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HUM 266
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Title: | Documentary Film |
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Long Title: | Documentary Film: From Traditional to Experimental |
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Course Description: | Explores documentary film as art form, cultural artifact, and rhetorical strategy. |
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Min Credit: | 3 |
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Status Notes: | Renamed from COM 290-002. Special Note This course is |
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| S: offered through the UCD Department of English (ENGL 2300) |
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| S: as per our articulation agreement. CCD students will |
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| S: take the course under the home institution prefix of MCA |
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| S: 226. This exists as a special topics course at UCD. A |
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| S: regular course proposal is in progress. |
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Origin Notes: | CCD |
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STANDARD COMPETENCIES:
1. Demonstrate knowledge of Documentary modes of production such as Poetic, expository, interactive, observational, reflexive, and poetic.
2. Demonstrate a knowledge of the relationship between film form and film content.
3. Demonstrate a knowledge of production strategies that relate to the different modes, i.e. photography, sound, editing, etc.
4. Demonstrate a knowledge of historical, ethical, cultural and ideological concerns and issues that relate to different modes of documentary production and reception.
5. Develop and demonstrate his/her own critical and reasoned positions on issues raised by the films and readings in this class.
TOPICAL OUTLINE:
I. Why documentary? Personal, cultural, and political perspectives
II. Documentary modes- History of experimentation, controversy, and change
III. Ethical concerns
IV. Production and Philosophy: Poetic, Expository, Interactive, Observational, Reflexive, and Performative Documentary.
V. Dominant and marginal voices in documentary: Speaking for yourself and speaking for others.
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