Ethnographic Interviewing or equivalent field methods class is strongly recommended but not required. Students will study the goals, methods, and underlying scientific principles of conservation biology as well as the effectiveness of these conservation efforts given the realities of human population size, social and cultural values, and available funding. The seminar will consist of lectures, guest speakers, outside readings, discussions, student presentations, and an occasional field trip. This course will integrate history, production, and theory in a critical examination of experimental video as an art form, political tool, and social practice. Video's relationships to experimental film, Hollywood narrative cinema, and broadcast television will also be considered.
Coursework includes class discussion, lecture, papers, reading, screenings, and visual analysis.
In addition, students will undertake video production projects to develop their aesthetic, analytic, critical and conceptual acuity. To use such systems effectively, database developers need to understand how to describe their data and prepare it for storage in a DBMS, and they need to know how to use the facilities provided by the DBMS to analyze their data. Data modeling is a technique that enables database developers to describe what data will be stored in a DBMS for a particular application. This technique involves learning and using a graphical data representation language to build data models for a particular application. Data analysis methods enable users to retrieve information from a database and to combine it in ways that enhance its value.