DeWitt Wallace Course

Environmental Issues and the Documentary Arts

DOCST 315S, ENVIRON 35S, CINE 315S, VMC 309S, LATAMER 315S

Elective Course

Survey how filmmakers, authors, photographers, and other artists have brought environmental issues to the public’s attention in the last century, and in some cases instigated profound societal and political change. Examine the nebulous distinctions between persuasion and propaganda, agenda and allegory, point of view and content. Evolve as a viewer of the environment and a maker of documentary art. Initiate your own projects to address and/or depict environmental issues in one form of a broad range of media.

Course Codes:

ALP