The various programs and courses in the school attempt to balance examination of the content with acquisition of practical production and management skills. The goal of the school is to train media professionals who will act with moral and spiritual integrity while exhibiting excellence in employment production techniques and innovative styles in order to communicate redemptive messages. The school offers three majors cinema-television , script and screenwriting and theatre arts and multiple areas of study within each major. Production facilities are made available to all cinema-television and theatre arts students. The school is committed to providing ample equipment and facilities for student use as well as an outstanding production experience.
Students are welcome to self-fund other projects of their own interest.
Programming is originated on 16mm film and professional quality video cameras. Postproduction facilities include multiple audio and video-editing suites, which employ the latest digital nonlinear technology. The school also has an on-going program to expand the technical capabilities of its production theatre. The School of Cinema-Television and Theatre Arts in the College of Communication and the Arts is supported by twelve faculty, Drs. Dennis Bounds , Gilette Elvgren , Terry Lindvall , Robert Schihl , Lorene Wales , James Walz , Timothy Wright , and Professors Duane Meeks , Andrew Quicke , Ed McDougal and David Jager-Walker .