University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts

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• Minors, International Programs and Summer Plan
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• Courses of Instruction

Departments

The USC School of Cinematic Arts (SCA) is one of the nation'due south preeminent centers for the creation, study, inquiry and development of film, television and interactive media. With nearly 200,000 square feet of facilities, the school confers degrees ranging from the available's to the doctorate. SCA is composed of seven divisions: the John C. Hench Division of Animation + Digital Arts; the Division of Cinema and Media Studies; Film and Television set Product; Interactive Media and Games; Peter Stark Producing Program; the John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Goggle box; and Media Arts + Exercise. The schoolhouse likewise has 2 organized research units — the Institute for Multimedia Literacy and the Entertainment Technology Centre.

Since its founding in 1929 as the start form of study in film at any college or university in the U.s.a., USC'south cinema program has consistently fix academic and professional standards for excellence. In addition, the school has a tape-breaking number of endowed chairs in the field of study; production facilities that rival manufacture counterparts and boggling faculty and staff.

Thanks to SCA's location in Los Angeles, students accept admission to the state's leading motion-picture show, boob tube, blitheness and video game producers; world-class literary and talent agencies; libraries and archives chock with research materials; and alumni that support the school and the men and women in its academic torso. The schoolhouse is likewise home to USC'south Trojan Vision television station.

The USC School of Cinematic Arts recognizes that a student tin can only truly excel in his or her chosen surface area of expertise after exposure to all elements of the art form. Consequently, there is an accent on cross-disciplinary course work that ensures writers get behind the camera; cinema and media studies scholars edit footage; and production majors examine the catechism from a rigorous academic perspective.

Assistants

Elizabeth M. Daley, PhD, Dean

Akira Mizuta Lippit, PhD, Vice Dean of Faculty

Michael Renov, PhD, Vice Dean, Academic Affairs

Andreas Kratky, PhD, Associate Dean, Research

Evan Hughes, MA,Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion

Part of Student Services
(213) 740-8358
Electronic mail: admissions@cinema.usc.edu; studentaffairs@movie house.usc.edu
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The John C. Hench Sectionalization of Animation + Digital Arts
Teresa Cheng, Division Chair
School of Cinematic Arts - SCB 210
(213) 740-3986*
FAX: (213) 740-5869

The Partition of Cinema and Media Studies
Priya Jaikumar, Partition Chair
School of Cinematic Arts - SCA 320
(213) 740-3334*

Moving-picture show and Boob tube Production
Gail Katz, Sectionalisation Chair
Susan Arnold, Vice Chair
School of Cinematic Arts - SCA 434
(213) 740-3317*

Interactive Media and Games Segmentation
Danny Bilson, Partitioning Chair
School of Cinematic Arts - SCI 201M
(213) 821-4472*
FAX: (213) 821-2665

Media Arts + Do
Holly Willis, Division Chair
Elizabeth Ramsey, Vice Chair
School of Cinematic Arts - SCI 101
(213) 821-5700*

The Peter Stark Producing Programme
Ed Saxon,Partition Chair
Nina Yang Bongiovi, Producer-in-Residence and Acquaintance Chair
School of Cinematic Arts - SCA 366
(213) 740-3304​*

The John Wells Division of Writing for Screen and Television
David Isaacs, Division Chair
Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts - SCA 335
(213) 740-3303*
FAX: (213) 740-8035

Summer Program
David Weitzner, Director
Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts - SCA 250
(213) 740-3327*

*For information regarding access, call (213) 740-8358.

Faculty

Steven J. Ross/Time Warner Endowed Dean's Chair in Cinema-Television: Elizabeth Thousand. Daley, PhD

Dana and Albert "Cubby" Broccoli Endowed Chair in Producing: John Watson, MA

The Marking Burnett Summertime Program Endowed Chair:David Weitzner, BA

The Joseph Campbell Endowed Chair in Cinematic Ethics:Theodore Braun, MFA

The Sergei Eisenstein Endowed Chair in Cinematic Design: Bruce A. Cake, MFA

Electronic Arts Endowed Chair in Interactive Amusement: Tracy Fullerton, MFA

Hugh M. Hefner Endowed Chair for the Written report of American Film:Tara McPherson, PhD

