Training
•Bullet: The Cinema and Digital Media BA is the department's single major (the Film Studies and Technocultural Studies majors are no longer offered); students choose two production/programming courses and two theory/history courses plus four electives, allowing up to six production courses or six studies/theory courses
•Bullet: Faculty include Chair Kristopher Fallon, a film and digital media scholar of non-fiction visual culture; Michael Neff, Professor of Cinema and Digital Media and of Computer Science, whose research focuses on tools for character animation; Joshua McCoy, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Digital Media and of Computer Science, a game developer combining artificial intelligence and social science; and Colin Milburn, Distinguished Professor and Gary Snyder Chair in Science and the Humanities, whose research spans science fiction, video games, and the digital humanities
•Bullet: Final research papers and creative production portfolios give graduate school admissions committees, employers or clients tangible evidence of graduates' track records and talents
Facilities
•Bullet: The department's Mac computer lab, Sound lab, and Electronics lab are in the Art Annex, Photography, Digital Media and Video facilities are in the basement of Maria Manetti Shrem Art Hall, and Cruess Hall holds two screening rooms seating 200 and 85 along with the Media Lab and the Alt-Ctrl Lab
•Bullet: In the Alt-Ctrl Lab, which supports the teaching and research of Professors Patrick LeMieux, Stephanie Boluk, Lishan AZ, and Josh McCoy, students hack retro hardware, develop original software, design custom interfaces, and stream their work online
•Bullet: The ModLab is an experimental laboratory for media research and digital humanities whose research programs include cultural studies of video games and media technologies and technocultural practices such as modding and hacking
Study Abroad
•Bullet: The Summer Abroad program World Cinema and the European Film Festival, offered in Cinema and Digital Media and German, starts in Zurich, Switzerland, attends the Locarno Film Festival, and finishes in Cannes, France
