The Honors First-Year Trips: France/Spain

The Honors First-Year Trips: France/Spain

Multi-city, France/Spain

Program Facts

Program Type: UA Faculty-led

Credit Type: UA Direct Credit

Level of Study: Undergraduate

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Class Eligibility: Freshman

Program Open To: UA Students

Language of Instruction: English

Explore The Honors First-Year Trips: France/Spain

Multi-city, France/Spain

The First Year Honors Trip is an unforgettable experience to go abroad while earning 6 units of Honors General Education credits early in your collegiate career. The Honors Trip curriculum and assignments will be based on the national Honors Colleges’ “City as Text” curriculum: immersive, experiential, and hands-on learning that enables students to generate, analyze, and assimilate the cultural and academic material they encounter. Student can choose from two great programs for Summer 2023, France and Spain or Italy and Ireland. Please apply for your first choice trip. Your application will automatically be considered for both first-year trips, with preference towards your opened application.

Participants must follow country COVID-19 requirements for U.S. travelers.

Academics

France and Spain with Dr. Bryan Carter and Professor Joseph Farbrook

July 10- August 9th, 2023

In the spring (seminar course), students will learn to use specialized equipment and software to capture and produce interactive documentary experiences. This will include VR, AR, and XR capture and assembly, photogrammetry, GPS location marking and tracking, video and audio editing, website building, and live broadcasting. On location, students will implement these acquired skills to create immersive interactive documentary experiences. This will include critical thinking and writing components to present these experiences using well-organized and deliberate methodologies. The combination of cultural immersion, digital storytelling, and location-based augmentation makes this trip not only unique but also one that will raise awareness of the field of Digital Humanities.

Courses:

All students will earn 6 units of general education credit by participating in this program in the following:

HNRS 160D: Honors Quest (3 units), Tier I TRAD

HNRS 208: Advanced Critical Thinking and Writing for Honors Students (3 units), Tier II Humanities

*These do not qualify for the diversity credit.

Location

France and Spain with Dr. Bryan Carter and Professor Joseph Farbrook

July 10- August 9th, 2023

In Paris, students will visit both traditional locations such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre museum, George Pompidou Centre, Musée d'Orsay, and the Notre-Dame Cathedral, as well as nontraditional locations such as the Catacombs, Bellville, jazz clubs, immigrant communities, ethnic restaurants and neighborhoods, African American Paris, and culturally related experiences. In Barcelona, we will visit Gaudi architectural locations such as La Sagrada Familia, Casa Mila, and Park Guell, and cultural experiences such as the Picasso Museum, Las Ramblas, the Gothic Quarter, music clubs and festivals.

Housing

Students will either stay in fully equipped multi-bedroom apartments or in twin occupancy hotel rooms.

Application Instructions

The deadline to apply for this program is October 1, 2022. Scroll to the bottom of this page and select the "Apply Now" red button.

Dates, Deadlines & Budgets

Term: Summer

Application Deadline: October 1

Start Date: July 10

End Date: August 9

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