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September 4, 2003
Volume LV, Number 2
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Lack of a photography
class disturbs students
John Barclay
Staff Writer
Despite the kaleidoscope of
courses available at the university
this fall, including a Slavic lan
guage and a large spectrum of
philosophy and poetry courses,
UNCW will not have any photog
raphy courses open to general stu
dents.
Instead, access to the
University’s lone introduction to
black and white photography
class will be restricted to Art
Majors again.
Many students such as
Kathryn Osbourne, an English
Major and aspiring journalist, are
not pleased with the school’s
decision to not expand the class to
general students.
“How can you just ignore such
a large industry?” Osbourne said.
“Photography goes hand in hcind
with so many of the school’s sub
jects, it would be a very practical
idea.”
Photography is essential to
many of the school’s subjects.
Modem journalism is naked with
out it, the sciences constantly rely
on photography for documenta
tion and it lays the foundation for
advertising.
Although many other regional
schools have introduced extensive
photography departments,
UNCW has yet to progress. UNC-
Chapel Hill has a very extensive
documentary photogra
phy department,
arguably one of the
best in the nation.
ECU has its own pho
tography department
and even Cape Fear
Community College
offers both an intro
ductory and intermedi
ate course in the sub
ject, both open to gen
eral students.
Matthew Dols, the
current photography
instructor on campus,
sympathizes with the
concerns of students
like Osbourne. Dols is
also the executive
director at Tabula
Rasa, a non-profit community
darkroom and artist facility where
the current UNCW photography
course is taught.
“Photography is a part of mod
em society-it is everywhere you
look: billboards, magazines, tele
vision, everywhere, “ Dols said.
“You cannot offer a well rounded
education in the hberal arts with
out it.”
Donald Furst, professor of Arts
& Theater, acknowledges that the
lack of courses in photography at
a University of this size is odd. “I
came here many years ago from a
school with less than one thou
sand students, and we had a cou-
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There is
available
one photography class at UNCW! only
to Art Majors.
pie of photography classes a
semester,” Furst said. “Pure and
simple, it’s funding” Furst said.
Despite the current condition
of UNCW’s opportunities in the
field, there is a slow revitaliza
tion of the subject taking place on
campus. There is effort to intro
duce a digital photography
course to the catalog in the near
future. As for traditional black
and white photography, there is a
light at the end of the tunnel.
There will be a darkroom in
the new Cultural Arts building,
which is scheduled for comple
tion sometime in the year 2006.
Media Studio Opens
Sarah Broders
News Editor
UNCW officially opened its
brand new $400,000 Media
Production Studio/Classroom last
week.
The Lakeside Hall Media
Production studio/classroom was
unveiled to the university com
munity last Wednesday after six
years of planning.
“Work on planning the produc
tion studio/classroom began con
currently with the designing and
planning of Lakeside Hall,” said
Frank Trimble, professor and
chair for the Department of
Communication Studies.
Financial support for the pro
duction studio came from several
departments,including
Communication Studies, College
of Arts and Sciences, Public
Service & Continuing Studies,
Academic Affairs and the
Chancellor’s Office and Business
Affairs.
The 2,600-square-foot studio
is in Lakeside Hall, room 125.
The studio doubles as a class
room, and can seat up to 30 in its
stadium-seating style audience.
“It features fully integrated
digital technology, including
three digital studio cameras, a full
compliment of studio lighting,
and the capacity to broadcast or
switch live or live-to-tape,”
according to a recent press
release. The studio will also
enable students to edit and dub in
several different formats, and
integrate sound into the produc
tions.
The studio/classroom will be
home to UNCW-TV, SBTV and
TLN.
“In essence, it’s a digital pro
duction ‘laboratory’ where stu
dents will leam the theory and
craft of both electronic and tradi
tional storytelling,” Trimble said.
With the Media Production
Studio/Classroom up and ruiming,
a series of classes will be added to
the Communications Studies
course offerings. “To our suite of
field video production classes,
we’ll now add those focusing on
studio production, studio design,
studio directing and camera pres
entation,” Trimble said.
Some ofthe courses will be
open to the general university stu
dent population, but some of the
courses will be restricted to stu
dents in the program because of a
limited number of faculty.
Trimble says that the 524
Communication Studies students
are not the only ones benefiting
from the new studio/classroom.
“The studio will serve the univer
sity by allowing us to share with
viewers in a wide geographic
range, the accomplishments of
UNCW students.”
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Lakeside Hall now houses the new
studio which will be used by SBTV
and others.
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