Program Overview
School of Communication
The School of Communication at Northern Arizona University offers a range of undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as minors and certificates.
Undergraduate Degrees and Programs
- Creative Media and Film, BS
- Communication Studies, BA
- Communication Studies, BS
- Journalism, BS
- Journalism and Political Science, BS
- Photography, BS
- Strategic Communication, BS
- Visual Communication, BFA
Minors
- Communication Studies
- Creative Media and Film
- Environmental Communication
- International Communication
- Journalism
- Organizational Communication
- Photography
Graduate Degrees, Programs, and Certificates
- Communication, MA
- Communication Studies
- Science Communication
- Certificates:
- Sports & Adventure Media
Documentary Studies
Documentarians creatively make nonfiction stories, producing stories that give shape and meaning to our understanding of culture, social life, and history.
Program Overview
The graduate program at Northern Arizona University's School of Communication provides a solid grounding in communication and the theoretical, critical, and practical traditions that inform documentary work. Students engage in intensive research and fieldwork, professional production skills in storytelling, and learn to critically analyze media in terms of both content and craft.
Program Goals
Students in this program will:
- Engage a theoretical and historical understanding of documentary as rooted in the traditions of creative storytelling and social critique.
- Apply heightened skills of observation, critical thinking, and creativity in telling stories about untold, under-reported, and under-represented issues and peoples.
- Create and distribute a variety of documentary projects in different forms at an advanced level.
- Realize that production tools and techniques are a means to author a unique point of view shaped by the documentarian's philosophical sensibilities and ways of perceiving the world.
- Gain tools for creating their own production business.
Faculty
- William Carter: Documentary filmmaking, photography, journalism
- Laura L Camden, MA: Documentary photography, multimedia and photojournalism
- Peter Friederici, MS: Science and environmental writing; oral histories
- Janna Jones, PhD: Cultural studies, cinema history, documentary and social change
- Kurt Lancaster, PhD: Documentary production, DSLR cinema, cinema raw, and multimedia journalism.
- Mark Neumann, PhD: Audio documentary and cultural studies
Location
The School of Communication is located in Building 16, 700 S. Knoles Dr., PO Box: 5619, Flagstaff, AZ 86011.