Program: Creative Media (BA)
Degree: Bachelor's
Date: Mon Oct 17, 2011 - 2:27:27 pm
1) Below are your program student learning outcomes (SLOs). Please update as needed.
ACM Program: Student Learning Outcomes
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Critical Thinking
- Constructively critique their own and other’s intellectual and creative work
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Writing
- Write a creative work that tells a story
- Write a critical piece that applies theoretical principles
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History and Aesthetics
- Know the intellectual history of cinema and place their work within that history.
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Professional Skills & Creativity
- Create a visual narrative through application of appropriate principles and production skills [production & animation]
- Conduct and communicate original research findings [critical studies]
- Understand the essential collaborative nature of creative productions by working as a team member
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Ethics and Responsibility
- Understand and articulate the role and rights of a responsible artist
We include a statement of these Learning Outcomes in each of our syllabi, and specify the particular outcomes for our course by drawing from the relevant numbered descriptions. If we are teaching a Focus-designated course (W,E,H,O), we might also include expected outcomes from those designations.
2) Your program's SLOs are published as follows. Please update as needed.
Department Website URL: www.hawaii.edu/acm
Student Handbook. URL, if available online: Information Sheet, Flyer, or Brochure URL, if available online: UHM Catalog. Page Number: Course Syllabi. URL, if available online: NA Other: Other: 3) Below is the link(s) to your program's curriculum map(s). If we do not have your curriculum map, please upload it as a PDF.
- File (03/16/2020)
4) For your program, the percentage of courses that have course SLOs explicitly stated on the syllabus, a website, or other publicly available document is as follows. Please update as needed.
0% 1-50% 51-80%
81-99% 100%5) For the period June 1, 2010 to September 30, 2011: State the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goals. Include the SLOs that were targeted, if applicable.
Targeted SLOs:
Outcome #4: Professional Skills & Creativity
-Outcome #4.1: Create a visual narrative through application of appropriate principles and production skills [production & animation]
-Outcome #4.3: Understand the essential collaborative nature of creative productions by working as a team member
Assessment Goals:
To Asses specific aspects of our work and our classes in relation to the facilities we have to create our work and teach our classes.
Assessment Questions:
OUR WORK
Is the work of ACM students meeting our minimum program standards in the following areas:
-Production work
-Production Design work
-Sound work
-Editing work
-Screening work
OUR COURSES
Do our facilities meet our minimum expectations for teaching our courses in the following areas:
-Production
-Animation
-Critical Studies
6) State the type(s) of evidence gathered to answer the assessment question and/or meet the assessment goals that were given in Question #5.
1) On October 5, 2011 six out of seven full-time ACM faculty members participated in a ninety minute detailed discussion that addressed the questions posed above. Assessment Coordinator, Joel Moffett, summarized this discussion. In addition, this discussion was witnessed and summarized by Monica Stitt-Bergh.
2) A detailed list of needed facilities was compiled by the ACM Visioning Committee.
3) All seven full-time ACM faculty filled out the following two questionnaires asking for detailed answers about the quality of student work and needed facilities to teach our courses:
QUESTIONNAIRE #1: OUR WORK
PRODUCTION DESIGN WORK
-Does the work of our students meet our minimum expectations in the field of Production Design? Explain.
-Do we provide our students with the ability to design and build sets specifically called for in their stories? Explain.
SOUND WORK
-Does the work of our students meet our minimum expectations in the field of postproduction sound mixing? Explain.
-Does the work of our students meet our minimum expectations in the field of postproduction sound design? Explain.
-Does the work of our students meet our minimum expectations in the field of postproduction recording? Explain.
EDITING WORK
-Does the work of our students meet our minimum expectations in the field of Editing (which includes color correction and focus evaluation)? Explain.
SCREENING WORK
-Does our ability to exhibit our student work meet our minimum expectation?
-Are we able to exhibit our student work in reasonable high quality professional formats (BetaSP,HDCAM, ect..)
-Are we able to exhibit our student work in the same sound format it was created for? (5.1 stereo mix)
QUESTIONNAIRE #2: OUR COURSES
PRODUCTION
Do the facilities we have meet our minimum expectations for teaching courses in Cinematic Digital Production? If not, which additional facilities are needed to teach our courses? Please list the courses and give an explanation for why each specific facility called for is needed.
ANIMATION
Do the facilities we have meet our minimum expectations for teaching courses in Animation? If not, which additional facilities are needed to teach our courses? Please list the courses and give an explanation for why each specific facility called for is needed.
CRITICAL STUDIES
Do the facilities we have meet our minimum expectations for teaching courses in Critical Studies? If not, which additional facilities are needed to teach our courses? Please list the courses and give an explanation for why each specific facility called for is needed.
