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ANTH324

Ethnographic Filmmaking: Multimedia Storytelling for Social Change

Subject code

ANTH

Course Number

324

Department(s)

Course Long Title

Ethnographic Filmmaking: Multimedia Storytelling for Social Change

Cross Listed Courses

Description

This course explores documentary and ethnographic filmmaking through hands-on production and engagement with key issues in anthropology. Activities include in-class workshops and field explorations for final ethnographic film or media projects with an emphasis on activist anthropology and field recording. Students learn by doing, using ethnographic methods such as participant-observation, interviewing, data visualization, digital textual analysis, and film/audio/podcast recording. This class includes group activities, reading ethnographies, watching films/media, site visits, and guest tutorials in audio/visual media production. Students apply what they learn in class to document their cultural worlds at Bates and in Maine, taking care to mobilize anthropological tools to “situate” themselves in domains of power while creating media that examines core social issues of our time. The course concludes with presentations of multimedia projects for members of the Bates community.

Modes of Inquiry

Creative Process and Production [CP], Analysis and Critique [AC]

Writing Credit

No writing designation

GEC This Course Belongs To

-

Class Restriction

Exclude First Years

Offering Frequency

Offered with varying frequency