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Production & Direction
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Production & Direction

Production specialists are the professionals who can direct in the control room, design the lighting plot, operate the cameras, and set up and monitor the audio. Expertise in this area leads you to a rewarding career in live or recorded studio productions, field shoots, and remote-truck productions. Television core courses are required for all Television majors.

PRODUCTION REQUIRED COURSES Courses: 1/ 1
 Course       Title                             Credits  Grade

 40-3412A     Experimental Production              4       C  
     OR 1 of the following:
     40-3412C     Documentary Production           4
     40-3412B     Narrative Production             4
 40-3412B     Narrative Production                 4       C  
 40-3412C     Documentary Production and           4       C  

LIGHTING/MOTION REQUIRED GRAPHICS           Courses:  2/ 2

 Course       Title                             Credits  Grade

 40-3311      Advanced Lighting and Camera*        3       C  
 40-3411      Motion Graphics I*                   4       C  

DIRECTING & PRODUCTION REQUIRED COURSES     Courses:  1/ 1

 Course       Title                             Credits  Grade

 40-3312      Master Workshop Sketch Comedy:       4       C  
 40-3314      Directing and Production:            4       C  
 40-3315      Directing and Production:            4       C  
 40-3317      Directing and Production:            4       C  
 40-3318      Directing and Production:            4       C  

Students must complete a minimum of 10 credits in the concentration electives.
Concentration electives are 3000 level courses in the Television Department. 
A student may select the option of a full-time semester in
Los Angeles in place of the concentration electives.
                                                                                
CONCENTRATION ELECTIVES                     Courses:  3/ 8

 Course       Title                             Credits  Grade

 40-3********                                              C