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Student credit hours are calculated by multiplying course enrollment by course credit hours. The numbers included in this table represent the student credit hours generated from courses offered by the department in the Fall and Spring semesters. In CICS, this is determined using the DPT1 and/or DPT2 field listed on the course section (see RCSO).

The weighted student credit hour totals displayed in the table are calculated using the following weighting factors:

Lower Divisionx1.0
Upper Divisionx1.2
Graduatex1.6

For more detail on the numbers displayed in this table, see the Academic Affairs Budget Office website. Student credit hour reports are in the Financial Information section under Student Credit Hours Per Semester.

Please note that the table does not include student credit hours generated from student exchange courses (those with a location code of "IE" or "NE") while the student credit hour reports on the website include these hours. For some departments this will cause a small discrepancy between the two sources. You may click on any row in the student credit hour reports on the website to see a complete breakdown of each course included in the total. The location code for each course is displayed in that breakdown.

Faculty FTE History • Communication Arts
Faculty Name 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Randall Bobbitt 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Disraelly Cruz 0.0 N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0
Athena Du Pre 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Gary Ghioto 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 0.0
Keith Goldschmidt 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Thomas Groth 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Ying Huang 0.0 N/A* 0.0 1.0 1.0
Michele Jones 0.0 N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0
Amir Karimi 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 0.0
Brendan Kelly 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Mark Lambert 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Gretchen Norling 0.0 N/A* 1.0 0.0 0.0
Eileen Perrigo 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Douglas Scott 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Darryl Smith 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 0.0
Michael Steele 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Bruce Swain 0.0 N/A* 1.0 1.0 1.0
Kristine Weglarz 0.0 N/A* 0.0 0.0 1.0
Department Total 0.0 N/A* 14.0 14.0 14.0

Tenured Faculty Tenure Earning Faculty Non-Tenure Earning Faculty
 
* Line detail is not available for Fall 2009

Departmental growth capacity represents a department's ability to support more students by offering more courses or raising course enrollment. The growth capacity rank identifies the departments with the greatest need of more faculty lines to support its current student credit hour load. This ranking is determined by dividing the department's weighted fall/spring student credit hours by the number of regular line-item instructional faculty in the department at the start of that academic year. These numbers are displayed in the Student Credit Hours table and the # of FTE Faculty by Tenure Status table, respectively. Departments with lower rank values have less capacity for growth based on this calculation than those with higher rank values.

The complete growth capacity ranking of all academic departments is available for each year displayed in the table. To see the complete ranking, click on the academic year in the heading of the table.

The instructor types used for the Average Class Size table and the Percent of student credit hours taught by instructor type table do not correspond directly to the instructor type listed on the instructor's record on the course offering in CICS (see RIND and/or RCSO). The instructor type listed in CICS is referred to as the reported instructor type and the instructor type used for the tables is referred to as the effective instructor type. The effective instructor type is calculated as follows:

If the reported instructor type is:

The low enrollment courses table displays the number of courses at the undergraduate and graduate level which have enrollment beneath the standard benchmark value for that level. The standard benchmark value is 20 students for undergraduate courses and 15 students for graduate courses. The following rules apply to both the count and the percentage of low enrollment courses:

  Faculty Line Search Request Template -- 2013 - 2014 Faculty Searches Help

Department Name: Communication Arts

  1. Describe how this faculty line will advance UWF's legislative and strategic priorities in the applicable categories:
    • Economic Development/Workforce Demand

      Students from our Telecommunications and Film program are regularly employed at graduation in the media industry, which requires specialized knowledge and training. The program recently acquired updated television studio and media editing equipment through competitive technology fees. The enhanced facilities and equipment reorients the program for the 21st century competencies in media theory, telecommunications industry and digital media production.

    • Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)

    • Accreditation Requirements

    • Niche programs with growth potential

  2. Any additional information to further explain the request such as comments on evidence of quality, general education requirements, significant pressure points, Emerald Coast offerings, online courses, etc:

    The demand for this program is clear in the growth trajectory over the last five years. The program has expanded from 90+ majors in fall 2008 to nearly 150 in fall 2012. The increase in the number of majors has coincided with the loss of a faculty member (this request seeks to replace a line (previously occupied by Darryl Smith) which was converted into OPS dollars at the beginning of 2012 to avoid state charges for vacant lines).

