Focus Ellis Island

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The MCA Department in Partnership with Ellis Island and the NY Film/Empire State Development Office are offering this new exciting course with a focus on communities of New York State. Students learn to create stories about a particular ethnic community in the Sate of New York for publication on a multi-media platform using video, photographs, essay writing or journalism. With visits to Ellis Island and with assistance from the Community Relations branch of the Governor's Office of Film, students identify a particular ethnic group in New York, pitch story ideas, spend class time in the field researching, writing and/or video taping those stories, and then publishing them on an international multi-media platform: FOCUS ELLIS ISLAND. Events at Ellis Island celebrating the launching of the publications will follow. Pre-requisites are writing skills, some video, and interviewing skills. Class time will be shared between two professors (one film/video, and one journalism), an Ellis Island Historian, tour guide, and an outreach coordinator for the Empire State Development Office.