Learning Outcomes

Film and New Media Program

Upon completion of the NYU Abu Dhabi Film and New Media degree, all graduates are expected to have developed:

1. Synthesize studies and practice in both academic scholarship and artistic production.
2. Define and demonstrate “media literacy,” conceived as knowledge and creation of different elements, structures, aesthetics, genres and platforms relevant to film and new media cultures of film practices and industries.
3. Demonstrate artistic, critical, and interpretive skills in making films and new media projects.
4. Present arguments in written, oral, and visual forms, manifesting effective use of methods of investigation, critical vocabulary, organizational skill, and, where appropriate, new technologies.
5. Demonstrate technical acumen in the use of hardware and software in the production and postproduction of filmmaking.
6. Employ and defend an interdisciplinary conception of film and media in their transnational manifestations as they relate to other art forms and other academic fields across the curriculum.
7. The ability to read critically, analyze and contribute to scholarship from the fields of film studies and new media studies and their underlying methodological, historiographical, and theoretical discourses.
8. The ability to produce a film or new-media object from conception to distribution.
9. The ability to conceive and execute a Capstone Project to synthesize academic research into an artistic production or a research paper or a hybrid project that includes an artistic production and a research paper. The history and theory of film and new media can be the area of research for a capstone project that will take the form of a research paper. The ability to conceive and execute a Capstone Project that has a personal or social voice can take the form of an artistic production. Research based practice or practice based research can be presented through an artistic production and a research paper.