2011-12 Academic Year - Bad Request - Humboldt State University

Film Minor
Minor in Film
Also see: Theatre, Film, & Dance
Film Minor Advisors
Ann Alter
707-826-5495; aea2@humboldt.edu
David Scheerer
707-826-4602; ds65@humboldt.edu
Department of Theatre, Film, & Dance
Theatre Arts Building, room 20
707-826-3566
www.humboldt.edu/theatrefilmanddance
The Program
Steeped within the tradition of independent
film, the film program at Humboldt State
University gives students an opportunity
to learn the fundamentals of filmmaking
through an interdisciplinary program that
parallels traditional motion picture production
with creative avenues made available
by evolving technologies. Our curriculum
integrates hands-on production and film
studies within a liberal arts education to
foster storytellers who can artfully express
well-developed and substantive ideas. All aspects
of the program stress professionalism
with an emphasis on quality shared between
collaborative and creative processes.
Fire Ecology Minor
Minor in Fire Ecology
Department Chair
K. O. Fulgham, Ph.D.
Department of Forestry & Wildland
Resources
Forestry Building 205
707-826-3935
The film program utilizes a combination
of traditional 16mm film and digital technologies.
We have re-photography facilities,
a sound studio, on-site 16mm telecine
capabilities, and digital post-production
studios with film matchback capabilities.
Basic pre-production, production and postproduction
skills are taught with emphasis
on documentary, narrative and experimental
forms.
A major offering of the Department is the
Annual Humboldt Film Festival, produced
and organized by students. The festival is the
oldest student-run film festival in the world.
Started in 1967, this annual Spring showcase
brings to the University and Humboldt
County a week of exciting activities. There
are workshops with professional filmmakers,
screenings of international filmmakers’
recent works, and opportunities for individual
sessions with visiting artists. The festival is
a juried competition attracting films from
around the world. There are many opportunities
for student involvement in the festival,
including several paid positions for festival
student co-directors.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MINOR
F=offered fall only; S=spring only; A=offered
alternate years as funding permits
Total unit requirement: 20 units
The Program
Required courses:
FOR 230 Dendrology, or an approved
course in Plant Taxonomy
FOR 231 Forest Ecology, or an
approved course in Ecology
FOR 321 Fire Ecology
FOR 323 Wildland Fire Behavior & Use
FOR 423 Wildland Fuels Management
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TFD 312 Filmmaking I [FS]
TFD 372 Filmmaking II [S]
TFD 394 Film Studies (for one-unit
minimum)
One of the following:
TFD 305 Art of Film:
Beginning to 1950s [F]
(satisfies upper division GE), or
TFD 306 Art of Film: 1950s to the
Present [S] Must take
concurrently with TFD 318.
(satisfies upper division GE]
One of the following:
TFD 313 Film Theory & Criticism [F], or
TFD 465 Film Seminar [S]
One related approved elective not limited to
the following options:
TFD 348 Writing for Film [A]
TFD 373 Filmmaking III
TFD 476 Film Directing
TFD 477 Film Production Workshop [FS]
Documentary Production
Science & Film Seminar
Grant Writing
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