JCOM 319. Documenting Civil Rights. 4 Credits.
This class takes up one of the important topics for documentary film—what kind of impact does it have on cultural history? In this course students investigate a central issue for American history: Civil Rights. The course uses documentary cinema not just to help tell the stories with an added sense of realism and involvement, but also to demonstrate and critically understand the nature of interventions by documentary film into the ongoing, changing struggles and the people involved in them.
Requisites: Prereq: JCOM 201 or J 201.