Caroline Bruzelius, Professor, Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Project Description:
Caroline Bruzelius and faculty colleagues Mark Olson, Rachael Brady, Raquel Salvatella de Prada, and Sheila Dillon have developed a new gateway course, “Wired!”, that will integrate new technologies into the teaching of historical disciplines to prepare advanced undergraduates and graduate students to actively engage with and create new media in their scholarly work. Students in the course will collaborate with faculty at Duke in Computer Science, Engineering and historical disciplines, as well as staff at the Nasher Museum and partners at an archaeological site in Italy to create projects that integrate scholarly research with multimedia documentation and presentation of their work. The course will be taught for the first time in Spring 2009, with plans to make the course a regular part of the Visual Studies curriculum.
As part of the Strategic Initiative grants program, the Center for Instructional Technology is providing funding to purchase licenses for Strata Foto 3d software for use in the course. In addition, the CIT is loaning the instructors a professional level SLR digital camera for the class.
Project start date: 1/12/2009
Funding awarded: $1,826