Broadcasting

Program Description

This program is designed to provide students with transferable academic credits in cinema studies, broadcasting, and scriptwriting. It also prepares students to obtain excellent jobs in the radio, television, and motion picture industries. The curriculum includes the study of history and art of cinema, beginning and advanced radio and television production, an overview of the broadcasting industry, and a seminar for students entering jobs or universities in fields related to radio, television, cable, and motion pictures.

Career Opportunities

Students completing the broadcasting certificate program are prepared for entry-level work in the radio, television, film, and multimedia industries. Job opportunities include commercial, cable, independent, industrial, governmental, religious television production, management, operations and streaming video for the internet. Students have also been placed in jobs in nonlinear editing, as well as script analysis and script writing for broadcasting and motion pictures. Many of our graduates have gone on to become radio announcers and technicians, producers, television and movie actors, screenwriters, cable television producers and managers, and others have formed independent production companies.

The graduates of our degree program have been accepted by and succeeded in the USC and UCLA film school programs and other colleges and universities, including Loyola Marymount University, California State University Fullerton, Chapman College, and the University of La Verne.

Degrees and Certificates

• Associate in Science Degree
• Broadcasting and Cinema Production Certificate

Download PDF Degree and Certificate Information Check-list