OUR PHILOSOPHY

For over six decades, Columbia College Hollywood has promoted creativity, innovation, and growth through instruction, collaboration, and a common love of the creative media arts. Campus educational environments are purposefully designed to encourage each student to take the risks necessary to develop a unique artistic vision and voice. Program curricula are designed to erase boundaries between education and the professional world through exposure to hands-on project-based learning that reflect real world creative industries. Students work in teams to learn all aspects of the creative process and are mentored by a faculty of industry professionals.

All degree programs are supported by a general education program of liberal arts and sciences that focus on the core competencies, knowledge, and skills to best prepare students to become free-thinking, entrepreneurial storytellers, filmmakers, content creators, and artists. The campus also provides ample opportunities for professional access and continued learning through industry relationships to help build a foundation for creative and professional success.

OUR VALUES

Everything we do is guided by our mission and the following five essential values.

CARING

Both campuses are intimate learning environments, with intentionally small class sizes and an administrative open door policy that invites students to get to know their instructors, advisors, and counselors. Student services are designed to care for the student, from first contact prior to enrollment through to graduation and beyond.

INSPIRING

Columbia College Hollywood employs a distinguished faculty comprised of creative professionals who have worked and continue to work as filmmakers, producers, designers, directors, editors, writers, artists, sound engineers, media makers, cinematographers, and scholars. Collectively, the college’s faculty have contributed talents, creativity, art, skill, knowledge, and expertise to dozens of studio and independent feature films, hundreds of hours of scripted, reality, and nonfiction television programming, and a vast array of digital media content, making them uniquely qualified to provide creative inspiration and career direction to students and alumni.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

Every department of the college is committed to a systematic, cyclical program review and assessment process that incorporates institutional data and evaluation of outcomes to ensure student success. Quarterly, each degree program’s learning outcomes are assessed to identify opportunities for continuous improvement within the established curriculums. The institutional effectiveness reporting and institutional research programs also inform the quality, integrity, effectiveness, currency in the fields of study, viability, sustainability, and alignment with the mission of the college.

COLLABORATIVE

The film, television, visual effects, design, and recording arts industries are collaborative by nature. To best prepare students for careers in their chosen fields, collaboration and teamwork are encouraged and modeled by faculty, staff, and administration and required for successful completion of every degree program.

STUDENT-CENTERED

As an institution serving a diverse student body of individuals, the college encourages creative learning strategies and instructional approaches that offer the widest possible support to help students succeed. Campus educational environments are purposefully designed to encourage each student to take the risks necessary to develop a unique artistic vision and voice. Program curricula are designed to erase boundaries between education and the professional world through exposure to hands-on project-based learning that reflect real world creative industries. All degree programs are supported by a general education program of liberal arts and sciences that focus on the core competencies, knowledge, and skills to best prepare students to become free-thinking, entrepreneurial storytellers, filmmakers, content creators, and artists.