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Faculty & Staff Support

Course Support

We work with faculty to incorporate media into their curriculum, and offer in class workshops, support and resources for students working on course media projects. Want help incorporating media into your course? Email mediacenter@barnard.edu
See our past course collaborations below.

Past Course Collaborations

Podcasts from Race, Space and Urban schools, listen to the podcasts here

RSUS_Podcasts
The Media Center team worked with Professor Chandler Miranda and her students to help them record and develop podcasts that take listeners on a journey of the historic developments that have rendered New York City the largest and most racially segregated school district in the United States.

 

Pre College Program: Photography Focus on Queer NYC 

PCP summer photography
In summer 22' the Media Center taught a two session course photography course with a focus on queer NYC. Participating students received instruction on photography theory, science and basic dslr usage. Along with a historical overview of queer photography and portraiture.

Environmental Visualizations of NYC

Environmental Visualizations of NYC
During Spring 22’ Media Center team member, Mika Lungulov-klotz served as the research assistant and TA for this interdisciplinary seminar + workshop course led by professors Kadambari Baxi and Meg McLagan. The goal of this course was to develop new visual representations of the impact of environmental issues on New York City with a focus on the Greenpoint Oil Spill (1978), Newtown Creek;and Hurricane Ida (2021), Lower Manhattan.

African Communities in New York City

Intro to Podcasting
Media Center staff has partnered with Professor Abosede George for multiple semesters to provide podcasting modules focused on tech basics, interview practices and nonfiction audio project planning for her course that explores the history of voluntary migrations from Africa to the United States over the course of the 20th century.


NY in 10 Objects

Media Center staff collaborated with Professor Alexandra Horowitz to introduce and teach her students the creative possibilities of podcasting and audio editing. Helping them to learn a new storytelling medium that critically engages the city in which they live.

 

Shrinking Cities with Mary Rocco

 

The Media Center team hosted three workshops (video editing, audio recording, scripting and media management) for students making short documentaries in this course, led by Mary Rocco. The documentary projects, Shrinking Cities, were roughly 5-7minutes long and presented a narrative of a city’s history, decline, shrinkage and a revitalization effort.

 

Non-Fiction Digital Video Production with Meg McLagan

 

The Media Center team has provided TA’s to support Professor Meg McLagan with her immersive hands-on course designed to familiarize students with the techniques of shooting and editing video while they investigate various aesthetic and theoretical concepts related to nonfiction cinema. Rachel James, Mika Lungulov-Klotz, Joel Rader and Claudia Gohn have previously served as TAs.

 

Podcasting, Complicating Class Complicating Class: Education and the Limits of Equity with Rachel Throop

 

The Media Center team worked with Professor Rachel Throop to help her students develop podcasts that attempt at continuing and broadening the conversation that a failure to understand what social class is and how social class matters in daily life stops us from having needed conversations about the possibilities and limitations of schooling in addressing issues of equity and access.
Listen to season 1
Listen to season 2
Listen to season 3

Oral Histories of Domestic Workers, with Premilla Nadasen
 

Oral Histories
This project is with the course Maids and Madams: Nannies, Maids, and Care Workers in a Global Economy, which is also working with the NYC Damayan Migrant Workers Association (their mission is to organize and empower low-wage immigrant domestic workers). With instruction and assistance from the Media Center, students interview, record, and transcribe oral histories of NYC domestic workers. Skills: video production, video editing, interviewing

Telenovelas with Irene Motyl

Telenovela
A collaboration between Motyl's German language courses and the Media Center, students in this course produce German language telenovelas. They learn about the telenovela genre, video production and editing basics, and script, shoot, and produce short telenovelas all in German. These are collaborative student projects that demonstrate German language proficiency and knowledge of genre semiotics. Watch the video here
Skills: video production, video editing, storyboarding, scripting

American Monuments with Elizabeth Hutchison
 

Students in the class created short, research-based audio podcasts about a monument in New York City. They learned how to record and edit audio files, craft a compelling short audio pieces, and as a class, compiled into a larger map-based walking tour of NYC monuments.

Skills: audio recording, audio editing, podcast creation