W&J graduates have gone on to successful careers in film and television as actors, directors, producers, film editors and writers. Many of them are able to provide W&J students with useful internships that help prepare them for careers in these fields.
If you are interested in being a film director, editor or producer, you could major in a wide variety of fields at W&J including Art, Theatre, Communications and English. Psychology is a very useful field to understand if you are constructing a film. You can also mix a major and minor — for example, majoring in Art and minoring in Communications.
Whatever your major and minor, some courses that will prepare you well for this career path are:
COM 130 | Film Art |
COM 140 | Culture and the Media |
CIS 271 | Digital Media |
CIS 365 | Digital Film |
THR 260 | Production Design |
THR 379 | Directing for the Stage |
GER 289 | German Film (taught in English) |
ANT 277 | Sounds, Gestures and Objects: An Anthropological Perspective |
PSY 324 | The Psychology of Communicating |
PSY 370 | Sensation and Perception |

