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The VAST Video Collection is Alexander Street’s
premiere collection of academic video content. Experience hundreds of hours of
online videos streamed to your desktop. Containing 22 individual
discipline collections totaling 20,000 titles of high-quality content by
2013, VAST is a one-stop multidisciplinary solution that brings video to
many departments.
Videos in the VAST
collection can be embedded in D2L course content.
Please view this step-by-step
procedure for the recommended method to provide
access both on and off campus.
Discipline collections
included in VAST:
American History in Video
American History in Video
provides the largest and richest collection of video
available online for the study of American history.
It contains commercial and governmental newsreels,
archival footage, public affairs footage, and important
documentaries.
Area Studies Video Online
Area Studies Video Online
covers Middle Eastern studies, Latin American, African,
Eastern European, Asian, and other global communities.
The collection includes films focused on cultural,
political, and socioeconomic issues and provides an
interdisciplinary resource for every region of the
world.
Art and Architecture Video Online
Art and Architecture Video
Online will grow to be the largest streaming video
resource of its kind. The collection includes
biographies, profiles of contemporary artists and
architects, interviews, surveys of art history,
aesthetics, theory, and criticism.
Business and Economics in Video
Business and Economics Video
Online focuses on the study, analysis, and application
of commerce in all of its dimensions. Included are case
studies, documentaries, interviews, biographies,
lectures, and instructional videos. Subjects covered
include marketing, sales, finance, macro &
microeconomics, personnel management, logistics &
operations, strategy, negotiations, theory,
cross-cultural issues, social media marketing, ethics,
project management, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in
Video provides the largest and richest online collection
of video available for the study of counseling, social
work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric
counseling.
Criminal Justice and Law in Video
Criminal Justice and Law in
Video contains hundreds of documentaries, investigative
reports, interviews, instructional videos, and primary
footage. Key themes covered in the collection include
Administration of Justice, Criminological Theory, Law
Adjudication, and Law Enforcement.
Dance in Video
Dance in Video contains five
hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by
the most influential performers and companies of the
20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz,
contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance,
as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of
modern concert dance.
Education in Video
Education in Video is the
first online collection of streaming video developed
specifically for training and developing teachers. It
contains hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures,
documentaries, and primary-source footage of students
and teachers in actual classrooms.
Ethnic Studies Video Online
Ethnic Studies Video Online
provides a collection of films documenting the struggles
and triumphs of underrepresented, indigenous, and
immigrant communities. Covering Native American Studies,
Chicano Studies, African American Studies, the films
present issues of social justice, racial and
socioeconomic inequalities, and the groups’
contributions to history, culture, and society.
Ethnographic Video Online
Ethnographic Video Online
provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for
the study of human culture and behavior. The
collection covers every region of the world and features
the work of many of the most influential documentary
filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews,
previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study
guides, and more.
Health and Healthcare in Video
Health and Healthcare in Video
defines and explores today’s latest medical progress in
health and wellness issues-- with hundreds of premium
documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews.
Humanities Video Online
Humanities Video Online
provides a multidisciplinary collection of films with a
broad range of titles in the Humanities and Social
Sciences.
Opera in Video
Opera in Video will contain
five hundred hours of the most important opera
performances, captured on video through staged
productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections
represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and
opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the
operatic canon.
Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video
Philosophy and Religious
Studies in Video includes carefully selected
documentaries, debates, personal interviews,
biographies, and other primary source footage. Spanning
from the Ancient Greeks to the Frankfurt School, from
Hinduism to Christianity, from Classical Chinese
Philosophy to American Pragmatism, the collection covers
a broad range of perspectives essential to the study of
philosophy, religion, current affairs, anthropology,
international relations, history, and more.
Politics and Current Affairs Video Online
Politics and Current Affairs
Video Online is a unique streaming video resource
featuring a collection of issue-based documentaries from
around the world. Covering Immigration and Border
Studies, Middle East Studies, Urban Studies, Political
Science, Globalization, and Human Rights, the films
focus on the key issues and events of recent global
history.
Psychology Video Online
Psychology Video Online
provides key films in the discipline of Psychology. The
collection provides documentaries, interviews, case
studies, and psychological experiments. Topics covered
include addiction, group psychology, feminist
psychology, family psychology, children & adolescent
psychology, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder,
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and
post-traumatic stress disorder.
Science Video Online
Science Video Online delivers
a comprehensive streaming video resource for the study
of Scientific disciplines. The collection of films will
cover Environmental Studies, Natural History, and the
Physical and Biological Sciences-- including coverage of
Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geology, Oceanography,
Ecology, Astronomy, and Geography
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
is the most extensive video collection ever assembled in
the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease
management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical
fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise
adherence, and much more.
Theatre in Video
Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive
performances of the world's leading plays, together with
more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming
video - more than 500 hours in all, representing
hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Women’s and Gender Studies Video Online
Women's and Gender Studies
Video Online provides films covering the study of
gender, feminism, women’s history, media studies, and
politics. The collection addresses issues of social
justice, gender/sexual identity, gay and lesbian
studies, and provides insight into the contributions of
women to history, culture, and society.
World History in Video
World History in Video is a
wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed
documentaries that allow students and researchers to
explore human history from the earliest civilizations to
the late twentieth century. The video content offered
here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the
Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
World Languages and Literature in Video
World Languages and Literature
in Video provides a growing collection of documentary
films and adaptations covering the leading figures in
world literature. Selections cover studies of languages,
cultures, and literary traditions— including French,
Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Latin
America. Through interviews, biographies, and surveys of
regional literatures and literary periods, the database
offers researchers and students a comprehensive resource
for study of literature through time and around the
globe.
Featured functionality:
-Create and share custom clips and
playlists
-Speed-browse the video with a visual Table of Contents
-Synchronized scrolling transcripts run alongside the
video
-Search the transcript while watching, and jump forward
and backward in the video to your hit
-Cite whole videos or your individual custom clips using
permanent URLs
-Embed the links in course packs, email, share them, put
them in presentations and papers
-Mobile access (iPhone, iPad, Android)
You may access VAST from anywhere
with a valid APSU ID.
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