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Making Digital Video for the Social Sciences
This course is focused on the basics of working with digital video as a tool for social research. The class is project based, with students working in small groups on short documentaries and video essays.

Learning Outcomes: This course is intended to help students in "Becoming conversant in geographic thought and practice", one of the major learning outcomes for geography at Western Oregon University.

More particularly, students in this course will:

  • Demonstrate the use of digital video (DV) as a research tool in the social sciences.
  • Become practiced in the basics of shooting and editing DV.
  • Demonstrate an ability to communicate as a social scientist through the language of film.
  • Use DV both in conjunction with other forms of publishing and as an independent medium.
  • Demonstrate a working knowledge of copyright, intellectual property, and protection of human subjects as they relate to DV and the social sciences.
Format: This class is fundamentally project-based. Students will work in teams to make short films and video essays. There will also be seminar-styled discussions of theoretical issues related to non-fiction and documentary filmmaking.
 
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