StudyQA — Bachelor: Cinema and Digital Media

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Technology and human culture have become interwoven in increasingly sophisticated ways, morphing so quickly that the phenomenon calls to be examined. The major in cinema and digital media looks at what happens when music, performance, literature, media arts and the visual arts meet science and technology. Emphasizing the "culture" and using perspectives from history of the arts, politics, poetics and aesthetics, cultural history and theory, the major aims to help us understand things from a truly interdisciplinary basis. However, in cinema and digital media, you not only talk about things, you get your hands on tools for independent and experimental approaches to digital cinema and other screen-based work; sound, sound track and new music; community media; Web-based work; installations and site-based work.

The interdisciplinary nature of the cinema and digital media major is an ideal way to educate students to live and work in a complex, rapidly changing world. In the current job market employers need professionals who not only bring with them multiple technical skills but who are also creative thinkers and problem solvers. Many of the most exciting developments in scholarship and creative production have been occurring across and in between disciplines. Exposure to coursework that promotes innovative and original thought and experimentation with technology and the arts helps students develop in both these areas, forging the versatile professionals that are needed in the modern economy. Finally, students do best when they are fueled by their own passions and have power in plotting their own directions. In this way, cinema and digital media prepares graduates to be highly adaptable, self-motivated and current with the latest technological developments.

Preparatory Subject Matter	25
Choose two courses from:
Film Studies 1; Technocultural Studies 1 or 5	8
Cinema and Technocultural Studies 12, 20	9
Choose two courses from:
Cinema and Technocultural Studies 40A, 40B, 41A, 41B; Film Studies 45	8
Depth Subject Matter	37-38
Film Studies 127 or Cinema and Technocultural Studies 150	5
Choose two courses for a total of 8 units from the following courses:
Art Studio 114A, 114B, 114C, 117; Cinema and Technocultural Studies 116, 124E, 174; Technocultural Studies 100, 101, 103, 104, 111, 112, 113, 115, 121, 122, 123, 125, 130, 131, 170A-E, 175, 192, 198, 199	8
Choose two courses for a total of 8 units from the following courses:
Cinema and Technocultural Studies 146A, 147A, 150; Film Studies 120, 121, 121S, 124, 125, 127, 129, 142, 176A, 189, 194H, 195H, 198, 199; Science and Technology Studies 160; Technocultural Studies 151, 152, 155, 158, 159.
Some courses are identified as fulfilling more than one requirement; a given course can only fulfill one such requirement	8
Plus four additional courses chosen
from the lists above for a total of at least 16 units	16
Total Units for the Major	62-63
Major Adviser. Information on the current Academic Advisers can be obtained by contacting the Arts Group Advising Center at 530-752-0890.

Requirements

To be considered for freshman admission to the University of California, you must earn a high school diploma or equivalent
The scholarship requirement is satisfied if you earn a GPA of 3.00 or higher. All courses must be completed with a C grade or better. Applicants who are not California residents must earn a GPA of 3.40 or higher
Achieve a minimum score of 550 on the paper-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), 213 on the computer-based TOEFL or 80 on the Internet-based TOEFL.
Achieve a minimum score of 7 (academic module) on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).