With a world class faculty and up-to-date production facilities, Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies offers two undergraduate programs of study and an MFA degree in Integrated Media Arts. [more...]
Distinguished Lecturer Sissel McCarthy shared her passion for news literacy education at Columbia University’s Tow Center during its annual Educator’s Symposium on September 19, 2017. This year’s theme was “From Fake News to AI: Teaching Journalism in Contentious Times.” Professor McCarthy presented her work on teaching news literacy at the undergraduate level in a talk called “How to Spot Fake News and Stay News Literate”.
WilliFest – The Williamsburg Film Festival
is coming to Hunter College September 16-17
Admission: FREE to all CUNY students–CUNY ID is required at the door.
Entrance: Hunter College – 69th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues
Screenings: IDA K. Lang Hall HN 424 (fourth floor) Hunter North Building
*Sponsored by Hunter College’s Department of Film & Media Studies
Prof. Larry Shore was commissioned to design the exhibit and make a special short video for the Albert Luthuli Museum in Groutville, Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa. The museum is a National Heritage Site 40 miles North of Durban. Last year the museum opened a special exhibit to commemorate Chief Luthuli’s meeting with Senator Robert Kennedy on June 8th, 1966. Chief Luthuli was the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. At the time of the visit he was the banned president of the African National Congress. The exhibit is about the meeting.
Here’s a video from the museum:
