CCAM Sponsored Courses
About
The Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) sponsors courses from across the university to develop unique curricular experiences that activate the center’s creative and technical spaces.
These may include:
- A short-term collaboration, with the course meeting one to three times for a specific engagement or project, such as an end-of-semester class showing, or
- A semester-long collaboration, with the course meeting regularly at CCAM, and/or
- Access to the CCAM Equipment Checkout.
CCAM Sponsored Courses 2024–2025
Spring 2025
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ART 790: The Media of Sound: Experimental Approaches to Sound Recording and Media Design
Taught by Ross Wightman (CCAM Technical Manager and Curator, Sound Art Series)
Mondays, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM -
CDE 570: Humanities, Arts, and Public Health
Taught by Judith Lichtman
Mondays, 3:00 PM – 4:50 PM -
THST 359: Nature, AI, and Performance
Taught by Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager)
Tuesdays, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM -
AFAM 220/FILM 434: Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling
Taught by Thomas Allen Harris
Tuesdays, 3:30 PM – 6:20 PM (Class)
Wednesdays, 4:00 PM – 6:50 PM (Lab) -
DRAM 272b: Content Pre-Visualization and Advanced 3D Workflows
Taught by Josef Moro
Tuesdays, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM -
DRAM 254b: Content Capture and Manipulation for Designers
Taught by Josef Moro
Tuesdays, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Application Process
Faculty teaching courses at Yale may email Dr. Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College) to express interest.
The Sponsored Courses for the 2024–2025 academic year have been confirmed. For Fall 2025 courses, please express interest by March 24, 2025.
Please note:
- Only CCAM Sponsored Courses will be offered teaching space at the center and/or use of the CCAM Equipment Checkout.
- We will do our best to balance demand and availability.
- CCAM also sponsors courses taught by CCAM team members, which receive priority.
- Courses with a clear proposal to activate CCAM’s creative and technical spaces will receive full consideration.
Collaboration Details
CCAM Sponsored Courses receive:
- One one-hour consultation with a CCAM team member(s) to review the course syllabus and develop the scope and goals of the collaboration.
- One class visit by a CCAM team member to speak about resources and procedures, i.e. equipment and space use.
- Please note that we are not available to teach technical sessions, such as camera workshops, or class sessions.
- We are happy to recommend students to assist with such demonstrations; work-study or other payment is to be provided by the faculty member’s home department.
- Course meetings in CCAM’s creative and technical spaces, pending availability and scheduling.
- The opportunity to present a showing of student work from the course at CCAM at the end of the semester-long or short-term collaboration.
- Additional time, pending availability, in the designated CCAM space(s) for students to work on their assignments or projects associated with the collaboration.
- A grant ($100 for short-term collaborations, $400 for semester-long) distributed at the beginning of the collaboration, which may be used to assist with materials for use in the collaboration and/or to support inviting a guest speaker for the course. Purchases can be made by CCAM or transferred to the faculty member’s home department or school for funds distribution.
Available Spaces
The creative and technical spaces available to the CCAM Curriculum in Residence include the:
- CCAM Leeds Studio (a black-box studio equipped with motion-capture, projection-mapping systems, full-room video recording and live-streaming systems)
- CCAM Computer Lab (a classroom offering 10 Mac workstations with BenQ color grading-capable monitors installed with Adobe Suite, DaVinci Resolve, and other software by request)
Both the Leeds Studio and the Computer Lab offer a Crestron A/V setup with one large projection screen.