The John C. Hench Endowed Sectionalization Chair: Teresa Cheng, BA

The Michael Kahn Endowed Chair in Editing: Nancy Forner, BA

The Mona and Bernard Kantor Endowed Chair in Product: Mark J. Harris, BA

The George Méliès Endowed Chair in Visual Effects: Michael Fink, MFA

William Cameron Menzies Endowed Chair in Production Pattern: Alex McDowell, BFA

John H. Mitchell Endowed Chair in the Business organisation of Entertainment:Bonnie Chi, BA

Stephen K. Nenno Endowed Chair in Telly Studies: Ellen Seiter, PhD

Jack Oakie Chair in Comedy: Jack Epps Jr., BA

Mary Pickford Endowed Chair:Gail Katz, MBA

The Katherine and Frank Cost Endowed Chair for the Report of Race and Popular Civilisation: Todd Boyd, PhD

Kay Rose Endowed Chair in the Art of Sound and Dialogue Editing: Midge Costin, MA

Charles S. Swartz Endowed Chair in Entertainment Applied science: Richard Weinberg, PhD

The T.C. Wang Family unit Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts:Akira Mizuta Lippit, PhD

The Haskell Wexler Endowed Chair in Documentary:Michael Renov, PhD

The Robin Williams Endowed Chair in One-act: Barnet Kellman, PhD

Dino and Martha De Laurentiis Endowed Professorship: Mary Sweeney, MA

Presidential Professor of Cinematic Arts: George Lucas, BA

Judge Widney Professor: Robert Zemeckis, BFA

Provost Professor of Advice, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts: Henry Jenkins, PhD

Distinguished Professor: Marker J. Harris, BA

Professors: Tom Abrams, MFA; Danny Bilson, BA;  Bruce Block, MFA; Don Bohlinger, MFA; Mark Bolas, MS; Todd Boyd, PhD; Ted Braun, MFA; Teresa Cheng, BA; Midge Costin, MA; Elizabeth M. Daley, PhD; Jack Epps Jr., BA; Michael Fink, MFA; Scott S. Fisher, MS; Tracy Fullerton, MFA; Mark J. Harris, BA; David Howard, MFA; Aniko Imre, PhD; David Isaacs, BA; Priya Jaikumar, PhD; Henry Jenkins, PhD;  Jeremy Kagan, MFA; Gail Katz, MBA; Barnet Kellman, PhD; Scott Kroopf, BA; Lisa Leeman, BA; Akira Mizuta Lippit, PhD; David Macmillan; Tara McPherson, PhD; Christine Panushka, MFA; Amanda Pope, BA; Jason Reisig, BFA; Michael Renov, PhD; Howard A. Rodman, BA; Ellen Seiter, PhD; Tom Sito, BFA; Kathy Smith, BA; Sheila M. Sofian, MFA; Mary Sweeney, MA; Michael Taylor, BA; Robert Townsend, DFA: John Watson, MA; Holly Willis, PhD

Associate Professors: Linda Brown, MFA; J. D. Connor, PhD; Pamela Douglas, MA; Lan Duong, PhD; Nitin Govil, PhD; Helaine Head, BA; Georgia Jeffries, BA; Andreas Kratky, PhD; Richard Lemarchand, BA; Everett Lewis, MFA; Andrew Nealen, PhD; Laura Isabel Serna, PhD; Peter Sollett, BFA ; Stephanie Spray, PhD

Assistant Professor: Giancarlo Cornejo, PhD

Professors of Practice: David Balkan, BA; Irving Belateche, MA; Gordon Bellamy, BA; Peter Brinson, MFA; Vicki Callahan, PhD; Christopher Chomyn, MFA; Stephen Flick, BA; Nancy Forner, BA; Pablo Frasconi, BFA; Brenda Goodman, BS; Eric Hanson, BA; James Huntley, MS; Virginia Kuhn, PhD; Elisabeth Mann, MFA; Alexander McDowell, BFA; Thomas Miller, Physician, MFA; Barbara Nance, BA; Maks Naporowski, BA; Michael Patterson, BFA; Candace Reckinger, MFA; John Rosenberg, MFA; Mark Shepherd, MFA; Sonja Warfield, BA; David Weber, MFA;  William Yahraus, MA

