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Continuing Education Overview
Certificate in Documentary Arts
Weekend Courses & Summer Institutes
What Students Have to Say
Courses Offered for the Current Term – Spring / Summer 2010 Courses
Past Term Courses
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Overview
CDS offers a wide range of courses for adults who are interested in learning to do their own documentary work. These documentary arts courses, available through flexible admission with reasonable fees, involve instruction in photography, film and video, audio, and writing. Special topics and such subjects as documentary traditions, techniques, fieldwork theory, and the ethics involved in conducting and presenting documentary work are also offered. These hands-on courses help adults achieve their goals of completing a first project or refining an ongoing project. All courses are designed to help students explore concepts in documentary arts and apply them to their own work. This open-admissions adult education program includes the option of completing a Certificate in Documentary Arts, which requires a minimum of six sixteen-hour courses (or the equivalent) and the completion of a final documentary project. Most courses are offered during the evening or on weekends, to accommodate the schedules of working adults.
Certificate in Documentary Arts
The cornerstone of the CDS continuing education program is the Certificate in Documentary Arts. Enrollment in the certificate program is not required for students to take CDS courses; however, working toward a certificate provides a more formal process for involvement and for reaching specific goals. No prior educational specialization or expertise is required for enrollment in the program. Certificate students receive special invitations to events and other unique opportunities at CDS.
The certificate program establishes a process for engaging and empowering already motivated people to do the work they care about. Specific project goals, integral to the certificate program, create better opportunities for the successful completion of this work. In addition, certificate students can become part of a vibrant program with interested, supportive colleagues. Students are encouraged to think broadly about their projects. While most are photo, audio, or video projects, students have also completed multimedia projects, websites, books, and installations.
Weekend Courses & Summer Institutes
Summer intensive institutes and weekend courses offer both local students and those who live in other areas the opportunity to participate in the CDS documentary arts program. Photo, video, audio, and Literacy Through Photography institutes and an Intensive Introduction to Documentary Studies course are available during the summer months. Students may receive continuing education credit toward the Certificate in Documentary Arts for some of these short courses and institutes. Examples of work produced in these institutes are posted on the Duke University iTunes site under Student Showcase and the CDS website.
For information about financial support for summer 2010 Hearing Is Believing I audio institute: Eric Estes Memorial Scholarship
What Students Have to Say
“My first exposure to CDS was attending the final project presentation program of certificate candidates. It was so inspiring to experience the body of work and meet such enthusiastic students. Now I am pursuing my own certificate, learning new skills, and making lots of friends along the way. We are blessed to have CDS located here in the Triangle.”—Jon Parker, community organizer and certificate student
“I thought I would like this course but actually I loved it! I haven’t felt that level of passion for anything in a long time. I have learned so much. The comments/discussion with other students was fantastic—everybody had such good ideas. The presentations on the last day were amazing. . . . I’m sure that I’ll apply for the certificate based on this course alone.”—Sandra Stinnett, Introduction to Documentary Studies class, spring 2009
“The Center for Documentary Studies is unlike any other program out there. It is not a place that simply teaches you how to hold a camera and print an image, but a place that asks you to consider what you are photographing and who the work is for. The classes are taught by working professionals who deal not only with the technical skills required to photograph, film, or record, but the ethical and existential questions that arise throughout the process of in-depth documentary work. Your fellow students are not just documentarians, but psychologists, photographers, anthropologists, artists, community organizers, and social workers. Through its interdisciplinary curriculum, CDS offers not just a place to continue your studies, but an opportunity to explore and share the process of documentary work with a remarkable group of people who are themselves following the same journey.”—Anne Weber, certificate student
Courses for the Current Term – Spring / Summer 2010
FREE INFORMATION SESSION
April Walton
Prospective and current students welcome! Come and ask questions about courses at CDS, meet instructors, and learn about the Certificate in Documentary Arts.
Monday, February 8, 2010, 6–8 p.m.
Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 West Pettigrew Street, Durham, North Carolina 27705
Please register on-line for this free session using our new on-line registration system
For additional information, contact Continuing Education at the Center of Documentary Studies by calling 919-660-3663 or emailing cdscourses@duke.edu.
SPRING / SUMMER 2010
GENERAL INFORMATION / Course Levels and Lab Fees
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Documentary Studies courses are marked “All Levels,” “Beginning,” “Intermediate,” or “Advanced” to assist students in determining the most appropriate course in which to enroll. The specific designations are defined as follows:
1. All Levels: This course is open to all skill levels.
2. Beginning: No experience needed to take a course with this designation.
3. Intermediate: This level assumes students have taken the Intro class in the subject and are able to work independently with software or in the darkroom.