NEEDED TEACHING FACILITIES
-If you teach a production course, please explain why a working sound stage is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production course, please explain why a production studio lab is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production, animation or critical studies course, please explain why a state of the art theatre is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production or animation course, please explain why editing / sound suites are necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production or animation course, please explain why color correction suites with calibrated monitors are necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production or animation course, please explain why a fully equipped sound mixing stage is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production or animation course, please explain why a sound recording studio is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach an animation course, please explain why a computer lab is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach an animation course, please explain why a multi-purpose workshop space is necessary to teach your course.
-If you teach a production course, please explain why a student production office is necessary to teach your course.
7) State how many persons submitted evidence that was evaluated. If applicable, please include the sampling technique used.
-All full-time ACM faculty – seven in total.
8) Who interpreted or analyzed the evidence that was collected? (Check all that apply.)
Course instructor(s) Faculty committee Ad hoc faculty group Department chairperson Persons or organization outside the university Faculty advisor Advisors (in student support services) Students (graduate or undergraduate) Dean/Director Other: 9) How did they evaluate, analyze, or interpret the evidence? (Check all that apply.)
Used a rubric or scoring guide Scored exams/tests/quizzes Used professional judgment (no rubric or scoring guide used) Compiled survey results Used qualitative methods on interview, focus group, open-ended response data External organization/person analyzed data (e.g., external organization administered and scored the nursing licensing exam) Other: 10) For the assessment question(s) and/or assessment goal(s) stated in Question #5:
Summarize the actual results.
Currently our courses and the work of our students within these courses do not meet our minimum standards in the areas of over-all production, production design, sound, editing and animation. The ACM faculty has compiled abundant evidence to support our need for specific production and postproduction facilities. In addition, we do not have access to an acceptable theatre to screen our work.
As an impartial observer, Monica Stitt-Bergh, Specialist in the UHM Assessment Office, summarized our October 5, 2011 ACM Assessment Committee meeting this way:
“These are the 2 main things that I took away from what I heard– they are closely related:
In regards to Program Student Learning Outcome 4—in particular 4.1 and 4.3,
1) Faculty members cannot expect students to achieve BA-level skills and knowledge because the program lacks the facilities that would allow ACM majors to create a visual narrative and apply principles and production skills.
2) Students are limited in their ability to achieve BA-degree level knowledge and skills because basic facilities are not available, e.g., a film screening room, collaborative work room, sound and mixing stages, computer lab, etc.”
The following are excerpts from faculty evaluations of student work made in the 2011 ACM Assessment Questionnaires:
Regarding our need for a state of the art screening facility:
“I strongly believe our ability to screen films for analysis and discussion suffers from poor facilities in the classroom. Its been very frustrating screening films with non functioning color projectors. In many ways, I find it embarrassing to be teaching a critical studies course in a film school without adequate image / lighting quality controls... I’m screening films- beautiful films – that are missing the color Red because of inadequate projectors. Even after contacting tech support, issues remain unresolved. I don’t know how I can teach film courses without having better screening facilities at my disposal."
Regarding our need for a sound mixing stage:
“A sound mixing stage is needed to be able to hear the levels of each track which will be mixed together. This cannot be adequately done with a mere laptop and headphones as the sound needs to be heard in a similar space as what would be used for viewing with an audience.”
Regarding our need for a working sound stage:
“Because of the lack of facilities in the ACM, we are encouraging our students to compromise and accept mediocre standards in the production of their creative work- standards that are unacceptable in comparable Research-One BA media programs and certainly in the professional world. As a result our films end up looking like glorified home-movies. The most common working environment in media production is a sound stage. A sound stage gives the student the ability to design and build his or her own sets or set pieces. The ability to work from a blank canvas is an essential starting point in the creative process. In addition, simply understanding how to work in this environment is vital for any filmmaker expecting to realistically work in the industry. We currently graduate ACM students without ever having taught them how to work on a sound stage because we do not have access to one. This alone is the biggest problem our program currently faces. I personally know of no other BA media program that does not give their students access to a sound stage. Would it be acceptable for a theatre department to graduate students without giving them access to theatre?”
Regarding our need for a sound recording stage:
“Quite often, my students record their own voices to use as “voice-over” narration in their films. The cleanness and quality of the sound they can record on their computers is certainly less than professional. With a sound recording studio, they could produce crisp, professional sounding narration. As with the other facility issues addressed here, having a sound recording and mixing studio would allow our students to learn professional skills which would better equip them for finding work once they leave ACM.”
Regarding our need for a computer lab:
“A computer lab is at the heart of modern digital animation techniques. Just as animation in the past could not be assembled without an Animation Stand, modern animation cannot be assembled or often created without significant computer hardware and software. In order for our program to offer a competitive undergraduate experience to our animation students we need an animation lab with all the requisite software. Two-year colleges on Oahu already enjoy labs of this kind. It is not appropriate that UH Manoa doesn’t offer similar facilities to it’s animation students.”
