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Making Digital Video for the Social Sciences
This course is focused on fundamentals of working with digital video as a creative practice in the social sciences. The class is project-based, with students working on short documentaries and video essays.

Learning Goals & Outcomes: In taking this course, you will:

  • Use digital video (DV) for creative expression and research in the social sciences.
  • Practice basic principles for shooting and editing DV.
  • Employ the language of film in a social science context.
  • Assess issues of copyright, intellectual property, and protection of human subjects as they relate to DV and the social sciences.

These goals reflect the geography faculty's emphasis on students being able to "explain important elements of geographic thought and practice," and the film studies faculty's interest in students being able to, "analyze moving image arts and media through a variety of critical theories and/or strategies." These emphases are rooted in institutional commitments to Inquiry & Analysis and Integrative Learning.

Format: This class is fundamentally project-based. There will also be seminar-styled discussions of theoretical issues related to non-fiction and documentary filmmaking.

Shaun Huston's web site is at: http://www.wou.edu/~hustons

Created by Anne-Marie Deitering and Shaun Huston

Please address comments or questions to hustons@wou.edu