FTS 2605 C (CRN: 15480)

Film & Television Studies: Leahy Oral History Internship (C)

3 credit hours

About FTS 2605 C

Topics in film and video production. May repeat for credit with different content. Topics vary by offering; periodic offering at intervals that may exceed four years. Prerequisites: FTS 1300, FTS 1320, FTS 1400, FTS 1420, or FTS 1430.

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Prereqs enforced by the system: FTS 1420 or 1300 or FTS 1320, or FTS 1400 or 1430;; FTS majors, minors, and RDS minors only for the first week of registration or instructor permission System waitlisting enabled for this section

Section Description

Document the stories behind the legislation in this oral history project in collaboration with the UVM Libraries Silver Special Collections and the Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships. Senator Patrick Leahy represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023, making him the third-longest-serving U.S. senator in history. He championed legislation related to human rights and civil liberties, agriculture and food, environmental conservation, cyber security, rural development, and more. After 50 years in the Senate, there are a lot of stories. (Have you heard about the time he got Lake Champlain designated as a Great Lake?) In this class, we'll construct an oral history project built around interviews with dozens of staffers who worked with Senator Leahy. Over the course of the semester, you'll conduct two long-form audio interviews with two Leahy staffers, and then edit them down into short and compelling audio portraits. The full interviews will be archived with the Library Special Collections, and the short portraits will be published on a website. The goal is to find and highlight the "human stories behind the legislation." This class is for anyone jazzed about audio storytelling, oral history, documentary, in-depth interviewing, archiving and preservation, history, politics, and Vermont. If you want to take this class but are missing a pre-rec and want a course override, just email Kelsey at kkupfere@uvm.edu with a short note about why you’d like to take the class.

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