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Standards for Educators:

Motion Picture Studies is a combination of verbal and written skills with media literacy. Students will take courses that explore visual media and will develop an understanding of visual culture.

Career Preparation:

Students gain experience through film screenings, classes with visiting filmmakers, senior seminar, and internships.

First-Rate Faculty:

The Motion Picture Studies faculty has advanded degrees in the their fields, are active scholars, and attend and present their research at national academic conferences. Students in this major can take courses with Hollywood professionals, including a director, screenwriter, and cinematographer.

Dynamic Peers:

A university-wide competition recently selected a group of students who were majoring in this program to attend the Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, NC. Students have met fiml and television production professionals and documentary filmmakers, giving students a unique variety of interdisciplinary educational opportunities.

Spring Literary Festival:

Our annual Spring Literary Festival had been bringing local and national writers to the campus since 2003. Distinguished authors, such as Jim Harrison, Leslie Silko, Mazine Kumin, Sherman Alexie, Silas House, Elizabeth Kostova, Brett Lott, and Kathryn Stripling Byer have all been featured artists at the Spring Literary Festival. Members of the English faculty, such as Catherine Carter, Ron Rash, Deidre Elliott, Pamela Duncan, and Mary Adams, have also performed in past festival events.

Sought-After Graduates:

English students possess the communication, writing, and critical thinking skills that employers want in their employees.

Other Choices:

Many undergraduates go to graduate and professional schools to continue their English studies or to pursue new areas, such as law, art, or communication.

Film Studies in:• Theory• Genres• Screenwriting• Adaptation• History

English students• Compete in poetry slams• Design and edit web sites• Write and edit for public and

private organizations• Hold exciting student internships

Careers with this degree:• Lawyer• Technical Writer• Editor• Journalist• Web Designer• Reporter• Broadcaster

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English Deparment * 305 Coulter Building * Cullowhee, NC 28723 * 828.227.7264

Western Carolina University

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