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Geri Ulrey
Professor and Chair of Film, TV and Media Arts
Los Angeles
Glendale Community College
CTE Dean
Dr. Freddy Saucedo
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Program Details
Film Studies (Certificate)
New Program
Television (including combined TV/film/video) (060420)
01/01/25
This degree is designed to help students gain the breadth of knowledge, appreciation and understanding of cinematic language that is necessary for film and tv production and to seek employment in the field. These film and TV courses are designed to help students learn the aesthetics and craft of film language, cinematic story telling, production design, composition, lighting techniques, sound design, and picture editing.
4-6
Program Proposal Attributes
- Certificate of Achievement: 16 or greater semester (or 24 or greater quarter) units (C)
To serve students interested in studying the cinematic language; to educate and train students to be adept in cinematic/visual literacy to be competitive in an increasingly media centered global economy; to offer students basic education in film studies who may seek employment in ancillary sectors to film/tv production which may include distribution and marketing, festival programming, film archiving and preservation, curation and exhibition.
Course Units and Hours
24/24
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Course Report
Students will demonstrate an understanding of film aesthetics composition, film language, lighting and sound design to support the creative vision of the director.
Students will also be able to recognize, articulate, and judge the visual, verbal, and audio conventions through which images, words, and sounds make meaning in film and media texts.
| Course | Title | Units | Year/Semester (Y1 or S1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| FTVM 100 | Aesthetics of Cinema | 3 | S1 |
| ARTH 125 | Motion Picture History and Culture | 3 | S1 |
| FTVM 120 or FTVM 112 | Writing for Media or Introduction to Screenwriting | 3 | S1 |
| 9 units from below | |||
| FTVM 101 | Film Genres | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| FTVM 102 | Aesthetics of International Cinema: World War II to the Present | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| FTVM 103 | Emerging Global Cinema | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| FTVM 104 | American Independent Film | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| FTVM 106 | Great Filmmakers | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| FTVM 107 | Beyond Hollywood: Gender, Race and Sex in the Movies | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| FTVM 108 | Documentary Film Aesthetics | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| ENGL 117 | Film as Literature | 3 | S2 or S3 |
| 6 units from below | |||
| FTVM 135 | Introduction to Audio Production | 3 | |
| FTVM 137 | Introduction to Cinematography | 3 | S4 |
| FTVM 139 | Introduction to Editing | 3 | S4 |
| FTVM 131 | Introduction to TV Studio Production | 3 | S4 |
| FTVM 132 | Introduction to Film Production | 3 | S4 |
| FTVM 271 | Documentary Filmmaking | 3 | S4 |
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Film, Television and Media Arts
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Submission Details
09/29/24 - 12:13 PM
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Gray Rakow Super User · 10/01/24
As required by the LARC Program Recommendation Process, which is outlined on the LARC Program Recommendation webpage (https://losangelesrc.org/program-recommendation/), the LA Workforce Council Voting Members must be included in the collegial consultation process for new programs. If you have not already done so, please reach out to the LAWC voting members at colleges with similar programs (per your issued LMI report from LA COE) within the next week to ensure that any concerns or questions may be addressed prior to the upcoming business meeting. The current voting members are always available in the Resources section of the LARC Program Recommendation webpage. Please feel free to reach out with any questions (grakow@pasadena.edu).