The Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSS) in Television, Film, and Photography is an eight-semester, 128-credit program conducted entirely in English. Students will complete 32 courses, including a thesis, a production, or a photo documentation. The aim of this program is to provide students a broad-based education in television, film, photography, and media studies. It examines television, film, and photography as art forms, industries, and means of mass communication. To fulfill this objective, the program includes both theoretical and practical courses on television journalism, television production, photography, filmmaking, and film theory and criticism.
44 courses · 176 credit hours across 8 terms
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TFP 101 | Introduction to Television and Film Studies | 4 | This course conceptualizes television and film as complex cultural and technological forms, industries, sites of textual production, and modes of entertainment. It also examines the nature of film and television audiences. It traces how the film production techniques, the film industry and broadcasting evolved over the years. It also explores different television and film genres. |
| TFP 102 | Introduction to Photography | 4 | The aim of this course is to teach students about the fundamentals of photography and the evolution of photographic techniques over the years. After the completion of this course, the students will learn about the camera, techniques of composition, sharpness, focusing techniques, lighting techniques, and aesthetics of photography. Its primary goal is to prepare the students for understanding motion photography. |
| TFP 103 | Bengali Language Skills for Audiovisual Media | 4 | The aim of this course is to prepare students achieve the Bengali linguistic skills necessary for writing news and other scripts for television and film and for orally delivering news. |
| TFP 104 | English Language Skills for Audiovisual Media | 4 | The aim of this course is to prepare students achieve the English linguistic skills necessary for writing news and other scripts for television and film and oral delivery of news. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TFP 105 | Film History | 4 | This course will provide students an overview of the history of motion pictures. Classics and important films from the birth of the medium to the present time will be screened and discussed with regard to their cultural influence. The learning goals of this course are to acquaint students with the events, causes and consequences of film history and to foster the critical skills necessary for them to assess and advance their own arguments about that history. By the end of this course students will understand the cultural impact of films and its power to inform, persuade, entertain and influence modern society. |
| TFP 106 | Language of Audiovisual Media | 4 | This course discusses the general conventions used by television and film to convey meanings through particular camera and editing techniques. The issues which will be covered in this course include camera and lens types, camera operating techniques, camera movement, types of shots, shot selection, cuts, graphics, light, sound, narrative styles, and aesthetics. |
| TFP 107 | Television News Reporting and Anchoring | 4 | This course will discuss different issues related to television news reporting. It will teach students to write TV news scripts and speak for a television audience, deliver live coverage, and conduct on-camera interviews. It will also teach students how to anchor a news show. |
| TFP 108 | Bangladesh Studies | 4 | By taking a historical approach, this course explores the political process and institutions, the building blocks of a national economy, and key cultural debates in the country. The first part of the course will discuss electoral system, political parties, parliament, and forms of government. The second part will explore the building blocks of a national economy such as budget, taxation, banking and share market. And the final part will discuss key cultural issues such as identity, secularism, and nationalism. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TFP 201 | Narrative Strategies and Screenwriting | 4 | This class focuses on the various modes used in narrative and non-narrative storytelling in fiction films, drama and television. It will also introduce students to the primary forms of writing for the screen including features, shorts, drama and documentary. It will explore the basic theory and formal aspects of story, structure and character which are essential to all forms of screenwriting. The students will critically review produced scripts and films from a screenwriter’s perspective. |
| TFP 202 | Acting for Filmmakers | 4 | This course aims to introduce students to the basic principles of the art and craft of acting. Students will become acquainted with acting processes, theatre terminologies, monologue, scene study, improvisation, and other fundamentals of acting. The goal is to develop a clear understanding of the job of an actor. |
| TFP 203 | Working with Images | 4 | The course emphasizes on visual storytelling through the eye of the camera. It gives hands-on practical training in film and digital cameras along with a rigorous input in the aesthetics of image making. Students will have a solid understanding on ways to create the right look for the given script. Lectures and practical sessions will extensively cover the conceptual tools of cinematography, shooting methods, language of the lens, exposure, set operation, camera angles, camera movements, and lighting basics. After the completion of this course, the students will be able to shoot professional quality videos in HD format. |
