SJSU Annual Program Assessment Form Academic Year 2015 2016 Department: Television, Radio, Film and Theatre Program: Radio, Television, Film (RTVF) B.A. College: Humanities and the Arts Program Website: http://www.sjsu.edu/trft/ Link to Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) on program website: http://www.sjsu.edu/trft/advising/program_learning_outcomes/index.html Program Accreditation (if any): Contact Person and Email: scott.sublett@sjsu.edu Date of Report: 6/1/2016 Part A 1. List of Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) (PLOs should be appropriate to the degree and consider national disciplinary standards, if they exist. Each outcome should describe how students can demonstrate learning.) PLO#1: Become media literate: Know the history, processes and current structure of the electronic media, its ethical parameters, and the social and political effects of electronic and mass communication (radio, television, film, new media) on an audience. PLO#2: Tell meaningful stories through production of good narratives in radio, television, and film. Appreciate the art and aesthetics of media. PLO#3: Communicate information and entertainment to diverse cultures using radio, television and film. Be sensitive to the ways and processes of, and the attitudes held by races, religions, political and social groups that are not their own. PLO#4: Understand how to plan, produce, write and direct radio, television and film/cinema projects. Achieve professional level skills of production. Select and operate video/television, film, and audio/radio technologies. PLO#5: Determine what type of information is needed for a research question, problem, or issue, and be able to retrieve, evaluate and effectively use such information to produce scholarship and production in radio, television, film and new media. 2. Map of PLOs to University Learning Goals (ULGs) (Please indicate how your PLOs map to the University Learning Goals below by listing the PLO under each relevant ULG, or including this map in table form (see examples here). Use the link above for a full description of each ULG.)
Radio-TV-Film PLOs (PLO#1) Program Learning Outcome #1: Become media literate: Know the history, processes and current structure of the electronic media, its ethical parameters, and the social and political effects of electronic and mass communication (radio, television, film, new media) on an audience. University Learning Goals (UGLs) (ULG#1) Specialized Knowledge (ULG#2) Broad Integrative Knowledge (ULGL#3) Intellectual Skills (ULGL#4) Applied Knowledge (ULG#5) Social and Global Responsibilities (PLO#2) Program Learning Outcome #2: Tell meaningful stories through production of good narratives in radio, television, and film. Appreciate the art and aesthetics of media. (PLO#3) Program Learning Outcome #3: Communicate information and entertainment to diverse cultures using radio, television and film. Be sensitive to the ways and processes of, and the attitudes held by races, religions, political and social groups that are not their own. (PLO#4) Program Learning Outcome #4: Understand how to plan, produce, write and direct radio, television and film/cinema projects. Achieve professional-level skills of production. Select and operate video/television, film, and audio/radio technologies. (PLO#5) Program Learning Outcome #5: Determine what type of information is needed for a research question, problem, or issue, and be able to retrieve, evaluate and effectively use such information to produce scholarship and production in radio, television, film and new media. 3. Alignment Matrix of PLOs to Courses (Please show in which courses the PLOs are addressed and assessed. The curriculum map should show increasing levels of proficiency and alignment of curriculum and PLOs. See examples here) Course Goals and Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs) for B.A. in Radio-Television-Film (PLO#1) Program Learning Outcome #1: Become media literate: Know the history, processes and current structure of the electronic media, its ethical parameters, and the social and political effects of electronic and mass communication (radio, television, film, new media) on an audience. (PLO#2) Program Learning Outcome #2: Tell meaningful stories through production of good narratives in radio, television, and film. Appreciate the art and aesthetics of media.
