Bachelor of Communication (Honours) in Film

Programme Director: Mr CHEN, Yimin

Bachelor of Communication (Hons) in Film (Film and Television Concentration) provides comprehensive training in film and television, with attention to relevant areas of theory, history, and practice. It offers two distinct options: “Professional Option” and “Liberal Studies Option”. The Programme aims to equip students with the knowledge and vocational skill required in the creative industries, such as film, television, commercial and other sectors in audio-visual production and to provide theoretical training in cinematic arts.

Professional Option
The Professional Option aims to strengthen both professional and conceptual education of film students. It provides Year 1 students film education in both history of film and film production. It also provides solid training in film production by making editing, script writing and directing core courses of the programme in progressive learning manner as well as to strengthen both fiction and non-fiction film making education and to nurture all rounded film makers. The Professional Option offers more courses on film theory and criticism, film history and film studies to enhance film literacy, and to prepare students with theoretical interests to pursue postgraduate education in film studies. Meanwhile, it adds more major elective units for students to mix and match among the diversity of the major elective list according to student’s interest in film studies in theory and practice.

Liberal Studies Option
The Liberal Studies Option is to honour the spirit of the liberal arts education ethos of the University and with its commitment to whole person development of students.

The structure of the curriculum is as follows:

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