Digital Media Production

COORDINATE MAJOR IN DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTON

New Orleans is quickly becoming a major center for Digital Media Production, particularly film. Currently, there are unparalleled opportunities for students to become a part of this fast growing industry. The mission of the coordinate undergraduate major in Digital Media Production is to educate our students in the art, craft, and technology of film, television, video, animation and sound production. Our new program offers intensive, hands-on production experience, coupled with a broad exposure to the liberal arts. Our goals and objectives include the development of individual talent and skills within a collaborative working environment. We want to encourage our students to become creative and thoughtful practitioners in the world of media. We will also support a strong internship program offering a wide range of options for pre-professional experience and provide venues for the presentation and promotion of student work.

Courses

The coordinate major in digital media production first requires students to declare a major in another discipline before declaring the DMP coordinate major. The program is an interdisciplinary, 30 credit program that can include courses from Music, Theatre and Dance, Communication, Art, or English. Students will take 5 required courses and 5 electives:

• COMM 315 - Film Analysis or COMM/ENGL 4750 – New Media Theory
• THEA 2070 – Video Production 1
• THEA 2080 - Video Production 2
• THEA 5550 - Capstone 1
• THEA 5560 - Capstone 2

Electives

The remaining 15 credits to be chosen from the following electives:

• ARST 1550 - Foundations of Art: Digital Media I
• ARST 2550 - Digital Media II
• COMM 2700 – Visual Communication
• COMM 3650 – Feminist Documentation and New Media
• COMM 4170 - U.S. Film History
• COMM 4850 - Cinema, Technology, Modernity
• ENLS 3610 - Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL 3640 – Screenwriting
• ENGL 4660 - Advanced Screenwriting
• APMS 2210 - Voice, Instrument, or Composition
• APMS 3210 - Private Intermediate Voice, Instrument, or Composition
• APMS 3330 - Music for Film
• APMS 4230 - Private Advanced Voice, Instrument, or Composition and Recital Preparation
• MUS 2300 - Introduction to Computer Applications in Music
• MUS 4400 - Music and DSP
• MUS 4420 - Algorithmic and Computer Music Composition
• DANC 460 - Choreography and Media
• THEA 2100 - Fundamentals of Acting
• THEA 2110 - Beginning Acting
• THEA 3210 - Directing 1
• THEA 334 - Theatre Production and Design I
• THEA 4970 - Filmmaker and Actor Workshop
• THEA 6110 - Acting for Other Media