(PLO#3) Program Learning Outcome #3: Communicate information and entertainment to diverse cultures using radio, television and film. Be sensitive to the ways and processes of, and the attitudes held by races, religions, political and social groups that are not their own. (PLO#4) Program Learning Outcome #4: Understand how to plan, produce, write and direct radio, television and film/cinema projects. Achieve professional-level skills of production. Select and operate video/television, film, and audio/radio technologies. (PLO#5) Program Learning Outcome #5: Determine what type of information is needed for a research question, problem, or issue, and be able to retrieve, evaluate and effectively use such information to produce scholarship and production in radio, television, film and new media. RTVF MAJOR PLOs PLO #1 PLO #2 PLO #3 PLO #4 PLO #5 RTVF 10 RTVF 20 RTVF 21 RTVF 30 RTVF 31 RTVF 80 RTVF 82 RTVF 110 RTVF 111 RTVF 120 RTVF 121 RTVF 122 RTVF 130 RTVF 131 RTVF 132 RTVF 133 RTVF 135 RTVF 160 RTVF 161 RTVF 180 RTVF 181 RTVF 185 RTVF 198 TA 100W 4. Planning Assessment Schedule (Please provide a reasonable, multi year assessment plan that specifies when a PLO will be assessed (A), when you might plan to implement changes as a result of your assessment (I), and, if applicable, when you might reassess a given PLO (R) to gauge the impact of the change. All PLOs should be assessed at least once during each program planning cycle (usually 5 years). Add rows and columns as necessary.)
Year PLO#1 PLO#2 PLO#3 PLO#4 PLO#5 IEA Data Exit Survey Alumni Survey Program Review Accreditation 2013 14 C C 2014 15 IC C C C C C C 2015 16 IC IC C I C C 2016 17 IC C C C C 2017 18 IC I C C C 5. Student Experience a. How are your PLOs and the ULGs communicated to students, e.g. websites, syllabi, promotional material, etc.? The Department Program Learning Objectives are readily available on the advising section of the TRFT website <sjsu.edu/trft/advising>. Most course syllabi list Department PLOs and a minority of syllabi even link particular assignments to identified Program Learning Objectives. Last year we began comprehensive practice for communicating PLOs and ULGs through course syllabi, which is in progress. b. Do students have an opportunity to provide feedback regarding your PLOs and/or the assessment process? If so, please briefly elaborate. The TRFT Department as a whole conducted an alumni survey by email in the Spring 2015 semester. 24 of those contacted responded. Additionally, the department tracks a list of student accomplishments derived from faculty survey responses and our TRFT on line news. While anecdotally impressive, this data requires further analysis. Part B 6. Assessment Data and Results (Please briefly describe the data collected for this report (e.g., student papers, posters, presentations, portfolios, assignments, exams). The instruments used to evaluate student achievement (e.g., rubrics or other criteria) and actual data (e.g., assignment description or instructions) should be attached as appendices.) To assemble data on PLO 4, RTVF collected student screenplays (short and feature length) and films (short and feature length), and sought to quantify student success in state and national competitions, and in film festival acceptance, in the respective areas of screenwriting and film production. In the area of screenwriting we tracked both participation in competitions and success therein. In the area of film production we tracked success in competitions and also acceptance in festivals. This approach seemed suited to areas of artistic endeavor film writing
and filmmaker where competitive situations exist for objective third party experts (contest judges and festival programmers) to assess the quality of student work relative to other students both across the nation and within the CSU (in student competitions) and to professionals (in the case of festivals). 7. Analysis (Please discuss the findings and evaluate the achievement of PLOs and/or progress on recommended actions.) The data show considerable degree of attainment of PLO 4. In the most recent Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts (the largest national student competition for Radio Television Film), 28 students entered screenplays, which, we were informed by the BEA official who handles submissions, was a very high level of participation for a single school. This was very helpful to get a sense of what many of our students were doing, since the faculty s willingness to submit the script already indicates a high level of quality of work. One screenplay was awarded first place in the nation in the Feature Length screenwriting category, and two SJSU students received Honorable Mention that category. Data from previous years going back to 2008 show similar levels of achievement in the BEA competition; over a nine (9) year period, students from our RTVF classes won first place in feature screenwriting five (5) times. Success in the CSU Media Arts Festival competitions was, if anything, even greater. Filmmaking students competing against students from over 100 other Universities (mostly in the US) in Campus Moviefest won first place in their categories in the two most recent annual competitions. In festivals, at Cinequest a student written and directed feature film was accepted for screening in 2016, and a student written and directed short was an Official Selection in 2015. An SJSU film was accepted as an official selection in Harvard Film Festival this year. Out intention is to continue our participation in competitions and festivals as a method of gaining objective, externally generated evidence that PLO 4 is being met. Part C When the Dept. of Television, Radio, Film and Theatre underwent its scheduled Program Planning Review in 2015, the external reviewer, Prof Julian Hoxter of San Francisco State, proposed a number of recommended improvements. Prof. Hoxter emphasized the need for new faculty, among them a tenure line in audio production. He also criticized the lack of staffing in the equipment checkout room as a bottleneck in getting equipment to students, and the department name, which does not reflect the department s focus and strength. The following chart reflects the results of the Program Planning Review process as stated in the Program Planning Committee Letter to the Provost of March 29, 2016. Proposed Changes and Goals Increase faculty, especial in the area of RTVF audio Status Update The Dean has approved, and the department is preparing for, a search in the fall for a tenure track faculty member in that area.
