Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Film and Television
Programme Director: Mr CHEN, Yimin
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Film and Television 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:
| I) | Major Courses | 61-76 units |
| II) | Honours Project | 6 units |
| III) | University Core Courses | 13 units |
| IV) | General Education Courses | 18 units |
| V) | Free Electives | 15–30 units |
| 128 units |
Requirements
| I. | Major Courses | 52-64 units |
| Professional Option Core Courses (64 units) | ||
| FILM2005 History of Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM2006 Introduction to Production | 3 units | |
| FILM2008 Practicum I | 0 unit | |
| FILM2009 Practicum I | 0 unit | |
| FILM2047 Storytelling | 3 units | |
| FILM2065 Cinematography | 3 units | |
| FILM2066 Reading Literature | 3 units | |
| FILM2067 The Art of Script Writing | 6 units | |
| FILM3006 Film Sound | 3 units | |
| FILM3008 Practicum II | 0 unit | |
| FILM3009 Practicum II | 0 unit | |
| FILM3016 Non-Fiction Film | 3 units | |
| FILM3035 Chinese-Language Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3076 Screen Acting Workshop | 3 units | |
| FILM3077 The Art of Documentary Film | 3 units | |
| FILM3116 The Art of Editing | 3 units | |
| FILM3125 Honours Project Preparation Workshop | 1 unit | |
| FILM3126 Post-Production Workshop I | 3 units | |
| FILM3127 Post-Production Workshop II | 3 units | |
| FILM4035 Production Management | 3 units | |
| FILM4047 Film Theory and Criticism | 3 units | |
| FILM4055 Television and New Media | 3 units | |
| FILM4065 Art Direction | 3 units | |
| FILM4086 Film Directing | 6 units | |
| Liberal Studies Option Core Courses (46 units) | ||
| FILM2005 History of Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM2006 Introduction to Production | 3 units | |
| FILM2008 Practicum I | 0 unit | |
| FILM2009 Practicum I | 0 unit | |
| FILM2047 Storytelling | 3 units | |
| FILM2065 Cinematography | 3 units | |
| FILM2066 Reading Literature | 3 units | |
| FILM2067 The Art of Script Writing | 6 units | |
| FILM3008 Practicum II | 0 unit | |
| FILM3009 Practicum II | 0 unit | |
| FILM3035 Chinese-Language Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3077 The Art of Documentary Film | 3 units | |
| FILM3116 The Art of Editing | 3 units | |
| FILM3125 Honours Project Preparation Workshop | 1 unit | |
| FILM3126 Post-Production Workshop I | 3 units | |
| FILM4047 Film Theory and Criticism | 3 units | |
| FILM4055 Television and New Media | 3 units | |
| FILM4086 Film Directing | 6 units | |
| Liberal Studies Option Required Elective Courses (6 units) | ||
| Choose one from the following courses: | ||
| FILM3047 Hollywood Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM4026 East Asian Cinemas: History and Current Issues | 3 units | |
| FILM4037 Studies in French Cinema | 3 units | |
| Choose one from the following courses: | ||
| FILM3006 Film Sound | 3 units | |
| FILM3016 Non-Fiction Film | 3 units | |
| FILM4007 Advanced Script Writing | 3 units | |
| FILM4046 Advanced Cinematography | 3 units | |
| Major Elective Course (9-12 units) | ||
| Professional Option (12 units) | ||
| Liberal Studies Option (9 units) | ||
| FILM1005 Transnational History of Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM1006 Fundamentals of 2D and 3D Production | 3 units | |
| FILM2007 Principles of Photo-Imaging | 3 units | |
| FILM2035 Fundamentals of Computer Graphics | 3 units | |
| FILM2037 Fundamentals of Media Arts | 3 units | |
| FILM2045 Art History | 3 units | |
| FILM2057 Visual Expression | 3 units | |
| FILM2075 Film Stardom | 3 units | |
| FILM2086 Digital Advertising Production | 3 units | |
| FILM2087 Ideologies, Gender and Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3006 Film Sound (for Liberal Studies Option only) | 3 units | |
| FILM3016 Non-Fiction Film (for Liberal Studies Option only) | 3 units | |
| FILM3025 Digital Aesthetics and Practices | 3 units | |
| FILM3026 Documentary Photography | 3 units | |
| FILM3027 Television Studio Production | 3 units | |
| FILM3045 Creative Arts and Visual Strategy | 3 units | |
| FILM3047 Hollywood Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3066 Television/Streaming Programming and Concepts | 3 units | |
| FILM3067 Creative Media Management | 3 units | |
| FILM3076 Screen Acting Workshop (for Liberal Studies Option only) | 3 units | |
| FILM3085 Film Music and Sound Design | 3 units | |
| FILM3086 Independent Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3097 Hong Kong Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3106 Sound Design for Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3107 Interactive Graphics | 3 units | |
| FILM3115 Virtual World: Design and Interaction | 3 units | |
| FILM3117 Documentary Production | 3 units | |
| FILM3135 The Other Cinema: Cult, Exploitation, Experimental Films | 3 units | |
| FILM3136 Studies in European Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM3145 Japanese Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM3146 Feeling Cinema: Memories and Future Storytelling | 3 units | |
| FILM3147 Entertainment 3.0: Creative Industries and Technology | 3 units | |
| FILM4006 Advanced Experimental Image Processing | 3 units | |
| FILM4007 Advanced Script Writing | 3 units | |
| FILM4016 Internship | 3 units | |
| FILM4017 Motion Graphic Design | 3 units | |
| FILM4026 East Asian Cinemas: History and Current Issues | 3 units | |
| FILM4027 Special Topics in Film | 3 units | |
| FILM4035 Production Management (for Liberal Studies Option only) | 3 units | |
| FILM4037 Studies in French Cinema | 3 units | |
| FILM4046 Advanced Cinematography | 3 units | |
| FILM4056 Character Design and Storyboarding | 3 units | |
| FILM4065 Art Direction (for Liberal Studies Option only) | 3 units | |
| FILM4066 Visual Effects Workshop | 3 units | |
| FILM4075 Facial Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM4076 Character Animation | 3 units | |
| FILM4077 Creative Production in Extended Reality | 3 units | |
| FILM4085 Screen Adaptation | 3 units | |
| FILM4097 Queer Media | 3 units | |
| FILM4105 Live Sound Production | 3 units | |
| FILM4106 Dolby Atoms Production | 3 units | |
| III. | Honours Project | 6 units |
| FILM4878 Honours Project in Film and Television | 3 units | |
| FILM4879 Honours Project in Film and Television | 3 units | |
| IV. | University Core Courses | 13 units |
| V. | General Education Courses | 18 units |
| VI. | Free Electives | 15–30 units |
| Professional Option (15 units) | ||
| Liberal Studies Option (30 units) | ||
| 128 units |
