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Everyone has mixed reviews about the courses/professors. I can honestly say that I love all of my courses. I made a few changes during add/drop period. I’m now currently enrolled in Digital Storytelling, Race in a Global Context, The Human Voice, and Global Studies.
Digital Storytelling:
I knew I’d like this course from the very first day. As soon as my professor, Erika Paterson, shared her nomadic past—teaching and kayaking in numerous countries; living without money for an entire year and bartering all of her goods—I knew that this was going to be an interesting and unconventional course. I really appreciate the fact that she is completely self taught, because she’s better equipped to understand beginner’s frustrations & be a more effective teacher that way. She teaches two sections and collectively we’ll be in charge of running the on-ship student channel. In addition to airing the aforementioned Sea TV news broadcast, we will also be creating music videos, documentaries, film shorts, and comedic TV series for the channel. My production team (name TBD) will be working on a TV series and comedic shorts. I’m currently working on a techno music video that parodies the daily announcements on the ship telecom. This is going to be a very demanding course, but I’m really looking forward to developing my film editing skills.
Race in a Global Context:
This class has been really interesting so far. I was smitten when the professor Audrey Sprenger from Harvard recognized Dubois as a sociological forefather and member of the American Sociological cannon and noted how the Sociological Association failed to give him proper recognition for years. I love how she peppers her lectures with really interesting, less-known facts and book suggestions. I also appreciate the fact that she delves deep and doesn’t sugarcoat a thing. We’re currently reading Crossing the Boulevard, which details the stories of over 40 immigrants in Queens, New York. I had no idea that Queens, New York is one of, if not the most, racially diverse city/borough in the U.S./World. As part of the final project, we’ll be creating ethnographic video diaries in each of the countries we visit. The assignment is to try to “define home” and capture what moves someone to flee their native country and what it’s like to leave everything behind when one flees to another country. As such we will be capturing the essence of home through things that can’t be easily transported or mailed (ie. smells, tastes, music, etc). She also wants us to document people in each of the countries we visit, that for one reason or another, can’t leave or will never leave the country. I’m still brainstorming but I know that I want to have conversations with various women from different social classes in every country I visit and gain insight into their daily realities, why some women leave, and why some stay. I will also document women who for some reason can never leave. Not sure what I’m going to do for the more abstract, “defining/capturing home”, part of the project though…
The Human Voice:
This is by far the chillest course I’m taking. We learn about tonality differences across languages and how breathing, posture, tongue position, and other factors affect our voices. The course goals are to learn how to better command and project our speaking voices as well as better understand language/sound composition and take on the tonality of other languages. The class is very interactive and experimental. So far we’ve been doing a series of breathing exercises; laying on the floor, walking around, and then talking about our experiences. I always leave feeling very relaxed--I love it so far.
Global Studies
The purpose of this course is to give us an overview of the political, social, and economic climates of the countries we will be sailing to while paying particular attention to cultural nuisances so that we can better contextualize and understand what we experience in port. I love that the past few classes have been filled with a series of guest lecturers and have been pretty interactive with discussion and Q&A.
Today’s lecture was pretty interesting. A panel of 3 visiting professors who have expertise on different facets of China (the political, economical, and social) gave us an overview of the current state of China. Candace asked a question about how capitalism prospers in a communistic country. The visiting professor from China responded by saying that China is more nationalistic or even socialist than communistic. They believe in pursuing policies that place the interest of the country first, even if those policies may negate communistic ideologies. In that sense, China takes on a “whatever it takes to prosper” stance. He ended his explanation with the following analogy. “If China wants to catch a mouse, they do not care whether it is a black or white cat that catches the mouse, or even a cat, all they care about is that whatever animal they use, gets the job done.” –not sure why that’s in quotes, because it’s not verbatim lol.
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Everyone has mixed reviews about the courses/professors. I can honestly say that I love all of my courses. I made a few changes during add/drop period. I’m now currently enrolled in Digital Storytelling, Race in a Global Context, The Human Voice, and Global Studies.
Digital Storytelling:
I knew I’d like this course from the very first day. As soon as my professor, Erika Paterson, shared her nomadic past—teaching and kayaking in numerous countries; living without money for an entire year and bartering all of her goods—I knew that this was going to be an interesting and unconventional course. I really appreciate the fact that she is completely self taught, because she’s better equipped to understand beginner’s frustrations & be a more effective teacher that way. She teaches two sections and collectively we’ll be in charge of running the on-ship student channel. In addition to airing the aforementioned Sea TV news broadcast, we will also be creating music videos, documentaries, film shorts, and comedic TV series for the channel. My production team (name TBD) will be working on a TV series and comedic shorts. I’m currently working on a techno music video that parodies the daily announcements on the ship telecom. This is going to be a very demanding course, but I’m really looking forward to developing my film editing skills.
Race in a Global Context:
This class has been really interesting so far. I was smitten when the professor Audrey Sprenger from Harvard recognized Dubois as a sociological forefather and member of the American Sociological cannon and noted how the Sociological Association failed to give him proper recognition for years. I love how she peppers her lectures with really interesting, less-known facts and book suggestions. I also appreciate the fact that she delves deep and doesn’t sugarcoat a thing. We’re currently reading Crossing the Boulevard, which details the stories of over 40 immigrants in Queens, New York. I had no idea that Queens, New York is one of, if not the most, racially diverse city/borough in the U.S./World. As part of the final project, we’ll be creating ethnographic video diaries in each of the countries we visit. The assignment is to try to “define home” and capture what moves someone to flee their native country and what it’s like to leave everything behind when one flees to another country. As such we will be capturing the essence of home through things that can’t be easily transported or mailed (ie. smells, tastes, music, etc). She also wants us to document people in each of the countries we visit, that for one reason or another, can’t leave or will never leave the country. I’m still brainstorming but I know that I want to have conversations with various women from different social classes in every country I visit and gain insight into their daily realities, why some women leave, and why some stay. I will also document women who for some reason can never leave. Not sure what I’m going to do for the more abstract, “defining/capturing home”, part of the project though…
The Human Voice:
This is by far the chillest course I’m taking. We learn about tonality differences across languages and how breathing, posture, tongue position, and other factors affect our voices. The course goals are to learn how to better command and project our speaking voices as well as better understand language/sound composition and take on the tonality of other languages. The class is very interactive and experimental. So far we’ve been doing a series of breathing exercises; laying on the floor, walking around, and then talking about our experiences. I always leave feeling very relaxed--I love it so far.
Global Studies
The purpose of this course is to give us an overview of the political, social, and economic climates of the countries we will be sailing to while paying particular attention to cultural nuisances so that we can better contextualize and understand what we experience in port. I love that the past few classes have been filled with a series of guest lecturers and have been pretty interactive with discussion and Q&A.
Today’s lecture was pretty interesting. A panel of 3 visiting professors who have expertise on different facets of China (the political, economical, and social) gave us an overview of the current state of China. Candace asked a question about how capitalism prospers in a communistic country. The visiting professor from China responded by saying that China is more nationalistic or even socialist than communistic. They believe in pursuing policies that place the interest of the country first, even if those policies may negate communistic ideologies. In that sense, China takes on a “whatever it takes to prosper” stance. He ended his explanation with the following analogy. “If China wants to catch a mouse, they do not care whether it is a black or white cat that catches the mouse, or even a cat, all they care about is that whatever animal they use, gets the job done.” –not sure why that’s in quotes, because it’s not verbatim lol.
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1 comment:
Love your blog, Sis! Very descriptive- feels like I am on the ship with you. Can't wait to eventually see the videos!
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