Annual Report - Television Production

Program Goals  

To provide the skills, experiences, and learning required by employers to enter the television production profession.

Program SLOs:

Program Description  

This program is designed for students seeking job-entry skills/retraining/upgrading in professional television and video production. While this program assumes no prior knowledge of television production, this program is demanding, condensed, rigorous, and requires substantial time commitments. Most courses require use of state-of-the-art digital technology and equipment. The program has three levels of courses, scheduled progressively by level over three semesters. There are 17 TVPro required courses. All courses are three credits except two, 2 credit Internship courses.

Assessment of Program SLOs

Assessment to be posted.

Curriculum Revisions: Total re-design and total re-write of program structure, certificates, degree, and all courses (2002 - 2005) to include film and digital HDTV instruction was accomplished in AY2004.

Overall Program Analysis

Overall program status is healthy and exceeds all program core indicators.

The TVPro program student body is composed of a cohort of the same students functioning as a "learning community;" generally 15 to 20 students who complete the Certificate of Completion, Certificate of Achievement, and A.S. degree as a group. The size of the cohort is determined by the available lab equipment, lab safety, and matched to industry demand. The same students generally attend all of the three levels of courses together with little variation. Courses are offered once over three semesters. Because the program requires three semesters to complete, incoming cohorts attend either fall, spring, and the following fall semesters, or spring, fall, and the following spring semesters.

This tracking sometimes results in inaccurate PHI conclusions unless the three semester progressive course sequencing is taken into account. Each following semester requires prerequisites to be completed from the preceding semesters. It is of little use to calculate graduation rates comparing a fall semester to the following year's fall semester because that particular cohort of students will have only completed two-thirds of the A.S. degree graduation requirements at that time, making graduation in one calendar year impossible.

However, even with this PHI information that may infer erroneous conclusions without the above explanation, TVPro scores "exceeds standards" in five of the five tracked Perkins Core Indicators. In three of those five PHI indicators, the program scores a 100%, especially in the critical 3P2 Retention: Employment & Transfer measure, clearly indicating through objective evidence that TVPro is one of the most successful vocational programs at LCC.

Job projections from the State indicate that by 2012 there will be an annual need for 35 TVPro graduates per year.   It is critical to note that there are no training opportunities in HDTV at the current time, except for occasional seminars.

Future Plans

Currently, the college is equipped with digital production equipment, but is not equipped with any HDTV production equipment. Therefore, it is imperative to address this inadequacy at this time, before HDTV becomes the industry standard in 2009. Without this support, we will be teaching both obsolete production methods as well as obsolete hardware.

Program Articulations

TVPro has formal articulation MOAs with Hawaii Pacific University and UHWO.   However, both agreements have expired due to the complete 2005 yr. revisions of the courses, certificates, and degree requirements.   These articulation MOAs will have to be renegotiated and renewed as soon as possible.

Other articulation MOAs under development include UH Hilo, UH Manoa School of Communications, and UHM School of Journalism.  

Advisory Board

 

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