CAPPL 3500 Green Docs:Exploring Climate Change through Documentary Film
Our world is facing an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Stemming from widescale pollution, population expansion, habitat destruction, invasive species, and unsustainable overharvesting, it is a global crisis—categorized under the overarching umbrella of climate change—that affects all of us. This course brings together students across multiple majors and academic disciplines to critically examine—via documentary filmmaking—this massive environmental challenge facing our planet. Over the course of the semester, working in groups, students will create documentary shorts focused on an environmental issue they are passionate about, with topics ranging from local Cambridge-based subjects to those of a more national or international nature. In so doing, students will be exposed to the science behind the issues they are studying, while also learning the basics of planning, filming, and editing environmental documentaries through hands-on practice.