2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Motion Pictures, BA (GPS)
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This plan outlines a four-year path to graduation. You are expected to satisfy all “success marker” courses, grades, and GPAs as specified. For part-time students and students needing to complete background material, this schedule represents the order in which courses should be taken. This suggested plan to four-year graduation does not replace regular advising appointments. Some course offerings may change.
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Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better; Complete ENG 1100 and MP 1310 with C or better
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better; complete MP 2310 with C or better
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better; complete one MTH course; complete one language course
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better; complete ENG 2100 with C or better
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better
Term Six
- MP Course - Motion Pictures 3300-Level Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- MP 4350 - Advanced Studies in Media Credit Hour(s): 3
- QT Course - Research Methods Credit Hour(s): 3 ***
- LA Course - ART HST or PLS or REL or TH or WMS Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- CORE - Wright State Core Course Credit Hour(s): 3
Total: 15 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better; complete 20 upper-level credits
Term Seven
- MP Course - Motion Pictures 3300-Level Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- MP 4350 - Advanced Studies in Media Credit Hour(s): 3
- PHL Course - Philosophy Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- LA Course - ART HST or PLS or REL or TH or WMS Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 4
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better
Term Eight
- MP Course - Motion Pictures 3300-Level Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- LA Course - ART HST or PLS or REL or TH or WMS Course Credit Hour(s): 3
- UL - Upper-level Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 3
- GE - General Elective Credit Hour(s): 4
Total: 16 Credit Hours
SUCCESS MARKERS: Maintain GPA of 2.25 or better
Note(s):
*Languages include Arabic (ARA), American Sign Language (ASL), Chinese (CHI), French (FR), German (GER), Greek (GR), Latin (LAT), and Spanish (SPN).
**MP 3340 (Documentary Film: History and Theory) is specifically required but is taught only once every two years;
***PHL 3000 and Research Methods can be taken in place of each other in the schedule, but they must both be completed.
Program Description
Students in this program have excelled in their profession, and their accomplishments have included producing and writing feature-length and short form films and winning Golden Globe and Emmy awards. Students’ films have been awarded featured screenings and awards in the most important regional and national festivals in the country, including the Sundance Film Festival, the New York Expo of Short Film and Video, the Big Muddy Festival, the Black Maria Festival, The Charlotte Film Festival, the College and Independent Film Festival, the Athens International Film Festival, the David Wolper Documentary Achievement Reel, the Wexner Center, the Houston International Film Festival, and the Denver International Film Festival, among many others. Internationally, student films have won awards at the Cork International Film Festival in Ireland, the Calgary International Film Festival in Canada, and the Locarno International Festival in Switzerland. The motion pictures area has also won the Festival Jury Prize for the body of its students’ film at the Festival Internacional de cinema in Portugal, as well as a featured sidebar at the British Short Film Festival of London. As well, students and alumni filmmakers have participated in the American Independent Feature Market, have won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, have had their work broadcast on HBO and national PBS, and had their films purchased for distribution nationally and internationally. Students have worked in virtually all components of the film and television industry: including as an advertising creative director, as a Hollywood cinematographer, as a producer of features, as a computer special effects artist, as a videographer, as a writer in the Writer Guild of America, as a cinema scenic artist and designer, as a storyboard artist, as crew member for Hollywood features, as a director, as a DVD graphics designer, as a Technicolor specialist, and as editor for both feature and documentary projects, among other positions.
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