4. Advanced: This level assumes students have taken the Intro and Intermediate courses and have acquired a comfort level working independently with the medium.
Students are expected to supply their own equipment and paper, unless stated otherwise. A CDS lab fee of $85 is included in the cost of courses where indicated; this fee covers the use of darkroom and editing facilities for the duration of the course. Students who are enrolled in other courses and who wish to use these facilities must pay the $85 lab fee and complete registration/orientation with the CDS Photography and Digital Arts Associate in order to use the labs. Students need only pay ONE lab fee per term. Certificate students working on their final projects may pay the lab fee and use the lab(s) if they have enrolled in the Final Project Seminar within the calendar year.
Courses are filled on a first-come, first-served basis, and space is limited.
If you have questions, please contact Continuing Education at the Center of Documentary Studies by calling 919-660-3663 or emailing cdscourses@duke.edu.
• SPECIAL TOPICS & GENERAL INTEREST
• AUDIO
• PHOTOGRAPHY
• VIDEO
• WRITING ADVANCED PROJECTS SEMINARS
• REQUIRED COURSES
• SUMMER INSTITUTES To find out more about financial support for summer 2010 Hearing Is Believing I audio institute: Eric Estes Memorial Scholarship
Eric Estes Memorial Scholarship
Founded in 2006, the Eric Estes Memorial Scholarship Fund provides opportunities for individuals with limited financial means to participate in institutes and courses offered by Continuing Education at the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University. Currently, the scholarship fund provides tuition for Hearing Is Believing I: An Audio Documentary Summer Institute. One scholarship is awarded each year.
The Eric Estes Scholarship was established to honor the relationship between Valjeane Estes and her brother Eric. Jamie Dell'apa, founder of the fund, met Valjeane Estes as part of a fieldwork assignment in a week-long Hearing Is Believing summer audio institute at CDS. His interview with her, initially focused on Valjeane's commitment to teaching financial literacy to teenagers, shifted to the story she most wanted to tell: the inspiration she found in her brother Eric's passion for life—his sense of humor, his participation in the Morehouse College Men's Choir—as well as the impact on her life of his untimely death at the age of thirty-one.
Eligibility for the Eric Estes Scholarship requires a clearly articulated commitment to exploring a particular topic through the art of documentary audio. Preference will be given to applicants who are engaged in nonprofit or community-based work and who plan to put the documentary skills learned at CDS to use in their communities. Applicants need not have experience in the documentary arts, though they must have a clear sense of how their new skills can be put to work.
We seek applications from individuals whose work reflects the CDS mission (see below). Scholarship recipients will be asked to share the results of their documentary work with CDS, and they will be required to pay 10 percent of the cost of the institute back into the scholarship fund over time.
Scholarship applications are due on March 1, 2010. The audio program director (John Biewen), learning outreach director (April Walton), and Valjeane Estes will review the applications. Recipients will be notified by April 31.
In order to apply, please send an email to awalton@duke.edu (put "Eric Estes Scholarship" in the subject line) or mail the following information to April Walton, Eric Estes Scholarship, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 1317 W. Pettigrew, Durham, NC 27705.
ERIC ESTES SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
1. Please provide name, address, phone, and e-mail address
2. Why are you interested in attending the Hearing Is Believing I audio institute?
3. How do you intend to use the skills learned in the institute when you return to your home community?
4. How does your work connect with the CDS mission (see below)?
5. What are the financial circumstances that lead you to apply for support to attend the Hearing Is Believing I audio institute?
6. Please provide contact information for two individuals who are familiar with your work.
THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES MISSION
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture. CDS values documentary work that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. CDS promotes documentary work that cultivates progressive change by amplifying voices, advancing human dignity, engendering respect among individuals, breaking down barriers to understanding, and illuminating social injustices. CDS conducts its work for local, regional, national, and international audiences.
CONTRIBUTIONS
The Eric Estes Memorial Scholarship Fund provides an opportunity for institute participants and students in courses at CDS, as well as other interested supporters of the documentary arts, to make donations to carry on the work of the scholarship. The initial grant will fund the scholarship for three years. For more information about how to contribute:
Go to http://cds.aas.duke.edu/donate/
OR
contact
Lynn McKnight, Development, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, 919-660-3663 or llm@duke.edu
Banner photograph: Graduating CDS Continuing Education students, spring 2009 (from left): Lisa Marie Albert, Jennifer Carpenter, Jamara Knight, Margaret Morales, Jean Parker, Marcia Sutherland, Anne Weber. Composite photograph by Christopher Sims.
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