State-of-the-art facilities support each program in the department. The Department of Film, Theatre, and Creative Writing is housed in Stanley Russ Hall and the Snow Fine Arts Center. Stanley Russ Hall includes production soundstages, audio recording and mixing studios, two computer labs labs featuring Adobe Creative Cloud software, production areas, and a 16-seat 4K screening room with surround sound. Theatre facilities include classrooms, a well-equipped technical area, a CAD laboratory, a Black-Box studio theatre, and a 300-seat proscenium theatre in the Snow Fine Arts Center as well as the 1200-seat Reynolds Performance Hall.

Students who major in Film or Theatre may be invited by the faculty of the department to enter the Honors in the Majors program in the first semester of the senior year. To earn honors, students must major one of these areas and enroll in MCOM 3322. Students will submit a final honors project paper or performance no later than February 1 for May graduation, October 1 for December graduation, or June 1 for August graduation.

Undergraduate Core courses are used to satisfy the lower-division UCA Core requirement in Diversity, Critical Inquiry, Responsible Living, and Effective Communication, and Theatre courses are used to satisfy the upper-division UCA Core requirements in Diversity, Critical Inquiry, Responsible Living, and Effective Communication. Students will take THEA 4320 Directing as the required UCA Core capstone.