A new Documentary Studies course for both Duke and UNC undergraduates will be offered for the Spring 2011 semester.
Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change
Taught by Bruce Orenstein, founder of the Chicago Video Project and award-winning producer of three PBS documentaries and numerous campaign videos for social change organizations
This course taught at Duke University will use an active learning model to produce a professional-quality video for a public education campaign on behalf of North Carolina’s agricultural workers. Students will learn how to research a complex economic and labor issue, work with community partners, interview local leaders, workers, and scholars, develop a script that synthesizes their findings, and make ethical editing decisions. The completed class-produced video will be presented to audiences in community-based screenings throughout North Carolina.
Student Action with Farmworkers (based at the Center for Documentary Studies) will collaborate with the class and contribute archival photos and footage documenting the working and living conditions of North Carolina’s farmworkers. Readings, film screenings, and guest speakers will also introduce students to the methods and traditions of grassroots community organizing, the craft of video production, the varied uses of video as an organizing tool, and the history of the farmworker movement in the United States and North Carolina in particular.
For further questions please contact Bruce Orenstein at bruce.orenstein@duke.edu
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[...] will be teaching a new documentary course for both Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill undergraduates, Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change. The course will be taught in collaboration with Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), and will [...]
Will this be offered to UNC students in 2012? It sounds like a great class.
Yes, for the foreseeable future, Professor Orenstein will offer the class each semester, with a different focus on different organizations and issues each year. This semester he’s focusing on housing foreclosures.
The course, like most at CDS, is open to students in the Triangle beyond Duke University. Students from UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina Central University, and North Carolina State University can enroll through inter-institutional registration.
–Chris Sims, Web Content Manager
The spring 2012 Video for Social Change course will be about producing an educational video around the topic of voting rights in North Carolina.
[...] in CDS Artist in Residence Bruce Orenstein’s Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change class have produced a series of advocacy videos touching on the conditions of farmworkers in North [...]
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[...] University undergraduates in this past spring’s Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change course produced a short video in association with Democracy NC highlighting the growing nationwide [...]