SFTV Living Learning Community: Collaboration in Media
The program stresses the importance of inclusive collaboration and the value of learning from a wide variety of creative and academic perspectives. This academic community will help challenge students to become thoughtful, conscientious, and ethical collaborators while building bonds with their peers across SFTV. Students will foster relationships with fellow film lovers, creators, and thinkers that lead to successful collaborations on projects during their time at LMU, and even beyond college.
Benefits of the Program:
Know...
- About the importance of equity and inclusion in creative and academic collaborations.
- Their classmates who study the full range of majors and disciplines at SFTV.
- How to collaborate and lead ethical academic and creative projects.
Be Able To...
- Engage with media and course materials that challenge their preexisting understanding of film and the entertainment industry.
- Successfully collaborate with diverse groups of students.
- Interact closely with the community’s co-directors, who are SFTV faculty members.
Value
- The diverse approaches that creatives use to create their art form as well as the stories they tell.
- Interdisciplinarity as a tool for improving creative and academic work.
Structure of the Program:
- Students will live on a residence floor comprised entirely of SFTV students and be able to take part in SFTV-specific programming and events.
- This community stresses academic engagement. Community members will take two courses together with fellow members during the freshman year.
- In the fall, students will take:
- First Year Seminar (FFYS 1000: [TBD]).
- FTVA 198: 1-unit course with the program directors, where they will complete activities designed to foster community and build their collaborative skills.
- In the spring, students will take:
- FTVA 198: 1-unit workshop on collaboration, where they will engage in creative and academic activities that put their collaboration skills to the test.
The SFTV Living Learning Community seeks students who are excited to critically examine the diversity of film and media content and production, and motivated to learn from their peers and challenge themselves to improve their communication and collaboration skills.
Twenty spots are available in SFTV’s living-learning community. Placement is limited and available by application only. Students with diverse and historically underrepresented backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Students who are not accepted to the SFTV LLC will automatically be entered into the lottery for the remaining spots on the SFTV floor.
Check LMU's Housing website for more information.
SFTV Floor
This living community houses first-year SFTV students in Del Ray South. Students will live in community with fellow film and media enthusiasts and engage in events and programming to directly support their transition to film school.
Residents will have a unique chance to immediately bond with other students with similar interests and career goals.
Benefits of the Program:
- Students will live on a floor comprised entirely of SFTV students.
- Regularly attend events catered to the SFTV community organized by resident advisors who are SFTV upperclassmen.
- Engage with RAs who are SFTV upperclassmen interested in programming SFTV-specific events.
- Engage with the current Faculty in Residence, who is SFTV faculty.
Space is limited to 30 students. Spots are awarded by lottery. Please indicate your preference to live on the SFTV floor on the Housing Application.
Students admitted to the SFTV floor cannot room with students with non-SFTV majors.