Our undergraduate program of study is committed to helping students develop their creative, conceptual and technical abilities. Through their education here, we ask students to look as deeply as they can into themselves, and as hard as they can at the world, and in the process say something about it all through media: film, video, audio, installation, conceptual studies, photography, new genres. The faculty, staff and students are actively engaged in the making of art and the interplay between art and ideas. We think of the university as a place where these activities converge, bringing the community and the worlds of art, technology and media together. We offer three inter-related BFA tracks: Film/Video/New Genres, Conceptual Studies in Media Arts Production, and Photography, that provide varied approaches to the study and making of art in the world today. Our goal is for you to become a creative thinker, an informed viewer and an art maker — someone whose imaginative skills are matched by an ability to learn and use the technologies to say something important; whose habit is to work, to take risks for what is in the mind and heart, to make the world a better place.

BFA DEGREE CURRICULUM

The BFA major in Film is an interdisciplinary course of study with a choice of three tracks — Film/Video/New Genres, Conceptual Studies, and Photography — in which students realize individual projects in film, video, photography, new media or e-publishing every semester. This is accomplished through a required sequence of 7-8 introductory, pre-portfolio courses followed by a series of electives and capstone projects to make up the 66-credit major.

Click here for information on applying to UWM and the Department of Film.

Click here for a guide to planning a major in film (updated Fall 2007).

For further information
Annie Melchior, Program Manager
(414)-229-6015
filmwebsite@uwm.edu