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 - Multimedia Production
Pre-CTVA majors will take 9 units of preparatory classes.
- CTVA 100 Intro to Mass Comm Arts (3)
- CTVA 210 TV-Film Aesthetics (3)
Select one of the following:
- CTVA 230 Fund of Audio Production (3)
- CTVA 240 Fund of Video Production (3)
- CTVA 250 Fund of Film Production (3)
As soon as you complete your three 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 Multimedia Production major.
Students in the Multimedia Production option will take 3 lower division units and 33 upper division units as indicated below:
- CTVA 220 Foundations of Media Writing (3)
- CTVA 301 Design of Media Message (3)
- CTVA 315 New Diections/Elec Med Systems (3)
- CTVA 327 Writing for Industrial Media (3)
- CTVA 361 Computing for Multimedia (3)
- CTVA 362 Corporate & Instructional Media (3)
- CTVA 461 Interactive Media (3)
- CTVA 464 Multimedia Design (3)
- CTVA 468 Multimedia Production (3)
Select one of the following:
- CTVA 305 History of Broadcasting (3)
- CTVA 310 History of American Cinema (3)
With the permission of your advisior, select 6 additional upper division units in CTVA or an allied field.
Prerequisites. Note that many of the courses in the Television Production Option require prerequisites. Be sure that you qualify for enrollment in each course or obtain permission from the instructor.
