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* Focus Program: The Arts in Contemporary Society course cluster
Digital Photography (ARTSVIS)
This course examines and dissects the complex role of photography in contemporary culture. Instructor William Noland, will lead discussions on the mechanics of taking photographs, that will be complemented by historical and theoretical readings. Students will use digital cameras, and digital printers to photograph, edit and produce finished essay/projects centered on the ways in which photography intersects with art, history, news and the social landscape. Students will use iPods to import, archive, and display digital photographs. They will also use their iPods to record field notes accompanying their digital photographs.
Culture, Science and Technology (CULANTH 49S.02)
In this course, taught by Richard Collier, students are required to perform an original field research project. ipod devices will be used to record personal observations as well as interviews with field informants. Students may share segments of these interviews during class discussions.
Senior Distinction Seminar (CULANTH 195S-01)
The Cultural Anthropology Department offers an intensive and personalized graduation with distinction program to qualified seniors, who research a senior theses on a topic of their choice. In this seminar, the first half of a two-semester course taught by Richard Collier, students are required to perform an original field research project. ipod devices will be used to record personal observations as well as interviews with field informants. Students may share segments of these interviews during class discussions.
Principles of Computer Science (COMPSCI 1)
In the laboratory section of this course taught by Assistant Professor Jeffrey Forbes, students will use iPods to manipulate audio data in various ways. Students will write Java programs to create audio content (audio "collages" consisting of sections of music). Accessing, searching, and manipulating audio with Java programs will provide a relevant and engaging programming experience for students. In addition, students will learn about different kinds of music compression, both lossless and lossy, and the iPods will allow students to perform experiments evaluating the impact of different compressions schemes on sound file quality. Students will also use the iPods to store, transport, and submit the large files associated with their multimedia class projects.
Imagining the Self (EDUC 170S)
In Jennifer Ahern’s Education 170 course, Imagining the Self, students investigate the concept of vocation as it applies to practice, passion and perspective. Students will use iPods to record interviews of people about their occupations and share that information in group work with their classmates. Their final written project will include transcribed interviews made with the iPods.
Literacy, Writing, Tutoring (EDUC 170S)
In this course, taught by Vicki Russell, students will use iPod devices to record tutoring sessions they observe. The recordings will then be used in class discussions to review and evaluate tutoring strategies. Students will also record their own tutoring sessions, which they will later listen to and comment on in journals kept for the class.
Living Downstream: Ethics, Communities and Urban Water Conservation (ENVIRON 181)
In this freshman FOCUS seminar, Professor Sally Schauman will lead students in looking at how American communities address water problems, such as flooding, shortages, declining aquatic species and degrading water quality. For a class project, students will use a microphone attachment on their iPod to record interviews with local residents and take verbal notes in the field. Students will also use excerpts of this material in group presentations on their projects.
Intermediate French (FRENCH 63)
Professor Laura Florand will pilot the use of iPods in her section of Intermediate French. Her students will use their iPods to listen to textbook materials as well as a wide variety of French language songs, vocabulary and authentic speech examples. Professor Florand will record presentations and dialogues for student use, and she plans to also implement student speaking assignments using the iPod and microphone attachment, for practice and evaluation.
Elementary German (GERMAN 1, 2 and 14 )
Professor Elise Mueller and the teaching staff of German 1, 2 and 14 will explore the use of iPods to provide students access to a wide variety of German language songs, vocabulary and authentic speech examples. The instructors will record presentations and dialogues for student use, and they will also implement student speaking assignments using the iPod and microphone attachment, for practice and evaluation.
Integrated Oral Communication (GS 320B)
In this oral communication class for non-native speakers of English, students improve their speaking and listening skills while exploring themes of American culture. In addition to weekly in-class use of the language lab, this year Professor Edith Allen will introduce a new component, in which students use iPods with microphone attachments to conduct interviews in English on campus and in the community. Through the collection of family immigration stories and examination of the effects of family heritage on subsequent American generations, students will explore highly relevant themes of cultural identity, gain oral practice and become more comfortable initiating conversations in English with nationalities other than their own. In addition, iPods will be used to record and review student participation in group discussions and provide listening practice outside of the lab and classroom setting.
