The Production Studio will be closing on Thursday, December 12.

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

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.

Oral Histories of Domestic Workers, with Premilla Nadasen

A student interviews a domestic worker in the Media Center Studio 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

Deutsch 3012 Telenovela from IMATS @ Barnard on Vimeo.

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.

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