Education and Training

University of the Bahamas: Film and Drama Studies

The University of the Bahamas offers a Minor in Film and Drama Studies as part of its BA programme in English. The Minor provides an opportunity for interested students to deepen their appreciation of the cinematic and dramatic arts and develop an understanding of film and theatre as art forms. Students are provided with a foundation in literary criticism and encouraged to acquaint themselves with cinematic and theatrical traditions. They also learn techniques and approaches available within film and drama studies for creatively exploring social, cultural and political ideas and concerns.

University of The Bahamas BA Media Journalism

The University of The Bahamas Bachelor of Arts in Media Journalism prepares majors to work in journalism, broadcast and related media and communication organizations. The programme is both practical and theory based. Students are required to take a broad range of courses in subjects such as digital photojournalism, radio production, video production, multimedia, media theory and analysis, public and community journalism, literary journalism and Bahamian media history and politics.  Majors also complete an internship with a media related organization to hone skills learned in the classroom; as well as a thesis or production capstone engaging extensive research on a topic related to Bahamian journalism, broadcast or media.

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.

The University of the West Indies offers an interdisciplinary BA in Film Studies. Focusing on critical analysis of film culture, the programme allows students to examine the ways in which film advances artistic, cultural or political values, and shapes society by influencing our imagined place within it. The BA also aims to equip students with an understanding of cinema as a global creative industry. Students who complete the programme will be equipped for work in the local film industry, film culture, supporting and associated industries.

University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

The University of the West Indies St Augustine campus hosts a BA in Film that combines training in film production with critical and historical study. The interdisciplinary programme focuses in part on the technical skills of production while offering insight into the theoretical and aesthetic principles of film. It is designed to teach high-level analytical and critical skills, so that future filmmakers may assess their own work and the work of other filmmakers, while future critics and film scholars gain competence in the basic technical skills of filmmaking.