Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
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| Established | 1996 |
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| Dean | Robert Bassett |
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Academic staff
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39 full-time, 70+ adjunct |
| Students | 1500 (approx.) |
| Undergraduates | 250 (per year) |
| Postgraduates | 150 (per year) |
| Website | [1] |
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts is one of ten schools constituting Chapman University, located in Orange, California, 40 miles south of Los Angeles. The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees, with programs in film production, screenwriting, creative producing, news and documentary, public relations and advertising, digital arts, film studies, television writing and producing, and screen acting.
Dodge College has approximately 1,500 students: 1,000 in the undergraduate program, and 450 in the graduate program.
The School of Film and Television was created in 1996 with Robert Bassett as the founding dean. The school occupied a building on main campus named for legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, in honor of support by CeCe Presley, DeMille’s granddaughter. Dean Bassett subsequently led a campaign that ultimately raised $52-million to build and equip a new building. A transforming gift of $20-million from Lawrence and Kristina Dodge led to the naming of Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, housed in Marion Knott Studios, named for philanthropist Marion Knott, who made a major gift to the project and has been a long-time supporter of the film program at Chapman.
The school is housed within two buildings in Orange, CA.
Marion Knott Studios, a 76,000-square-foot building designed to replicate a working production studio. Open 24/7 to students, Marion Knott Studios includes the following:
The Digital Media Arts Center, an 18,000 square-foot building for the Digital Arts program, opened for classes in the fall of 2014. The DMAC is a working, industry-standard studio that rivals those of Pixar, Disney, Microsoft, and Google. It combines “hang-out spaces” that include a coffee bar, relaxed indoor lounge and large patio with picnic tables, with flexible classrooms and laboratories that provide Dodge College students with access to the very latest technology so that they are well-prepared to work as professionals on Hollywood’s most technically sophisticated projects. It includes:
A third building, Chapman Studios West, is under construction, and will open in phases throughout the 2016-2017 academic year.
Minors offered in Dodge College include Film Studies, Broadcast Journalism, Television, Advertising, and Public Relations.
The Summer Film Academy offers two-week courses to students entering their junior or senior year in high school, which "serves as an introduction to basic narrative and production techniques in film."
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