Register Now for Continuing Ed Classes: Documentary and the Three-Act Structure, Intro to Audio Docs, Online Photo Course
The Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies offers classes in photography, video, audio, narrative writing, multimedia, and other creative media for adults who are interested in learning or continuing to do their own documentary work. Register now for these upcoming courses and workshops. Documentary and the Three-Act Structure Saturday, February 9, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Center for Documentary [...]
Registration Now Open for Spring and Summer 2013 Continuing Ed Classes in the Documentary Arts
The Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies offers classes in photography, video, audio, narrative writing, multimedia, and other creative media for adults who are interested in learning or continuing to do their own documentary work. Registration is now open for 2013 spring classes and summer institutes. In addition to the wide array of established classes [...]
Introductory Seminar in Documentary Studies: Register Now for This Continuing Education Class
Due to strong demand the CDS Continuing Education program will offer an additional section of the Introductory Seminar in Documentary Studies. Led by folklorist Joy Salyers, the class is designed for students in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program or those who plan to enroll. The documentary arts encompass many genres and numerous means of interacting with the world, [...]
Register Now for “The Narrative Imagination: A Documentary Writing Boot Camp”
Writer Rosecrans Baldwin will lead this two-day workshop in which participants will learn narrative techniques to add dimension and persuasive power to their documentary writing (such as creative nonfiction, memoir, or personal essays). Topics will include fieldwork, outlining, establishing voice, and structural editing. Through collaborative discussion, students will study examples of the best contemporary creative nonfiction, [...]
Focus is on the Blogosphere in “Documentary Writing for the Web” Course: Register Now
A new CDS Continuing Education course, Documentary Writing for the Web, is designed to explore a system of writing from a documentary foundation, especially crafted for students who wish to disseminate information through the blogosphere and develop a written body of work. Instructor Carl W. Kenney II will focus on the local community for material: “I’m sending forth folks [...]
Workshop Almost Full: Register Now for “Beginning Multimedia Storytelling”
In the Beginning Multimedia Storytelling Workshop (a four-day class taught over the course of two consecutive weekends) students will gain an understanding of what multimedia is, where it is going, and how it can be used for powerful storytelling. Students will be exposed to cutting-edge work and engage in critical discussions about what elements make for effective [...]
Register Now for “Documenting Trauma,” a New Continuing Ed Course with Distinguished Scholar Sharon Raynor
A unique new CDS Continuing Education course, Documenting Trauma, “will ignite conversations about survival after a trauma,” says instructor Sharon Raynor. “Students will become witnesses to events that drastically affect individual and collective lives and learn how those experiences become stories of redemption, renewal, and healing.” The class will focus on the evolution of “narratives of struggle,” [...]
Online Catalog: Fall 2012 Continuing Education Classes
Browse through our online course listings for a wide range of classes for adults interested in the documentary arts—photography, film/video, audio, writing, and other creative media. Courses are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and space is limited. The following designations assist students in determining the most appropriate course in which to enroll: 1. All Levels: Open to [...]
Registration Now Open For Fall 2012 Continuing Education Classes in the Documentary Arts
CDS offers Continuing Education classes in photography, film/video, audio, narrative writing, and other creative media for adults who are interested in learning or continuing to do their own documentary work. Registration is now open for fall 2012, with a number of established and new classes on offer, including Documentary Street Photography, DSLR Video, Make that [...]
Register Now: Acclaimed Audio Institute, “Hearing Is Believing II: Making It Sing,” Starts August 6
The second CDS summer audio institute, Hearing is Believing II: Making it Sing, starts August 6; click on the link to register. An intensive six-day workshop for students who’ve recorded interviews and gathered sound and are ready to construct a six-to twelve-minute audio documentary. This course is designed for those who have a basic grasp [...]
The Time is Now: Register for CDS’s Acclaimed Summer Audio Institutes and Retreat
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) is offering three summer audio documentary learning opportunities through its Continuing Education program. These intensive sessions, lasting from two to eight days, are open to the general public (and their completion counts as credit toward the Certificate in Documentary Arts for those working toward a certificate). Information about the courses [...]
Register Now for CDS Summer Institutes and Workshops—and Watch and Listen to Projects from Summer 2011
From the Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies to Digging In: An Audio Retreat with Big Shed, the Center for Documentary Studies is offering seven summer learning opportunities through its continuing education program. These intensive sessions, lasting from two to eight days, are open to the general public (and their completion counts as credit toward the [...]
Online Catalog: Registration Now Open for Spring/Summer 2012 CDS Continuing Education Courses
The Center for Documentary Studies offers a wide range of short courses, institutes, and workshops for adults who are interested in learning to do their own documentary work. These documentary arts courses, available through flexible admission with reasonable fees, involve instruction in photography, film and video, audio, and writing. Special topics and such subjects as [...]
