1. DESIGNING AND DELIVERING GLOBALLY
CONNECTED DOMESTIC PROGRAMS
Presented by Paul Paparella (Duke), Karen Price (Duke), Jason McMerty (Elon),
Mac Torluccio (UT Austin)

2. 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 Coordinator
Semester in Los Angeles Program, UT Austin

3. 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)

4. Organizing and delivering domestic
programs:
The Faculty Director Perspective

5. 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…

8. 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

13. MAC TORLUCCIO
SENIOR 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.

15. 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)

18. THANK
YOU