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