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 218 – HNRS 218 - Wording Pictures: Writing and Art (3-units)
The visual and verbal arts enjoy a long history of creative and intellectual affinity. Wording Pictures is an interdisciplinary creative writing studio that explores interconnections between the arts of text and image. Students will examine artistic representation across media. Drawing visual inspiration from course readings and viewings, museums, special collections, and community arts settings, students will develop creative, critical, and researched writings in both traditional and innovative forms. Each student's original writing culminates in a final manuscript that aligns perception, process, reason, research, and reflection.
HNRS 150B2 - Exploring Electronic Presence: From the Telegraph to Twitter and Beyond (3-units)
This course examines communication technologies and the history of electronic communication, and their relationship to the social sphere. We will examine the social impact of these technologies, especially how they disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. At the same time, we will focus on the persistent cultural beliefs that have been linked with communications technologies. Throughout the study abroad experience we will be comparing and contrasting our contemporary experience of ubiquitous communication and computing with how electronic presence has been experienced and imagined in the past.
