The screenings are free and open to the public. Various departments within the School of Cinema-Television conduct special seminars and screenings featuring distinguished film makers and film scholars. Notices of these events are posted at the school and also appear in the Daily Trojan and the Los Angeles Times . A summer production workshop is held each year offering intensive film and video production courses to students not enrolled in the School of Cinema-Television. Open screenings of advanced student productions including narrative, documentary, animated and experimental, are held every semester in Norris Cinema Theatre.
Ensembles present a variety of vocal and instrumental music in a broad range of musical styles.
The series showcases some of the school's finest soloists and ensembles performing varied and interesting programs. The Program Board, the programming unit of the Student Senate, presents noontime and evening musical concerts. Many of the Thornton School's performance groups are open to all students, though most require an audition. Ensemble classes earn one unit of credit per semester. Listening KUSC-FM offers the best in classical music programming.