ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA
THIS SUMMER 2006 Learn through critique and practice how the media create the san francisco bay area past
A UC Berkeley Summer Sessions course held in the Presidio of San Francisco
Students will learn to critically analyze how mass media (film, TV, Internet, computer games) affect the way in which we view and approach the past. To become fully media literate, students will also create a collaborative short digital movie using iMovie, focusing on the history and resources of the SF Presidio.
A 4-unit studio course held during the second 6 week UC Berkeley summer session. Count on all day Tuesdays and Thursdays July 6-Aug 10. This course satisfies the methods requirement for the UCB Anthropology major. The only prerequisite is the Introduction to Archaeology or its equivalent. More about the course......
The instructor meets for 1.5 hours twice a week lecture/discussion (Tues and Thurs 9-10.30 am), and a 4.5-hr studio twice a week (Tues and Thurs 10.30 am-12 pm, 1-4 pm). The location of the course is the ArchaeoCommons multimedia lab at the San Francisco Presidio. This lab is affiliated with the MACTIA (Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology), on the UC Berkeley campus. More about the Presidio.....
Free Transport from the East Bay to the San Francisco Presidio: All Summer Sessions students of UC Berkeley will receive a free Class Pass for AC Transit, providing unlimited use all summer long. This includes the bus that crosses the Bay to the SF Transbay terminal. Free shuttle buses go between the terminal and the Presidio during commute hours.
For information about registration and fees, go to the UC Berkeley Summer Sessions website at http://summer.berkeley.edu
