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Documentary Studies (DOCST)
Associate Professor of the Practice Rankin and Lecturer Thompson, Co-Directors
A certificate, but not a major, is available in this program.
The goal of this interdisciplinary program is to introduce, broaden, and enhance the technical skills and the
theoretical and ethical awareness of students who specialize in one or more of the following modes of communitybased fieldwork: photography, oral history, audio, filmmaking, folklore, and ethnographic writing. Courses in this
area are offered through the Center for Documentary Studies, African and African-American Studies, Art, Cultural
Anthropology, Film/Video/Digital, History, and Public Policy Studies. The Center for Documentary Studies also
houses a number of documentary projects that address issues of literacy, collaborative photography, oral history, and
farmworker advocacy that students will be exposed to through their affiliation with this program. A major goal of
this program is to connect student experience and creativity to community life. Documentary Studies courses teach
an arts-and-humanities-based fieldwork research methodology.
Achievement of the program's goal is facilitated by an integrated curriculum of required and elective courses
that allow students to specialize in one or more areas of documentary work, and to complete a major documentary
project under the guidance of participating faculty members. An active advisory procedure assists students in
planning fieldwork projects and other learning opportunities. A certificate is available for students who complete
program requirements. Participation in documentary studies courses, with the exception of the capstone course, is
available to all undergraduates whether or not they seek the certificate.
The Certificate in Documentary Studies is awarded to students who successfully complete six courses approved
as part of the Documentary Studies program. These include a required survey course titled Traditions in
Documentary Studies, four related courses from the approved courses (including electives) listed in this
undergraduate bulletin, and a required capstone course, Seminar in Documentary Studies. During the seminar,
students are expected to bring to completion one major documentary project (using audio, video, photos, and/or
ethnographic writing methods) and to present this project to an audience outside the classroom by the semester's
end. The Seminar in Documentary Studies is designed as the culminating experience of the certificate program and
is therefore open only to students enrolled in the program. Electives chosen by the student under the guidance of the
program co-director should facilitate the completion of the final project.
89S. First Year Seminar. Topics vary each semester offered. Instructor: Staff. One course.
101. Traditions in Documentary Studies. ALP, CCI Traditions of documentary work seen through an
interdisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on twentieth-century practice. Introduces students to a range of
documentary idioms and voices, including the work of photographers, filmmakers, oral historians, folklorists,
musicologists, radio documentarians, and writers. Stresses aesthetic, scholarly, and ethical considerations involved
in representing other people and cultures. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Visual and Media Studies 202
105S. The Documentary Experience: A Video Approach (A). ALP, R, SS A documentary approach to the study
of local communities through video production projects assigned by the course instructor. Working closely with
these groups, students explore issues or topics of concern to the community. Students complete an edited video as
their final project. Not open to students who have taken this course as Film/Video/Digital 105S. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: Hawkins. One course. C-L: Cultural Anthropology 356S, Arts of the Moving Image
331S, History 354S, Political Science 278S, Public Policy Studies 378S, Visual and Media Studies 205S
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107. Introduction to Documentary Film. ALP, CCI One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 202; also CL: Visual and Media Studies 265
110S. Introduction to Oral History. CZ, R Introductory oral history fieldwork seminar. Oral history theory and
methodology, including debates within the discipline. Components and problems of oral history interviewing as well
as different kinds of oral history writing. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: History 352S
111S. Documentary Writing: Creative Nonfiction Through Fieldwork. ALP, R, W Techniques of independent
field research and reporting in the documentary tradition. Emphasis on structure, development, and style of factual
narrative-including exercises in redrafting and editing-culminating in a final piece of documentary writing based on
students' fieldwork experience. Historical development of documentary writing in relation to the diverse cultures
that produced it. Instructors: Staff. One course. C-L: English 318S
115. Introduction to Photography. ALP Foundation class in black-and-white photographic process as the basis for
using photography as a visual language. Class learns to make a printable exposure using black-and-white film, make
a "proper proof" and an 8 x 10 enlargement. Assignments include portraits, alternative techniques, landscape, and a
final portfolio that embodies a single visual idea. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Hunter. One course. CL: Visual Arts 214, Visual and Media Studies 214
120S. Documentary Research Methods. ALP, R Introduction to documentary research methods for film,
photography, audio, narrative. Fieldwork with community resources, documents, oral histories, photographs,
