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Recommended Academic Plan for Film-Video (FILM at University Park)
Effective Spring 2005

Semester 1	Credits	Semester 2	Credits
COMM 150 Cinema Art	3	COMM 250 Film History & Theory	3
Foreign Language	4	Foreign Language	4
ENGL 015 or 030 (GWS) Rhetoric & Comp or Honors Comp	3	CAS 100 (GWS) Effective Speech	3
Humanities (GH)	3	Social and Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3
Natural Sciences (GN)	3	Natural Sciences (GN)	3
First-Year Seminar	1
Total Credits:	17	Total Credits:	16
Semester 3	Credits	Semester 4	Credits
COMM 242 Basic F/V Production	3	Natural Sciences (GN)	3
Foreign Language	4	Arts (GA)	3
Quantification (GQ)	3	ENGL 202 (GWS) Effective Writing	3
Humanities (GH)	3	Social and Behavioral Sciences (GS)	3
Arts (GA)	3	Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain	3
Total Credits:	16	Total Credits:	15
Semester 5	Credits	Semester 6	Credits
COMM 337 Theory and Practice of Production	3	COMM 347 Intermediate Video/Film	3
COMM 346 Screenwriting I	3	COMM Film History, Criticism and Theory (see advisor or degree audit)	3
Elective	3	Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain (US or IL)	3
Other Cultures	3	Quantification (GQ)	3
Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain (US or IL)	3	Elective	3
Total Credits:	15	Total Credits:	15
Semester 7	Credits	Semester 8	Credits
COMM ADV Production, Screenwriting, Directing (see advisor or degree audit)	3	COMM ADV Production, Screenwriting, Directing (see advisor or degree audit)	3
COMM ADV Production, Screenwriting, Directing (see advisor or degree audit)	3	COMM ADV Production, Screenwriting, Directing (see advisor or degree audit)	3
Elective	3	Elective	3
Elective	3	Elective	2
Health and Physical Activity (GHA)	1.5	Health and Physical Activity (GHA)	1.5
Total Credits:	13.5	Total Credits:	12.5

Bold type indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better.
Italics indicates courses that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
Bold Italics indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better and that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
GWS, GHA, GQ, GN, GA, GH, and GS are codes used to identify General Education requirements.
US, IL, and US;IL are codes used to designate courses that satisfy University United States/International Cultures requirements.
W is the code used to designate courses that satisfy University Writing Across the Curriculum requirements.

Scheduling patterns for courses not taught each semester:

Comm 337, Theory and Practice of Production, is only taught fall semesters.

Comm 347, Intermediate Video/Film, is only taught spring semesters.

Program Notes:

Comm 346, Screenwriting I, will satisfy the Comm “W” requirement.

Film-Video is a controlled major; acceptance based upon successful portfolio review.

Academic Advising Notes: