2024 Summer Session A
6 weeks, May 20 - June 28
MEDIAST 138 001 - LEC 001
Ethnographic Film and Documentary Form: History, Ethics and Aesthetics of Reality Based Media
Daniel Fisher
Class #:15777
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Studies
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
45
Enrolled: 3
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 48
Waitlist Max: 5
Open Reserved Seats:
45 reserved for Berkeley Students with 3 or more Terms in Attendance and Visiting Students not in the Pre-Collegiate Program
Hours & Workload
8 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 22 hours of outside work hours per week.
Other classes by Daniel Fisher
Course Catalog Description
This course explores the history, theory, and aesthetics of ethnographic and documentary film and related forms of reality based media as they intersect with ethnographic and other forms of qualitative research. In addition to canonical and historically groundbreaking works we will consider recent innovations, across a range of media platforms, that push and pull at the conventions of ethnographic and documentary realism and that make aesthetic exploration central to knowledge production. Students in the course are not expected or required to have any background in film studies, nor is prior exposure to documentary, ethnographic film, or anthropology a prerequisite.
Class Notes
Campus visitors are welcome to take this course! Freshmen and Pre-College Program Students are not eligible to be admitted to this course.
For Media Studies majors, this course satisfies:
- MLP. 3 - Citizenship for the Media Law and Policy concentration
- GCS.2 - Visual Cult.. show more
For Media Studies majors, this course satisfies:
- MLP. 3 - Citizenship for the Media Law and Policy concentration
- GCS.2 - Visual Cult.. show more
Campus visitors are welcome to take this course! Freshmen and Pre-College Program Students are not eligible to be admitted to this course.
For Media Studies majors, this course satisfies:
- MLP. 3 - Citizenship for the Media Law and Policy concentration
- GCS.2 - Visual Culture requirement for the Global Cultural Studies concentration
- DS.3 - Digital Projects and Digital Storytelling for the Digital Studies concentration
For more information on Media Studies course enrollment, please visit https://mediastudies.ugis.berkeley.edu/course-enrollment-information/ show less
For Media Studies majors, this course satisfies:
- MLP. 3 - Citizenship for the Media Law and Policy concentration
- GCS.2 - Visual Culture requirement for the Global Cultural Studies concentration
- DS.3 - Digital Projects and Digital Storytelling for the Digital Studies concentration
For more information on Media Studies course enrollment, please visit https://mediastudies.ugis.berkeley.edu/course-enrollment-information/ show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
45 reserved for Berkeley Students with 3 or more Terms in Attendance and Visiting Students not in the Pre-Collegiate Program
Textbooks & Materials
Associated Sections
None