Program Overview

Program Overview

The provided context contains information about the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. The main program details are as follows:

DOCST 230S

Theory and practice of documentary photography in a small-town context. Students working in collaboration with one nearby small town complete a documentary photographic study of one individual or group within that town. Includes analysis of the documentary tradition, particularly as it relates to locally situated work and to selected individual projects; building visual narrative, developing honest relationships with subjects, responsibility to subjects and their communities, and engaging with and portraying a community as an outsider. Photo elicitation and editing techniques. Required participation in service-learning.

Enroll Consent

Instructor Consent Required

Curriculum Codes

• CCI
• R
• ALP

Cross-Listed As

• ARTSVIS 232S
• PHOTO 230S
• PUBPOL 389S
• VMS 224S

Typically Offered

Spring Only

Education

Undergraduate Education

• Undergraduate Certificate in Documentary Studies
• DOCST Course List
• Current and Upcoming Undergraduate Courses
• Doc+
• Full Frame Fellows Program
• Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professorship

Graduate Education

No specific details provided in the context.

Continuing Education

• Continuing Education Courses

Programs

• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
  • Full Frame Fellows Program
• Literacy Through Photography
• Doc+
• DocX

Exhibitions

• Current Exhibition
• Past Exhibitions

Opportunities

No specific details provided in the context.

Awards

• CDS Filmmaker Award
• Full Frame Fellows Program
• John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards
• Julia Harper Day Award for Documentary Studies