SOC DOC: Masters Degree in Social Documentation Application Deadline Approaching
Graduate Program in
Social Documentation
UC Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
Tel: +1-459-4706
Fax: +1-459-4979
[email protected]
http://socdoc.ucsc.edu
Friday January 15, 2010
beyond the story
THE PROGRAM
The UCSC Social Documentation Program is a two-year, full-time, graduate-level program leading to a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree. The program offers students a chance to develop expertise in various mediums, including film/video, audio, photography, and new digital media. Students learn how to translate academic interpretations of social life into effective, accessible and professional quality products.
Upon completion of the program, Master of Arts Degree holders will be qualified to enter documentary related professions such as documentary directing, producing or editing. Degree holders may work within industries such as public broadcasting or documentary film, as independent media producers, artists and teachers, or for archival centers, museums. Degree holders may also pursue a related PhD in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences.
The program is designed to provide opportunities for the graduate student who is actively committed to social justice to work on a full-time basis beyond the boundaries of the university. Master of Arts candidates build a curriculum around a required set of core courses that offer a foundation in the theory and practice of social documentary, elective courses in their substantive area of interest, and the creation of a two-year documentary project that is the final requirement of the degree.
See student work: http://socdoc.ucsc.edu/media/
FACULTY
The program has a required core curriculum in documentary production and representation as well as social scientific analysis and research. Soc Doc students work closely with a faculty of eminent professionals in the documentary field (production, criticism, theory), and draw from the expertise of affiliated scholars across the campus. Each student is assigned two faculty advisors, a creative advisor and a substantive advisor, to guide their project. Soc Doc faculty and lecturers include filmmakers/artists Sam Green, John Jota Leaños, Spencer Nakasako, and Tricia Creason-Valencia, graduate director and renowned documentarian Renee Tajima-Peña, film scholar and critic B. Ruby Rich, anthropologist Marcia Ochoa, and sociologist David Wellman. Our faculty members have exhibited their work at the Berlin, Cannes, Sundance, SXSW and Toronto film festivals, the Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, MOCA, and have been honored by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies, the National Emmy Award, the Peabody Award, the International Documentary Association, and Academy Award nominations, among other distinctions. For more information, please see http://socdoc.ucsc.edu/faculty/
TO APPLY
Students are admitted into the program each fall. Applications are completed online through the UCSC Division of Graduate Studies. For information about the application process visit: http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/prospective/
