As film students, filmmakers, and representatives of the IEMC Innovation Catalyst Team, we wanted to utilize resources from the undergraduate and graduate schools, the business school, and the law school to completely reinnovate the film program at our school. While certainly promising with its many incredibly talented students, it is still not quite on par with the programs of other universities in the greater Los Angeles area. So for our prototype, we decided to create a theoretical dream major, Cinematic Arts, and its would-be curriculm.
<span style="text-indent: 48px;">To begin, we looked at Pepperdine's exisiting undergraduate film programs, Film Studies and Media Production, and pulled all the courses with we thought were beneficial to film students. Next, we looked at the MFA Film Program, and added courses that we thought were essential to an undergraduate's education. Afterwards, we perused through course catalogs for the business and law schools. We were able to find invaluable courses in entertainment law/intellectual property from the law school. The business schoolis currently working on creating their own entertainment program, unfortunately, doesn't offer many promising from which we are planning to pull relevant courses for film students...yetonce the course list is made available to us. </span>
Our prototype can be found here: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zevTEARG82uoHXz1bjjHQQRPmaHkb0BMi-EPuOCt-RQ/edit?usp=sharing  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zevTEARG82uoHXz1bjjHQQRPmaHkb0BMi-EPuOCt-RQ/edit?usp=sharing&nbsp];
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== '''Orientation Agenda''' ==
<span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brainstorming: </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Orientation is the first official event that every student who comes to Pepperdine is required to attend. It lays the premises of the student life and the academic pathway the student should expect during his program,hence making it very important for the student. With that, we realised that it would make things much simpler and easier if the orientation process provides more knowledge and if its more detailed about the curriculum and everything what a student must expect from Pepperdine. Specially for the International Students it is lot more difficult if the orientation is not well informed, since they are coming to a completely different study environment as well as to a different Country. It is important for the School administration to communicate clear school agendas and how their academic years are going to look like. At Pepperdine we believe that if the students are guided about the curriculum more in detail it will help a lot. Campus tour of the entire University is a must.</span>
<br/><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c0fd8cd1-e318-625b-8457-51cc5a58685d"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prototype</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: We created a pilot recruitment process for Incoming students at B-School for Fall intake students, ensuring their SMOOTH arrival in the United States and at Pepperdine.</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-c0fd8cd1-e318-625b-8457-51cc5a58685d"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facilitating the convenience of the students was the prime objective and making their arrival hassle free.</span></span>
<span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span><br/><span id="docs-internal-guid-c0fd8cd1-e318-625b-8457-51cc5a58685d"><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reflections</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Our reflections coming from the prototype and what we wanted to achieve, we thought of assigning mentors to each incoming student who would be the first resource for the individual incoming student and provide information regarding not only the curriculum but also regarding issues like renting an apartment, opening a bank account (for international students), etc. Further, we made groups according to the countries, considering they would know preferences of the students coming from the same home country and would make their stay better. We decided to go all the way from Airport pickups to hosting them for few days until they find their apartment and are well settled. Apart from that we also provided with a good landscape canvas of Pepperdine University, providing awareness regarding how school systems function from the education perspective as well as from the administrative viewpoint. These steps would make the arrival of every incoming student extremely simple. We beleive how you welcome the student is very important and First Impression is the Last Impression; with this such a well facilitated orientation process will create a positive mind-set to the students and give a good kick-off to their education path ahead which eventually will help them excel in their studies.</span></span><br/><br/>
== Foster Greater Student Mentorship ==
[[Kelly Rodriguez|Kelly Rodriguez]]
[[Keeyana_KianKeeyana Kian|Keeyana Kian]]
[[StephenBalliet|Stephen Baillet]]
[[Charchil_shahCharchil shah|Charchil Shah]]
[[Tracy Smith]]
Moises Barba
Aundene Szmolyan
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