2010-2011 Academic Catalog

Sep 07, 2024

2010-2011 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EDUC 112 - Transformative Schooling: Documentary Video for Social Change

Type of Course: First-Year Seminar

This is a field-based and inquiry-oriented seminar, an apprenticeship in documentary filmmaking, as well as school and community research and advocacy for social change. The course involves instruction in the basics of video production (using state-of-the-art digital cameras) and seminar members partner with new and experienced teachers in inner-city public schools. We work with them as video assistants and also develop our own films about the challenges and possibilities of urban school reform. In addition to hands-on activity, there is serious attention to reading in the field of ethnographic research, education reform and community institutions that support youth development. Moreover, seminar members get involved in grassroots organizing and soliciting input from the community, as well as ongoing critique of their planning documents, filmed footage and written companion texts. We thus integrate field work with theory and reflective critique. A final project for this seminar will be completed in the spring semester. Fulfills the Values Perspective and is recommended for all communication and culture majors.

Cross Listed: COMM 020

Instructor: Ms. Michaels

When Offered: Offered every year

Faculty: Sarah Michaels, Ph.D. Professor of Education