60 Credit Hours
Day and Evening
Queens and Staten Island Campuses
Candidates are required to complete 60 semester hours of credit
of prescribed program or study with a minimum cumulative quality
point index of 2.0 for all courses and for all courses in the major
area.
The curriculum includes required and elective courses in liberal
arts and sciences and communication arts courses.
Major Area Requirements
21 credit hours in
Communications
- CAS 1101: Introduction to Mass Communications
9 credit hours in Production courses:
- CAS 1210: Television Production I
- CAS 1211: Television Production II
- CAS 1212: Television Production III
- CAS 1213: Introduction to Field Production
- CAS 1214: Television Program Development
- CAS 1215: Video Editing
- CAS 1220: Film Production
- CAS 1221: Directing Television, Film and Video
- CAS 1223: Classical Cartoon Animation
- CAS 1224: Special Effects: Visual Effects Cinematography
(Advanced)
- CAS 1290: Fundamentals of Media Graphics
9 credit hours in Writing, Industry Practices and History
- CAS 1310: Writing for Television
- CAS 1320: Non-Fiction Screenwriting
- CAS 1321: Dramatic Screenplay Writing
- CAS 1410: The Business of Television
- CAS 1411: Communications Technologies
- CAS 1420: Introduction to Motion Picture Production
- CAS 1421: The Business of Film and Video
- CAS 1510: Contemporary American Television I: The Early
Years
- CAS 1511: Contemporary American Television II: A Time of
Innocence, A Time of Change
- CAS 1520: Film Rhetoric
- CAS 1521: The Rise of American Film
- CAS 1522: Hollywood Films of the Studio Era
- CAS 1523: A Survey of the Foreign Cinema
- CAS 1524: Contemporary Cinema
- CAS 1525: The Hollywood Musical
- CAS 1526: Special Cinema Studies