artifacts, archives. Collaborative project about North Carolina's past and independent project on student's own
research interests. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: History 355S
135S. Introduction to Audio Documentary. ALP, R Recording techniques and audio mixing on digital editing
software for the production of audio (radio) documentaries. Various approaches to audio documentary work, from
the journalistic to the personal; use of fieldwork to explore cultural differences. Stories told through audio, using
National Public Radio-style form, focusing on a particular social concern such as war and peace, death and dying,
civil rights. Instructor: Biewen. One course. C-L: Information Science and Information Studies
202S. Children and the Experience of Illness. SS An exploration of how children cope with illness, incorporating
the tools of documentary photography and writing. Students will work outside class with children who are ill and
teach them how to use a camera, working toward an exhibit of photographs at the end of the semester. Permission
required. Required participation in service learning. Instructor: Moses. One course. C-L: Public Policy Studies 395S,
Visual and Media Studies 211S
203. Visual Culture and Photography. ALP One course. C-L: see Visual and Media Studies 348
206S. Medicine and the Vision of Documentary Photography. ALP The intersection of documentary
photography and the medical community. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Moses. One course. C-L: Public
Policy Studies 377S, Visual and Media Studies 204S
209S. A Digital Approach to Documentary Photography: Capturing Transience. ALP Investigates subjects in
transition, with focus on changing physical and social landscapes of North Carolina. Digital darkroom techniques
include digital capture, film scanning, Photoshop, ink-jet printing, as well as other methods of dissemination offered
in digital age. Digital photographic impermanence as well as social transience discussed in unison. Service-learning
environment consisting of fieldwork photography in collaboration with community organization. Consent of
instructor required. Instructor: Post-Rust. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 212S, Visual and Media Studies 212S,
Information Science and Information Studies
212S. Large Format Photography. ALP Advanced black and white photography course exploring unique creative
latitude of large negative format. Includes advanced printing/toning techniques and alternative processes such as
platinum/palladium. Prerequisite: Documentary Studies 115, Visual Arts 115, or its equivalent. Consent of instructor
required. Instructor: Satterwhite. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 213S, Visual and Media Studies 213S
215. Documentary Photography and the Southern Culture Landscape. ALP, CCI Emphasis on the tradition and
practice of documentary photography as a way of seeing and interpreting cultural life. The techniques of black-andwhite photography - exposure, development, and printing - diverse ways of representing the cultural landscape of
the region through photographic imagery. The role such issues as objectivity, clarity, politics, memory,
autobiography, and local culture play in the making and dissemination of photographs. Instructor: Rankin. One
course. C-L: Visual Arts 216, Visual and Media Studies 215
218S. Alternative Photographic Processes. ALP Survey of historic photographic processes, including Gun
Bichromate, Cyanotype, Kalotype and Platinum/Palladium printing. Consent of instructor required. Instructor:
Hunter. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 221S, Visual and Media Studies 216S
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221S. Visual Research and the American Dream. ALP, R, SS A documentary and sociological approach to the
idea of the American Dream, using readings, photography, films, and visual sociological research. Ideology of
attainable prosperity by different groups of people; cultural and material symbols of the dream. Field-based course.
Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Sociology 228S, Visual and Media Studies 217S
224S. Children's Self Expression: Literacy Through Photography. EI, SS Children's self-expression and
education through writing, photograph and documentary work. Focus on reading and critical interpretation of
images. The history, philosophy, and methodology of Literacy Through Photography. Includes internship in an
elementary or middle school classroom. Required participation in service learning. Consent of instructor required.
Instructor: Hyde. One course. C-L: Education 244S, Visual and Media Studies 207S, Early Childhood Education
227S. Sociology through Photography. ALP, SS Documentary photography used as a tool to see the world
through a sociological lens. Photographs and the social construction of reality; generic components of social
organization (codes of conduct, mechanisms of social control); power relations and social inequalities; and social
identities (how they're formed in relation to structures, experiences, history and culture). Consent of instructor
required. Instructor: Hyde. One course. C-L: Sociology 352S, Visual and Media Studies 218S
230S. Small Town USA: Local Collaborations. ALP, CCI, R Theory and practice of documentary photography in
a small-town context. Students working in collaboration with one nearby small town complete a documentary
photographic study of one individual or group within that town. Includes analysis of the documentary tradition,
particularly as it relates to locally situated work and to selected individual projects; building visual narrative,
developing honest relationships with subjects, responsibility to subjects and their communities, and engaging with
and portraying a community as an outsider. Photo elicitation and editing techniques. Consent of instructor required.