Associate Professors of Practice: Steve Albrezzi, BA; Susan Arnold; Kiki Benzon, PhD; Michael Bodie, MFA;Richard Burton, BA; Reine-Claire Dousarkissian, MA; Dianne Farrington, MA; Marientina Gotsis; MFA; DJ Johnson, MFA; Suhail Kafity; Angelo Pacifici, BArch; Michael Provart, MFA; Elizabeth Ramsey, PhD;  Michael Uno, MFA; Jesse Acuity, MFA; Jennifer Warren, BA; Shelly Wattenbarger, MFA; Tristan Whitman, MFA

Banana Professors of Exercise: George Carstocea, PhD; Jeremy Deneau, BA; Evan Hughes, MA; Margaret Moser, MFA

Inquiry Offshoot Associate Professor: Perry Hoberman

Part-time Faculty: Bayo Akinfemi; Albert Albaladejo; Jesse Albert; Ioan Allen; Kate Amend; Yvette Amirian; Kari Antholis; Hashemite kingdom of jordan Ariel; Andrew Balis; David Baron; Deborah Baron; Craig Barron; Maurice Bastian; Janet Batchler; Catherine Bell; Diego Berdakin; Sandra Berg; Alan Berger; Fred Bernstein; Dick Block; Mitch Cake; Skye Borgman; John Bowman; Elizabeth Brauer; John Brennan; Paul Bricault; Musa Brooker; Michael Broukhim; Robert Dark-brown; Bonnie Bruckheimer; Ed Callahan; Trey Callaway; John Carpenter; Volition Carter; Susan Cartsonis; Phil Casnoff; Michael Cassutt; Julian Cautherly; Ramiro Cazaux; Bonnie Chi; Peter Chung; Jacque Cofer-Edmonds; Simon Coke; Michael Connors; Akela Cooper; Ken Cosby; Sean Covel; Tim Curnen; Martin Daniel; Kristen W. Davis; Johanna Demetrakas; Dariush Derakhshani; Annie DeSalvo; Heather Desurvire; Vincent Diamante; Jon Dudkowski; James Egan; David Fain; Siavash Farahani; Ben Fast; Ron Fernandez; Bruce Finn; Paul Foley; Eric Freiser; Bonnie Garvin; Paul Gerard; Jeffrey Glaser; Karl Gnass; David Goetsch; Eric Goldberg; Jane Goldenring; Jarrett Golding; Richard Goldsmith; Margie Goodspeed; Ian Goodwin; Janet Graham-Borba; Mimi Gramatky Stradling; Amanda Dark-green; Sharon Greene; Jordan Halsey; Jeffrey Hammer; Suzanne Hargrove; Martin Havran; Pete Hawkes; Chevon Hicks; John Hight; Liz Hinlein; Joe Hoffman; Todd Hoffman; Alan Holzman; Sean Hood; Caroline Hu; Joan Hyler; Jason Inouye; Alex Jablonski; Brandon Jeffords; Jeanne Jo; Toni Ann Johnson; Juli Juteau; Aaron Kaplan; Roeban Katz; Thomas Kemper; Liz Keyishian; Tim Kirkman; Randal Kleiser; Michael Kontopoulos; Jeffrey Korchek; Paul Kowalski; Stu Krieger; Jon Kroll; Mark Kulakoff; Lucas Kuzma; Morgan State; Sheldon Larry; Clifford Latimer; Ken LaZebnik; Domin Lee; Elizabeth Lee; Robert Levin; Andrew Licht; Dan Lupovitz; John Mahoney; Laird Malamed; Leonard Maltin; Carolyn Manetti; David Maquiling; Peter Marx; Frank McAdams; Jim McGinn; Rebekah McKendry; Mary McNamara; Bill Mechanic; Dagen Merrill; Chris Morocco; Tatiana Mulry; Robert Nashak; Rob Nederhorst; Sahand Nikoukar; Fredrik Nilsson; Joseph Nussbaum; Dave O'Brien; Jim O'Keeffe; Sev Ohanian; Joseph Olin; Bob Osher; Joel Parker; Rick Parks; Joe Peracchio; Rod Perth; Brian Peterson; Paul Petschek; Wendy Phillips; Mary Posatko; Anne Postman; Kate Powers; Wayne Powers; Bill Prady; Ross Putman; Robert Ramsey; Phil Ramuno; Gary Randall; Amy Reed; Sandy Reisenbach; Silvia Rigon; Vincent Robert; Peter Robinson; Jason Rosenfield; Roland Rosenkranz; Torrie Rosenzweig; Jeremy Royce; Kendra Ryan; Nina Sadowsky; Leander Sales; Mike Saltzman; Jimena Sarno; James Savoca; Julie Sayres; Nevin Schreiner; Phil Schwartz; Matthew Scott; Debby Seibel; Joselito Seldera; Bita Shafipour; Rick Shaine; Toi Juan Shannon; Bobby Smith, Jr.; Jim Staahl; Josh Staub; Katherine Steinbach; Noah Stern; Sean Stewart; Scott Sturgeon; Danny Sussman; Neely Swanson; Beth Sweeney; Ella Taylor; Aaron Thomas; John Underkoffler; Marcel Valcarce; Pam Veasey; Ligiah Villalobos; Jeffrey Vlaming; Gary Wagner; Dahvi Waller; Gene Warren 3; Miles Watkins; Jordan Weisman; David Weitzner; Nicole West; William Whittington; Tyger Williams; Chase Winton; Russ Woody; Frank Wuliger; Chris Wyatt; Qianqian Ye; Maureen Yeager; Ashley York; Gil Zimmerman

