which you attempt your 75th unit. If you do not, the University will place a hard hold on your records, blocking your ability to register for any courses, CTVA or otherwise, until you attempt the exam. You need not pass on the first attempt, but you must make the attempt. Please click on the following link for information and to make an appointment:

http://www.csun.edu/udwpe/index.htm

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IN THE NEWS...

2012 Film Showcase

 

 

Photos from the 2012 Senior Film Showcase
[View Photos]

 

Screenwriter Showcase program cover

 

 

Top TV Writer/Producer to Host Student Screenwriting Showcase on May 11
[Read Story]

 

Mary Schaffer portrait

 

 

CSUN Multimedia Professor Mary Schaffer Named VP of Professional Board
[Read Story]

 

2012 Film Showcase

 

 

Hollywood’s Next Generation of Filmmakers in Spotlight at CSUN’s Student Film Showcase
[Read Story]

 

Screen shot from the student film CAROUSEL

 

 

CSUN Grads Take Top Honors at CSU Media Arts Festival
[Read Story]

 

 

 

MTV BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR WINNER ANNOUNCED
[Read Story]

 

Quinn Saunders

 

Cherry., written and directed by Cal. St. Northridge professor, to premiere on On Demand
[Read Story]

 

 

 

CSUN Student Takes Third in National Freedom of Speech Contest
[Read Story]

 

Mark Wahlberg at HFPA Luncheon

 

Hollywood Foreign Press Association Continues Support of Film Program with $50,000 Grant
[Read Story]

 

 

 

2010 Senior Film Project "Misdirection" Wins at Cannes
[Read Story]

 

2010 Senior Film Project "En Tiempo De Guerra" Is Finalist in British Academy Student Film Awards
[Read Story]

 

 

CSUN film students use new K-Tek E-Z Boom to record sound on 35mm senior thesis film project

Click here to read the article that ran in the Cinema Audio Society Quarterly magazine.

 

Jenna Elfman

 

 

Golden Globe Winner Jenna Elfman Hosts 2011 Senior Film Showcase
[Read Story]

 


 

Alexis Krasilovsky receives the Gate of Freedom Special Award at the Gdansk DocFilm Festival, May 8th, 2011

[Read Story]

 

 

Emmy Award Winner Hosts Student Screenwriting Showcase
[Read Story]

 

 

Northridge Grads Win Top Honor From Television Academy for Senior Film Project
[Read Story]

 

 

 

CSUN Students, Faculty Take Top Honors at Media Festival
[Read Story]

 

Photo of Mary Schaffer

 

 

Cal State Northridge Professor is Elected Onto BEA Board of Directors
[Read Story]

 

Professor Nate Thomas in graduation regalia.

 

 

CTVA FILM HEAD DOES COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT ST. EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY
[Read Story]

 

 

CTVA ALUM WINS KODAK FILM SCHOOL COMPETITION
[Read Story]

 

 

FBI and Local Law Enforcement in Partnership with CSUN Film Program Produce Gripping PSA on Cyber Predators and Children
[Read Story]

 

 

ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards Announced
[Read Story]

   

 	 Picture of film directors Alexis Krasilovsky (l) from Los Angeles and Lilly Wolfensberger-Scherz (r) from Mexico, in  Potsdam.

 

"Women Behind the Camera" Selected for Film Festivals
[Read Story]

(For further information, please see www.womenbehindthecamera.com and www.alexiskrasilovsky.com