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
Pre College Program: Photography Focus on Queer NYC
Environmental Visualizations of NYC
African Communities in New York City
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
Telenovelas with Irene Motyl
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