Portfolio reviews are conducted each Spring semester in order to determine enrollment for the following Fall semester. This is a creative and competitive area of study that requires commitment and discipline in order to compete on a national level. Each graduating student receiving a BFA creates a major work in his or her senior year that is exhibited as part of the Senior Capstone Experience, along with a paper that places the work in a historical, social, and aesthetic context. Students are also encouraged to prepare resumes, production reels, and photographic portfolios before leaving the university, and often they do this work as an assignment within their media electives. Graduates of this program have found work in commercial photography studios, independent and commercial film and video production, computer animation, digital arts, assistant producing, distribution, and other media-related work.
Students are also well prepared for entry into graduate studies in film and media arts production.
An MFA graduate degree is also available in the Media area. Students applying to the graduate program should have a mature artistic vision and be highly motivated. Graduates receiving this degree will find job opportunities in university teaching as well as curatorial work in museum, galleries, and nonprofit art organizations.