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The newly formed USC-SMPTE Student Chapter is unique in that we plan to leverage the expertise of the finest film school in the country with a top ranked engineering school. School of Cinema-Television The School of Cinema-Television is aggressively moving into the future while maintaining a great appreciation for the past. The School was established in 1929 as a collaboration between the University and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. With the School’s launch, USC became the first university in the country to offer a Bachelor of Arts degree in film. The School’s founding faculty included Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith, William C. DeMille, Ernst Lubitsch, Irving Thalberg, and Darryl Zanuck, among others. Since its founding, the School of Cinema-Television has had a profound impact on feature film, television, film studies, animation, documentaries, commercials, and most recently, interactive multimedia. The School has been consistently ranked #1 in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report. Alumni include scholars in teaching institutions throughout the world, artists, technicians, writers, directors, and industry executives, many operating at the highest levels in their fields. Alumni have been honored with every major award available in the motion picture and television arts, ranging from Oscars and Emmys to accolades presented by American and international film festivals, and associations representing alternative and independent cinema. Since 1965, only two years have passed when a USC graduate did not receive a nomination for an Academy Award. The School continues to build upon its legacy by redefining its curriculum to fit the changing spectrum of media arts and technology. The School of Cinema-Television strives to lead the way in every aspect of motion picture and television production, education and scholarly study.
Student Berkeley Powell with the department's
first Moviola film editing machine "The Black Maria",
1940s.
Viterbi School of Engineering The USC Viterbi School of Engineering offers some 30 different degree programs to undergraduates, and has more than 25 degree options for graduate students. Several of them, like our programs in multimedia and cybersecurity, are either unique to USC, or based on special research strengths we have. All of them, whether in traditional or emerging fields, are taught by faculty that are producing the latest knowledge, not just passing it on to a new generation. We have two National Science Foundation engineering research centers, the Integrated Media Systems Center and the Center for Biomimetic MicroElectronics Systems, among our 25 major research centers. Only four schools in the nation can make that claim. We are also the home of the Information Sciences Institute, recognized internationally as a vital American research resource. Last year, we conducted over $135 million in externally funded research, placing us among the nation’s leaders and #1 in research support per faculty member for 2004. Our students enjoy state-of-the-art laboratories, classrooms, and live interactive high-speed Internet broadcast systems setting new standards. Tutor Hall, the new high-tech home for our undergraduates, also houses our fast expanding research programs in emerging areas like nanotechnologies. An asset admired and envied throughout education, the Trojan Family includes the networking power of 25,000 engineering alumni. USC Engineers were taught to be leaders, not just practitioners. They conceive and develop new products, and lead major efforts that span the range from huge construction projects to the micro-miniature world of nanotechnology. The talent and commitment of our USC Engineering alumni are among our greatest strengths. We are at the heart of the principal world center for communications. Southern California’s media – more and more technology-based - shape life globally. Southern California is also the American gateway – some would say the capital – for the Pacific Rim, the future’s fast emerging market. And the region is a hotbed of biotech research and development. We consciously use these and many other regional assets – as a real-world laboratory for our students, as a marketplace for our ideas and people, and as a source for our dreams.
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