cant accomplishment for admission to the major. Students interested in pursuing a degree in the Film and Broadcasting Department must complete 32 hours of coursework before being considered for admission into the program. Students who want to enter the program must apply to the department after finishing the following: • Successful completion of ENGL 111, MASS 231 and passage of an English Grammar test. • Successful completion of MASS 221 with a “C” or better. • Successful completion of MASS 210 with a “C” or better. • Submission of an application with examples of representative work. • Completion of a work performance evaluation, determined by either work-study performance, performance in MASS 101 or by volunteer work done in the department. • Achievement of a cumulative grade point average of 2.25, major G.P.A. 2.5. Students enrolled in the honors program are exempt from taking the English Grammar test, but they must complete all other requirements to enter the major. The Film and Broadcasting faculty will evaluate the student’s performance. If the faculty deems the student worthy, an invitation to join the major will be issued. Students will enroll in MASS 201, Career Options in Film and Broadcasting, and begin selecting a course of study that relates to their intended career goals. Students will then begin to chart their future scholarship experiences based on their intended objective. Once a student has joined the major, he/she will be required to maintain a 2.25 overall G.P.A. and a major G.P.A. of 2.50. Once a student has gone below a 2.25 overall G.P.A. or a major G.P.A. of 2.50, the student will receive a warning that he/she will be dropped from the major. At that point, the student will have one semester to bring up his/her G.P.A. to the required level or be dropped from the major. In addition, students who do not continue to show proficient work as evaluated by the Film and Broadcasting faculty will be given one semester to improve their work performance or be dropped from the major. Exceptions to these policies may be made at the discretion of the Film and Broadcasting Department.
The courses offered in these curricula span a wide variety of media subjects, including film, radio, and television producing, directing, editing, and writing. In addition, students can learn about other areas of mass media including broadcast history, media criticism, media ethics, media law and policy, and broadcast operations. Ultimately, the objective of the Film and Broadcasting Department is to provide students with a well-rounded education in which a high regard for professionalism and creative ability are fostered while continually focusing on career-related goals and training. Near the end of their tenure at Tusculum College, seniors are required to demonstrate their preparedness to enter the job market or graduate school by completing their “capstone” course, either MASS 441, Film and Broadcasting Senior Project, or MASS 451, Film and Broadcasting Internship. In the course appropriate to their career goals, the student will make evident their preparedness to enter the job market by creating and producing a film and broadcasting project or by completing an internship; the student must correlate how this work relates to what they learned at Tusculum College. In addition, with MASS 401, Senior Film and Broadcasting Seminar, students will prepare their professional resumes and portfolio for professional evaluation. Students majoring in Film and Broadcasting will have the knowledge as well as skill needed for future employment in radio, television, film, journalism, advertising, and public relations industries or further studies at the post-baccalaureate level. Due to the convergent nature of mass communications in recent years, students are encouraged to increase their marketability in the job market. One way of increasing this marketability is by taking elective courses in the Film and Broadcasting curriculum. Students are encouraged to select a specialized minor in Broadcast News or Sports Broadcasting; a minor from another field of study, such as Business, Political Science or Psychology; or a second major such as Business, Journalism, etc. Recognizing the importance of Film and Broadcasting skills in other professions, the department also offers a specialized minor in Sports Broadcasting for Sports Management majors, a specialized minor in Broadcast News for English majors in the Journalism and Professional Writing program, and a general minor field of study in Film and Broadcasting for all other majors. Students considering professions in business, law, visual arts, creative writing, and education may wish to enrich their fields of study with classes in Film and Broadcasting.
The Film and Broadcasting Curriculum The Film and Broadcasting curriculum reflects the commitment of the department’s mission by offering at the core of the major a 26-hour component designed to provide through theoretical study the accumulation of factual knowledge and through practical hands-on experience the development of creative potential. The department stresses critical thinking, and has designed several courses in the core curriculum to prepare students to be more knowledgeable, socially responsible producers and consumers of mass media. The curriculum emphasizes the significant cultural, social, political, and economic impact that the media’s role has in the formation of attitudes, values, and beliefs at the local, regional, national, and global levels. The curriculum also includes courses designed to give the student practical experience to realize the actualization of their own creative works. Students are required to take MASS 101, Film and Broadcasting Practicum, which will serve as a rotating internship experience in multiple phases of studio and field electronic media productions and operations.
Film and Broadcasting Curriculum for Majors and Minors Mass Media Core MASS 101 Film and Broadcasting Practicum (1 hour - A total of 4 practicum hours required for graduation) MASS 201 Career Options in Film and Broadcasting (1 hour) MASS 221 Introduction to Mass Media MASS 210 Introduction to Media Production MASS 401 Senior Film and Broadcasting Seminar (1 hour) MASS 231 Introduction to Film and Broadcast Writing Choose one related course from the following: ENGL 231 Introduction to Film MASS 215 Basic Photography VISA 217 Graphic Design I BUSN 210 Principles of Management Choose three of the following: 72