Keely Kernan is a documentary filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist whose work explores environmental issues, globalization, identity, community, and the natural resources that sustain our daily lives. Using a methodology that combines investigative research, immersive fieldwork and visual storytelling, her work examines the complex relationship between communities, landscapes, and the forces that shape them.
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Documentary, Critical Pedagogy
Teaching
courses taught
CMDP 2500 - Media Practices I
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Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
Working in design groups, students will explore the expressive potential of media through the production of short projects, discussions, readings, formal analysis, and critique. Provide a basic introduction to media practices as an extension of "visual thinking" and through approaches to storytelling, and hybrid media forms.
CMDP 2510 - Critical Media Practices Workshop I
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Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Training in narrow topics of media practices.
CMDP 3400 - Media Aesthetics
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Summer 2024
Builds students' ability to watch, reflect on, and write about media images. The course will be grounded in the analysis of media practices with special focus on media style and storytelling techniques. Explores media aesthetics from formal, cultural, and theoretical perspectives. Formerly CMDP 2400.
CMDP 3600 - Media Practices II
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Fall 2024
Focus on developing an understanding of the principles, forms and aesthetics of media production. Working in design groups on small-scale media preproduction and production exercises, screenings and critiques, students learn creative solutions to problems in realizing expressive media projects. Formerly CMDP 2600.
CMDP 3700 - Digital Photographic Practices
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Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024 / Fall 2024
Explores the creative possibilities of photography; students work on projects that combine concepts and techniques with contemporary practice and current modalities of exhibition and social distribution. Emphasis is placed on the student's personal growth through aesthetic and intellectual development in relation to current technologies. Formerly CMDP 3500.
CMDP 3800 - Documentary Media Poetics
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Fall 2024
This course serves as the gateway to the Documentary Media concentration. Investigates documentary cinema and media practices through class discussions, research papers, hands on exercises and screenings. Cross-references documentary photography and moving-image documentary in the production of short digital projects. Explores the distinctive contributions of digital technologies to documentary image making.
CMDP 4900 - Media Practices Capstone
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Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
This Media Production capstone course explores the application of new media technologies in depth and engages students in an ongoing dialogue about the cultural context of new media technologies and their own work. Students will produce a major media project that synthesizes methods of media making into modes of communication and expression. Students are encouraged to take this course during their final semester.
CMDP 4931 - Internship
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Fall 2022 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
JRNL 2001 - Fundamentals of Reporting Technologies
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Spring 2020 / Fall 2021
Develops news-gathering skills for work in news enterprises. Students learn skills for working with technologies used in news reporting and in storytelling for various media formats. Students are introduced to a range of technologies for recording, editing and producing. Students encouraged to take concurrently with JRNL 2000.
