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College in Orange, California, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts is one of 10 schools constituting Chapman University, located in Orange, California, 40 miles (64 km) south of Los Angeles. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, with programs in film production, screenwriting, creative producing, news, documentary, public relations, advertising, digital arts, film studies, television writing, producing, and screen acting.
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| Established | 1996 |
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| Dean | Stephen Galloway |
Academic staff | 44 full-time, 86 adjunct |
| Students | 1500 (approx.) |
| Undergraduates | 250 (per year) |
| Postgraduates | 150 (per year) |
| Location | |
| Website | chapman |
Dodge College has approximately 1,465 students: 1,209 in the undergraduate program and 256 in the graduate program.
The School of Film and Television was created in 1996 with Robert Bassett as the founding dean. The school occupied a building on main campus named for filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, in honor of support by CeCe Presley, DeMille's grand daughter. Bassett subsequently led a campaign that ultimately raised $52 million to build and equip a new building. A gift of $20-million from Lawrence and Kristina Dodge led to the naming of Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, housed in Marion Knott Studios, named for philanthropist Marion Knott, who made a major gift to the project.
Robert Bassett resigned as dean in 2019. Following his resignation, associate dean and professor Michael Kowalski served as the interim dean. In January 2020, Dodge College announced its hiring of Stephen Galloway, executive editor of The Hollywood Reporter, as the new dean, effective March 30, 2020.
The school is housed within three buildings in Orange, California.
Marion Knott Studios, a 76,000 sq ft (7,100 m2) building designed to replicate a working production studio.[1] Open 24/7 to students, it includes two sound stages, audition rooms, and the 500-seat Folino theater.
The Digital Media Arts Center,[2] an 18,000 sq ft (1,700 m2) building for the Digital Arts - Animation and Visual Effects programs, opened for classes in the fall of 2014. The Digital Media Arts Center is a working, industry-standard studio that rivals those of Pixar, Disney, Microsoft, and Google. It combines “hang-out spaces” that include a coffee bar, indoor lounge and large patio with picnic tables, with flexible classrooms and laboratories that provide Dodge College students with access to technology including:
Chapman Studios West[3] is a 38,000-square-foot building that supports Dodge College's documentary filmmaking program in the Dhont Documentary Center. It includes a prop warehouse, cinematography stage, and screening room.
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Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Integrated Programs
Minors offered in Dodge College include film studies, broadcast journalism, television, advertising, public relations, visual effects, production design for film, and documentary film.
The Summer Film Academy offers two-week courses to students entering their junior or senior year in high school.[5]
Women in Focus is an annual conference celebrating the women who have been successful in the often male dominated film business. The college invites women who work in film as panelists, to show clips of their work and discuss the challenges facing women in the industry. Past panels have included female directors, producers, production designers, editors, cinematographers, and studio executives and more:
The Sikh Film Festival is an annual three-day festival at the college showcasing a diverse assortment of Sikh-centric films, books, art performance pieces and music.[6]
Select student films are screened for industry representatives at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) in Los Angeles each fall and in New York each spring.
The college has hosted the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) Conference three times, in 1996, 2006, and 2013.[7][8]
The college hosted the Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision (CILECT) Conference in 2014.
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