Required participation in service learning. Instructor: Post-Rust. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 232S, Public Policy
Studies 389S, Visual and Media Studies 224S
233S. American Communities: A Photographic Approach. ALP, CCI, SS Theory and practice of documentary
photography. Students complete a documentary photographic study of a community outside the university. Study of
the documentary tradition and classic documentary books while emphasizing the photographs produced by the
students. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Harris or Sartor. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 217S, Public
Policy Studies 397S, Visual and Media Studies 225S, Arts of the Moving Image, Policy Journalism and Media
Studies
236S. Color Photography: Fieldwork and Digital Color. ALP Field-based course examining color photography
as a documentary tool. Students learn about aesthetic and technical foundations of color photography using recent
digital technology. Class-conducted intensive examination of the work of historic and contemporary color
documentary photographers. Advanced techniques in film scanning, Photoshop, and color pigment printing using
Arts Warehouse multimedia classroom. Completion of semester-long color photographic project, and final project
consisting of production of a series of color pigment prints. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Harris. One
course. C-L: Visual Arts 240S, Visual and Media Studies 227S
239S. The Photographic Essay: Narratives Through Pictures. ALP Documentary field work course. Students
create four distinct photographic essays, studying the ways other photographers have created photographic essays
aimed at wide audiences. Students create, choose, sequence, and pace their images while studying classic and
contemporary masters of photography. Instructor: Harris. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 241S, Public Policy Studies
399S
242S. Dance for the Camera. ALP, R, STS One course. C-L: see Dance 306S; also C-L: Arts of the Moving Image
343S
245S. Photography in Context. ALP, R Uses the Duke Library Photography Archive as a resource to challenge
students to think critically about photography. Considers how photography offers insights into areas of academic
study such as social change, sexual identity, and regional culture, and how images have shaped collective
understanding of these issues. Focuses on analyzing and contextualizing bodies of photographic work, the historical
moment in which the pictures were made, personal history and artistic sensibility of the photographer, tools of the
medium, along with considering personal responses to images and the ways in which all factors come together.
Instructor: Sartor. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 254S, Visual and Media Studies 252S
248S. Environmental Conservation and Documentary Photography. ALP, EI, R One course. C-L: see
Environment 222S; also C-L: Marine Science and Conservation
270. Contemporary Documentary Film: Filmmakers and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. ALP,
CCI, STS One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 205; also C-L: Political Science 263, Public Policy
Studies 374, Visual and Media Studies 264
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271S. Video for Social Change. ALP, CCI, SS Documentary film course focusing on the production of advocacy
videos for social change. Covers methods and traditions of community organizing, introduces knowledge and skill
sets needed to make effective videos for grassroots organizations, and explores how video is integrated into
organizing strategies to achieve better results. Includes instructor-supervised fieldwork with community partner
organization; student groups will research, write, direct, and produce a class video for a campaign to improve
educational and economic opportunities in Durham's low-income communities. Instructor: Orenstein. One course.
C-L: Public Policy Studies 375S, Arts of the Moving Image 335S
272S. Documentary and Policy: How Documentary Influences Policy. ALP Examines documentaries as
catalysts for change in local, state, and federal laws and regulations, with special attention to relationships between
film and organizations with political influence. Looks at how documentaries have altered public sentiment and
political outcomes. Uses case studies of documentary films (essay-style, journalistic, information-driven films;
narrative, story-driven films; propaganda; art films; and hybrids of all of the above). Explores the question of how a
film achieves influence: for example, with a high-profile theatrical and/or television release, by utilization as an
educational tool, or by "going viral" to become part of a public conversation. Instructor: Price. One course. C-L:
Arts of the Moving Image 336S, Public Policy Studies 228S
273S. Planning the Documentary Film: From Concept to Treatment. ALP, R Historical documentary film
preparation through narrative, character-driven stories. Using the raw material of real life, students organize the
conceptual process for historical documentary films, framing a logical sequence of events structured for dramatic
effect. Focus on the pre-production activities and principles that lead to a treatment that is the foundation for an
efficient shooting schedule. Instructor: James. One course. C-L: Arts of the Moving Image 332S, Visual and Media
Studies 220S, Information Science and Information Studies
276S. Adapting Literature -- Producing Film. ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 304S; also CL: Visual Arts 228S, Information Science and Information Studies
277S. Sound for Film and Video
278S. Producing Docu-Fiction. ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 334S
279S. Editing the TV Documentary: From Creativity to Collaboration to Negotiation. ALP One course. C-L:
see Arts of the Moving Image 333S; also C-L: Visual and Media Studies 274S
281S. Cinematography. ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 355S; also C-L: Visual and Media
Studies 260S, Visual Arts 248S
282S. Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking. One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 470S; also C-L:
Public Policy Studies 383S, Visual and Media Studies 221S, Information Science and Information Studies
285. Visiting Filmmaker Master Course: Special Topics. ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image
385
285S. Visiting Filmmaker Master Courses: Special Topics. ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image
385S; also C-L: Visual Arts 325S
288S. Editing for Film and Video. ALP One course. C-L: see Arts of the Moving Image 357S; also C-L:
Information Science and Information Studies 248S
290. Special Topics in Documentary Studies. Selected topics in methodology, theory, or area in lecture format.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
290S. Special Topics in Documentary Studies. Selected topics in methodology, theory, or area in seminar format.
