The Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts has created a new film track for its majors.  The track will allow visual arts majors to receive a well-rounded education in film, including production, performance, and history.

The track will allow visual arts majors to receive a well-rounded education in film, including production, performance, and history.  Most courses will be accepted as part of the film track degree requirements.  Students wishing to enroll in film courses should make an appointment with the film faculty advisor before enrolling.

BA Film Track
Department majors are students who concentrate their focus of study in the visual and dramatic arts with emphasis in the studio arts (drawing, digital video and film production, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture), film or theatre tracks.  Each student should discuss with their faculty advisor the selection of courses and any other matters of concern in the student's academic life such as study and travel abroad, scholarships and internships, career goals or options, etc.

Single Major
(12 courses required)
ARTS 225 Basic Drawing or ARTS 101 accepted as equivalent
FILM 327 Documentary Production
FILM 328 Filmmaking I
FILM 280 History and Aesthetics of Film or THEA 303 Introduction to Theatre
Six (6) elective courses in film (FILM)
Two (2) elective courses in studio practice (ARTS), theatre (THEA), or film/media studies (offered in the department of Anthropology, English, French Studies, History, etc.

Double Major
(10 courses required)
ARTS 225 Basic Drawing or ARTS 101 accepted as equivalent
FILM 327 Documentary Production
FILM 328 Filmmaking I
FILM 280 History and Aesthetics of Film or THEA 303 Introduction to Theatre
Four (4) elective courses in film (FILM)
Two (2) elective courses in visual arts studio practice (ARTS), theatre (THEA), or film/media studies (offered in the departments of Anthropology, English, French Studies History, etc.

Transfer Credit
No more than two courses may be tranferred for the single or double major to satisfy degree requirements for the BA in Visual and Dramatic Arts degree.  The two transfer credit courses must be studio or theatre practice courses required for all majors.  Advanced placement credit may not be used to fulfill department degree requirements.

Entering transfer students who are transferring coursework from another ac credited college or university will be allowed to transfer their undergraduate art courses.  Students must speak with the department chairman immediately upon transferring to Rice.

All art, film or theatre courses taken during the NYU/Rice spring residencies will be transferred for the major or double-major.

On Location in New York
Majors and double-majors are encouraged to compete for two academic residencies in studio, theatre, or film each spring at the prestigious Tisch School of Arts and the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University (NYU) in New York City.  These one-semester residenciees are offered each spring and are chosen through competitive proposal and portfolio review during the fall semester.

The NYU/Rice residencies allow our students to study their chosen craft in the international epicenter for the arts.  The residencies offer rigorous, concentrated curriculum in arts theory, criticism, and practice and provide extraordinary opportunities for independent exploration and research in New York's world-renown art galleries, museums, alternative and mainstream film companies, and theatre production.