Academic Writing I (GS 320A)
In this introductory academic writing course for international graduate students, taught by Professor Diane Bryson, students develop their English skills through reading, discussing, listening and writing. Issues related to academia are explored, from specific topics related to writing (such as plagiarism) to general topics related to the experiences of international students in a western academic setting. This year, the introduction of the iPod as a course tool will allow students to record interviews with faculty and embed quotes in documents. Vocabulary acquisition is an underlying component of the course and will be facilitated using flashcards on the iPod. In other activities, students will summarize podcasts and group discussions that were recorded using iPods.
Academic Presentations (GS 321B)
This course, taught by Professors Maria Parker and Janet Maceda, helps international graduate students advance their oral English skills through the practice of formal presentations and seminar discussions. In addition to regular videotaping of speeches, the use of iPods with microphone attachments will allow students to record their presentations and discussions for self-analysis and to upload to Blackboard for peer evaluation. The regular recording of student work will also allow the instructors to provide more frequent and substantive feedback on pronunciation and content.
Advanced Hindi (HINDI 125)
In this advanced Hindi language course, Professor Satendra Khanna includes a wide variety of film and literature examples to increase student engagement with authentic language and culture. This year, students in the course will expand their contact with authentic language even further by using their iPods to record weekly samples of actual Hindi in use at various South Asian diaspora sites in the Triangle. The language samples will be analyzed in class and will allow the incorporation of important locutions and vocabulary in student coursework. The new iPod assignments will allow students to encounter the real language in real use and will require them to adapt to this Hindi-using environment, rather than using language that is pre-filtered and simplified. Such exposure to Hindi in current use in the diaspora will have dynamic consequences for Hindi instruction in the classroom.
Intermediate Italian (ITALIAN 63)
Professor Claudia Karagoz will pilot the use of iPods in one section of Italian 63. Her students will use the iPod to enhance the development of oral comprehension skills and increase exposure to authentic language and cultural materials. Students will subscribe to podcasts distributed by Italian media sources; they will practice and develop oral skills through the recording of journals and a course 'radio program.'
Intermediate Italian (ITALIAN 76)
In this course, Professor Luciana Fellin with explore how the iPod can be used to enhance the development of students' oral comprehension skills and increase exposure to authentic language and cultural materials. Students will subscribe to podcasts distributed by Italian media sources; they will practice and develop oral skills through the recording of journals and a course 'radio program.'
Perspectives on Information Science & Information Studies (ISIS 100)
In this course, Professor Richard Lucic will examine how new methods of information gathering, processing and transmission affect intellectual property policies, understandings of ethics and the physical form of information. Students will use the iPod to review recordings of guest lecturers from a variety of disciplines, will use Podcasting and other technologies to share comments and discussion overviews, and to transfer files for digital multimedia assignments.
Music & Words in Contemporary Society Music (MUSIC 48S)
In its exploration of musical sounds and languages, Stephen Jaffe’s course in part examines the ways in which technology mediates the use and creation of music. Topics are selected from a broad range of musical styles and purposes, including sacred music, music for the theater, music for concert use, and music as an agent of social change. In addition to assigned listening projects through Duke's Music Media Center, and through streaming sources, students will be asked to use iPods to seek out new repertoire in each of the assigned areas, and to create projects for class presentation. Attendance at events and guest visits of performing artists and composers will allow the class to experience first hand how the marriage of music and words can create powerful and expressive new statements.
Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 43S-01)
In this course, taught by Grant Ramsey, class discussions will be recorded and made available for students to review as they write short reflection papers based on the class discussions. The instructor will also record and make available “mini lectures” before class that will contextualize the readings and pose questions for the students to think about while reading. This will allow class time to remain in the open discussion format, while at the same time providing students with the necessary background. In addition to the mini lectures, students will download collections of audio lectures and discussions on their iPod devices.
Development of Congress as an Institution (POLSCI 146)
In this course, taught by Michael Tofias, students are using their iPod devices to listen to congressional debates, keep to date with current events in congress, and produce short audio clips as reading responses that circulate amongst the class. Students will also use the hard drive function of the device to store files for class presentations.
Functional Anatomyof the Human Brain (PSY146S)
Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain, taught by Professor S. Mark Williams, is an introduction to the structure of the human brain and spinal cord. In order to study the organization of the major neural systems underlying sensory, motor and cognitive function, students are faced with the formidable task of learning myriad new and unintuitive terms to describe brain structures. To facilitate this process, students will use photo-enabled iPods to access a visual glossary of human neuroanatomy. This glossary was created by Professor Williams and his colleagues, Professor Leonard E. White and Andrew C. Mace and is based on their published line of Sylvius neuroanatomical interactive reference tools. The iPod version of the Sylvius glossary comprises approximately 500 structures and terms. For each term, the student can access a description of the term, information on brain structure location and function, audio pronunciation, links to related terms and high quality brain images optimized for the iPod photo display. Students will use the Sylvius glossary and brain atlases on their PCs, but having access to the content via the iPod will greatly facilitate the rapid mastery of neuroanatomical nomenclature necessary to progress in this course.
The Insurgent South (PUBPOL 166/ HISTORY 166A)
In this course, taught by Robert Korstad, students will use iPods to expand their understanding of the “Insurgent South” by listening to speeches by such notable figures as William Jennings Bryan, Franklin Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King Jr. Students will also analyze songs sung by labor and civil rights activists and listen to extensive collections of digitized oral history interviews to supplement their readings.
Elementary Russian (RUSSIAN 1)
The professors of this course, JoAnne Van Tuyl and Dana Cojoracu, plan to expand students' listening opportunities outside the classroom by making a variety of existing digital course materials available to students in iPod format. These vocabulary lists, short texts and dialogs will be supplemented by recording assignments using the iPod and microphone attachment. THe professors will also explore the use of student-recorded texts for peer-review and assessment.
Intensive Elementary Spanish (SPANISH 14)
This course is designed so that students complete a year's worth of Spanish language training in one semester; its curriculum relies heavily on the use of authentic multimedia. Professor Lisa Merschel plans to build on the successful use of iPods piloted in Spanish 14 in Fall 2004 by continuing the assignments she designed for that course and adding new enhancements. Students will use the iPod and microphone attachment to record oral exams and a weekly oral diary; they will also listen to workbook and textbook audio as well as original recordings of 4 short novellas. Professor Merschel will continue to record feedback on compositions and oral exams via the iPod and will create an iTunes mix that features some Spanish language songs used to reinforce grammar, functions and vocabulary in class. Students will also explore the use of Spanish-language podcasts.
Advanced Oral Communication (SPANISH 105)
In this service learning section of the Advanced Oral Communication course, Professor Melissa Simmermeyer plans to enhance existing assignments requiring the digital recording of student oral production by having students use iPods with microphone attachments rather than workstation computers. This use of the iPod is expected to make it easier for students to record their homework, and the increased mobility will make it easier for students to complete assignments to interview native speakers. Professor Simmermeyer also plans to explore the use of audio flashcards for the study of challenging vocabulary and discourse markers and connectors. The service learning component of the course will be enhanced by the students' use of iPods to document their experience with the students they tutor.
