Sample Schedule: Television and Film, BS (124 Semester Hours) - Hofstra University - Modern Campus Catalog™

Apr 11, 2025

2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

FIRST-YEAR

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
WSC 001 - Composition	3	WSC 002 - Composition	3
Foreign Language Course	3	Foreign Language Course	3
RTVF 016 - Television Aesthetics and Criticism	3	RTVF 024 - Multi-camera TV	4
RTVF 010 - (AA) Introduction to Film Studies	3	RTVF 027 - Introductory Film Production	3
RTVF 025 - Introduction to Editing	3	RTVF 034 - Writing Series Television I	3
Total Semester Hours	15	Total Semester Hours	16

SECOND-YEAR

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
RTVF 026 - Single-camera TV	3	RHET 001 - (CP) Oral Communication	3
RTVF 110 - Introduction to Screenwriting	3	RTVF 047 - Intermediate Film Production	3
RTVF 044 - TV Operations & Technology	3	RTVF 001 - Foundations of Radio, Television, Film, and New Media	3
MASS 001 - Mass Media: History and Development	3	Students must select one of the following: PHYS 005 - (NS) Light or PHYS 006 - (NS) Acoustics, Music and Speech	3
Behavioral Social Sciences (BH) Distribution Course	3	Literature (LT) Distribution Course	3
Total Semester Hours	15	Total Semester Hours	15

THIRD-YEAR
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Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
RTVF 014 - Media Production Practicum	1	RTVF 014 - Media Production Practicum	1
Students must select one of the following: RTVF 064 - Television Production: Non-Fiction or RTVF 084 - Television Production: Episodic Fiction	3	RTVF Elective Course	3
RTVF 137A - Film History - Part I	3	RTVF Elective Course	3
Students must select one of the following: RTVF 107 - Cinematography and Lighting for Film or RTVF 147 - Directing for the Screen	3	RTVF 137B - Film History - Part II	3
Drama Elective Course	3	Drama Elective Course	3
Students must select one of the following: CSC 005 - (CS) Overview of Computer Science or CSC 006 - (CS) The Art and Science of Computer Games	3	History, Philosophy, Religion (HP) Distribution Course	3
Total Semester Hours	16	Total Semester Hours	16

FOURTH-YEAR

Fall	S.H.	Spring	S.H.
RTVF 014 - Media Production Practicum	1	Film or Television Capstone	3
RTVF 164 - The Non-Fiction Series	3	RTVF Elective Course	3
Film or Television Capstone	3	MASS 104 - Media and the Law	3
RTVF Elective Course	3	Elective Course	3
Cross Area RTVF Elective Course	3	Elective Course	3
Elective Course	3
Total Semester Hours	16	Total Semester Hours	15
Program Total		124

^{Updated January 2023}