Welcome to the DOC 150 course blog.
In some ways, this blog is the most important tool of the course, and your work here will be the steadiest visible indicator of how you are doing and how you are contributing to the work in the course. Since we meet only once per week, our blog will be the main mechanism for keeping our conversation going during the long, lonely week when we are not in the same room together.
As suggested on the syllabus, you should contribute at least 2 or 3 blog posts per week, and comment on the work of others once or twice per week. More is welcome. This is the space where you 1) respond to the readings, 2) respond to the screenings, 3) respond to class discussions, 4) work out production and project issues, 5) share relevant ideas and experiences that come to you from outside our shared coursework but which you think enrich what we are up to. In short, you should strive to bring as much to the group as possible. You should be active.
To get you started, please create at least 3 separate original posts by Sunday, September 3 on:
- Describe yourself as a documentarian. What do you document? When? How much? Why? What do you do with the representations you create? What do you get from it
- Describe your own academic perspective and subjectivity. That is, what is your major? How do you see the world? How would you describe the way you approach issues or topics or potential stories? What issues and stories interest you? If you were to use documentary to advance your own disciplinary perspective, how might it be useful and what are you interested exploring? If you were to tell a story of a specific place in the Lehigh Valley, where would it be and why?
- Following the framing assignment, make a post that reflects upon the process of framing the world for 30 minutes non-stop. What did you see? What did you feel or think? What changed?