Hire staff for the equipment checkout room Take advantage of the Hammer Theatre Change the name of the department to clarify curricular focus and identity The Dean has authorized a half time staff hire specifically to supervise the checkout room. The RTVF Program has sought to use the Hammer as a venue for film exhibition, and did so when the SJSU feature film The Yellow Wallpaper screened there earlier this year. The Dept. also held its 2016 graduation in the Hammer. The faculty voted near the end of the academic year to put forward Dept. of Film and Theatre as the proposed new name. The names of the programs in the Dept. would remain the same. 8. Proposed changes and goals (if any) (Given your findings, please list the proposed changes and goals for the next academic year and beyond that is, how will you close the loop?) Regarding PLO 4, our goal for the coming year is to increase our participation in competitions in the area of screenwriting and film production. While we have had good results in Campus Moviefest, increased participation in the Broadcast Education Association Festival of Media Arts and, for film production students, the CSU Media Arts Festival, will provide added evidence that the learning goal is being met exceptionally successfully by our best students. However, that measure does not tell the whole story. Going forward, we plan to choose one class, RTVF 160 (a required class for all RTVF majors), and analyze data for the class as a whole. We hope to determine how many of the students, in their final screenplay (a final product assignment required of all students in all sections of the class, regardless of instructor), exhibit highly developed; developed; or emerging levels of attainment of PLO #4. It is clear that a significant number of students have successfully demonstrated command of this learning objective, as evidenced by the faculty s selection of their work for competitions, and the students subsequent success in those competitions, but we need to refine our assessment process to get a more comprehensive view of the range of student accomplishment, and to do this by examining the products of the class and determining to what degree they successfully demonstrate command of the learning objective.
RTVF PROGRAM CURRICULUM Effective F2013 Courses taken outside of the program may be substituted with advisor approval only CORE REQUIREMENTS The following 13 RTVF courses are required. Courses taken outside the RTVF program may be substituted with RTVF advisor approval only. RADIO/AUDIO VIDEO/FILM SCREEN RTVF G.E. PRODUCTION PRODUCTION WRITING STUDIES COURSES CONCEPTS STUDY RTVF 20 RTVF 30 RTVF 80 RTVF 10 <C1> Intro Sound Intro Film/TV Intro to Film Production Production Electronic Media as Art RTVF 31 RTVF 82 Film/TV Intro Film Aesthetics History PRACTICE CONCEPTS SKILLS RTVF 120 RTVF 130 RTVF 160 * RTVF 183 TA100W<W> Intermediate Intermediate Introduction (0ld 180) G.E. 100W Sound Prod Film/TV Prod Screenwriting Crit & Resrch Writing RTVF 198 * RTVF Internships/Portfolio RTVF 110 <S> Electronic Media & Culture DEGREE COMPLETION OPTION Choose 7 from the following RTVF classes. Up to 6 units may be taken outside the program with advisor approval only. RTVF 21 RTVF 131A RTVF 180S * KSJS Post Prod Individual On-Air Training Color Correction Studies APPLICATION OF CONCEPTS AND PRACTICE CREATE AND IMPROVE THE WORLD RTVF 121 * RTVF 131B RTVF 161 RTVF 181 * RTVF 111 <V> * KSJS Post Prod Advanced Modern Film Alternative Activity Editing/Distrib Screenwriting History Cinema RTVF 122 * RTVF 132A KSJS Beginning Management Cinematography RTVF 132B Advanced Cinematography RTVF 133 Film/TV Management RTVF 136 (old 132) Adv Film/TV RTVF 135 * RTVF 185 * RTVF Production RTVF Studies Special Projects Special Topics * Course is repeatable for credit up to 6 units as long as subject changes RED indicates a curriculum change (new course or change in course number)