| TFP 204 | Film and Video Editing | 4 | This course explores technical, aesthetic, and practical consideration of editing film and video. It will concentrate on the development of editing styles that are appropriate to a vast range of narrative and non-narrative materials. Its main focus is on developing software skills for audio and video editing. Editing techniques will be taught using Final Cut Pro and AVID software. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
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| TFP 205 | Key Concepts in Social Theory | 4 | This course examines the nature of social theory and reviews major critical ideas about how societies change and develop, about methods of explaining power and social structure including ideology and identity. Through the lenses of philosophical concepts this course will enable students to critically review the dynamics of power play within institutions, linguistic traditions, texts, cultures and forms of selfhood. They will be able to assess the relevance of theory to historical and contemporary social, public, or media issues. The students will further develop their skills in presenting scholarly work, including the evaluation of theories and evidence for those theories. |
| TFP 206 | Sound and Music for Television and Film | 4 | This course will introduce students to concepts of music and sound for television and film. This class is a practical and theoretical exploration of the craft and aesthetics of sound. It will cover processing audio, cleaning up sound issues, and experimenting with sound, music, and silence. |
| TFP 207 | Set Design and Art Direction | 4 | The course enables students to develop technical and creative skills in art direction and production design for the film and television industry. It incorporates theory and history of film and design, along with a practical approach to art direction. The design process starts with: breaking down scripts/text; developing initial concepts and visualizing; storyboarding; producing scale models, studio plans and set models (manually and computer-aided design). |
| TFP 208 | Television Production: News and Current Affairs | 4 | This course combines theory and practice to develop television production skills. Students will have a solid understanding of the production process. They will achieve skills to guide shooting and editing programs across a range of television genres. Lectures and discussions will provide the opportunity to understand both the production process and the technology behind program making. Special focus will be on producing news and current affairs based programs. Topics will include electronic news gathering techniques, producing bulletins, live broadcast, documentaries, and shows based on current affairs such as talk shows. They will go through the details of program planning from casting to budget making, from research to scripting, and from team building to leading from the front. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
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| TFP 301 | Quantitative Research Methods for Media Studies | 4 | This course will discuss critical issues and methods of conducting quantitative research to understand media audiences. It will emphasize survey research so that students can conduct audience and public opinion surveys. |
| TFP 302 | Documentary | 4 | This course will discuss the forms, strategies, structures and conventions of documentary film and video. Students will learn about the dominant and experimental modes of representation, important documentary movements and filmmakers, and a number of documentary genres. Students will gain knowledge of the current theoretical debates and dilemmas in documentary filmmaking such as the treatment of subjects and subject matter and construction and positioning of audiences. |
| TFP 303 | Animation Fundamentals and Motion Graphics | 4 | This course emphasizes visual storytelling through signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, color, and animations. Students will learn how to convey meanings and messages through visual forms. Components of this course will include: history of visual communications, communication and design processes, layout, and design concepts. The course is designed to introduce students to the world of motion graphics and special effects. It will also introduce students to the fundamental principles of character animation, tools to create object movement and animation, and how to use the tools to follow the basic conventions of animation. It will cover up to three-dimensional animation in film and digital media. |
| TFP 304 | Television Production: Program | 4 | This course will take a more advanced and intensive approach to the production of specialized television shows in and outside the studio. Students will practically learn how to produce reality shows, docu-fictions, dramas, and other entertainment based programs. They will go through the details of program planning from casting to budget making, from research to scripting, from team building to leading from the front. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
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| TFP 305 | Qualitative Research Methods for Media Studies | 4 | This course discusses critical issues and methods of conducting qualitative research on television and film. Qualitative methods explored in this course include in-depth interviews, ethnography, semiotics, textual analysis, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, ideological analysis, and content analysis. Topics to be covered: Research design, text and image, data analysis, and report writing |
