COMH 212 Social Justice Communication (Honors)

This faculty-led travel course takes students abroad to produce a documentary film about local changemakers in a foreign country. Students prepare for the trip at UT during the second half of the Spring semester, then travel to their destination over an extended May term to research, prepare, and produce a short documentary advocating a social issue through visual storytelling. Working under the guidance of UT professors and Actuality Media production managers, students also experience cross-cultural encounters with local food, art, history, commerce, and natural landscapes. In the following semester, students premiere their films as part of an Honors Symposium on campus. There are no language or production prerequisites for this course and its focus on media activism, public policy, and social entrepreneurship has the potential to appeal to students majoring in Communication, Entrepreneurship, Government and World Affairs, International Business, International and Cultural Studies, Public Health, and Sociology. Locations (such as Ecuador and Morocco) vary from year-to-year.

Credits

4

Distribution

(IG) (NW)