Curriculum - Associates

60 Credit Hours
Day & Evening
Queens & Staten Island Campuses

Candidates are required to complete 60 semester hours of credit of prescribed programs of study with a minimum cumulative quality point index of 2.0 for all courses in the major areas.

The curriculum includes required and elective courses in liberal arts and sciences and mass communications courses.

Major Area Requirments – 21 Credit Hours
6 credit hours of required courses

  • MCC 1000 Introduction to Mass Communications
  • TVF 1200 Visual Production

9 credit hours of Production

  • TVF 2200 Television Production I – Studio
  • TVF 2203 Video Editing: Final Cut Pro or TVF 2204 Video Editing: Avid
  • TVF 3220 Film Production I

9 credit hours of Writing, Industry Practices & History

  • TVF 2301 Writing for Television
  • TVF 2302 Non-Fiction Screenwriting
  • TVF 2303 Dramatic Screenplay Writing
  • TVF 3303 Advanced Dramatic Screenplay Writing
  • TVF 2402 The Business of Television
  • TVF 2403 Broadcast Operations
  • TVF 1400 Introduction to Motion Picture Production
  • TVF 3404 The Business of Film & Video
  • TVF 3405 Film & Video Production Management
  • TVF 1501 Contemporary American Television I: The Early Years
  • TVF 1502 Contemporary American Television II: A Time of Innocence, A Time of Change
  • TVF 1503 Special Television Studies
  • TVF 1504 Film Rhetoric
  • TVF 1505 The Rise of American Film
  • TVF 1506 Hollywood Films of the Studio Era
  • TVF 1507 International Cinema
  • TVF 1508 Contemporary Cinema
  • TVF 1509 The Hollywood Musical
  • TVF 1510 Special Cinema Studios
  • TVF 1511 East Asian Cinema
  • COM 2303 Writing for Broadcast Journalism
  • COM 2401 New Media
  • COM 2500 Visual Aesthetics
  • COM 3101 International Communications: Europe
  • COM 3102 International Communications: Asia