Instructor: Staff. One course.
310S. Intermediate Audio Documentary. ALP, R Introductory to intermediate audio techniques. Includes
instructor-supervised fieldwork with an audio recorder in a variety of settings using creative approaches; students
produce four short pieces (roughly three minutes long) in varying styles (journalistic, personal,artistic) for posting
on iTunes and on public multimedia websites. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Biewen. One course. C-L:
Policy Journalism and Media Studies 310S, Information Science and Information Studies
320S. Freedom Stories: Documenting Southern Lives and Writing. ALP, CCI, CZ Documentary writing course
focusing on race and storytelling in the South, using fiction, autobiography, and traditional history books. Producing
narratives using documentary research, interviews, and personal memories. Focus on twentieth-century racial
politics. Instructor: Tyson. One course. C-L: African and African American Studies 231S, History 356S
323S. Behind the Veil: Methods. CCI, CZ, R Oral history methodology and documentary techniques, centered on
the Jim Crow South. Focus on the "Behind the Veil" oral history collection, video, audio, and secondary reading
materials. Demography, theory and practice of oral history documentary methodology, fundraising, preservation,
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processing, dissemination, promotion, releases, copyright, and other legal matters. Instructor: Staff. One course. CL: African and African American Studies 238S, History 353S
326. The South in Black and White. ALP, CCI, CZ Focus on present-day and historical documentary traditions in
American South, with an emphasis on call and response between black and white cultures. The arts and humanities
as imbedded in particular histories and cultures found in the South, and as performed in music and theater; and
portrayed in documentary films, civil rights photography, Southern literature, and historical and autobiographical
writing. Includes historical texts, oral histories and testimonies of living persons, along with documentary films,
photographs, and writings from people in Durham and elsewhere in the region. Instructor: Tyson. One course. C-L:
African and African American Studies 230
329S. Collaborative Art: Practice and Theory of Working Within a Community. ALP Approaches of various
contemporary artists to creating collaborative work resulting in artworks that express a variety of social and
aesthetic positions and include progressive educational philosophies and radical democratic theory. Field work with
a community institution or small group in Durham to produce collaborative work in a medium of students' own
choosing. Instructor consent required. Instructor: Staff. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 230S, Visual and Media
Studies 219S
332S. Farmworkers in North Carolina: Roots of Poverty, Roots of Change. CCI, SS Focus upon those who
bring food to our tables, particularly those who labor in the fields of North Carolina and the Southeast. Farm work
from the plantation system and slavery to sharecropping, and to the migrant and seasonal farmworker population
today. Documentary work and its contributions to farmworker advocacy. Instructor: Thompson. One course. C-L:
Cultural Anthropology 236S, Latino/a Studies in the Global South
335S. Who Cares and Why: Social Activism and its Motivations. CCI, R, SS, W Documentary fieldwork-based
research on the lives of people who have committed themselves to changing society. Life history interviews
exploring personal and societal transformations with special attention to the antecedents to personal change leading
to examined lives of commitment. Attention to various areas of social change, including human rights, civil rights,
international activism, labor rights, and environmental activism. Focus on societal and personal questions regarding
motivations for, and the effectiveness of, good works in several cultural settings. Instructor: Thompson. One course.