Regarding our need for a student production office:
“Having access to a space for production meetings, auditions, rehearsals and other community building gatherings is essential to preparation of any filmmaker. Right now it’s incredibly hard for our students to find space on campus!”
Regarding our need for a studio lab space:
“All of our production classes need access to a studio lab space in which we can teach classic lessons of cinema that we cannot illustrate in a conventional classroom. We need portable door-frames, window-frames, rehearsal blocks, and flats to be able to articulate lessons of blocking, lighting and composition. Currently we work in classrooms that allow us to do none of these things...”
11) State how the program used the results or plans to use the results. Please be specific.
In order to improve student learning and allow students to meet minimum standards, we would like this 2011 Assessment Report to serve as a step towards opening a dialogue between the full ACM faculty and the UHM administration to further our goal of finding the ACM a permanent home with adequate facilities.
The UHM administration has been enormously supportive of the ACM since it’s founding in 2004. During the last year alone, the ACM was provided with generous funding to establish a strong camera equipment inventory for our films. It is because of such exemplary support that the ACM has been able to grow. We are certainly not asking for immediate changes. Over the last eight years, we believe we have proven ourselves to be patient in our expectations. But at the same time, we respectfully believe the time has come to begin to make concrete plans for our future.
12) Beyond the results, were there additional conclusions or discoveries?
This can include insights about assessment procedures, teaching and learning, program aspects and so on.
The following is a list of needed facilities that reflects an overwhelming consensus of the ACM faculty:
1) A large working sound stage with an adjoining tool shop. This stage will incorporate a working light grid, green screen capability, seamless cyclorama, an area for set storage and construction as well as a large loading dock. Some form of dressing rooms will also be necessary. All ACM Production classes will have access to this space.
-ACM classes that will be held in this facility: 310,312,410,455
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 310,312,325,370,375,399,405,410,455,499
2) A state of the art screening facility that can hold roughly 250 - 300 people. This formal theatre will be equipped with a 5.1 Dolby sound system. Projection systems will include the following standard professional formats: 35MM, HDCAM, Digi beta, DVCAM, DVD, VHS, Blu-ray.
-ACM classes that will be held in this facility: 255,352,360,380,382,385,460,485,490
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: All animation, critical studies and production classes will have use of this space for screenings of films. In addition, all ACM screenings, the ACM Showcase, The ACM Awards Ceremony, The ACM Orientation, ACM Master classes and special ACM events will be held in this facility.
3) A computer lab with a minimum of 25 computer bays. All Editing, Sound, Visual Effects and Animation classes will be held in this space.
-ACM classes that will be held in this facility: 372,374, and all computer animation courses
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 216,217,220,310,315,316,320,325,372,374,370,375, 399,405,410,415,420,499
4) Ten fully equipped editing / sound suites equipped with calibrated monitors, Pro-Tools and a robust sound effects library. All Sound, Editing and Production classes will have access to these editing suites for rough-cut screenings.
-ACM classes that will have use this of facility: 216,217,220,310,315,316,320,325,372,374,370,375, 399,405,410,415,420,499
5) Three color correction suites equipped with calibrated monitors. All Sound, Editing and Production classes will have access to these editing suites.
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 216,217,220,310,315,316,320,325,372,374,370,375, 399,405,410,415,420,499
5) A large Pro-Tools 5.1 surround sound mixing stage with projection and countdown capability. All Sound, Editing and Production classes will have access to this space.
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 216,217,220,310,315,316,320,325,372,374,370,375, 399,405,410,415,420,499
6) A sound recording stage for foley and ADR. All Editing, Sound and Production classes will have access to this space.
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 216,217,220,310,315,316,320,325,372,374,370,375, 399,405,410,415,420,499
7) A multi purpose workshop space to serve as a drawing room for all animation classes.
-ACM classes that will use this facility: all animation courses
8) A large studio-classroom space. This facility will have a working light grid as well as movable wall, window and doorframes for class demonstrations. Movable audience platforms will allow for multiple configurations to accommodate drawing classes in the Animation Track as well as directing and screenwriting classes in the Production Track. This class will also be used for student project rehearsals and will have screening capability.
-ACM classes that will be held in this facility: 318,350,370,375,450
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 310,312,370,375,399.405,410,499
9) A large equipment storage room and check out space with access to loading dock.
-ACM classes that will have use of this facility: 310,312,318,370,375,399.405,410,420,499
10) 12 office spaces for faculty and staff.
11) Faculty conference room.
12) A student production office where students can hold production meetings
-ACM classes that will use this facility: 310,312,370,372,374,375,399.405,410,420,499