    The growth in the program has created significant pressure points in the telecommunication and film area, including script writing and general education (MMC 2000). At this time, we are not able to fully meet student demand in the upper division production courses and rely wholly and fully on adjuncts to deliver upper division courses in script writing, as well as 50% of the general education offerings (MMC 2000).

    The department operates by relying on a very high number of adjunct faculty. When we experience program growth, as we have in the Telecommunication and Film area, the pressure points that come along with that growth are exacerbated. This is especially true when growth coincides with the loss of a full time faculty member.
    This line request regards the replacement of a previously occupied faculty line. It is not a request that seeks to add to the infrastructure of the department, but rather maintain its foundation.

  3. If this request is for a tenure-earning position, explain why a tenure-earning position is needed:

    A tenure track assistant professor faculty line in this area is preferred, as the department possesses a large number of non-tenure track faculty members. Our adjunct employment rate is among the highest on the university and we have substantially more lecturers than most other departments on campus as well. All the doctoral level faculty members in the department also teach in the graduate program in Strategic Communication and Leadership. Nearly half the faculty in Communication Arts are non-tenure track at this time.

    However, the unique nature of the position lends itself to individuals with substantial professional experience in the digital media, television and/or film. The status of the position granted with the line will, generally speaking, dictate the status of the individual hired (tenure track will be Ph.D. or MFA/non-tenure track will be MA or, possibly, MFA).

    The department is in great need of this replacing this vacancy. The status of the line (tenure-earning or non-tenure-earning) is secondary to increasing our instructional staffing levels.

  4. a. General Description of Workload Assignment:

    The course load for this faculty member will be as follows:
    Tenure Track (combination of three of the following courses/semester):

    " FIL4102 Writing for Radio/Television/Film
    " RTV3200 Television Production
    " RTV 3700 Broadcast Management
    " RTV3210 Radio Production
    " MMC 2000 Principles of Mass Communication
    " JOU 6010 Emerging Topics in Media Issues

    Non Tenure Track (combination of four of the following courses/semester):
    " FIL4102 Writing for Radio/Television/Film
    " RTV3200 Television Production
    " RTV 3700 Broadcast Management
    " RTV3210 Radio Production
    " MMC 2000 Principles of Mass Communication



    b. Explain how the workload/courses are currently being covered by the department:

    " FIL4102 Writing for Radio/Television/Film (all sections taught by adjuncts)
    " RTV3200 Television Production (all sections taught be combination of two current FT faculty. Although, this coverage creates pressure points.)
    " RTV 3700 Broadcast Management (all sections taught by adjuncts)
    " RTV3210 Radio Production (all sections taught by adjuncts)
    " MMC 2000 Principles of Mass Communication (sections taught by combination of 3 FT faculty and 1-2 adjuncts)
    " JOU 6010 Emerging Topics in Media Issues (all sections taught by FT faculty member)

    5. Please review the enrollment data for the department shown below. Refer to this data to answer the questions that follow.

    Student Credit Hours - Fall/Spring
    08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 +/-
    Lower
    2745 2514 2700 2913 3660 ↑ 33.33%
    Upper
    7661 7741 7883 7666 7247 ↓  5.40%
    Graduate
    222 401 471 503 384 ↑ 72.97%


    Fall Headcount (# of majors by specialization)
    Specialization 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 +/-
    Undergraduate
    06013A: COMM ARTS/UNDECLARED  23   7   2   0   0  ↓ ∞
    06013E: COM ARTS/PR&ADV/ADV  122   136   114   101   95  ↓ 22%
    06013F: COM ARTS/PR&ADV/PR  183   200   175   169   156  ↓ 15%
    06013J: COM ARTS/JOURNALISM  109   96   88   100   89  ↓ 18%
    06013K: COM ARTS/TELE & FILM  93   100   109   142   149  ↑ 60%
    06013M: COM ARTS/ORGANIZ COM  47   42   34   12   2  ↓ 96%
    06013N: COM ARTS/COMM  0   0   19   55   59  ↑ ∞
    †0601: COM/NON-DEGREE  3   0   0   0   0  ↓ ∞
    †0601 U: COM/UG/NON-DEGREE  4   17   8   8   18  ↑ 350%
    TOTAL 584 598 549 587 568 ↓  3%
    Graduate
    06015A: COMMUNICATION ARTS  1   0   0   0   0  ↓ ∞
    06015B: HEALTH COMM LEADSHP  1   0   0   0   0  ↓ ∞
    06015C: COMM LEADSHP  20   22   5   1   1  ↓ 95%
    06015D: COMM/STRATEGIC COMM  0   0   22   41   42  ↑ ∞
    †0601 G: COM/GRAD/NON-DEGREE  0   4   5   2   1  ↑ ∞
    TOTAL 22 26 32 44 44 ↑ 100%
    † indicates non-degree major