C-L: Cultural Anthropology 239S
338S. Documenting Religion. CCI, CZ Exploration of how religious communities interpret and live out such
themes as sacred spaces, hope, power, pilgrimage, identity, commitment, evil, gifts, bodies, death, and regeneration.
Student participation in, and documentation of, a religious community of the student's choosing. Fieldwork off
campus required. Instructor: Thompson. One course. C-L: Religion 251S, Cultural Anthropology 233S, Visual and
Media Studies 210S
341S. Politics of Food: Land, Labor, Health, and Economics. ALP, CCI, EI, R Explores the food system
through fieldwork, study, and guest lectures that include farmers, nutritionists, sustainable agriculture advocates,
rural organizers, and farmworker activists. Examines how food is produced, seeks to identify and understand its
workers and working conditions in fields and factories, and, using documentary research conducted in the field and
other means, unpacks the major current issues in the food justice arena globally and locally. Fieldwork required, but
no advanced technological experience necessary. At least one group field trip, perhaps to a local farm or farmers
market, required. Instructor: Thompson. One course. C-L: Cultural Anthropology 238S, Public Policy Studies 380
344S. Our Culinary Cultures. ALP, CCI, W Documentary approach to the world of food using fieldwork
research. Topics of food and its preparation examined through deep stories of how food is raised, prepared, and
presented in order to explore how the myriad ways in which what we eat reveal key biographical, economic,
religious, and other truths about our cultures. Introduces students to the history of food writing and the concept of
food in general as a nonverbal tool of communication. Photography, audio, and documentary writing employed.
Instructor: Alexander. One course. C-L: Cultural Anthropology 258S
347S. Civil/Human Rights Activism: In the Spirit of Pauli Murray. ALP, CCI, CZ, R Documentary fieldwork
course exploring the legacy of civil and human rights activism in Durham through the life and work of noted
historian, lawyer, poet, activist and priest Pauli Murray. Students will utilize scholarship, primary source archival
materials and contemporary documentary projects to set a context for their fieldwork in Durham. Working with the
instructor and local social change leadership engaged in work related to the "Face-Up Project.," students will deepen
fieldwork skills - photography, writing, audio or filmmaking - and develop documentary projects in collaboration
with culturally diverse community groups. Requires fieldtrips to communities in Durham. Instructor: Lau. One
course. C-L: Cultural Anthropology 246S, African and African American Studies 236S
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350S. Documenting Black Experiences. ALP, CCI Interpretations of the black diaspora in documentary film from
slavery to the present. Interdisciplinary study of black religions, cultures, histories, aesthetics, politics, and their
representations, both globally and in the U.S. Students will view and study a variety of films and approaches to film
and study film's evolution through numerous lenses from early ethnographic film to recent works by indigenous
filmmakers, and understand the politics of representation, from D.W. Griffith to Spike Lee; read relevant works in
the genres represented; and hear from guest critics, scholars of African and African American history and culture,
and filmmakers. Instructor: James. One course. C-L: African and African American Studies 225S, Arts of the
Moving Image 214S, Cultural Anthropology 262S, Public Policy Studies 387S
353A. Views of Environmental Change: Documentary Research in Natural Resource Management. EI, R, SS
One course. C-L: see Environment 289A; also C-L: Marine Sciences, Marine Science and Conservation
356S. Magazine Journalism. SS, W One course. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 366S; also C-L: Visual and Media
Studies 306S
359S. Islam and the Media. CCI, SS One course. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 388S
390S. Special Topics in Sound Technology. ALP Topics focusing on technical basis and aesthetic motivation of
sound recording and sound exploitation. Technical demonstration and student exercises explore the mechanics and
dramatic and psychological implications of formats, microphone placement, mixing, acoustic signature, digital
recording, double system, and sound editing, leading to an individually produced sound design for live action or
animation film/video. Prerequisite: Theater Studies 272, English 181, Literature 110. Instructor: Staff. One course.
