BFA.FAV.120 - BFA in Film/Animation/Video

2025 - 2026 | Curriculum | 4-year program

The Film/Animation/Video program cultivates new generations of media makers by providing students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a community that emphasizes curiosity, creative thinking, socio-cultural awareness, and critical dialogue. We encourage unique personal perspectives and experimentation, as students make work across and within three general approaches: animation, live-action, and open media. Students develop an expressive language and professional skill set in moving images and sound. These fluencies enable them to communicate in diverse, thoughtful and innovative ways; sustain their practices; and contribute to the future growth of their chosen fields.

Learning outcomes

Graduates of the BFA program are prepared to:

• demonstrate an understanding of the plasticity of time, by working with time as a material in film, animation and video. This includes methods of the discipline such as editing, pacing structures, camera movement, composition, sound, and picture relationships.

• demonstrate an understanding of the history and contemporary practice of film, animation and video.

• create works that demonstrate technical competence in the processes needed to create time-based media works.

• demonstrate ability to invent structures appropriate to their concept. Their work shows a marriage of concepts and execution choices.

• engage critically with their own projects, as well as the work of others, assessing assumptions made about the ideas or people represented and the implications and practical consequences of those assumptions.

• embrace experimentation and making as a form of research.

• have developed a multifaceted understanding of how meaning is constructed through narrative and non-narrative content.

• have discovered vital questions through their work that engage with and contribute to a wider community.