The 121-credit interdisciplinary major, which includes both fiction and documentary production, will train students in all aspects of filmmaking, from research and treatments to cinematography, lighting, field production, directing, script writing and story boarding, editing, and postproduction.

Students will also have opportunities to gain professional experience through the Rutgers Film Bureau—the documentary production office that links filmmakers with artists, researchers, scientists, and community leaders at the university and beyond.

The major is designed to establish marketable skills in the emerging field of digital communication blended with a “wide array of liberal arts electives that will help to round out students’ training as technically astute filmmakers and intellectually informed artists,” Seidel says.