Minors & Specializations

The Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Aging offers students advanced educational opportunities in the field of aging. The program allows graduate and professional students an opportunity to gain specific expertise in the care of older adults through both required and elective coursework. The Specialization's core curriculum focuses on the basic components of gerontology shared by many disciplines, while the electives allow students to pursue either a research agenda or a more clinically-oriented pathway. Learn more about the Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Aging at http://ogg.osu.edu or contact Linda Mauger, Office of Geriatrics and Gerontology, at 614-293-8031, or mauger.10@osu.edu.

The Graduate Minor in Cinema/Video production allows graduates to explore creative and expressive possibilities of single-camera electronic cinematography and provide them with an understanding of the aesthetic issues involved with cinema/video production.  The minor emphasizes the practice of moving image art-making through creative projects.  The function of the Video Production courses in the minor is to familiarize students with the processes of single camera video production within a creative and expressive context.  The use of cameras, lighting, and editing take place within the context of problem solving.  The Field Work in Cinema, or Video, aspect of the minor allows students to have in-the-field experiences with professionals.  Screenwriting is a course emphasizing creative writing and the organization of ideas for the screen.  The primary function of Cinematic Representation and the Studies in Documentary is to acquaint students with what might be referred to as the practice of the "poetics" of the moving image.  The uses of performance as well as the visual components of moving image art are studied from the standpoint of production.  The Theatre/Cinema Styles class identifies dramatic styles of narrative.  This approach provides a comprehensive study of the varieties of Cinema/Video expression and the dramatic structures underlining the practice of this art.