Bachelor Of Arts In Cinema, Television, And Emerging Media Studies

CTEMS also explores the history of national and international cinema, film production, African American cinema, and politics in Hollywood. The curriculum places a strong emphasis on screenwriting and students learn film and television history and culture, scriptwriting for film and television cinematic language, film production, film theory and criticism, African American film, classical Hollywood cinema, global cinema, and producing.

Students thus study how filmmakers utilize mise-en-scène, articulation of the cinematic space, sound, characterization, technology, and other essentials of compelling storytelling within moving media platforms.

The humanities provide context, depth, and perspective in the study of film, television, and new media that are grounded in a fundamental interest in the values and social practices that inform our lives and affect the human condition. The humanities perspective helps to frame questions about imagery and digital technology that help to raise or develop a broader social or cultural context for incorporating a humanistic approach to the study of film and digital technology.

As a vital part of liberal arts studies in the Division of the Creative and Performing Arts, the CTEMS program offers an appropriate reflection on the past and the present to develop students’ critical perspective on how images have historically been used, are presently being used and how they might be used in the future to make sense of the world we live in. This also serves to augment the Morehouse College focus on internationalization and globalization. Through its interdisciplinary perspective, the program incorporates diverse frameworks and nurtures critical reflection and thoughtful analysis on the part of the film/media producers and their audiences.

Outcomes

Students who major in CTEMS are expected to gain an appreciation of the aesthetic, formal, historical, political, and thematic components of film and strong screenwriting skills and upon completion of the program, pursue further study at the graduate level or professional entry into the industry and create compelling stories for the medium.

All courses in the CTEMS program are designed to support the instructional goals of the College, including developing critical thinking and effective writing and oral communication skills, value awareness, global awareness, computer literacy, and graduate education and professional preparation. They also embody the overall vision of the English Department that “a properly educated Morehouse student, trained through the medium of English, should read, write, speak, listen and reason with above-average skills and should understand and appreciate the ways human beings express themselves and their culture through literature and other arts.” Upon completion of the CTEMS program, students will understand the components of film and the process of shaping compelling narratives by moving from idea to the written page, and ultimately to the screen through the film production project in the last spring semester of the senior year.