    Degrees Awarded (by specialization)
    Specialization 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 +/-
    Undergraduate
    06013E: COM ARTS/PR&ADV/ADV  31   40   30   32   34  ↑  10%
    06013F: COM ARTS/PR&ADV/PR  48   67   58   65   47  ↓  2%
    06013J: COM ARTS/JOURNALISM  27   30   12   29   17  ↓ 37%
    06013K: COM ARTS/TELE & FILM  27   20   23   34   29  ↑  7%
    06013M: COM ARTS/ORGANIZ COM  18   13   14   15   3  ↓ 83%
    06013N: COM ARTS/COMM  0   0   0   7   12  ↑ ∞
    TOTAL 151 170 137 182 142 ↓  6%
    Graduate
    06015C: COMM LEADSHP  6   8   3   1   0  ↓ ∞
    06015D: COMM/STRATEGIC COMM  0   0   9   8   10  ↑ ∞
    TOTAL 6 8 12 9 10 ↑ 67%


  5. Please explain why any undergraduate degree specializations* with fewer then 15 majors have not been deleted:

    Does not apply to this department.

  6. Please explain why any graduate degree specializations* with fewer then 10 majors have not been deleted:

    Does not apply to this department.

    * Does not include non-degree specializations (indicated with a † above)

  7. Additional information that will be used to evaluate capacity:

    # of FTE Faculty by Tenure Status
      Fall 2008 Fall 2009 Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012
    Tenure & Tenure Earning 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 8.0
    Non-Tenure Earning 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 6.0

    Avg. student credit hours taught by
    full-time tenure earning and tenured faculty
    2010/2011 2011/2012 2012/2013
    228.62 220.53 N/A‡

    ‡ Data not yet available for this term


    # (%) of low enrollment courses
    (undergrad: <20, grad: <15)
      10/11 11/12 12/13
    Undergraduate 63 ( 41.2%) 69 ( 45.4%) 75 ( 45.7%)
    Graduate 7 ( 58.3%) 5 ( 45.5%) 11 ( 84.6%)


    Average Class Size
      Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Fall 2012
    Reg Adj TA ESC All Reg Adj TA ESC All Reg Adj TA ESC All
    Lower 31.0 19.0 24.0 0.0 23.0 31.6 20.2 23.2 0.0 24.0 28.2 21.0 22.3 0.0 23.4
    Upper 24.5 19.7 0.0 26.0 22.7 24.7 18.1 0.0 15.0 21.9 21.4 18.5 0.0 0.0 20.2
    Graduate 11.3 12.0 0.0 0.0 11.4 15.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 15.5 10.0 15.0 0.0 0.0 11.0


    Percent of student credit hours taught by instructor type
      10/11 11/12 12/13
    Reg Adj TA ESC Reg Adj TA ESC Reg Adj TA ESC
    Lower 36.1% 53.3% 10.6% 0.0% 37.4% 41.1% 21.5% 0.0% 37.0% 56.1% 6.8% 0.0%
    Upper 63.7% 33.7% 0.6% 2.0% 64.5% 34.9% 0.0% 0.6% 63.6% 36.4% 0.0% 0.0%
    Graduate 90.7% 9.3% 0.0% 0.0% 92.5% 7.5% 0.0% 0.0% 83.9% 16.1% 0.0% 0.0%
    Total 57.8% 37.7% 3.1% 1.4% 58.4% 35.4% 5.8% 0.4% 55.3% 42.4% 2.3% 0.0%