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Awards - Cinema: Production

Cinema: Production

Award: Certificate
Total Credits for Award: 30.00

Description: MCTC's Cinema Production Certificate integrates the language and aesthetics of cinema with film and digital video technology to support you in becoming a filmmaker. The intensive one-year core curriculum, required of all Cinema Division production students, is a hands-on introduction to the moviemaking process. Students develop professional skills in writing, camera operation, sound recording, and editing by working on numerous individual and group productions. After obtaining a Cinema Production certificate, student become eligible to pursue one of four specializations: Cinematography, Directing and Producing, Editing and Post- production, or Screenwriting, and earn an A.S. at the end of the second year. MCTC's Cinema Division fuses cutting- edge technology and affordable professional training with an outstanding liberal arts education to help you become above all a compelling visual storyteller. MCTC has an articulation agreement with Augsburg College. NOTE:, Students seeking to reenroll in coursework they have successfully completed must have the permission of the instructor. Cinema Production courses are not available for auditing.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS: FIRST SEMESTER: 

 COURSE #

 TITLE

 CREDITS

 CIPR 1101

 Cinema Production 1

 3.00

 CIST 1101

 Cinema History 1

 3.00

 SCRN 1101

 Introduction to Cinematic Storytelling

 3.00

 ENGL 1110 or ENGA 1110

 College Composition

 3.00

 General Education

 Choose any course from the Recommended General Education list (See Below) or choose a course from any of the MnTC Goal Areas

 3.00

 

TOTAL CREDITS: 

 15.00



COURSE REQUIREMENTS: SECOND SEMESTER: 

 COURSE #

 TITLE

 CREDITS

 CIPR 1102

 Cinema Production 2 

 3.00

 CIST 1102

 Cinema History 2 

 3.00

 SCRN 1102

 Writing the Short Fiction Screenplay

 3.00

 ENGL 1111

 Research and Composition for Change

 3.00

 General Education

 Choose any course from the Recommended General Education list (See Below) or choose a course from any of the MnTC Goal Areas

 3.00

 

TOTAL CREDITS: 

 15.00

General Education Courses (12 Credits):

To earn the Cinema Production Certificate, students are required to successfully complete 12 credits of General Education, including MnTC Goal Area 1. 

Note: ENGL 1110 or ENGA 1110 and ENGL 1111 satisfy six credits of MnTC for Goal Area 1.

Recommended General Education Courses:

 COURSE #

 TITLE

 CREDITS

 *JOUR 1000

 Introduction to Mass Communication

 3.00

 ARTS 1110

 Introduction to Arts

 3.00

 CMST 2011

 Small Group Communication

 3.00

 CMST 2012

 Intercultural Communication

 3.00

 PHIL 1110

 Critical Thinking

 3.00

 PSCI 1104

 World Politics

 3.00

 PSCI 1137

 Environment, Politics and Society

 3.00

 INFS 2600

 Ideas, Censorship and Politics

 3.00

 AMST 1152

 Popular Culture in 20th-Century America

 3.00

 THTR 1104

 Introduction to Acting 1

 3.00

*Effective Fall 2018 JOUR 1000 is now CMST 1015 Mass Communication.

All students pursuing this award should work closely with their advisor to ensure proper selection of required program courses, if applicable program electives, required Minnesota Transfer Curriculum courses, and MnTC electives. You are expected to meet with your advisor on a regular basis to ensure courses are taken in an order that will lead to efficient and successful completion of the required coursework.