What You Gain
Through Documentaries
- You will learn documentary technique. Novices will learn how to use equipment and software; those with more experience will hone their skills and deepen their understanding of documentary style and structure.
- You will learn how to think through documentary production, how to frame your question, how to elicit the information you need, how to construct an argument out of other people’s words and images. In short, you will learn how to understand the world and communicate that understanding.
Through Community Service and/or Internships
- You will learn about the issue that is at the heart of your work, whether it is immigration, homelessness, law or broadcasting, and you will learn about that issue directly and personally.
- You will learn the skills that your particular job requires, whether it is teaching or construction or office work.
- You will learn how you feel about the work. You may discover from working in a clinic that you don’t actually want to go to medical school, or you may learn from working in a classroom that teaching is the job for you.
Through Living and Traveling
- You will learn the basic life skills of cooking and cleaning and living with other people, and you will learn to make smart decisions about how to live your life.
- You will learn how to adapt to, and navigate, a new city.
- You will learn about three very different parts of America, and about what a big and varied country it is.