CCAM Sponsored Courses

About

Through our Sponsored Courses program, the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) hosts courses from across the university, working with them to develop unique curricular experiences that activate our creative spaces and systems.

Application Process

Faculty teaching courses at Yale may email Dr. Matthew Suttor (CCAM Program Manager and Senior Lecturer, Yale College) to express interest. Faculty should reach out by the last day of fall break for the spring semester, or by the last day of spring break for the fall semester.

Please note:

  • Only CCAM Sponsored Courses will be offered teaching space at the center.
  • We do our best to balance demand and availability.
  • CCAM 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 highest 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.
     
  • Course meetings in the CCAM Leeds Studio (Room 103) or CCAM Computer Lab (Room 110), per 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 modest grant 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. These funds must be used within the semester that a given Sponsored Course is taught.

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 12 Mac workstations with BenQ color grading-capable monitors installed with Adobe Suite and DaVinci Resolve; other software may be considered by request)

Both the Leeds Studio and the Computer Lab offer a Q-SYS A/V setup with one large projection screen.

CCAM Sponsored Courses Fall 2025

TDPS 4012: Creativity: Strategies and Practices for Getting Unstuck
Taught by Elise Morrison & Matthew Suttor
Tuesdays, 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM

ART 2941/FILM 1610: Introductory Film Writing and Directing
Taught by Sahraa Karimi
Tuesdays, 1:30 PM – 5:20 PM

DRAM 244a: 3D and So Can You!
Taught by Joey Moro
Tuesdays, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

DRAM 254a: Advanced Projection Integrations
Taught by Joey Moro
Tuesdays, 11:00 AM – 1:20 PM

MUSI 4203: The Media of Sound: Experimental Approaches to Sound Recording and Media Design
Taught by Ross Wightman
Wednesdays, 1:30 PM – 3:20 PM

FILM 4930: Advanced Film Writing and Directing
Taught by Jon Andrews
Wednesdays, 9:00 AM – 12:20 PM

FILM 4550: Documentary Film Workshop
Taught by Charlie Musser
Wednesdays, 3:30 PM – 6:20 PM

ARCH 2222: The Mechanical Eye
Taught by Dana Karwas
Thursdays, 11:00 AM – 12:50 PM

FILM 1900: Modes of Thinking Through Media Making
Taught by Leighton Pierce
Thursdays, 10:30 AM – 12:20 PM

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