JCOM 318. Documenting International Human Rights. 4 Credits.
This class, using close studies of the documentary films that have greatly influenced our understanding of human rights, will take up the advanced requirements of storytelling, tracing the parallel developments of an art that can reveal both horror and the progress toward real defenses against it--that can tell the truth but also distort it into lies. What are human rights and how can documentaries convey the realities of human experience--the worldwide crisis we are in-- so that we can understand the situation of ourselves and others in our world?
Requisites: Prereq: JCOM 201 or J 201.