Spanish for Health Communications (SPANISH 106A)
Spanish 106A, taught by Professor Liliana Paredes, is a research service learning course that requires students to work as volunteers in the Latino community. During this service work, students will use iPods with microphone attachments to record interviews with community partners as well as audio postcards recounting their experiences in their service placement. These materials will be made available to students in the service learning currciulum as a basis for further discussion. Students will also expand their knowledge of immigration and health issues in the Latino community by listening to audio programming obtained from the bilingual radio program "Que Pasa."
Issues of Education and Immigration (SPANISH 106C)
In this service learning course, taught by Professor Joan Clifford, students explore issues of cultural assimilation, literacy, and access to educational opportunities for the growing Latino community in the United States. They will use iPods with microphone attachments to record observations from their service learning experiences and then compare them with 'postcards' from Spanish 106A, in order to create a broader dialogue about service learning within the Spanish-speaking community. Students in this course will also be asked to listen to archived interviews with Spanish-speakers in the community, which will facilitate listening comprehension practice, provide exposure to authentic speech patterns and accents, and also disseminate content to the students outside of class.
War Comedy (WRITING 20-49)
In Diana Soloman’s Writing 20-49 course, War Comedy, students will use their iPods for recording and as a mobile hard drive. In one activity, students will record jokes for class analysis. When students meet in groups to discuss their writing, they will record the discussions for instructor review. The iPod will serve as a mobile hard drive as students gather multimedia materials for a final presentation in connection with their research projects.
Cell Phones to Designer Babies (WRITING 20-36, 20-78 )
The ways we create, market, and consume technologies influence our everyday social and labor relations. This course examines our relationships with technology, especially in the last three decades, and how it has deeply influenced the quality and pace of our daily lives. The students will search for and listen to podcasts downloaded to their iPods, and examine how these audio blogs influence our social relations. The students will also critically listen to modern music and trade iPods to discern how music plays a role in the shaping of our societies around technology. Instructor Tamera Marko, will ask the question, “How does our daily use of technology influence our social/labor relations and why does it matter to us, now and how we envision both our past and our future?”
PROGRAMMATIC USES OF IPODS
Focus Program: The Arts in Contemporary Society
The FOCUS program provides an interdisciplinary learning opportunity for first year students, with "clusters" of thematically-linked courses. The Arts in Contemporary Society course cluster will be using iPods this fall; descriptions of the courses are below.
- Creative Writing: Form and Function (ENGLISH 109S)
Professor Melissa Malouf’s class will make recordings of students reading their creative works in her course, “Creative Writing: Form and Function.” Students in her class and in the larger group of the FOCUS program The Arts in Contemporary Society will then download theses readings onto their iPods. - The Arts of Transformation: A Workshop in Theater and Movement (DANCE 153S / THEATERST 170S)
In Keval Khalsa’s course, “The Arts of Transformation: A Workshop in Theater and Movement,” students will use iPods to record and share ethical skits developed in the course. Students will discuss their use of iPods as they consider course issues about communication. - Portraying America: Visualizing Blackness from the Depression to after World War II (WRITING 20)
Building on the successful use of iPods in her courses last year, Prof. Lena Hill will use iPods in her Fall 2005 writing course: Portraying America: Visualizing Blackness from the Depression to after World War II. Part of the FOCUS program on The Arts in Contemporary Society, this course focuses on visual and verbal art by black artists. Prof. Hill will have students listen to audio files from This American Life (made available through the Duke-PRI partnership). Students will use the Belkin voice recorder with their iPods to record discussion sessions in which their essays are critiqued by others, then use those recordings as they revise their essays and confer with their instructor. Students will use digital cameras during their research and on group field trips, and then will transfer photographs to their iPods and use them during class presentations.
University Writing Program
Prof. Joseph Harris will build on the project he began in 2004-05 on "Using iPods to Reflect on Teaching Writing.” Mellon Fellows in the University Writing Program will use iPods to record and reflect upon their work in the classroom with Duke first-year students. The Fellows will create and share audio files with other instructors and program administrators. They will also incorporate audio files into their Teaching Portfolios (used for program review and external job searches).