Academy Professor Emerita: Marsha Kinder, PhD

Professor Emerita: Doe Mayer, MA

Professors Emeriti: ​Drew Casper, PhD; Ron Curfman, MFA; Trevor Greenwood, MA; Richard Harber, MA; David E. James, PhD; Richard Jewell, PhD; Edward Kaufman, PhD; Woody Omens, MA; Morton Zarcoff, MA

Acquaintance Professors Emeriti: Robert Miller, PhD; Dennis Wixon, PhD

Inquiry Professor Emeritus: Richard Weinberg, PhD

Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Cinematic Arts: Jason Squire, MFA

Caste Programs

The USC School of Cinematic Arts offers professional and bookish degree programs at the bachelor'south, primary'southward and doctoral levels.

Available of Arts — Blitheness and Digital Arts

This program combines a broad liberal arts groundwork with specialization in a profession. The degree is granted through the USC Dornsife Higher of Letters, Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts. The degree requires 128 units. For more data, encounter here.

Bachelor of Fine Arts — Animation and Digital Arts

This is a program designed for students who wish to receive intensive preparation in all aspects of pre-production and production to ideate, blueprint and create animated works. The BFA in Animation and Digital Arts is granted through the School of Cinematic Arts. The degree requires 128 units. For more data, encounter here.

Bachelor of Arts, Cinema and Media Studies

This degree is granted through the USC Dornsife College of Messages, Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts and requires 128 units. For more information, see here.

Available of Arts, Cinematic Arts, Film and Television Production

This degree is a 2-yr program for transfer students. The BA is granted through the USC Dornsife Higher of Messages, Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts and requires 128 units. For more data, encounter here.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cinematic Arts, Picture show and Television Production

This degree is a four-twelvemonth program but bachelor to incoming freshmen. The BFA in Cinematic Arts, Film and Tv Production is granted through the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts and requires 128 units. For more information, run into hither.

Bachelor of Fine Arts — Game Fine art

Dedicated to creating beautiful art assets for interactive media and technologies, this program focuses on Games with concentrations that might include graphic symbol blitheness, ecology design, visual effects, iii-D pipelines and interactive blitheness. Students report within the framework that combines a broad liberal arts background with specialization in a profession. The Bachelor of Fine Arts in Game Art is granted through the the School of Cinematic Arts. The caste requires 128 units. For more information, see here.​​

Available of Arts — Interactive Amusement

Dedicated to immersive feel design and emerging technologies, this program is for students who are driven to introduce at the intersection of traditional media, games, and any happens adjacent. The Bachelor of Arts in Interactive Entertainment is granted through the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts. The degree requires 128 units. For more information, see here.

Bachelor of Arts — Media Arts and Practice

This plan is for students who desire to harness the power of digital storytelling and media blueprint to communicate beyond various fields across the entertainment industry. This caste is granted through the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts. The caste requires 128 units. For more data, encounter hither.

