These were a couple of 2nd 8 week classes that MACS has added to the Spring 2013 schedule.
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. (max 40 students)
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. (max 25 students)
The following has many seats and is also a second 8 week section.
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 the 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.