University of Utah Department of Film & Media Arts

The Department of Film & Media Arts has over 600 undergraduate students across film production, animation, and game design emphases and 19 graduate students. It is ranked in the top fourteen film departments in the western region by (http://filmcolleges.com) and the top 30 in the nation by (http://college.usatoday.com/tag/college-factual/). It is the largest academic unit in a College of Fine Arts that also includes a School of Dance, a School of Music, a Department of Art & Art History, and a Department of Theatre. The Film & Media Arts faculty produce creative work, research and teach in animation, critical film and media studies, film production; narrative, documentary, experimental, and games, gender and sexuality studies, history and criticism, independent film, international cinema, screenwriting, sound production, and theory.