Graduate Program
The Department of Radio-Television-Film includes both a Media Studies area and a Production area. Candidates may seek an M.A. or Ph.D. in our Studies area or an M.F.A. in Film & Video Production or Screenwriting. Graduate students are challenged in their professional and intellectual growth, and are provided with assessment and guidance in planning careers and in the development of their talents. We encourage students to plan a program of study suited to their individual needs, designed to take best advantage of the mixture of subjects and the various opportunities offered in the Department and other academic programs on campus. The Department currently has twenty-eight faculty members who provide an environment in which graduate students receive optimal opportunity for study, research, teaching and the production of creative work.
The scholarly and teaching interests of the Studies faculty focus on the cultural, social, economic, policy, technological, political and discursive settings in which communication systems, industries, texts and audiences exist and operate. We examine national and international media institutions, technology and policy, global media studies, the role, development and impact of communication and information technologies, the production of media content, and the nature and form of media representations. We investigate how various audiences receive, interact with, interpret and produce media texts and have a special focus on studies of culture and the international dimensions of communication processes. The Studies faculty addresses these issues from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches associated with the social sciences, cultural studies, and humanities.
Our Production and Screenwriting faculty are working directors, writers, producers, editors, cinematographers, composers and sound designers. The Department's M.F.A. programs are designed to help students become filmmakers and screenwriters capable of producing professional-caliber work in the fiction, documentary and experimental arenas. The programs concentrate on storytelling for film, video, and time-based media. Our M.F.A. students have an outstanding record of award-winning student work in festivals, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and various broadcast outlets, including PBS.
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