RIT - School of Film and Animation

Course Requirements

Master of Fine Arts
Production Emphasis

Year 1 - Fall
721	Animation & Graphic Film	4
771	Graduate Seminar (Film Language)	2
752	16 sync	4
716	Digital Audio Tools	2
Total 12

Year 1 - Winter
7__	Theory & Criticism	3
731	Video Tools	4
7__	H & A Elective	4
Total 15

Year 1 - Spring
7__	Digital Compositing	4
7__	Screen Writing II	3
7__	H & A Elective	4
711	Core (Spring Film)	4
Total 15

Year 2 - Fall
712	Core (Prod Wkshop I)	4
781	Directing the Actor	4
	Elective	4
Total 12

Year 2 - Winter
7__	Core (Prod. Wkshop II)	4
	Liberal Arts/Elective	4
	Elective	4
Total 12

Year 2 - Spring
843	Research Seminar (Thesis Prep)	2
	Liberal Arts/Elective	4
	Elective	3/4
	Elective	3/4
Total 12 - 14
Year 3
890	Research & Thesis	12
Total Credits 90 - 92

Suggested Electives

7__	Compositing(Rays)	4
737	2D Computer Animation	4
761	Image, Movement & Sound	3
762	Stop Motion Animation	4
781	Sound Recording	4
701	H&A: Visual Anthropology	4
723	Anim & Graphic Film III	4
786	Contemporary Issues	4
7__	Digital Post	4
7__	Business of F/V	4
7__	Lighting for F/V	4

Any undergraduate SoFA courses (maximum total undergraduate credits that can be applied to the degree is 12. Bridge courses do not count as electives.)

Any graduate course in other SoFA tracks

Most Programming Courses from the IT department