Annual Program Review Update
*Be sure to include information from all three campuses.
Program/Discipline: _Cinema____________________
Date: _29 October 2007____________
Trends and Relevant Data
1.
Has there been any change in the status of your program or area? (Have you shifted departments? Have new degrees or certificates been created by your program? Have you added or deleted courses? Have activities in other programs impacted your area or program? For example, a new nursing program could cause greater demand for life-science courses.) If not, skip to #2.
There have been no significant programmatic changes in the past few years, but the minor ones are outlined below:
• The cinema program as an academic program is a relatively recent creation at the college. The courses have all been thoroughly and radically revised to correlate with those taught at UC/CSU film schools as well as USC, NYU, and University of Wisconsin, Madison. The addition of a fulltime faculty member who received a PhD in History at USC with all of his publications in cinema studies has facilitated this process.
• The program serves between 150 and 200 students a year. The reduction in sections taught and student enrollment between 05/06 and 07/08 is due to the departure of a qualified cinema part-time faculty member on the Eureka campus. It is extremely difficult to find faculty members who meet the qualifications required to teach in the discipline. Moreover, the only full-time faculty member in the discipline teaches 40% of his load in Cinema and the rest in History.
• In the last several years, we have added courses in screenwriting and selected film authors. We hope to run a section of the screenwriting class in the spring 2008 semester as well as a section of selected film authors.
• The curriculum has all been recently updated to bring the course capacity to 30 students, because of the emphasis on student writing in the SLOs and as a significant course outcome and to facilitate group discussion, another key component to the all of the classes.

Note: curricular changes should be addressed under 12-14.
2.
Have there been any significant changes in enrollment, retention, success rates, or student demographics that impact your discipline? If so, please include data sheets (Excel or Word format) showing these changes.
Section fill rates and retention rates are within acceptable parameters (both around 80%). Student success rates have improved from 05/06 to 06/07 (to 70%). There is a recommended preparation of English 150 for all cinema courses, because of the writing-intensive nature of these courses. The department would be interested in examining whether or not there is a correlation between the English level and success (A, B, or C grade) of students in the courses.
3.
Occupational programs must review the update of their labor-market data, some of it provided by Institutional Research, to illustrate that their program: a. Meets a documented labor market demand, b. Does not represent duplication of other training programs (in the region), and c. Is of demonstrated effectiveness as measured by the employment and
completion success of its students.
Other Resources
4.
Do you have needs (professional development, library resources, and so forth) not previously required by the discipline or not previously addressed in budget or equipment considerations? Please describe.
DVDs of all of the films used in the Cinema courses are presently housed in the library. The films are not placed in general circulation, however, because of the cost incurred to replace scratched DVDs. Students in the courses can view the DVDs in the library only. Making copies of the
DVDs and allowing those copies to circulate would remove a major roadblock for students wishing to examine the films more carefully at home for their courses.
5.
Does your discipline need additional support from Student Services beyond that previously provided?
Because all of the courses are writing-intensive, a drop-in writing center, that did not require students to sign up for the English 152 course, would assist the Cinema program and the students it serves.

Human Resource Needs
6.
Complete the Faculty Employment Grids below (please list full- and part-time faculty numbers in separate rows):
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for fall
2006 term
Cinema 18 TLU
% of Total
Teaching
Load by Full-
Time Faculty
50
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by Part-
Time Faculty
50
Changes from fall 2005
The FT/PT ratio improved from fall
2005
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g., retirement, reassignment, etc.)
The full-time professor in
Cinema teaches only 40% (on average) of his load in Cinema.
There is only one part-time faculty member in
Cinema in the district.
Faculty Load Distribution in the Program
Discipline
Name
(e.g., Math,
English,
Accounting)
Total
Teaching
Load for spring 2007 term
Cinema 9 TLU
% of Total
Teaching
Load by Full-
Time Faculty
50
% of Total
Teaching Load
Taught by Part-
Time Faculty
50
Changes from spring 2006
TLUs reduced by
50%.
Explanations and
Additional
Information (e.g., retirement, reassignment, etc.)
The difficulty in finding qualified, part-time faculty in Cinema has made it difficult to expand course offerings.
Do you need more full-time faculty? Associate faculty? If yes, explain why and be sure to include data sheets justifying the need.
7.
Complete the Staff Employment Grid below (please list full- and part-time staff

