Bachelor's in Documentary Filmmaking
Introduction
Documentary Filmmaking is a Bachelor program taught at Spelman College, USA. Intake: Fall, Spring. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time (4 years) options.
Spelman College’s Documentary Filmmaking Major trains students in documentary filmmaking through foundational courses such as AVC 124 Intro to Documentary Filmmaking, AVC 125 Black Cinema: Contemporary Voices in Documentary, and AVC 242 The Art of Video Editing. Students also study visual language and filmmaking as an art form and as a form of rhetoric, and they create documentaries through creative writing for documentaries.
The major follows a course sequence with Foundational Courses, Practice, Theory and Thinking, and Personal Practice and Career Building.
Students complete practice courses including AVC 205 Documentary Media Production I, AVC 206 Documentary Media Production II, AVC 335 Advanced Sight and Sound I, AVC 336 Advanced Sight and Sound II, and AVC 410 Editing for Thesis Films.
The program includes AVC 442 Internship as a required part of the major, plus directed studies in fall and spring and freshman and sophomore seminars.
Modules
- AVC 122 Digital 2D Foundations
- AVC 124 Intro to Documentary Filmmaking
- AVC 125 Black Cinema: Contemporary Voices in Documentary
- AVC 242 The Art of Video Editing
- AVC 205 Documentary Media Production I
- AVC 206 Documentary Media Production II
- AVC 335 Advanced Sight and Sound I
- AVC 336 Advanced Sight and Sound II
- AVC 410 Editing for Thesis Films
- AVC 285 Hollywood & History
- AVC 373Concepts, Writing and Development for Documentary Filmmaking
- AVC 442 Internship
Admission Requirements
The minimum requirements for admission in Documentary Filmmaking at Spelman College for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:
- program specific academic requirment set by Spelman College.
- English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Spelman College as pre-requiste for admission in Documentary Filmmaking.
Note: Please check the university website in the link below.
Courses Units
Please check detail of study units at https://www.spelman.edu/academics/art-and-visual-culture/documentary-filmmaking-major.html
Scholarships
80 fully funded scholarships are listed for USA. See USA scholarships.