Carol Baum taught an advanced producing seminar at both AFI and at the Peter Stark Program at USC. Her course, which combined lectures and interactive guests, provided a comprehensive overview of producing for film and television, preparing students for the realities of Hollywood. She currently teaches at USC's School of Cinematic Arts in the Film and Television Production Division.
USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS
At USC, Carol teaches undergraduate students the nuts and bolts of production—how to find a story, shape it into a script, attach actors and a director, and finally how to get the money to get it made. As at AFI, pitching is an integral part of the class. Students pitch their original ideas and play-act as executives in order to learn the other side of process.
AFI CONSERVATORY
At AFI the Fellows collaborate to make many short films. Carol’s class, which included both producers and writers, was instrumental in teaching them how to collaborate with each other. Producing students learned how to work with writers, how to pitch a story, how to analyze scripts, and how to make notes on scripts, both from the creative and sales standpoints. Guests from different disciplines discussed their areas of expertise: book agents provided information about how to option a book; writers presented their own produced scripts and talked in detail how their movie got made. For the term paper, the fellows were asked to choose a movie to remake and justify why there should be a contemporary version.
PETER STARK MENTOR
Every year Carol works with a recent Stark graduate who needs help developing a script or guidance about how to raise money for a project. In the process, she helps them with specific life problems, including, typically, how to combine a career in the movie and TV business with a social life.
Since Stark is instrumental in getting the students internships, Carol walks them through the interview process and helps them decide the best fit for their temperaments and personalities—studio, agency, management company,or network.
SHERWOOD OAKS 
EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE
Carol was a regular at Sherwood Oaks Experimental College where she coached older students about how to tell stories.
WOMEN IN FILM
Carol served as a mentor for Women in Film, teaching a diverse group of twelve— writers, actors, and producers—how to navigate contemporary Hollywood.
THE SPARK PROGRAM @ THE ACADEMY
At the Spark program, sponsored by the Motion Picture Academy, Carol worked intensively with a 13-year-old girl at an inner-city school in Hollywood, who wrote, directed, and starred in a short film about bullying. The ten-week program culminated in an evening where all the students got to screen their films.