numbers in separate rows:
The Cinema program has no staff employed by the program.
Staff Employed in the Program
Assignment Full-time
(e.g., Math,
English)
(classified) staff
(give number)
Part-time staff
(give number)
Gains over
Prior Year
Losses over
Prior Year (give reason: retirement, reassignment, health, etc.)
Do you need more full-time staff? Part-time staff? If yes, explain why and be sure to include data sheets justifying the need.
It would be nice to have full-time clerical staff in the
Humanities/Communication office.
8.
If necessary, to clarify your needs, please comment on current available staff and distribution of FTE's for contract and part-time faculty. Describe strengths and weaknesses of faculty/staff as appropriate to program's current status or future development.
It is difficult in this discipline to find qualified part-time faculty. The 50/50 ratio is an improvement over the past, where Cinema courses were taught exclusively by part-time faculty.
Presently, the courses in Cinema all fall under the category of “Critical Studies”. Universities typically divide cinema programs into “Critical Studies” and
“Production”. There was an effort years ago to integrate
Cinema courses with production courses offered in Art and
Digital Media. The Cinema department is eager to revive those efforts with members of the other disciplines.
Facilities
9.
Comment on facilities the program uses, their current adequacy, and any immediate needs. Have your discipline’s facilities needs changed? If so, how?
Please provide a data-based justification for any request that requires new or additional facilities construction, renovation, remodeling or repairs.
All of the Cinema courses require facilities equipped with technology that can project DVD/VHS media. So far, courses in the discipline have been located in appropriate facilities.

Equipment
10.
Have your discipline’s equipment needs changed? If so, how? Is equipment in need of repair outside of your current budget? Please provide a data-based justification for any request that requires a new or additional budget allotment.
The Cinema program requires the purchase of additional films for the program’s collection. At present, the program lacks any budget. It would be nice if the program could be allocated a modest $400.00 a year for the purchase of additional films for the collection (DVDs required by the program cost about $30-$40 each, on average; the addition of 10 new films a year would allow professors in the program to construct more unique course offerings and provide a resource for students beyond just the films screened in class).
Learning Outcomes Assessment Update
11.
How has your area or program been engaged in student learning outcomes assessment? a. b.
Summarize your results.
What did your program learn from these results that enabled you to improve teaching and learning in the discipline? c. How have part-time faculty been made aware of the need to assess SLOs?
Part-time faculty are aware of the SLOs in the course outlines before they teach any course. Because there are so few part-time faculty members, the full-time faculty member has developed assessments and rubrics to ascertain whether or not SLOs are being met in the courses he teaches and has frequent conversations with part-time faculty members about outcomes assessment and pedagogy.
Curriculum Update
(Reminder: Send updated course outlines to the Curriculum Committee.)
12.
Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives undertaken in the last year.
Because of the writing-intensive nature of the program,
Cinema courses have been revised to include a recommended preparation of English 150 for students in the classes and have capped class size at 30 students.
13.
Identify curricular revisions, program innovations, and new initiatives planned for the next year.
History of Cinema Comedy (CINE 10) will be deactivated in fall 2007. All other courses will be revised on schedule.
Screenwriting (CINE 8) and Selected Film Authors (CINE 6) will be submitted to the curriculum committee in fall 2008.
14.
Complete the grid below

The department has completed a separate curriculum grid and has submitted it to the curriculum committee. It is located on the college’s website and below.
DEPARTMENT/DISCIPLINE CURRICULUM REVIEW WORKSHEET
DISCIPLINE: CINEMA CONTACT PERSON(S): GEORGE
POTAMIANOS
Planned
Action
& Dates
Person(s)
Responsible
CINE 1
Cinema History-
Origins to Sound
Will be
2/06 2/11 revised on
Potamianos schedule
George
CINE 2
Cinema History-
Sound to Present
Will be
2/06 2/11 revised on
Potamianos schedule
George
CINE 3
Cinemas of Latin
4/04 4/09
America, Asia, and Africa
Will be revised on schedule
George
Potamianos
CINE 6
Selected Film
Authors
2/03 2/08
Will be revised on schedule
George
Potamianos
CINE 8
Screenwriting
2/03
2/08
Will be revised on schedule
George
Potamianos
CINE 10
Will be
History of Cinema 5/97 5/02
Comedy deactivated in fall 2007
George
Potamianos
CINE 40
Independent Study in Cinema
ND ND
ND ND

Goals and Plans
15.
If you have recently undergone a comprehensive review, attach your Quality
Improvement Plan if applicable.
The department does not undergo a comprehensive review at this time.
16.
If you do not have a QIP, what goals and plans does your area have for the coming year?
The department is interested in expanding its course offerings in the spring 2008 semester. Cinema courses are among the few courses in the Art GE requirements at the college that do not involve a hands-on Art lab class. In addition, Cinema is the only Art offering at the Arcata
Instructional site, because the site lacks any kind of lab facility. Cinema courses are among the few classes at the college that provide students with any kind of moving image analysis.
In addition to two courses in film history, we plan to offer a course in Screenwriting and one in Selected Film
Authors. Long-range plans involve coordinating the cinema studies/critical studies curriculum with the Digital Media production programs.