Available of Fine Arts — Writing for Screen and Television receiver

This is a unique program designed for students who wish to receive intensive preparation for non-fiction and fiction writing for screen and television set. The BFA in Writing for Screen and Television is granted through the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts. The caste requires 128 units. For more information, come across here.

Bachelor of Scientific discipline in Business Administration (Cinematic Arts)

This plan offers a unique coupling of the USC Marshall School of Business concern and the School of Cinematic Arts in a 4-year interdisciplinary degree. In addition to the Marshall School of Business cadre classes, the students will too have a total of 24 units from the School of Cinematic Arts. This competitive plan is offered to freshmen admitted to the Marshall School of Business organisation as Concern Scholars. Upon completion of all requirements, students will receive a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Cinematic Arts). See the Marshall School of Concern for class requirements.

Master of Arts, Cinema and Media Studies

This degree is granted by the USC Graduate Schoolhouse in conjunction with the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts. This program requires 36 units. For more information, meet here.

Master of Arts, Cinematic Arts (Media Arts, Games and Health)

This program requires 36 units. For more information, see here.

Master of Fine Arts, Cinematic Arts, Flick and Telly Production

This professional degree requires 52 units. For more than information, come across here.

Master of Fine Arts, Writing for Screen and Television

This program requires 44 units. For more information, run into here.

Chief of Fine Arts, Animation and Digital Arts

This program requires fifty units. For more data, run across here.

Main of Fine Arts, Interactive Media

This program requires 50 units. For more information, run into here.

Principal of Fine Arts, Interactive Media (Games and Health)

This program requires 50 units. For more information, come across here.

Chief of Fine Arts, Producing for Flick, Television, and New Media

The Peter Stark Producing Plan requires 44 units. For more information, run across hither.

Doctor of Philosophy, Picture palace and Media Studies

The PhD is based on a program of report and enquiry culminating in the completion of a dissertation in the major field of study. A minimum of 68 semester units (sectional of dissertation registration) across the baccalaureate is required. Applicants who have completed a Bachelor of Arts or Chief of Arts degree in Cinematic Arts, or a closely related field, may apply to the PhD programme. The doctoral degree is granted past the Graduate Schoolhouse in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts. For more than information, see here.

Physician of Philosophy, Cinematic Arts (Media Arts and Practise)

The PhD in Media Arts and Do program offers a rigorous and creative surroundings for scholarly innovation every bit students explore the intersection of design, media and disquisitional thinking while defining new modes of enquiry and scholarship for the 21st century. Core to the program is its transdisciplinary ethos; after completing foundational course work, students pattern their own curricula, cartoon on expertise beyond all divisions and inquiry labs inside the School of Cinematic Arts. The doctoral degree is granted by the Graduate School in conjunction with the School of Cinematic Arts. For more information, see here.

Writing for Screen and Tv set Certificate

The Writing for Screen and Television Certificate provides an established writer, domestic or international, with a one-year program of study. It is meant to accommodate a author who has already attained significant recognition and would like to learn the craft of screenwriting. Sixteen units are required. For more than information, see here.

Graduate Certificate in the Business organisation of Entertainment

This document program provides graduate-level education in various aspects of the concern of film, television and new media. It requires 16 units. For more information, meet here.

Graduate Certificate in Cinematic Arts Archiving and Preservation

This certificate plan is designed specifically for students and practitioners who want to apply their pedagogy and skills for advancing the knowledge of moving picture, television and interactive media through the preservation and broadcasting of the historical artifacts that form the underpinnings of scholarship in the performing arts.  Through this programme, students volition gain the noesis, tools and skills necessary to preserve the materials that make upwards the history of amusement and to lead scholars through the research maze to the completion of books or media in their fields of study. This certificate requires 12 units. For more data, see here.

Graduate Certificate in Digital Media and Civilisation

This certificate program is for graduate students from beyond the USC campus who desire to explore the shifting nature of scholarly expression, pedagogical do and research in the 21st century. It combines seminars with hands-on, lab-based workshops devoted to basic prototype manipulation, video editing, social media and Spider web design to facilitate sophisticated critical thinking and practise in and through multimedia. The programme requires 12 units. For more information, run into here.

