Film, Television & Digital Media
The Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (FTDM) offers students a uniquely diverse and comprehensive array of courses designed to prepare its graduates to be industry leaders, creative contributors and/or impactful scholars in arguably the most pervasive and influential field of the 21st century. The department offers three majors:
Business of Entertainment Media, BS: This major provides essential real-world applications and skills as it prepares students for successful careers as leaders and managers in influential entertainment-focused organizations, in a variety of positions including brand managers, creative consultants, marketing strategists, producers, production managers, social media coordinators, and many related others. Its emphases on both business and content-related industry aspects enable graduates to emerge with substantial knowledge of media business practices and terminology, development and production processes, marketing fundamentals, legal essentials, and a range of additional educational insights necessary for personal and professional success in this exciting and rapidly changing field;
Film, Television, and Digital Media, BS: In this sequence, students combine various production courses with offerings in critical studies and industry studies to prepare them for success in the competitive and increasingly global media industries;
Sports Broadcasting, BS: In this sequence, students acquire the technical skills to produce sports programs at the professional level as well as the analytical skills to understand and articulate the social and cultural roles sports events play in countries around the globe.
State-of-the-art department resources include HD studios, soundstages, professional editing suites, a green screen studio, a campus radio station and a full complement of HD field production and grip equipment. The Gwendolyn P. Tandy Memorial Film Library houses more than 15,000 titles.
John V. Roach Honors College
Film, Television and Digital Media majors, Cinema and Media Studies majors or Sports Broadcasting majors who plan to pursue departmental honors must be members of the Honors College and should enroll in course Honors Tutorial during their junior year and course Honors Research Tutorial during the fall semester of their senior year.
Transfer Students
Transfer students are not guaranteed admission to the majors offered by the department. All students completing a major offered by the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media, including transfer students, must successfully complete the FTDM introductory courses and fulfill all remaining requirements with a “C” or better in order to graduate. Potential sports broadcasting majors, including transfer students, must apply for, and be granted, acceptance into the major (see sports broadcasting program requirements section). Transfer students must submit a written request if they wish the department to consider accepting any substitutes for course, course History or Film or course Introduction to Film and TV Aesthetics. Requests will be considered on an individual basis.
Internships
An active, supervised internship program places students in television studios, film production companies, audience research companies and corporate/industrial media centers. Interns may be placed in major media markets such as Los Angeles, New York, London or Fort Worth-Dallas or in their hometowns. FTDM internships are required for sports broadcasting majors and available to film, television and digital media majors and cinema and media studies majors and prerequisites apply. Contact the department for policies and procedures.
Study Abroad
Contact the FTDM department for details and schedules for study abroad opportunities.