Professor Justin West, M.F.A, Electronic Media

Degree and from where it was received:

M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst

Courses you teach: Video, Digital Imaging, Great Film Directors, Animation, Introduction to Electronic Media, Electronic Media Seminar, Introduction to Visual Media, Multimedia, Electronic Narrative.

Accomplishments (personal or professional): I started the Electronic Media Program at HCC in 1992. It has grown from one faculty member and three computers, to two faculty and 20 computers. In those ten years we've moved from our original quarters in a closet to our present 15-workstation Electronic Media Studio and our Video Studio in Donahue. The next couple of years may see us moving again to a new, state-of-the-art Media Arts Center in G-building. This, and the fact that students come back to visit us, is what I am most proud of.

Favorite thing about teaching: Seeing a student make that connection between something they have learned at College and something that is significant in their own lives.

Memorable moment at HCC: Perhaps the most memorable moment for me was when I was applying for my present position, I discovered that the Dean had taken a class with me when I was TA in graduate school.

Teaching philosophy: Teachers don't teach, they help students teach.

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