Full general Requirements

Acceptance of Transfer Units

The School of Cinematic Arts does non accept courses taken in motion-picture show and/or television product at other institutions to fulfill caste and small-scale requirements. Basic movie or television set history courses can sometimes be accepted for transfer credit.

No transfer credit will be accepted in lieu of CTPR 290, CTPR 294, CTPR 295, CTPR 310, CTPR 507 and CTPR 508 and whatsoever advanced production courses.

No transfer credits are accepted for the Peter Stark producing rails, the graduate programs in animation and digital arts, screenwriting and interactive media.

Transfer policy for the PhD requires advisement and approval of the division chair.

Waiver of Class Requirements

Under special circumstances waivers and substitutions are granted; check with the Cinematic Arts Part of Student Affairs. All grade waivers and substitutions are reviewed by committee and must be canonical by the associate dean of academic affairs.

The following courses cannot be waived for students majoring in Moving picture and Tv Product: CTIN 584a, CTIN 584b, CTIN 584c, CTIN 584z, CTPR 290, CTPR 294, CTPR 295, CTPR 310, CTPR 480, CTPR 507, CTPR 508, CTPR 546L, CTPR 547L, CTPR 581a, CTPR 581b, CTPR 581c, CTPR 581z, CTPR 582a, CTPR 582b, CTPR 582z, CTPR 583, CTPR 587a, CTPR 587b, CTPR 587c, CTPR 587z.

Student Advisement

Each program has its own advisement system. Cheque with the plan administrator or with the Cinematic Arts Office of Student Affairs. Cinematic Arts educatee affairs counselors are available to answer questions about degree programs, grades, advisement and other matters.

Grade Signal Boilerplate Requirements

A minimum grade of C, 2.0 (A = 4.0), must be earned in all required and prerequisite courses in order to progress to the next grade level. Students may try to improve a grade lower than a C (2.0) only one fourth dimension by registering and retaking the specific course. Departmental approval is required in order to retake a School of Cinematic Arts grade.

In add-on, a minimum form point average must exist achieved to earn all cinematic arts degrees (see the private programme descriptions). For example, undergraduates and graduates must earn a minimum course of C (2.0) in all required cinematic arts courses. Even so, graduate students must also achieve a B (3.0) average in all courses required for the degree.

Undergraduate students in the picture show and boob tube production program who achieve a grade lower than a C (2.0) in CTPR 290 (BFA merely), CTPR 294, CTPR 295 or CTPR 310, and graduate students in the production program who earn a grade lower than a C (two.0) in CTPR 507 or CTPR 508 may petition to retake the required sequence merely once. Permission to retake any prerequisite or core product courses requires prior departmental commission approval.

Students who do not satisfy the degree requirement after repeating a form will be disqualified from the program.

Tuition and Fees (Estimated)

Students in the School of Cinematic Arts' graduate programs pay differential tuition (see the Tuition and Fees section for current tuition rates). Undergraduate programs are assessed the university-wide tuition rate. In improver, some classes are charged lab fees, as noted in the Schedule of Classes, and insurance fees. The academy reserves the correct to assess new fees or charges. The rates listed are field of study to change without observe by activity of the Lath of Trustees.

Omnipresence Policy

The Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts curriculum relies heavily on in-course participation and interaction between kinesthesia and students. Many of our courses are taught in a collaborative workshop surround and our theoretical lectures are driven through in-depth classroom discussion and analysis. We hold collaboration and constructive criticism as foundational to all of our learning environments and essential to the methodologies of our instruction. Student omnipresence is not merely central, but mandatory for the construction and success of our plan for both the individual student and the educational experiences of other students within our customs.

Minors, International Programs and Summer Program

Minor in Animation and Digital Arts

The pocket-size in blitheness offers students an introduction to the theory and practice of animation, including its relationship to the history of art and movie theatre, creative writing, and basic film product. It provides students with an opportunity to create both personal and collaborative work in a wide range of genres, from traditional grapheme to contemporary experimental and computer blitheness. The plan requires 24 units. For more information, see here.

