| 31 March |
- Course Introduction
- In Class Listening: Ira Glass, “Watching the Detectives”
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| Documentary Film and Video |
| 2 April |
| Required
Reading:
- Bill Nichols, "How Do Documentaries Differ From Other Types
of Film?"
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| 7 April |
| Required
Reading: |
| 9 April |
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| 14 April |
Required
Reading:
- Liz Stubbs, Documentary Filmmakers Speak (excerpts)
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| 16 April |
Required
Reading:
- Calvin Pryluck, “Ultimately We Are All Outsiders”
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| Literary Journalism |
| 21 April |
Required
Reading:
- Norman Sims, "The Art of Literary Journalism"
- Mark Kramer, "Breakable Rules for Literary Journalists"
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| 23 April |
Required
Reading:
- Gay Talese, "Of Things Unnoticed"
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| 28 April |
Required
Reading:
- Hunter S. Thompson, "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved"
- Guest Lecture: Mike Conklin
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| 30 April |
Required
Reading:
- Lee Gutkind, "The Creative Nonfiction Police"
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5 May |
Required
Reading:
- David Eggers, "Hitchhiker’s Cuba"
- JoAnn Wypijewski, "The Secret Sharer"
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Mid-Term Paper Due |
| Audio Documentary |
| 7 May |
Required
Reading:
- Daniel Makagon and Mark Neumann, “Writing Culture and Recording
Culture”
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| 12 May |
Required
Reading:
- Hildegard Westerkamp, “Soundwalking”
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| 14 May |
Required
Reading:
- Nieman Reports excerpts (pp. 6-21)
- Guest Lecture: Dan Weissmann, Vocalo
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| 19 May |
Required
Reading:
- Rick Moody, “The Construction of Humanism in Documentary Radio”
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| Documentary Photography |
| 21 May |
Required
Reading:
- Derrick Price, "Surveyors and Surveyed" (pp. 57-76)
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| 26 May |
| Required
Reading: |
| 28 May |
Required
Reading:
- Derrick Price, "Surveyors and Surveyed" (pp. 77-101)
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| 2 June |
| Required
Reading: |
| 4 June |
| Photography Presentations |
| 9 June |
| Final Papers Due by 3:30 |