Undergraduate Education - Student Opportunities at CDS

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Undergraduate Education Overview, Mission, and Learning Outcomes

Courses Offered for the Upcoming Semester – Fall 2008 Courses

Current and Past Semester Courses – Spring 2008 Courses

Instructors

Undergraduate Certificate

Documentary Studies Courses and Cross-Listed Courses

Lehman Brady Visiting Joint Chair Professor in Documentary Studies and American Studies

Student Opportunities at CDS

Student Opportunities at CDS

The Center for Documentary Studies encourages student involvement beyond the classroom. Work/study and volunteer positions are available, and a limited number of internships are offered through CDS programs.

Ongoing projects at CDS offer students resources, extensive learning opportunities, and related experiences. These include:

Literacy Through Photography, a project working in Durham Public Schools that offers undergraduates direct experience in local classrooms through a Duke course, Literary Through Photography;

Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South, an oral history research project and archive;

Youth Document Durham, a community-based documentary project;

The Documentary Happening, an annual gathering featuring workshops and screenings by students, faculty members, and emerging filmmakers, videographers, and documenary artists working in audio; and

Student Action with Farmworkers, an independent not-for-profit organization founded and housed at CDS that offers summer internships.

Students also may benefit from summer research grants and related support offered by CDS through the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards. These monetary awards help undergraduates attending area universities conduct summer-long documentary fieldwork projects.

Graduating seniors may be eligible to apply to the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program, which places recent Duke graduates in ten-month fellowships with international humanitarian organizations focused on the needs of young children, their families, and their communities. While abroad, Hine Fellows complete in-depth documentary projects to benefit the organization and communities served.

CDS among featured campus arts organizations in "The Arts at Duke" video. View video (1:30 minutes): Quicktime | Real Player

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Untitled, from the series Latino Pastimes—La Vida y el Fútbol. Photograph by William L. Plaxico, from the course "Documentary Photography and the Southern Cultural Landscape," taught by Professor Tom Rankin.