This 2.0 unit cross-disciplinary media development course will introduce students to best practices for the goal-setting, planning, production and distribution of content-based, digital media projects. The course will discuss concepts that will best communicate the change students would like to see in the world. Topics may include storytelling, interviewing, creating your vision, understanding emotion and breaking through the media haze. In-class hours will be spent discussing strategy and time will be allotted outside of the classroom to learn the media tools with the assistance of the digital media commons. Projects will be based on the students own interests and should intersect with coursework or activities outside this course. To build their understanding of the concepts in communicating for change, students will develop personal blogs, create a digital story and present with new media tools in class. Finally, students will develop individual "intersection projects" that combine their personal, academic and/or professional interests with the skills learned in the class. The tools used to make these projects will be determined by the student, taking into consideration the skill level of the individual.



Available to all Institute students, the course addresses cross-over issues and skills linking policy, business, languages, translation and interpretation.