AMD 360 - Documentary: History and Theory

Units: 3

Provides the foundational tools for understanding a wide range of nonfiction media. Explores creative documentary to uncover how messages in image, sound, and story are created and decoded. Uncovers how politics, history, art and ethics shape and are shaped by media. Reevaluates media, such as mobile phone movies, reality TV, the news, and streaming video clips, through the lens of the documentary genre.

Prerequisite(s): AMD 203.