Introduction to digital video production covering documentary and informational video principles, style analysis, and core techniques including videography, scripting, producing, and editing.
Dexter Patterson taught this course with a focus on group and independent projects that offered significant creative freedom. Students described his lectures as quick and fun, though one noted the content sometimes felt uninteresting. Grading was characterized as extremely generous, and he was viewed as kind and passionate.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.83 GPA, 94.4% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.80 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=19 letter grades).
Documentary Photography for the Sciences trains students in visual storytelling and photographic thinking to communicate science, health, and the environment through portfolios and video stories.
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 80.4% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 97.7% A/AB (n=43 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.83 GPA, 95.3% A/AB (n=43 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.