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Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts University of Colorado Boulder 2016 Program Review Film Studies Program Academic Review and Planning Advisory Committee Report Approved Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs: Date Contents Process Overview – 3 2016 ARPAC Members – 4 Unit Overview – 5 Past Reviews – 14 Campus Context – 15 National Context – 16 Analysis – 17 Recommendations – 23 Required Follow-Up – 27 2016 Film Studies Program Review 2 Process Overview The review of the Film Studies Program was conducted in accordance with the 2016 review guidelines. The Academic Review and Planning Advisory Committee (ARPAC) conducts and writes the final reviews of all academic units on the Boulder campus. The unit prepared a self-study, which was reviewed by an internal review committee (IRC) of two CU Boulder faculty members from outside of the program. The internal reviewers certified that the self-study was largely accurate and complete, noting that there were some optional questions that it might be helpful to answer, which the unit has done. The IRC also conducted undergraduate and graduate surveys and met privately with two undergraduate students. An external review committee (ERC), consisting of two experts within the discipline from outside of the University of Colorado, visited the unit on April 12 and 13, 2016, reviewed the relevant documents, and met with the program director, one associate professor, three assistant professors, some graduate students, university administrators, and members of ARPAC. A meeting scheduled with undergraduates drew no attendees. The reviewers’ comments and recommendations are cited at the appropriate points throughout the report. This public document reflects the assessments and recommendations for the Film Studies Program approved by ARPAC. 2016 Film Studies Program Review 3 Academic Review Marie Banich, Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science and Planning Sanjai Bhagat, Professor, Leeds School of Business Advisory Adam Bradley, Associate Professor, Department of English Committee (ARPAC) Erin Furtak, Associate Professor, School of Education David Korevaar, Professor, College of Music Clayton Lewis, Professor, Department of Computer Science Jack Maness, Associate Professor, University Libraries David Mapel, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Susan Nevelow Mart, Associate Professor, School of Law Academic year 2016-2017 voting members Bryan Taylor, Professor, Department of Communication Non-voting members Jeff Cox, ARPAC Chair, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English and Humanities Bob Boswell, Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Katherine Eggert, Quality Initiative Leader and Professor of English Bill Kaempfer, Senior Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Budget and Planning and Professor of Economics Mary Kraus, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Geological Sciences Ann Schmiesing, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures Staff Andre Grothe, Office of Faculty Affairs 2016 Film Studies Program Review 4 Unit Overview The campus’ standardized description of the Film Studies Program may be found on the Office of Data Analytics’ (ODA) website (http://www.colorado.edu/oda/institutional- research/institutional-level-data/information- department/academic-review-and-0). ODA updates the profile annually in the fall semester. This report cites the ODA data for the Film Studies Program posted in October 2016; these figures reflect the state of the program as of academic year (AY) 2015- 2016. The Film Studies Program has a distinguished history of experimental and personal filmmaking. The program offers BAs in Critical Film Studies and in Film Production, a new Critical Film Studies minor, and a Film and Video Arts Filmmaking BFA. BFA students choose an emphasis in avant-garde, fine arts, animation, narrative, or documentary filmmaking. The program also offers two graduate degrees in conjunction with Art and Art History (AAH): a five-year Critical Film Studies BA/MA and a Film and Video Arts MFA. Students go on to successful careers in many areas related to filmmaking and to advanced degrees at prestigious educational institutions. The program identifies four strategic goals: 1. Changing the unit’s status from a program to the “Department of Film Studies and Moving Image Arts”; 2. Consolidating the undergraduate curriculum in animation, documentary, and narrative forms; 3. Solidifying and modestly expanding the MFA program; 2016 Film Studies Program Review 5 4. Creating a film preservation/archiving certificate or professional MA track. Film Studies uses informal alumnae reporting, informal exit interviews, social media tracking, and personal contacts to assess outcomes. The self-study lists a wide variety of places where graduates have found work, including advertising, law, museums, film festivals, media industries, and universities. In addition to this informal assessment, the program asks faculty from outside universities to review randomly selected samples of student work from both the BA and BFA tracks, including films, exams and papers. Included are CU Boulder catalogue course descriptions and mission statements for each of the undergraduate tracks. The latest review was favorable. The program’s current future outcomes plan includes asking seniors to fill out different versions of a voluntary exit survey tailored for students in different undergraduate and graduate tracks. Personnel and governance The program currently has ten tenured and tenure-track (TTT) faculty: four full professors; two associate professors; four assistant professors, including one each jointly rostered in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the College of Media, Communication, and Information (CMCI); one senior instructor; one instructor; eight adjuncts; and six teaching assistants and graduate part-time instructors (TAs and GPTIs). The faculty elect a program director to a four-year term, and the director appoints an associate director. Standard bylaws specify procedures for committee formation, grievance policies, a code of professional conduct, and methods of amendment. The bylaws also include evaluation criteria of creative filmmaking work/production for promotion and tenure. The self-study notes that these bylaws 2016 Film Studies Program Review 6 were last approved in 2008 and need revision. One required revision is the establishment in the bylaws of a mentoring system. Although all TTT faculty and full-time senior instructors are voting members, the program is planning to discuss an amendment to the bylaws to include instructors in governance matters. The Brakhage Center has its own bylaws, which specify that the dean appoints a director for a four-year term and which include detailed rules about the composition of a board of trustees and executive council. The program repeatedly has requested departmental status (in 2005, 2009, and again in 2013). The self-study claims that it has never been given a satisfactory explanation of why the provost’s office has denied these requests, especially after the College of Arts and Sciences Council approved the program’s request for promotion to departmental status; the external reviewers raises the same issue. The program employs seven staff persons for a total of 6.31 full- time equivalent (FTE) employees—four full-time, three part-time. The four full-time staffers include a Program Assistant II, a Media Specialist IV, and two Media Specialists I positions. One Media Specialist II position is employed at 0.875 FTE, and one other Media Specialist I is employed 0.50 FTE. One General Professional III position is employed as 0.93 FTE and works in three capacities: as a curator and manager of the International Film Series, as a library resources liaison, and as a supervisor of some work-study employees. The Administrative Assistant II and a Media Specialist IV regularly teach courses. The external reviewers praise both of these staff members as tremendous assets in moving forward on archival and preservation activities. 2016 Film Studies Program Review 7 Research, scholarship and Film Studies faculty are productive, highly regarded filmmakers creative work and scholars with a long list of shows, publications, awards, keynote speeches, workshops, and retrospectives to their credit. A brief sample of recent faculty accomplishments include: three university press books; numerous scholarly articles; research grants and awards from the USA Artists Knight Fellowship and the New York State Council on the Arts; shows at the San Francisco International Film Festival, the Denver Film Festival, Sundance, the Whitney Biennial, the Seoul International Media Festival (Grand Prize); solo shows, commissions and/or residences at the Corcoran Galley, the Getty Research Institute, the Tate Modern, the Wexner Center, the Musee National de’art Moderne (Pompidou Center), and the Canadian Association of Film Studies. Undergraduate education The self-study reports 504 majors. The program also recently started a minor (neither the self-study nor ODA report the number of students taking this option). The self-study reports undergraduate student credit hours (SCH) at 6,299 for AY 2014- 2015. In 2014, approximately two-thirds of the majors took the BA track, focusing on either critical film studies or film production, while one third took the
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