Oral history is a powerful documentary form and collaborative process that crosses fields including human rights work, anthropology, history, visual art, brand strategy, filmmaking, and journalism to name a few. Oral history offers interviewers of all stripes an ethical framework and a set of best practices for recording complex human stories with consideration for reciprocity, accessibility, shared authority, consent, intersubjectivity, and memory/myth. In this combined seminar/studio course, we engage with theoretical readings drawn from the field of oral history and adjacent fields (psychoanalysis, trauma studies, disability studies) as we explore the strengths and limitations of oral history and what, specifically, makes this methodology different from other interview approaches and styles. After surveying archival collections, we examine oral history-based works in museums, magazines, films, public health reports, and theater spaces. Our training, which covers interview practice, recording tutorials, listening exercises, discussions of trauma, collective memory and archival resistance, will serve as a foundation for a culminating project that embodies and/or challenges oral history methodology. Pre-Requisite: Media Design (NMDS 5008) or instructor permission. Media Studies courses are open to all graduate students. Undergraduate Juniors and Seniors with permission from the instructor and BA/MA Media studies students should email mediastudiesadvising@newschool.edu for access.