Academic Catalog

Evidence: Documentation and Reality (C017)

GEC Coordinator: Elke Morris

This concentration is a study of documentation and representation, including consideration of persuasive strategies often employed in representations—and misrepresentations. Emphasis is on the use of images as points of inquiry, including photographs, film, broadcasts, documents, and printed matter, as well as speech and artifacts.

Complete four courses designated with the (C017) GEC attribute, with no more than three from any one department/program. One non-Bates credit may be applied toward the concentration with prior approval by the concentration coordinator.

Active course offerings include:

AMST 276True or False: Documentary Photography
AVC S15Photographing the Landscape
AVC 209Introduction to Video Production
AVC 219Photography: The Digital Image
AVC 220The Digital Composite: A Creative Process
AVC 276True or False: Documentary Photography
AVC 318Photography: Perception and Expression
AVC 361Museum Internship
ENVR S15Photographing the Landscape
EUS S26The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
EUS 233Russian Myths and Legends
EUS 262Rebels, Radicals, and Realists: Social Change in German Cinema
FRE 379Documenting the Genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda
GER S26The Split Screen: Reconstructing National Identities in West and East German Cinema
GER 262Rebels, Radicals, and Realists: Social Change in German Cinema
GER 358Literature and Film of the German Democratic Republic
PSYC 317Psychology and Law
RFSS S18Under the Influence: Alcohol Use, Addiction, Television and Community
RFSS 120Introduction to Screen Studies
RFSS 219Race, Gender, and International Cinema
RFSS 220Constructions of Italian American Men and Masculinities
RFSS 240Film Theory
RFSS 257Rhetorical Criticism
RFSS 276Television Criticism
RFSS 391AThe Rhetoric of Alien Abduction
RFSS 391BPresidential Campaign Rhetoric
RFSS 391FBollywood
RUSS 233Russian Myths and Legends