»Creative and Cultural Industries Minor: Reshaping Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

To add CCI as your minor you simply go to the Chapman webpage for academic program changes and click on the link for the Major/Minor form that corresponds to your catalog year. You will need to fill out the top of the form with your information and sign it. At the bottom of the form you will fill out the information for “Minors”. From the drop down menu pick “Cultural and Creative Industries” and then check the box below that best applies to how you are adding the minor (as a first minor, second minor, etc.).

From there you DO NOT need to obtain a signature of the Director/Department Chair of CCI before submitting this form, you can simply send the form for processing to the Office of the Registrar via the following email: APS@chapman.edu .

Though it is not required, when you email this form to the Office of the Registrar, please copy CCI Program Manager Shannon Halverson, shalvers@chapman.edu.

Unit Advising/Program Advising
For advising on CCI specific curriculum requirements you can contact CCI Director Dr. Patrick Fuery, Dr. Kelli Fuery or Program Manager Shannon Halverson. This includes questions about the CCI Minor program structure according to your catalogue year, and/or questions regarding substitutions within the minor. Please be aware though we can advise you on matters of CCI, but you will always want to double check your program evaluation with the Academic Advising Center to make sure that ALL of your credits for both your major(s) and your minor(s) are as you expect them to be.

Academic Advising
The Academic Advising Center Advisors are trained to look over your program evaluation and make sure you are meeting all your credential requirements, and to spot any problems. They, however, will not always know the nuances of every program, and so some dialogue will need to be opened between them and the unit if a question arises. As CCI is a minor, and not a major at the moment, we do not currently have a designated advisor, therefore it is best to check with the Academic Advising Center on their Contact Us page, to see which advisor would best suit your needs before reaching out to them.

Wilkinson College’s Career Manager, Erin Berthon, can help you with the following:

• Career Exploration and Planning
• Internship and Job Search Strategies- Having trouble finding an internship or job, Erin can help you with this
• Resume/Cover letter tailoring
• Personal website & Social Media review
• Interview Prep & Practice

Be sure to check out Erin’s Career Corner page on the Wilkinson College website for internship and job information, resources, and upcoming events. 

Erin is available for appointments Monday - Friday, between 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., you can make an appointment with her via Handshake or email her at berthon@chapman.edu.

In order to help CCI students with costs associated with research, internships, and conference presentations, we do offer the opportunity for students to apply for funds. To do so, please follow these steps:

• Fill out a CCI student fund application.
• Submit the application to the CCI Program Manager, Shannon Halverson either in person (428 N. Glassell, office 108) or via email at shalves@chapman.edu .
• You will be notified via your Chapman University email account if you have been awarded funds, along with instructions for reimbursement.
• Following the use of CCI awarded funds you will be asked to write a blog submission for the CCI blog documenting the activity/travel/research that the CCI funds helped you to complete. This requirement is to help document all the incredible projects that our CCI students are doing, also to help inspire and encourage other CCI students to move forward with projects or research they might be contemplating.

You can also apply for funding from other sources on campus such as:

• Wilkinson College Student Travel Grant
• The Center for Undergraduate Excellence

As diverse as the Creative and Cultural Industries are, so too are the myriad of internships that our students can apply for. If you are in the beginning phase of your internship search have a look at Wilkinson’s Career Advisor’s page to assist with first steps and Internship listings through Handshake. Also take a moment to check out the opportunity board on our CCI creative site, as we try to post internships and jobs, we think will appeal to our minors there regularly.  

You can also reach out to Erin Berthon, Wilkinson College’s Career Manager. Erin can help students to brainstorm internship ideas, or search for internships in an area of interest, she can even assist with prepping to apply for competitive internships.  

If you want to register your internship for credit, once you have secured an internship and confirmed an internship advisor you will want to utilize the Career and Professional Development Center. Go to the Career and Professional Development Center’s Internship page for the overview and instructions on how to do this, and to check for pertinent forms and deadlines.  If you have any questions about this part, you can contact the Center Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. at 714-997-6942 or email them at career@chapman.edu.  

