The primary goal of the Department of Screen Arts & Cultures is to provide students with high quality instruction in the history, theory, aesthetics, and technique of moving image media in its historical and emergent forms. We also believe that a significant element of creative practice in the field, broadly conceived, is extremely important both to student's understanding of media and to making their knowledge marketable post-graduation.

The Screen Arts & Cultures major balances studies and production, with studies occupying approximately two-thirds of a student's coursework and one-third devoted to creative, hands-on projects. We regard our unit as uniquely situated to help LS&A students explore the intersection of intellectual study and creative practice in the arts. In contrast to the film school or art school model,our major offers a well conceived integration of critical studies and creative production in moving image media within a large world-class university.