Video Production: four-year plan

How to read this plan

This is a sample path to the B.F.A. in Video Production in four years at about 15–16 credits per term. Your actual plan depends on placement, transfer credit, a chosen concentration, and when courses are offered — build it with your adviser and check it against your degree audit. Course numbers link to the catalog.

Year 1 · Fall 13 credits

• UNIV 1000 First-Year Seminar (1 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)
• MATH 1200 College Algebra (3 cr)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)

Year 1 · Spring 15 credits

• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• MATH 1600 Introductory Statistics (3 cr)
• ANIM 1200 Principles of Animation (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)

Year 2 · Fall 15 credits

• Fine Arts elective (3 cr)
• COMM 1300 Interpersonal Communication (3 cr)
• ANIM 1400 Drawing for Animation (3 cr)
• Humanities elective (3 cr)
• Social Science elective (3 cr)

Year 2 · Spring 14 credits

• COMM 2100 Small Group Communication (3 cr)
• ANIM 2100 2D Animation (3 cr)
• Global Perspectives elective (3 cr)
• PHIL 2300 Ethics (3 cr)
• Wellness elective (2 cr)

Year 3 · Fall 12 credits

• COMM 2300 Communication Theory (3 cr)
• ANIM 2300 3D Modeling for Animation (3 cr)
• COMM 2500 Intercultural Communication (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 3 · Spring 15 credits

• ANIM 2500 Rigging (3 cr)
• COMM 3100 Organizational Communication (3 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)
• COOP 2000 Cooperative Education (recommended) (0 cr)
• Free elective (3 cr)

Year 4 · Fall 12 credits

• ANIM 3100 3D Character Animation (3 cr)
• COMM 3300 Persuasion and Social Influence (3 cr)
• ANIM 3300 Lighting and Rendering (3 cr)
• ENGL 1010 Composition I (3 cr)

Year 4 · Spring 13 credits

• COMM 3500 Communication Research Methods (4 cr)
• ANIM 3500 Motion Graphics (3 cr)
• ENGL 1020 Composition II (3 cr)
• COMM 1100 Public Speaking (3 cr)