Program Overview
"Three campuses. Three Communities. Infinite Stories."
Documentary Storymaking provides students with opportunities to enhance their academic work in a variety of fields by exploring documentary perspectives and community-based practices. The minor offers a foundation in the theory and ethics of documentary storymaking and requires that students produce numerous projects.
The Documentary Storymaking minor emphasizes hands-on experience and fosters students' understandings and abilities to create meaningful stories for diverse audiences. Required and elective courses also consider how documentary research and practice informs and impacts the issues, concerns, and futures of different communities, including the Lehigh Valley.
An integral feature of the Documentary Storymaking minor is the collaboration amongst faculty and students from different LVAIC schools, including Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, and Lehigh University.
Read more about the program here:
http://docstorymaking.com/
Requirements
The minor consists of 3 required courses: Doc 150, Introduction to Documentary Storymaking, Doc 250, Legal and Ethical Issues in Documentary Storymaking, and Doc 370, Capstone in Documentary Storymaking. Additionally, students complete two approved electives, one of which is production focused. Read more about course descriptions and requirements.
For more information about the consortial minor, contact the program director: Lora Taub-Pervizpour, ltaub@muhlenberg.edu or 484.664.3880.
For help with cross-registration through LVAIC, see the LVAIC website
here.
The Minor requires a minimum of five courses. Of those five, three are required:
DOC 150 Introduction to Documentary Storymaking
DOC 250 Legal & Ethical Issues in Documentary Practice
DOC 370 Capstone in Documentary Storymaking
Electives will be chosen with consultation of adviser; electives include:
HIST 337 History and Community Memory (Lehigh)
JOUR 024 Visual Communication (Lehigh)
JOUR 141 Photojournalism (Lehigh)
JOUR 230 Multimedia Storytelling (Lehigh)
COM 231. Documentary Research (Muhlenberg)
COM 344. Documentary Film & Social Justice
(Muhlenberg)
COM 389. Documentary Photography (Muhlenberg)
COM 431. Documentary Field Work
(Muhlenberg)
FAMS 201: Making Media I (Lafayette)
FAMS 202: Making Media II (Lafayette)
FAMS 340: Documentary Film (Lafayette)