Digital Cinema Programs
Learn about audio technology, videography, and digital video editing while studying the creative process with a cohort of filmmakers.
Undergraduate Degree
Digital Cinema, BA/BS
Offered as a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science Major
A degree in Digital Cinema from SOU offers visual storytellers the creative skills, technical immersion, and faculty mentoring they need to turn their ideas into compelling moving images in preparation for a wide array of media-making careers.
Digital Cinema Production Arts BFA
Offered as a Bachelor of Fine Arts
The Digital Cinema Production Arts BFA offers student filmmakers a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in a chosen production or story development craft while contributing to the creation of a significant undergraduate thesis project in a year-long Capstone sequence.
Academic Minors
Digital Cinema Minor
Offered as a Secondary Discipline Minor
The Digital Cinema Minor is designed to serve students in a variety of fields. This minor emphasizes the hands-on skills of film and television production, along with the theory, criticism, history, and analysis of digital cinema.
Certificate Program
Certificate in Animation & Motion Design*
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate in Animation & Motion Design provides students with a path to developing professional animation-based portfolios emphasizing visual storytelling and movement. Students will gain experience in a range of digital animation approaches and techniques.
*The Certificate in Animation & Motion Design is housed within the Emerging Media & Digital Arts program; listed the SOU Catalog.
Certificate in Cinematography and Production Technology
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate Program in Cinematography and Production Technology is designed to foster expertise in cinematography and cutting-edge production technology.
Certificate in Directing for the Screen
Offered as an Academic Certificate
Ready to explore the world of film and television directing? Our Certificate in Directing for the Screen program is tailored for aspiring directors, offering practical skills and knowledge to thrive in the industry.
Certificate in Documentary Production
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate in Documentary Production is designed for non-degree-seeking students and traditional degree-seeking students majoring in other disciplines who have a passion for non-fiction media production specific to their disciplines or wish to be engaged in social issue documentary production.
Certificate in Media Post-Production
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate Program in Media Post-Production offers a robust and practical training experience, meticulously crafted to prepare participants for success in the swiftly evolving field of media post-production.
Certificate in Producing and Production Management
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate in Producing and Production Management offers a specialized curriculum tailored to equip students with essential skills and knowledge necessary for effective leadership roles in the film and television production sector.
Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design*
Offered as an Academic Certificate
Maybe it started in the sandbox, or Lego, or drawing treacherous terrains for role playing games. If you love creating worlds then the Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design could be for you.
*The Certificate in Scenic and Environment Design is housed within the Theatre program website.
Certificate in Screenwriting & Story Development
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate in Screenwriting and Story Development is offered to students who wish to pursue careers in writing for film and television or in story development for the entertainment industry and especially students interested in pursuing graduate studies in screenwriting.
Certificate in Sound Design*
Offered as an Academic Certificate
The Certificate in Sound Design provides students with a focused curriculum in sound design theory and practice. Students engage in technical, cultural, and interdisciplinary contexts for sound and build experience creating sound-based projects for a variety of media and end-use applications.
*The Certificate in Sound Design is housed within the Emerging Media & Digital Arts program website.
Micro-Credentials
Broadcast News Production*
Offered as an Academic Micro-Credential
The Broadcast News Production badge introduces students to basic skills and technologies entailed in the production of broadcast journalism through the filter of news programming for local television stations. Students complete reporting and production tasks encompassing both field and studio broadcast contexts.
*The Broadcast News Production Micro-Credential is housed within the Communications program website.
Cinema Production Technology
Offered as an Academic Micro-Credential
The Cinema Production Technology badge provides a strong foundation for students interested in securing entry-level employment in broadcast media, corporate video production or communications departments, and in assisting freelance video producers.
Film Business & Management*
Offered as an Academic Micro-Credential
By completing Southern Oregon University’s 12-credit badge in Film Business & Management, students demonstrate their ability to develop screen properties, raise production funds, create shooting schedules and budgets, and create marketing plans and festival submission strategies for independently-produced films. The Film Business & Management badge provides a strong foundation for students interested in working in production offices or in project development for the entertainment industry.
*The Film Business & Management Micro-Credential is housed within the Communications program website.
Set Skills for Cinema Production
Offered as an Academic Micro-Credential
In this immersive learning experience, students leave the classroom to learn on location in an environment that emulates a professional film production. Students apply for a below-the-line crew position and work within a departmental hierarchy to collaboratively produce a short film alongside faculty and professional mentors.
Story Development for Screenwriting
Offered as an Academic Micro-Credential
The Story Development for Screenwriting badge provides a strong foundation for students interested in securing entry-level employment in the entertainment industry as a script reader or writer’s assistant, in pursuing a screenwriting fellowship, or, when completed as part of their undergraduate degree, in applying to graduate programs in screenwriting.
Contact the Digital Cinema Program
SOU Digital Cinema Program
1250 Siskiyou Blvd.
Ashland, OR 97520
541.552.6669
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