KOCE-TV (Television station : Huntington Beach, Calif.)

Historical Background

"Mastering the College Experience" was a television program produced by Coastline Community College in Fountain Valley, California from 1998-1999 for KOCE-TV, the primary Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member station for Los Angeles and Southern California. The series documents the experiences of a diverse group of University of California, Irvine students as they progress through a year of classes from 1998-1999 and is based on a Houghton-Mifflin textbook of the same name.

The majority of filming for the series took place on the UC Irvine campus and features UC Irvine drama students in a reality television genre program dealing with a variety of issues relating to college life, including time management, health, finances, math and science phobias, relationships, creativity, and writing skills. The series was licensed colleges across the United States to be broadcast on local PBS member stations and was funded in part by Houghton-Mifflin.