{"id":65499,"date":"2025-03-14T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=65499"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:38:36","slug":"lights-camera-action-utc-introduces-new-film-and-tv-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/lights-camera-action-utc-introduces-new-film-and-tv-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lights, camera, action: UTC introduces new film and TV minor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1033\" height=\"580\" data-attachment-id=\"66254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2025\/03\/lights-camera-action-utc-introduces-new-film-and-tv-minor\/montage\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1033,580\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Wasserstrom, Chuck&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1741605108&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Montage\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage-1024x575.jpg\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-66254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage.jpg 1033w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage-800x449.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage-580x326.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2025\/02\/Montage-610x342.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1033px) 100vw, 1033px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A version of this story first appeared in the 2025 issue of Method Magazine, a publication of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga College of Arts and Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Theatre is introducing a new multi-disciplinary film and TV studies minor. The minor will allow students to explore all aspects of film and television from in front of and behind the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the communication, English, and Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures departments, the new minor\u2014coming in the 2025-26 academic year\u2014will give students a flexible path that suits their interests in film and TV.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Ray, head of the Department of Theatre, artistic director of the UTC Theatre Co. and coordinator of the theatre entrepreneurship concentration, is looking forward to this minor filling an area many students wish to pursue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of students are already making their own films, short films and video projects,\u201d Ray said. \u201cIt gives them a way to learn more about how to do that better but also get credit for some of those projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ray highlighted UTC theatre professors who have worked in the film and TV industry, explaining why students should be enthusiastic about the new minor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that should make them excited is this incredible group of local professionals and local film professors,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have national reputations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Faculty members include) well-known actors in the industry and some directors who have moved here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dylan Kussman and Anthony Sims both teach Introduction to Film at UTC and have been working as actors, directors and producers. Kussman has acted in major Hollywood movies like \u201cDead Poets Society\u201d and \u201cThe Mummy.\u201d Sims directed a short film called \u201cThe Day After Stonewall Died,\u201d which won the Cannes Short Film Festival in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ray highlighted the three aspects students need to cover in this minor: theory, production and historical context. Incorporating these areas will give students a thorough understanding of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to have components of all three of those areas,\u201d Ray explained. \u201cThey have to have some theory, including Intro to Film. They have to have production experience mostly through the communication department and they have to have historical context and cultural context classes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UC Foundation Associate Professor of Communication Charlene Simmons served as the interim head of the department during the process of developing the new minor. She mentioned that the team focused on making this minor flexible for students \u201cso it would meet a lot of different people\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a debate. \u2018Do we require that they take a production class?\u2019 We decided no,\u201d Simmons recalled. \u201cNot every student is going to want to make a film or TV. Some are simply going to want to do criticism. They\u2019re going to want to be able to read a text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the flip side, we think everybody needs to have an understanding of film at the level of Introduction to Film. To be able to make films or television, you also need to understand the theoretical side. You need to have that critique or criticism background.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Communication Lecturer Angelique Gibson teaches production classes and is excited about what this minor can provide for UTC students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny student who\u2019s going to do something interdisciplinary is going to have a wider view\u2014a more multi-varied approach to how they\u2019re able to tell stories or integrate in different parts of their career when they get out of here,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cWhen a student graduates with a film and television minor, the way that we\u2019ve built it, they\u2019ve gotten a chance to understand how the world works by having to take a world film class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey understand the history of film by taking that theatre class. If they get a chance to take a production class, they start to put all those pieces together, including whatever they\u2019ve learned in their major\u2014in order to tell a story using the paintbrushes they\u2019ve been taught how to use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibson added that students have clamored for this type of minor during her seven years at UTC. She is thrilled to see it come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re connected all throughout the University,\u201d she said, \u201cand the students wanted it. There\u2019s no reason not to give it to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Learn more<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/enrollment-management-and-student-affairs\/admissions\/visit\">Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/arts-and-sciences\/utc-department-of-theatre\">Department of Theatre<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/arts-and-sciences\/communication\">Department of Communication<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/arts-and-sciences\/english\">Department of English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/arts-and-sciences\/modern-and-classical-languages-and-literatures\">Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/apply\">How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Theatre is introducing a new multi-disciplinary film and TV studies minor, allowing allow students to explore all aspects of film and television from in front of and behind the camera. 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