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Melanie La Rosa

Registration info:

MEDP 290 Section 001
Code: 1949

Professor LaRosa

W 10:10-1 506HN

Writing intensive

Have a great story to tell but don’t know where to start?  Intrigued by the explosion of documentary films in theatres, on TV and on the Internet?  Madly curious to see what you could do with your digital camera and computer? In Developing the Documentary, students research and plan a documentary film they would like to make. Through a screening series in the first part of the course, students look at many common documentary storytelling techniques, including verite, interviews, poetic, broadcast news, personal diary, archival, recreations, animations, and more.  Students also learn character development, how to find a strong narrative in your story, and how to plan and present your idea on paper.

The course begins with screening series includes award winning and influential historic and contemporary documentaries, and, as time permits, look at newer trends in the field.  It then covers the basics of production -cameras, microphones, editing–and the business side of filmmaking–budgeting, copyrights, applying for grants, and preparing a treatment and proposal.   The course fulfills Hunter’s writing intensive requirement as students write brief reaction papers each week about films they are watching as well as a midterm and final.  Particular attention is paid to developing an awareness of visual style and choosing appropriate ways to craft an engaging and dynamic non-fiction film.

Interested students are encouraged to email Professor Melanie La Rosa asap to get permission to register.  Most students are in film or media department and are sophomores or advanced, but students from many departments and all levels have taken this class. Many listed pre-reqs are waived for motivated students.

Contact:

melanie.larosa@gmail.com

CODE: 4470

This course will explore how Asian American history and experience is defined by the law – topics will include legal regulation of Asian migration to the U.S., Japanese American internment and redress, Asian American voting rights, as well as the larger question of how legal decisions concerning Asian American civil rights have shaped the experiences of all Americans.

Instructor: Glenn Magpantay, Staff Attorney, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund

GLENN D. MAGPANTAY is a Staff Attorney for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Magpantay oversees AALDEF’s Asian American Election Projection efforts in fifteen states across the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest. In 2004, he coordinated the nation’s largest exit poll of Asian Americans surveying over 11,000 voters in 23 cities. He is a recognized authority on the federal Voting Rights Act and Asian American political participation, including bilingual ballots, election reform, minority voter discrimination, multi-lingual exit polling, and census). AALDEF has also filed briefs with federal and state courts in support of same-sex marriage and civil rights for lesbians and gays.

Magpantay has published scholarly legal articles, authored a number of reports, and has given commentary to numerous media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, CNN, and National Public Radio on the Voting Rights Act, bilingual ballots, redistricting, and Asian American voting patterns and political opinions.

He currently teaches the Race & the Law at Rutgers School of Law – Newark and a clinical seminar on Individual Rights and Representation at Brooklyn Law School. He serves as a Commissioner to the New York City Voter Assistance Commission and as a Steering Committee member of the Gay Asian & Pacific Islander Men of New York (GAPIMNY).

Magpantay attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook on Long Island, and graduated cum laude from New England School of Law in Boston – after being admitted as an affirmative action beneficiary.

Jennifer Hayashida, Acting Director

Asian American Studies Program

Hunter College, The City University of New York

695 Park Avenue, 1037 East Building

New York, NY 10065

212.772.5660

jennifer.hayashida@hunter.cuny.edu

BMCC    8/18

Baruch College        8/21

Bronx Community College   8/21

Brooklyn College 9/15

CCNY     8/21

College of Staten Island          8/26

Hostos Community College 8/28

Hunter College          8/28

John Jay College          8/27

Kingsborough Community College        9/8

LaGuardia Community College      8/28

Lehman College           8/25

Medgar Evers College       in -8/20   out- 9/6

New York City College of Technology   8/24

Queens College          9/3

Queensborough Community College       9/2

York College           8/27

Full details on the E-permit process can be found at http://web.gc.cuny.edu/cunyba/epermit.html

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