| TFP 306 | Art and Aesthetics | 4 | Art Appreciation introduces the student to the importance of art in today’s world and the purposes it has served from prehistoric through modern times in a variety of cultures both Western and non-Western. Placing art in context with family, politics, religion, sexuality, social protest and entertainment enables students to gain an insight into the significance of creativity in its many physical manifestations. By providing measurable standards for understanding artistic intent and expression through the basic elements of art and aesthetics, students may increase their appreciation of the role of the arts in media studies. |
| TFP 307 | Television and Film Direction | 4 | This course will explore in detail the role of the film director. It will introduce students to the business of filmmaking. Students will learn the directing techniques for working with a moving camera, developing character, exploring subtext, scene studying and analyzing, breaking down a script to prepare for filming, location scouting and learn how a director works collaboratively with actors and producers to achieve his/her vision in storytelling working. |
| TFP 308 | Television Journalism: Politics, Crime and Court | 4 | This course will equip students with the knowledge, skills and techniques required for television reporting on politics, crime and court. It will discuss political issues, processes and institutions, political parties, electoral system, forms of government, and the legal system of Bangladesh. Students will produce reports on politics, parliament, crime, and cases under trial. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TFP 401 | Media Laws and Ethics | 4 | This course will introduce students to the study of legal and ethical issues in the media. Students will develop an understanding of these issues and the ability to analyze the important legal and ethical issues involved with the mass media industry. |
| TFP 402 | Advertising as Social Communication | 4 | The course will explore the thriving advertising industry of Bangladesh in global context, examining advertising as a form of communication. Lectures and discussions will examine the history and development of advertising, ethical, regulatory and social issues related to advertising; and the nature and impact of advertising. The key objective of the course is to provide an understanding of advertising’s role in the emergence and perpetuation of consumer culture. Students will examine the strategies historically employed to promote the circulation of goods as well as the impact of advertising on the creation of new habits and expectations in everyday life. |
| TFP 403 | Global Media: Issues and Problems | 4 | In recent years, the globalization of the media has become a key issue of debate and discussion in many nations. Lectures and discussions will shed light on the complex and contradictory relationships among global, national and local forces that shape the globalization of the media. This course will explore the global media structure and institutions and critically examine the role that film, television, video games, and other media play in shaping our sense of global, national, and local cultures and identities. |
| TFP 404 | Television Journalism: Business and Economics | 4 | Students will be taught the skills of financial and business reporting for television. This course will discuss the building blocks of a national economy including banking and financial processes and institutions, trading system, national budget, and share market. Students will produce reports on financial institutions and share market. |
| TFP 405 | Television Journalism: Culture, Sports and Entertainment | 4 | This course will allow students to explore, expand and complicate their notions of what culture and learn techniques to visually represent them. Lectures will concentrate on a variety of cultural and entertainment topics: arts, music, books, theatre, film, food, fashion, lifestyle, festivals, and sports such as soccer and cricket. Students will understand sports and entertainment as art forms, entertainment tools and business. |
| TFP 406 | Television Journalism: Development Issues | 4 | This course is designed to upgrade the skills of students in the area of development journalism. It will acquaint students with all the domains of development issues of Bangladesh like- agriculture, health, environment, disaster, NGOs etc. and make them familiar with the relationship between media and development sectors. Students will produce reports on development issues for television. |
| TFP 407 | Advanced Narrative Production | 4 | From script to sound design, students spend the semester completing an advanced video production (3- 10 minutes). Emphasis is placed on storytelling, strong cinematic style, and production values. Students are not required to direct, but must participate in the key crew positions on various projects for full credit. |
| TFP 408 | Advanced Sound Design | 4 | This advanced course will introduce students to sound design for video and multimedia productions in a broad and diverse manner. The course will focus on how sound design conveys meaning and how sound functions with the visual, from animation, art installations, performance, web interfaces to motion graphics,, gaming, video and film. Students will explore how moving images can be used to strengthen and illustrate relationships and add dimension to sound, how sound is used in these formats to strengthen visual language, provide cues to what is occurring visually, Create a sense of space (depth) and place (location), focus attention on objects and actions, provide for compositional structure or to create psychological (emotional) ambience. |
