Academic Departments keep Course Portfolios, which are a collection of handouts, course materials, and lesson plans for each specific course. Please check with your department for access to these portfolios, as they will assist you in creating your specific lesson plans.
If you create new material for a course, please share them with your Department via these course portfolios as it will assist other instructors who teach this course, now or in the future.
New material for the Course Portfolio should be approved by your Department Chair and Curriculum teams, so new material must be submitted for review.
Faculty is responsible for distributing a course syllabus and reviewing its contents with students. Department Chairs or Coordinators will have existing course syllabi or templates available for use.
Course syllabi should include the following information: the department and program, course number, title, credit or clock hour amount, total number of class meetings, course description, prerequisites, learning objectives, instructional methods, required and recommended course materials and supplies, course policies such as attendance and participation, applicable institutional academic policies, the method and criteria for grading, and the course outline.
Faculty are required to review the Course Syllabus Guideline provided by NYFA prior to revising their syllabus. All course syllabi (including Course Outlines, Instructional Material and Grading Criteria) must be submitted to the Department Chair for review before the semester begins. Please check with your Department Chair for specific deadlines.
All course syllabi must adhere to the standard format required by NYFA, in accordance with NYFA accreditation and state regulations.
Each Department Chair shall submit all syllabi to the Compliance Officer(NY/Miami) or upload the syllabi for review by the Academic Affairs Office (LA) by the Friday before each program’s start date.
Faculty must seek written approval from their Department Chair for any off-campus trips with students. This extends to holding a class anywhere off-campus. Please remember that approvals for field trips and off-campus classes is in large part for safety and enables NYFA to have as accurate a headcount as possible in the event of an emergency. Faculty should also remember to check with their department for departmental any specific policies on field trips and off-campus classes
Certain courses may require filming. All film sessions on campus require approval. Filming is prohibited in any hallway, bathroom, interior or exterior common area, or parking lot.
LA Campus Procedure:
Instructors who wish to shoot in classrooms should request written permission from their department chair and the Director of Operations in advance of finalizing the syllabus for these classes. Please note only PWs may request permission to shoot on campus.
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Miami Campus Procedure: Coming Soon!
Additionally Intermediate & Thesis filmmaking classes may require set visits. NYFA allows one green-light instructor to visit at a time. Instructors must coordinate amongst themselves in order that they do not overlap their visits, unless otherwise approved by the department. Each set visit may only be up to a maximum of 4 hours. Instructors must be on set solely as observers and offer advice only when asked. They should not intervene or overstate themselves.
Once the visit is over, instructors must fill out their set visit report within 24 hours. Be sure to give detailed notes of your observations.
Instructors not involved in the green-light process must follow the same guidelines. These instructors may visit after a student invitation has been initiated and approval given from the Department Chair. If you have any questions, please consult your Department Chair before your visit.
‘Internship’ (INTE400) is a course students in credit-bearing programs may opt to enroll in, to receive credit for an internship and to complement their study at NYFA. In order to complete this course the student will need an Internship Advisor assigned by the Department Chair. If you have been assigned as an Internship Advisor for INTE400, please check with your Department Chair for the specific procedure.
Occasionally students will be approved for an independent to fulfill their degree requirements. If this happens, Department Chairs will reach out to the appropriate faculty about the addition of an Independent Study to their course load. Independent studies need to be designed intentionally. While the delivery of instruction/course content should and will vary from the traditional course models, the students are still expected to meet the course learning objective. Faculty should work with their Chairs, team leaders when available, and CETL for support in adapting a course to be an independent study and creating the syllabi and google classroom.
Please click here for definitions, guidelines and resources for teaching Asynchronous Courses.
Open Education Resources are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses -- free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute.
The NYFA Library has put together a list of OERs on the following topics: Art; Audiovisual, Images, and Games; General Open Access Journals, Books, Dissertations, and Theses; General Repositories; History; Literature; Reference; Science; Screenplays.
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