The Master of Fine Arts degree program involves intensive coursework in fiction and non-fiction film production and scholarship. The program requires 135 credit hours of graduate study including a minor cognate, 1st and 2nd year portfolios and the completion of a creative thesis. You are required to maintain a 3.0 GPA in all coursework and your overall creative and scholastic performance is formally evaluated in three steps.

First Year Review

You are evaluated at the end of your third quarter of study. At that time, a student will present for review a 1st year portfolio and a minimum of one research paper demonstrating graduate level coursework, writing and scholarship.

Second Year Review

After 1st year review and the completion of a second year of full-time study, a student will present for review a 2nd year portfolio.

Thesis Defense

After completion of the creative thesis, you must successfully defend your thesis before the thesis committee.