| TFP 409 | Advanced Cinematography | 4 | This advanced course approaches cinematography as a practical craft and a design art. With a combination of theoretical study and hands-on exercises, students build a rich understanding of a cinematographer’s most important skills for shooting practices. There is a strong emphasis on preparation for the professional world. Students will gain practical, hands on ability to demonstrate their artistic vision using the latest tools of image making. They will prepare themselves for the professional world assuming the full responsibility as a DOP for a full-fledged film or TV production. At the end of the course students will produce an independent production demonstrating their skills as a professional cinematographer |
| TFP 410 | Advanced Animation and Visual Effects | 4 | This course will focus on visual storytelling, with an emphasis on developing believable CG content for live action film production with technical accuracy and strong aesthetic approach. There are two major learning components in this course; first one is advance 3D animation that will cover the concept of 3D advance character animation including modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, Lighting and rendering. The 2nd component is visual effect will introduce the fundamentals of modern visual effects including the method of integrating the CG elements with background plates, Lighting, timing, compositing and particle effects. In this class students will plan, shoot, composite and edit a film emphasizing visual effects as their final project. This final project could be integrated with film production from other class. The course will educates students in major aspects of animation and visual effects film processes, from concept to post production while fostering skills mastery, creativity, problem solving and professionalism |
| TFP 411 | Photography and Visual Culture | 4 | Considering photography as an image making process, this course analyzes the key issues of visual culture. It introduces students to some of the foundational aspects of visual culture theory and concepts, in contemporary culture, with particular attention to the south Asian context in relation to the global. It will examine the politics of images, the role that images play in producing cultural meaning. Students will be able to critically analyze the concepts of spectacle and gaze, image icons, taboo images, and the relationship of images to memory. |
| TFP 412 | Wild Life, Sports and Travel Photography | 4 | This course is a specialization course that would help student to acquire technical skills and practical knowledge for capturing striking travel story, sports events and wild life images. Emphasis is laid on the theoretical and practical aspects of wildlife, sports and travel photography and the board nature and scope of photojournalism. |
| TFP 413 | Concept Photography and Storytelling | 4 | This is an advanced level course that facilitates discussion of photographic processes within the larger context of contemporary art and socio-cultural and political issues. The course will emphasize the process involved in generating a portfolio of images, a coherence body of work based upon a theme, concept, or selected subject matter. The class will discuss topics such as locating an individual voice, refining a working process, considering methods for presentation and narration of photographs. Lectures will include methods of visual storytelling, assembling a portfolio of photographs with passionate narration. Students will submit their work for review, preparing narrative visual works for an exhibition. |
| Code | Course title | Credits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| TFP 418 | Research Monograph | 4 | The students will write a 15-20,000 word thesis on any area of media studies. |
| TFP 419 | Graduate Production | 4 | Students will produce a 5-7 minute fiction film or a 20-25 minute documentary. |
| TFP 417 | Digital Cultures | 4 | These days the Internet dramatically shapes everyday life, culture, politics, business and communities. This course will critically examine the emergence and significance of digital cultures. It will discuss the technological, financial, cultural and political aspects of the digital information revolution and Internet based media and communications. The course will deal with topics such as technological convergence, digital divide, e-commerce, c-governance, online communities, blogs, videogame cultures, virtual realities, cyborg identities, and online activism. It will interrogate the politics of race, class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nationalism, capital, and technology shaping the practices of Internet communication. |
| TFP 420 | Photo Documentation/ Portfolio | 4 | Students will prepare a portfolio of images based upon a theme, concept or specific subject matter. |
| TFP 414 | Theoretical Approaches to Media Studies | 4 | This course discusses the theoretical approaches to understand the media. The approaches include critical theory, political economy, cultural studies, structuralism, feminist theory, and post-structuralism/post-modernism, and post colonialism. |
| TFP 415 | World Cinema | 4 | This course will introduce the cinemas of Bangladesh, India, Japan, Iran, South Korea, the U.S., and Latin America. It will discuss these cinemas by comparing their forms, contents, aesthetics and narrative styles and practices, by keeping their socio-cultural contexts in mind. |
| TFP 416 | Broadcast and Film Production Management | 4 | The course provides an overview of television and film industry structure, management and marketing system. It will discuss management theories, functions and work-flow of cinema industries, unique characteristics of media outlets, their goals, missions, decision making, leadership style, marketing policies and market analysis, product planning, promotion, human resource development and financial management for media and film industries. It concentrates on developing skills for running a television station and handling the production of a film. |