Degree Options
Operational and management aspects of independent, studio, and network electronic media--including business structures, personnel, budgets, advertising, sales, research, and regulation of the media industries.
A minor is also offered in this option.
Conceptualization, production, directing, editing, and distribution of film projects for both entertainment and informational purposes.
History, theory, and critical analysis of the culture of film and electronic media--providing a background for all professional training, with specific preparation for careers in teaching or research. Screenwriting Option: research, structure, and writing for dramatic and non-dramatic scripts for film, radio, television, and multimedia.
Pre-production, production and distribution of digital material for film, television and the World Wide Web. Students acquire effective computer skills to design websites, create streaming audio and video, design and create DVDs and CD-ROMS, and develop games in the interactive media environment.
Pre-production, production, and post-production techniques for all electronic media formats--encompassing directing and all other creative aspects of studio and field production.
Research, structure, and writing for dramatic and non-dramatic scripts for film, radio, television, and multimedia.
Graduate Program
The Department of Cinema and Television Arts offers a Master of Arts degree in Screenwriting.
Pre-CTVA Advisor
By appointment only
Kathleen McWilliams
MZ 185
(818) 677-5053
kathleen.mcwilliams@csun.edu
OPTION - Media Theory & Criticism
Pre-CTVA majors will take 9 units of preparatory classes.
- CTVA 100 Intro to Mass Comm Arts (3)
- CTVA 210 TV-Film Aesthetics (3)
As soon as you complete your two Pre-CTVA courses (with a grade of “C” or better in each course), you must submit, to Admissions and Records, a Change of Major Form signed by the Department Chair in order to change from a Pre-CTVA major to the official CTVA Media Theory and Criticism major.
Students in the Media Theory and Criticism Option will take 3 lower division, and 36 upper division units as indicated below:
- CTVA 220 Foundations of Media Writing (3)
- CTVA 309 Film as Literature (3)
- CTVA 319 Criticism in CTVA (3)
- CTVA 400 Media and Society (3)
Select one of the following:
- CTVA 301 Design of the Media Message (3)
- CTVA 401 Mass Communications Research (3)
Select one of the following:
- CTVA 305 History of Broadcasting (3)
- CTVA 310 History of American Cinema (3)
Select one of the following:
- CTVA 315 New Directions in Electronic Media Systems (3)
- CTVA 405 International Broadcasting (3)
Select three of the following:
- CTVA 410 Advanced Film Theory: Studies in Film Style (3)
- CTVA 412 Analysis of Classic Film Makers (3)
- CTVA 413 Women as Filmmakers (3)
- CTVA 415 international Cinema (3)
- CTVA 416 The Documentary Tradition in Film and Video (3)
With permission of your advisor, select 9 additional upper division units in CTVA or an allied field.
