DS491 Documentary Studies Proj Seminar 1

This is the first course of a two-semester capstone experience for all students in the Documentary Studies Certificate program. This course and DS492 are designed to review and reinforce all aspects of making a documentary and to provide a learning context for creating a documentary on a subject of one’s own choosing. This course will take students through the pre-production and production stages of their own documentary project, and will include topic selection and proposal writing in collaboration with a regional partner/ subject(s), pre-production planning, archival research and recording, and video and audio field recording and interviewing. Prerequisites: declared candidacy for the Documentary Studies Certificate program; completion of DS 101, SO 219 or HP 310, MU 120 and MU 220 OR MC 230 and MC 331.