MACS
364 B (CRN 59788) Meets TR 3:30-6:20 pm in room 133 Armory - Topics in
Media Business "Planet Google" The course focuses on Google as an
example of a defining media company.
It also uses Google as a lens through which to reflect critically on
the ways in which new media companies change our communication
experiences and the ways understand the world.
MACS
395 P (CRN 59888) Meets TR 4:00-6:50 pm in room 331 Gregory Hall -
"Introduction to Digital Video Production": This intensive, 8-week
course offers an introduction to digital
video production utilizing the new Media Commons facilities in the
University Library. Students will acquire a professional perspective and
gain experience with pre-production planning; cinematography, audio
recording, and lighting; and nonlinear editing.
The course will involve significant work in teams; successful
participants will be curious, self-motivated, disciplined, and
cooperative.
MACS 199
Watching the Environment
Course
views environmental films as an active process, wherein viewers
critically evaluate representations of the environment and of
environmental activism. Approach
is multi-disciplinary, combining the physical and social sciences
understanding of environmental issues, with social science's research on
credibility, and film theory's understanding of the constraints that
narrative form, production routines, financing and
distribution put on representing environmental problems and activism.
Students will compare how physical and social scientists' explain
environmental problems and solutions (presented in readings) with the
presentations of the same problems and solutions shown
in film. An emphasis of the class is that the credibility of film is
earned, rather than given. During the course participants are expected
to become familiar with both background information on the science of
selected environmental issues, and the constraints
of producing special interest and broad distribution film.
While these courses are open to any major and any
class level, some students might find it beneficial to have completed at
least a 100 level MACS course before taking a 300 level MACS course.