Spring 2025
NWMEDIA 290 004 - LEC 004
Special Topics in New Media
Documenting the World: New Media, Documentary Film and the Production and Dissemination of Academic Knowledge
Clancy Wilmott
Class #:19449
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
New Media Graduate Group
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
14
Enrolled: 6
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 20
Waitlist Max: 10
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 to 8 hours of outside work hours per week, and 1 to 4 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week.
Other classes by Clancy Wilmott
Course Catalog Description
See Schedule of Classes for current section offerings. Topics deal with new media and related issues.
Class Description
This course introduces graduate researchers to the theories and traditions of documentary film-making as a mode of academic research and dissemination. It crosses analogue, digital and new media forms, with a focus on the production and representation of space, place and environment, documentary techniques including expository, fly-on-the-wall, reflective, and participatory modes, storytelling, narrative and rhetorical forms, and the history of radical and academic documentary traditions.
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
Guide to Open, Free, & Affordable Course Materials
Associated Sections
None