Sustainable Television: Producing Environmental Media

In this project-based course, we will collaborate to produce a nonfiction television program that addresses sustainability and environmental issues with the goal of showing the final program on local cable, online, and possibly on the PBS series Planet Forward. Students will collectively serve all roles in the project, from research and writing, to shooting and editing, creating a team-based environment, with screening and readings focused on the rhetoric of environmental media. Students will be selected by application to create a team with a range of experience and expertise. Prior video production or environmental studies experience is preferred but not required. (FMMC 0105 or ENVS 0211 or ENVS 0215 or approval of instructor; Not open to students who have taken FMMC 1019) 3 hrs. lect./lab