COM 351: Documentary Studies
Instructor: Dr. Norbert Elliot
Course Description: This course will allow students to study the methods by which documentary work is conducted and to complete a documentary project of their own. The course will connect the qualitative methods of the social sciences and the humanistic concerns of the arts by allowing students to study documentary subjects as captured by non-fiction, photography, film, tape recorder, and the world wide web. Special emphasis will be placed on narrative and metaphor.

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| Course Welcome Letter | File (HTML) |
| Course Syllabus | File (HTML) |
| Lecture 01: Getting Started | Video |
| Lecture 02: Connections for Research in the Social Sciences and the Humanities | Video |
| Lecture 03: A Guide to Philosophical Decision Making | Video |
| Lecture 04: The Research Proposal for a Documentary Project | Video |
| Lecture 05: Model Construction and the Preparation of Field Research | Video |
| Lecture 06: Masters and Interpretation | Video |
| Lecture 07: Photography and Documentary Studies | Video |
| Lecture 08: Oral History and Documentary Studies | Video |
| Lecture 09: Film and Documentary Studies | Video |
| Lecture 10: The World Wide Web and Documentary Studies | Video |
| Segment 02: From Frederick Marx to Boys to Men | Video |

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