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Girl's Media Workshop Program - Summer 2009
Santa Fe Community College
Women's Media Institute
Girl's Media Workshop Program
The Girl's Summer Media Workshop (FILM 147A, CRN 10365, 3 credits) completed its second summer in a one week intensive that took place June 15-19. The program offers young women the opportunity to explore voice through film, video and alternative media. Students learn basic concepts of writing, producing, acting, documentary, editing, sound, cinematography, animation and web/podcasting. While students pay under $160 each (in-state/in-district tuition), the actual cost of the entire program runs $8,000.00 for one week of instruction.
Read about the Summer 2009 Girl's Media Workshop in the New Mexico Free Press.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
The objective of this program is to extend the knowledge and skill base of young women. The introduction to moving image arts provided by this program will afford participants an opportunity to expand their vision and encourage them to consider this field as a viable future. A broader objective is to provide them with the confidence and focus to embark on the pursuit of continued education and to extend an awareness of their options, including Higher Education in the various schools in New Mexico, including Santa Fe Community College.
EDUCATION AND SELF-ESTEEM
In Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, author Mary Pipher makes this startling statement: "Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls go down in droves. They lose their resiliency and optimism and become less curious and inclined to take risks." Numerous studies have corroborated this trend which, according to reports by the American Association of University Women, is exacerbated by an educational system that continues to favor male students.
MEDIA LITERACY
The hope is to create an environment of media literacy. Through our interface with popular media we form our opinions, make decisions about our lives. A community that makes media for its own demographic will help engender and empower itself. In our current world of media, over-saturation it is easy to become lost, to feel your voice can not be heard. Media literacy is the skill of reading the visual language of TV, film, and the internet. The best way to learn the skill of reading is to actively learn how to write. Reading and writing go hand and hand. In this new world of technology based education and recreation it is important to have the skills to communicate and succeed.
Development of the Women's Media Institute at SFCC
In Spring 2010 Santa Fe Community College will offer three new courses that focus on women. The courses will include the history of women in cinema, a class that focuses on altruism of self and subject and an intensive workshop format class that will teach new technologies in the areas of production and post-production. These classes will be offered to both sexes but will be designed to help women develop story, self confidence and learn the new technologies to create and complete their media projects.
We will actively seek funding for developing these programs over the next five years with the hope of developing along-side the women's studies classes a certificate program that combines media technology, entrepreneurship and altruism into a comprehensive choice of study.
For information on becoming a donor for scholarships or participating in an endowment for this program please contact Monique Anair at 505 428-1738.
For more information, please contact Sandra DuCharme, (505) 428-1421, filminfo@sfccnm.edu.