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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

TV/Film (BA) Sample Plan


YEAR ONE

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II   3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3 PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6) 3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience   3 Expanded Literacies (2/6) 3
TV - 160 TV/Film History and Appreciation   3 TV - 225 Basic Studio Production   3
FA - 251 Introduction to Photography   3 TV - 290 Media Literacy   3
TV - 3831 First-Year Practicum in TV/Film   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR TWO

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6) 3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 Exapnded Literacies (5/6) 3
TV - 252 Screenwriting  or TR - 210 Fundamental of Acting for Non-Majors   3 TV - 380 Directing I  or Free Elective 3
TV - 370 Lighting, Sound and Editing   3 Production Course* or Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 TV - 3841 Traditional Practicum for TV/Film Majors in Production Management   1
TV - 3841 Traditional Practicum for TV/Film Majors in Production Management   1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy   1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 14

YEAR THREE

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3 Expanded Literacies (6/6) or Free Elective 3
TV - 252 Screenwriting  or TR - 210 Fundamental of Acting for Non-Majors   3 TV - 320 Production and Distribution  or TV - 352 Intermediate Screenwriting   3
Production Course* or Free Elective 3 TV - 373 Editing    3
TV - 3841 Traditional Practicum for TV/Film Majors in Production Management   1 TV - 380 Directing I  or Free Elective 3
    TV - 3841 Traditional Practicum for TV/Film Majors in Production Management   1
TOTAL CREDITS 13 TOTAL CREDITS 16

YEAR FOUR

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
TV - 395 Production Management  or Free Elective 3 TV - 310 Documentary   3
Production Course* or Free Elective 3 TV - 480 Advanced Directing  or Free Elective 3
Free Elective 3 TV - 495 Capstone in Film   3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TV - 3851 Senior Practicum for TV/Film Majors in Production Management   1    
TOTAL CREDITS 14 TOTAL CREDITS 15

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Choose one of the following production courses: TV 340 TV 392 , or TV 450 .

Six total credits (six semesters) of practica are required, including at least one of each course number (all three courses are one-credit courses): TV 3831 TV 3841 TV 3851 .  

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .