DESIGNING AND DELIVERING GLOBALLY

CONNECTED DOMESTIC PROGRAMS

Presented by Paul Paparella (Duke), Karen Price (Duke), Jason McMerty (Elon), Mac Torluccio (UT Austin)

Designing and Delivering Globally Connected Domestic Programs

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Session chair: Paul Paparella, Assistant Director/Regional Manager, Global Education Office for Undergraduates (GEO), Duke University

Faculty Presenters:

Karen Price, Faculty Director, Duke University in Los Angeles, Instructor (Center for Documentary Studies and Program in Art of the Moving Image)

Jason McMerty, Faculty Director, Elon University in Los Angeles and Assistant Professor of Communications

Mac Torluccio, Senior Program & Communications CoordinatorSemester in Los Angeles Program, UT Austin

The Agenda: Session Topics

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I. Organizing and delivering exciting domestic programs: faculty perspective• Using your city/host location as a learning laboratory• Designing innovative courses and coordinating internship experiences• Using your alumni network• Planning field trips• Handling challenges (logistics, budget, student issues, etc)• Global engagement in a domestic context (LA): faculty director view

II. Organizing and delivering exciting domestic programs: administrator perspective• Supporting students: health and safety, finances, other• Preparing faculty to lead a domestic program (academic, pre-departure,

budgeting, internship preparation, cultural immersion)• Leveraging university support for domestic programs• Global engagement in a domestic context (institutional view)

Organizing and delivering domestic programs:

The Faculty Director Perspective

KAREN PRICE

DUKE IN LA DIRECTOR

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• Courses on site combine theory, practice, and relationship building

• Creating pathways for global engagement: Field Trips, independent research, "The Business"

Intellectual Enrichment and Pre-Professional Development

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• Keeping it all together: The enormous organizational challenges of creating a (safe, healthy) experience in LA

• Working with diversity and responding to student needs: academic, personal, financial

More than just logistics…

JASON MCMERTY

ELON IN LA DIRECTOR

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Elon in LA| Fall 2017

The NEW fall program is geared toward Strategic Communications

students that want to spend a semester in the Entertainment Capitol

of the world. Students will be taking courses, interning at a wide

variety of companies and creating portfolio material.

COM 400: Media Law and Ethics

COM 312: Strategic Writing

COM 37X: Branded Content Production

COM 381: Communications Internship

ARH375: Contemporary Art of LA

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Elon in LA| Spring 2017

The spring program is geared toward Cinema & TV students. Students will

spend the semester taking courses, interning at a wide variety of companies

and creating portfolio material. Students will be exposed to photography

technology from the past, present and future of image acquisition.

COM 316 Writing for TV and Cinema

COM 381 Communications Internship

COM 386 LA Entertainment Production

COM 400 Media Law and Ethics

ARH 375 LA Contemporary Art

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Elon in LA| Summer 2017

The summer program is geared towards all Communications, Performing

Arts, Music Recording & a new pilot course in Sport & Event Management.

Students will spend 9 weeks in the summer taking courses, interning at a

wide variety of companies and creating collaborative portfolio material

with students in other disciplines.

COM 381 Communications Internship

COM 386 LA Entertainment Production

COM 379 Entertainment Public Relations

DAN 320 LA Dance for the Camera

DAN 381 LA Dance Internship

THE 320 Acting for the Camera

MUS 273 Monetizing Music in LA

MUS 481 Music Recording Internship

*New courses are proposed for Sport & Event Management|

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Elon in San Francisco| Summer 2017

The NEW summer program is an eight-week program where students will take an Elon course in Design Thinking while completing an Internship. Students will have the opportunity to interact with our growing alumni population.

COR 402 Global Innovation: Solving Problems with Design Thinking

MAC TORLUCCIOSENIOR PROGRAM AND COMMUNICATIONS

CO-ORDINATOR,

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SEMESTER IN LA PROGRAM

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Advertising, Animation, Film, Gaming, Journalism, Marketing, Music, New Media, Public Relations, Television… The University of Texas at Austin Semester in Los Angeles Program offers a unique opportunity for students who are serious about exploring academic and professional interests related to the entertainment industry.

The Semester in Los Angeles Program is available each semester throughout the year: fall, spring or summer, and classes are held at the UTLA Center, located in Los Angeles near Burbank, close to major Hollywood studios. Courses focus on the business and creative sides of the entertainment industry and are taught by seasoned professionals (many of them UT alumni), with extensive careers in film, television, music, and new media.

Organizing and delivering domestic programs:

An Institutional Perspective

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and delivering domestic programs: Organizing and Delivering Domestic Programs: An Institutional Perspective Part 1

• Supporting students: health and safety, finances, other considerations

• Preparing faculty to lead a domestic program (academic, pre-departure, budgeting, internship preparation, cultural immersion)

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and delivering domestic programs: Organizing and Delivering Domestic Programs: An Institutional Perspective Part 2

• Leveraging university support for domestic programs

• Global engagement in a domestic context (institutional view)

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