Minor in Cinematic Arts

A small in cinematic arts is available to USC undergraduate students in all schools and departments. The small-scale provides the opportunity for students to become familiar with various aspects of media report. The plan requires 20 units. For more information, encounter here.

Minor in Comedy

The minor in comedy is designed to railroad train students in the creation of comedic amusement in motion-picture show, goggle box and new media. The program utilizes both analysis courses and artistic workshops to train students in comedic theory and do. Through elective choices students may focus their studies on a number of cinematic disciplines as they pertain to the cosmos of comedic content, including writing sit-coms, directing comedic actors and producing sketch comedy. The program requires 16 units. For more than information, see here.

Minor in Digital Studies

The minor in digital studies explores the rich potential of digital media for critical analysis and creative discovery. Learning the exciting and dynamic potential of a broad array of tools and technologies, students create innovative projects, from photo essays to web-based documentaries, from interactive videos to sophisticated Websites, and from typography in motion to 3-D visualizations. The program requires 20 units. For more information, run into hither. Pocket-sized students may also choose to earn an Honors designation by completing 6 additional units of course work, culminating in a capstone thesis during the pupil's terminal twelvemonth.

Modest in Documentary

The small-scale in documentary is designed to train students in the grooming and production of documentary media. Courses are designed to give students insight into the history of documentary likewise as feel with both the traditional and emerging forms of the genre. For more information, come across here.

Minor in Entertainment Industry

The minor in amusement manufacture provides students interested in media content creation with a focused curriculum that will give them insight into the economic factors and professional person practices that influence the creative process, and how they interact with social, historical, technical and aesthetic elements. For more information, come across here.

Pocket-size in Future Movie theatre

The small in Future Movie house explores the frontier of audiovisual storytelling building on the cut border research within the School of Cinematic Arts. Students will explore the artistic and technological transformations of an industry in transition equally cinema becomes live, playable, immersive, mobile, virtual, crowdsourced and more than. The plan requires twenty units. For more information see hither.

Small-scale in Game Animation

The skills of the modern animator, visual effects artist, motion capture professional person and many others are of great value in the games industry when paired with an agreement of how these avails can be used in games and systems. The game animation small-scale provides an educational path that teaches both systems thinking and the skills and creativity of an animator. The programme requires 24 units. For more than data, see hither.

Minor in Game Sound

Game sound professionals must not only exist competent in 1 area (e.one thousand., expressly in music composing or in audio recording), but also in other areas of audio and in theories of procedurality and interaction. This minor provides a grounding in game blueprint and systems thinking, while providing a theoretical backing and skills in audio design and composition to prepare students to design successful sound for the games industry. The plan requires 24 units. For more than data, come across here.

Minor in Game Design

Design for games is a young, exciting field applicable to media artists working all over the globe, in different aspects of the manufacture and with many different tools. The game design minor teaches basic iterative pattern and prototyping skills while providing students the opportunity to explore design for new technologies and the skills of user assessment and usability testing. The program requires 24 units. For more than information, see here.

Small in Game Entrepreneurism

The modern media, technology and entertainment fields are built on the backs of new businesses and new ideas. To start a successful business organisation, you demand skills and noesis of the processes for setting up a business, finding investment and turning your creative project from paradigm to finished projection. The game entrepreneurism minor provides an educational path that teaches hard business thinking for artistic entrepreneurs. The program requires 24 units. For more information, run into here.

Minor in Game Studies

Games are a major cultural form, with game sales now exceeding box office acquirement in the United states of america. Attention to games and interactive media is growing, and it has become necessary to understand them every bit meaningful systems, reflect on their cultural influence, and to aid guide their evolution with insightful criticism. The game studies minor prepares students with central underpinnings in media criticism and games. For more information, see hither.

Minor in Game User Enquiry

Game and interaction design are deeply dependent upon human being-computer interaction and the power to use research methods to improve player feel. This small is designed to requite students an underpinning in game design, interface design and research methods, while teaching a total prepare of skills for playtesting and usability practice. The program requires 24 units. For more than information, see hither.

Pocket-size in Immersive Media

The modest in immersive media is designed to railroad train students to create projects in virtual reality, augmented reality, and other immersive media formats. The core program requirements provide the solid fundamentals needed to sympathise, excogitate of, and create immersive work. Through elective choices students may focus their studies on theory, on specific fields of immersive, on artistic expression, or on building engineering. The plan requires 24 units. For more than data, run into here.

