Examine media and moving image aesthetics, tactic and strategies by creating work involving movement and expanded notions of choreography. Within this course students compose images and sounds, structuring them temporally as they explore narrative and non-narrative forms. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores cross platform documentary media practices and contemporary debates in documentary through a study of documentary history, genre, ethics and changing forms. It develops skills in critically analyzing documentary media. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores and workshops documentary media projects and ideas from a variety of disciplines. This course is team-taught with affiliated faculty working in design groups within the documentary lab in one or more areas, such as Art and Art History, Anthropology or Geography. A total of 12 hours are required for IDMP MFA candidates. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores distinctive and varied approaches to documentary field work and the uses of media for creative ethnography and other nonfiction practices. This course is team-taught with affiliated faculty from one or more areas such as Art and Art History, Anthropology and Geography. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 5100 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Incorporates reflective study and practice in a course that consists of rotating topics in contemporary documentary practices, such as media essays, observation and participation, personal histories and voices, emergent technologies and documentary media, and interpretive ethnography.
Requires students to conduct self-directed research and production in a seminar setting. Topics relate to individual projects Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores advanced producing principles through the preproduction of the MFA thesis project, including the development of a professional project proposal. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 5650 (minimum grade D-).
Explores production of MFA thesis product. Focus is on production strategies, ethical challenges and other practical production issues. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 6500 (minimum grade D-).
Explores editing and post-production of the MFA thesis project. Emphasizes aesthetic choices (structure, narration and music), distribution, contracts and audience. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of CMDP 6600 (minimum grade D-).
