Mission and Goals
Department of Broadcasting and Cinema
UNC Greensboro
Approved 13 August 2001
The mission of the Broadcasting and Cinema Department at UNC Greensboro is to produce exemplary liberal arts graduates who can think critically and creatively, who can communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written discourse, who can skillfully and ethically employ contemporary media technology, and who are knowledgeable of the history and theory of film and electronic media.
To benefit students, the discipline, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the region, Broadcasting and Cinema derives its goals from those of the College of Arts and Sciences. Specifically, it strives to ensure that:
- Faculty members nurture students’ skills of critical analysis through introducing them to historic movements, key texts, and significant genres and to conceptual theories interrelating media, culture, and society and cultivate their artistic talents through creative writing and producing of film and electronic texts.
- Faculty members engage in effective student-centered teaching, research, creative expression, and service.
- Faculty members keep the program centered in the mainstream of liberal studies, maximizing the strengths it draws from and provides to other Arts and Sciences units.
- Faculty members focus on excellence in research, invention, explication, and storytelling regardless of the medium of delivery (e.g., film, television, DVD, Internet, etc.).
- Faculty members maintain a quality MFA graduate degree program producing artist/scholars with outstanding abilities in teaching, research, scholarship, and creative expression.
- Students work diligently inside and outside the classroom to gain practical experience through class projects, production opportunities, activities, and internships.
- Students and faculty members advance the identity of the Department, College, and the University within the community, state, and nation through the promotion of a rich media culture on campus and the creation and distribution of film and electronic media productions.