C-L: Information Science and Information Studies
415S. Advanced Documentary Photography. ALP, SS An advanced course for students who have taken Public
Policy Studies 397S or have had substantial experience in documentary fieldwork. Students complete an individual
photographic project and study important works within the documentary tradition. Prerequisite: Visual Arts 217S,
Public Policy Studies 397S, or consent of instructor. Instructor: Harris, Rankin, or staff. One course. C-L: Visual
Arts 218S, Public Policy Studies 398S, Visual and Media Studies 226S, Arts of the Moving Image, Policy
Journalism and Media Studies
450S. Documentary Engagement Through Field-Based Projects. ALP Documentary photography as a tool for
social engagement in preparation for intensive field-based projects. Students study documentary photographers
while planning and refining their own documentary projects through which they will address societal issues locally,
nationally, or abroad. Students learn and refine valuable technical skills such as Photoshop, inkjet printing, and webbased methods in order to complete a preliminary documentary project by the end of the semester. Consent of
instructor required. Required participation in service learning. Instructor: Harris. One course. C-L: Public Policy
Studies 396S
460S. Multimedia Documentary: Editing, Production, and Publication. ALP A production course for students
who have undertaken a substantial documentary fieldwork project over the summer, such as DukeEngage students,
recipients of the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards, or other students working on independent
projects. Edit and shape fieldwork material into a Web-based multimedia presentation. Learn current technologies
and techniques for multimedia publications. Examine unique storytelling strategies for on-line presentations and
compare this medium to traditional venues for documentary work such as exhibitions, books, and broadcast.
Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Sims. One course. C-L: Visual Arts 247S, Visual and Media Studies 332S
480S. Capstone Seminar in Documentary Studies. ALP, R Immersion in fieldwork-based inquiry and in-depth
projects that serve as Certificate in Documentary Studies capstone experiences for students. Methods of
documentary fieldwork, including participant observation, and modes of arts and humanities interpretation through a
variety of mediums (including papers, film, photography exhibits, radio pieces, and performances). Consent of
instructor and director of undergraduate studies required. Prerequisite: Documentary Studies 101 and four
Documentary Studies electives. Instructor: Staff. One course.
511. Documentary and East Asian Cultures. ALP, CCI, CZ, EI One course. C-L: see Asian & Middle Eastern
Studies 511; also C-L: Arts of the Moving Image 641
611. Documentary Writing Workshop. ALP, R, W Workshop in the art and practice of writing in the long-form
traditions of narrative nonfiction, literary journalism, and documentary writing. Write, share, and refine one major
work of narrative nonfiction throughout the semester. Discuss research methods and resources, especially those
useful for creative writers. Intended for advanced writers who would like to work on ambitious nonfiction work in
an intensely creative and supportive workshop. Instructor: Murrell. One course.
615S. Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts. ALP Survey how filmmakers, authors, photographers, and
other artists have brought environmental issues to the public's attention in the last century, and in some cases
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instigated profound societal and political change. Examine the nebulous distinctions between persuasion and
propaganda, agenda and allegory, point of view and content. Evolve as a viewer of the environment and a maker of
documentary art. Initiate your own projects to address and/or depict environmental issues in one form of a broad
range of media. Instructor: Espelie. One course. C-L: Environment 615S, Arts of the Moving Image 643S
PROGRAM COURSES
African and African American Studies
206. Africans in America to the Civil War
207. African Americans Since the Civil War
Art History
303. History of Photography, 1839 to the Present
Arts of the Moving Image
330S. Documentary Film/Video Theory and Practice (DS4)
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
355. Contemporary Culture in South Asia
Cultural Anthropology
130. Anthropology and Film
150. Fantasy, Mass Media, and Popular Culture
220. World Music: Aesthetic and Anthropological Approaches
221. Music, Social Life, and Scenes
240S. The Anthropology of Hinduism: From Encounter to Engagement
243. Culture and Politics in Latin America
355S. Documentary Film/Video Theory and Practice (DS4)
History
346. Africans in America to the Civil War
347. African Americans Since the Civil War
International Comparative Studies
104. Anthropology and Film
105. Fantasy, Mass Media, and Popular Culture
325. Culture and Politics in Latin America
Music
130. World Music: Aesthetic and Anthropological Approaches
137. Music, Social Life, and Scenes
Philosophy
262. Human Rights in Theory and Practice (C-N)
Political Science
231. Human Rights in Theory and Practice (C-N)
Public Policy Studies
231. Human Rights in Theory and Practice (C-N)
371. News as Moral Battleground
Religion
268. Religion and Film
310S. The Anthropology of Hinduism: From Encounter to Engagement
Visual Arts
206. Digital Imaging
219S. Photography
Visual and Media Studies
206. Digital Imaging
243. Anthropology and Film
244. Fantasy, Mass Media, and Popular Culture
269. Documentary Photography and Film of the Nuclear Age
273S. Documentary Film/Video Theory and Practice (DS4)
303. History of Photography, 1839 to the Present