Small-scale in Media and Social Change

The pocket-size in media and social change provides the opportunity for students who are interested in media content creation and enquiry to take classes in a focused curriculum on the various aspects of media for change. Students will gain insight into the professional practices of creating media content, analyzing existing content, and learning how they tin influence the future past integrating social issues into the work they are doing in related fields. The programme requires xx units. For more information, come across here.

Modest in Science Visualization

The pocket-size in scientific discipline visualization offers an introduction to science visualization methodology and practice focused in an area of relevant inquiry. The minor is structured to provide the skills and knowledge needed in science visualization, and volition culminate in a capstone projection nether the close supervision of faculty in both animation and scientific discipline. The program requires sixteen units. For more information, see here.

Minor in Screenwriting

The pocket-size in screenwriting provides thorough training in the arts and crafts of writing for screen and television. Students acquire the fundamentals of graphic symbol, disharmonize and scene structure and build on their skills through each form equally they write feature and boob tube scripts in all genres and explore areas of their interest. Students may utilize in the spring or autumn semester. The program requires 16 units. For more data, run into here.

Minor in Themed Entertainment

From cruise ships to casinos to immersive educational retreats, themed entertainment design involves submerging a real, alive human being into a story in a truly robust, physical style. As new tools for entertainment and education develop, they continually push toward enabling players to completely become the heroes and heroines of their own stories. The themed amusement pocket-size focuses on history, theory and skills of themed entertainment design. The program requires 24 units. For more data, see here.

Small in 3-D Blitheness in Cinematic Arts

The modest in 3-D animation in cinematic arts offers an introduction to basic blitheness principles and history, as well as artistic and skill-based didactics in 3-D computer animation. Through constituent choices students may focus their studies on their specific surface area of interest, including visual furnishings, motility capture, virtual reality, modeling, or grapheme animation. The program requires 16 units. For more information, see here.

Minor in Cinema-Telly for the Wellness Professions

This 24-unit minor is designed for students who program to enter careers or professional programs in medicine afterward graduation and are interested in working with film and television producers to disseminate accurate health information to the public. See the Keck School of Medicine of USC for grade requirements.

Minor in Video Game Design and Management

The video game blueprint pocket-size integrates theoretical concepts and practical skills to gear up students for a career in interactive amusement, specifically the video game industry. Through integration of two major disciplines (cinematic arts and information technology), students will be exposed to a variety of design concepts related to creating video games. Run across the Information technology Program for form requirements. For specific information on admission and application procedures, contact the Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts at (213) 821-2515 or the Information Technology Program at (213) 740-4542.

Minor in Performing Arts Studies

The minor in Performing Arts provides an interdisciplinary research into the nature and aesthetics of the performing arts. Information technology combines the disciplines of cinematic arts, trip the light fantastic, music and theatre. The minor is a unique course of study that looks at how the performing arts contribute to a culturally literate society. See USC Schoolhouse of Dramatic Arts for requirements.

International Programs

Global Commutation Workshop

"The Global Exchange Workshop" is an intensive, 7-calendar week workshop in documentary filming that pairs graduate students from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and the Advice University of Cathay (CUC) to make short documentaries on Los Angeles and/or Beijing equally global cities. Participating students enroll in CTPR 515 Global Exchange Workshop (2 units).

With faculty guidance from both universities, the students must negotiate cultural differences both in front end of and behind the camera. In the process, both students and faculty directly feel the other culture and learn how it defines globalism in general, sees its own city in global terms, combines theory and exercise, and processes a new set of perceptions and lived feel.

Interested students should contact Professor Pablo Frasconi of the division of Film and Video Product at pfrasconi@movie house.usc.edu.​

Summer Program

The USC Schoolhouse of Cinematic Arts Summer Programme is a six-calendar week plan that offers classes from different facets of the amusement industry, all for college credit. Participants from effectually the globe have an opportunity to nourish intensive, creatively demanding and satisfying filmmaking courses. Delight notation: the SCA Summer Program consists of collegiate-level courses and is not a continuing education or certificate earning program.

Note: Teacher availability for a particular course or section cannot be guaranteed.

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