Note that University allows students to receive academic credit for both paid and unpaid internships. Internships are registered through Career and Professional Development, rather than my.chapman.edu. For further information on general internship guidelines check with the Career and Professional Development Center.  

If you do not intend to register your internship for credit, you do not have to go through the Career and Professional Development Center. However, the Wilkinson Career Advisor, Erin Berthon, can still help you with searching and applying for the internship. Regardless of whether or not the internship is being taken for credit, please make sure to inform Erin of any completed Internships.

The process really starts with The Center for Global Education, they will have the information on how to start the study abroad process, and through their global gateway site, you can look at the different programs offered abroad. When in a specific program, you should be able to look up the classes offered. Also you can do a Program Course Equivalency Search, to see if your major/minor already has some classes that have been approved from that university to count as a course equivalent in your major/minor. If you have trouble navigating the Global Education webpage, you can reach out to the Global Education Staff for assistance

Even if the university you are looking at does not have already approved course equivalents, that’s OK. In that case you would just look through the courses that they have and choose some that you think would be good equivalents to possible CCI courses. From there, you would want to make a meeting with CCI Director, Dr. Fuery to discuss this academic plan. There are several ways that the courses can be approved. They can be approved as a direct equivalent for one of the core CCI courses, a direct equivalent for one of the CCI electives, OR as a one time substitution for either a core CCI course or a CCI elective. This will of course depend on what the courses are, where you want them to count in your program evaluation for the minor, and what the actual curriculum is. Please note, that if a study abroad course is approved as a substitution, that will use one of your two substitutions within the CCI minor. Dr. Fuery will be able to help you with determining the best approval type for each course.

The Center for Global Education will also have information on Travel Courses. If CCI is running a travel course in Interterm or Summer, you will be able to see the information for the course listed there, including budget estimates and deadlines for applying.

Q: Where is the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries located?

A: The Center for CCI is now located at 428 N. Glassell, one of the historic houses that is across the street from Campus. Across Glassell from the Musco Center Lawn, next to the Public Safety House to be exact.

Q: What are the Hours for the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries?

A: The hours are normally from 8am to 4:30pm.  However, to ensure that you are able to meet with a specific person it is advisable to first make an appointment. See below for links to faculty and staff contact information:  

• Dr. Patrick Fuery, Director of the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

• Dr. Kelli Fuery, Associate Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries

• Ms. Shannon Halverson, Program Manager, Center for Creative and Cultural Industries

Q: I am a CCI minor, but I can’t get into all the CCI courses I need, what can I do?

A: Always make sure that you are on the waitlists for the courses you want, it might seem like a long shot, but there is a lot of people dropping and switching right through the first week of class. You can also write to the professor of the course to see if they have any spare seats available. If they are able, they may ask you to fill out the online permission number request form to add the course, however this is at the discretion of the professor, and please note they may not have any spare seats. If you are a student that for certain reasons or circumstances absolutely needs that course that semester, you can talk to the Program Director, Dr. Patrick Fuery about possible substitutions or alternatives.

Q: I see that a course has seats reserved for CCI minors, I’m a minor and it still won’t let me register?

A: If you are a CCI minor and CCI spots are still available, but you are unable to add the course there may be other pre-requisites in place. Be sure to check, and if you seem to meet all the pre-requisites, but still cannot register, contact the Program Manager at shalvers@chapman.edu

Q: The CCI program structure on my catalog year seems to differ from the current catalog, who can I talk to to make sure that I am still taking the correct course requirements?

A: For advising on CCI specific curriculum requirements you can contact CCI Director Dr. Patrick Fuery, CCI Associate Professor Dr. Kelli Fuery, or Program Manager Shannon Halverson. This includes questions about the CCI Minor program structure according to your catalogue year, and/or questions regarding substitutions within the minor. Please be aware though we can advise you on matters of CCI you will always want to double check your program evaluation with the Academic Advising Center to make sure that ALL of  your credits for both your major(s) and  your minor(s) are as you expect them to  be.