1. INDIVIDUAL WORK: Each student individually will do readings, be quizzed on them, and learn from all issues and experts. As individuals you will also develop a personal course portfolio that focuses on your individual learning as well as your documentary/research team experience. Your portfolio will include a reflective log (see below) as well as your final group project.

2. GROUP WORK: Each student will join a semester long 'documentary/research team' that focuses on one issue/expert visit. The five-person team will identify additional background materials and interview the visiting expert(s) as part of their research project. The documentary/research team also will produce a website with narratives and mini-movie(s) that present the issue, the original findings, how the public representations differed from the scientific representations, what the expert(s) said and what the 'documentary/research team' concluded about the issue and its representations. Groups will present their documentary website to the class at the end of the course.

Groups:
The core groups will each produce a film and a website which incorporates that film.  These will each focus on one major issue or theme in the course
and should connect with the course  objectives.  Each group member will have one of the following roles:
1. Key grip:  responsible for producing and arranging props, sets, lighting, sound, costumes, and sometimes graphics
2. Computer wrangler:  responsible for computer production of the iMovie and the website
3. Cinematographer/camera manager:  responsible for the camera and the shooting of film
4. Storyboarder/scriptwriter:  responsible for writing and/or editing film dialogue and for producing the storyboard for the film
5. Director/project manager: responsible for coordinating the group activities and assisting other group members in the accomplishment of their
responsibilities