<p>I decided to move my previous post shown below that was buried under a Chapman U “Dance classes for non majors” thread. The post was specially directed toward the TV Production/Broadcast Journalism major at Chapman U’s Dodge College. It may be of some help to others making final decisions this week that come across this thread:</p>
<p>From your last reply I learned that your daughter will be a TV Production major if she decides to attend Dodge. My son is a TV Production/Broadcast Journalism major at Dodge.</p>
<p>My son since his sophomore year at Dodge College has been able to obtain all of the TV, Radio, Music Video internships that he has wanted. He is meeting and making lifetime connections with very many people in the industry now. Also thru the professors at Dodge College he is able to obtain as many contacts as he wants to people working in the industry and is able to work on any project at Dodge he desires. He is very happy there and his fellow students match his love for TV, film & music. The classes he has taken has given him every possibly to work on in aspect of the TV & Film industry. They also have an excellent student run radio station that is one of the top twenty in the country. Many students at Dodge have a show and this would be excellent training for your daughter:</p>
<p><a href=“http://chapmanradio.com/home”>http://chapmanradio.com/home</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://chapmanradio.com/schedule”>http://chapmanradio.com/schedule</a></p>
<p>As I said before both USC and Dodge College are great schools; you can’t go wrong either way. But of course it will come down what your child decides. I as a parent would not want to be blamed latter; it has to be the child’s decision which college to attend.</p>
<p>From what I have discovered over the past 3 years is that Dodge College has all the modern facilities commensurate with what is used in the TV & film industries with smaller student to teacher ratios and more hands on experience than USC. USC is known as the greatest Film School in the world and there is a lot of networking available thru the alumni when getting work after graduation from USC. One may be better trained for work as an undergraduate at Dodge College but USC has presently the greatest reputation. Dodge College admits approximately 210 total Freshman each year (only 70 in the Film Production and only 30 in the TV Production/Broadcast Journalism). USC’s program major of Cinematic Arts Critical Studies and they accept approximately 75 Freshman each year to this program; the entire USC School of Cinematic Arts school accepts a total of 200 Freshman per year. Although there is a very wide possibility of classes at USC to choose from the program it seems to me to be less directed than Dodge College and relies on the student to choose their classes at USC. The journalism classes one would take would be at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism. I personally had a problem when reading about the USC Cinematic Arts Critical Studies major because it seemed like you were being trained to be a film critics not have the tools to work in the industry; I may be wrong about USC Cinematic Arts Critical Studies but I would not like to chance my son’s ability to be very employable and be able work in a field he enjoys after receiving his undergraduate degree. USC Cinematic Arts Graduate School is a different story. I think if my son at some points decides to go to graduate USC would probably be given strong consideration</p>
<p>Note from the article link shown below:
Chapman University has an amazing film program," Sony Pictures Television president Steve Mosko told The Hollywood Reporter. “Dean Robert Bassett has done an amazing job attracting the top names in town to speak. Chapman is quickly becoming the place for industry kids to attend, both for the undergraduate and graduate programs. Additionally, we have had a number of interns from Chapman working here at SPT and they have been some of the best we’ve seen.”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/chapman-university-film-professors-365239?mobile_redirect=false”>http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/chapman-university-film-professors-365239?mobile_redirect=false</a></p>
<p>Also check out these videos below if you have not seen them already regarding graduates of Chapman U working presently in the Film & TV industry:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKWOAnxBh0I#t=19”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKWOAnxBh0I#t=19</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/user/ChapmanUniversity”>http://www.youtube.com/user/ChapmanUniversity</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqS9Amu3I0k&list=PLnhaubN8vO48FSU5PpYsWbVZDxFtkDfeU”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqS9Amu3I0k&list=PLnhaubN8vO48FSU5PpYsWbVZDxFtkDfeU</a></p>
<p>I hope my post at least gives you some additional things to consider. All the best to your daughter with her decision.</p>