Curricular Grants
Art History
Katie Ryor
Develop a new course using plays, performances, and DVDs, to coincide with the gallery exhibit “The Art of Sight, Sound, and Heart: Visualizing Japanese Theater” (Winter 2011). Consult with Laurel Bradley (Perlman Teaching Museum), Judith Howard (DANC), Noboru Tomonari (JAPN), and Matt Bailey (LIBR).Course: ARTH 320: Japanese Theater: Visualizing Narrative Across Media
SketchUp Models: Visualizing Narrative
Baird Jarman
Develop new assignments for Planning Utopia and incorporate assignments into an exhibition in the Weitz Center for Creativity. Consult with Fiona MacNeill (ITS), Tucker MacNeill (PEPS), Paul Bernhardt (CAMS), and Jim Pierret (PEPS).Course: ARTH 266: Planning Utopia: Ideal Cities in Theory and Practice
Exhibition: City as Organism/City as Machine
Biology
Susan Singer
Integrate student built Gene X Environment models into Genetics course.Course: BIOL 240: Genetics
Cinema and Media Studies
Carol Donelan
Develop a blog, Northfield Cinema History & Culture Archive; develop a ContentDM database with materials related to local film history. Consult with Fiona MacNeill (ITS), Dave Flynn (ITS), Adam Gurnow, who runs the Northfield History Collaborative portal, and Hsianghui Liu-Spencer (LIBR).Courses: CAMS 210: Film History I, CAMS 310: Moviegoing and Film Exhibition in America, CAMS 211: Film History II
Blog: Northfield Cinema History & Culture Archive
Paul Hager
Create an interactive textbook using iBooks Author. The book constitutes a new learning resource for CAMS 111: Digital Foundations and CAMS 277: Studio Television Production.
Laska Jimsen
Become proficient in several animation software applications, take a summer workshop in animation, and develop additional material for a new course in animation.Course: CAMS 286: Animation
Report: Viz Grant for Animations Course
John Schott
- Develop new advanced seminar in visual studies that focuses on the photographic image itself in parallel with the Seminar in Film Theory.
Course: CAMS 350: Visual Studies Seminar
- Develop critical theory assignments for a new course “Photographic Portraiture” (Spring 2012). Collaborate with Susan Jaret McKinstry’s ENGL 327: The Victorian Novel course on a portraiture exhibition.
Eric Tretbar
- Develop new, targeted exercises to increase time students spend concentrating on specific techniques for image and sound creation in fiction and non-fiction video productions.
- Viz Summer Faculty-Student Collaboration grant, 2010, in cooperation with the Carleton Humanities Center. Eric Tretbar and Alex Cooney '11: a feature documentary project called “AMERICANS.” This film explores "E Pluribus Unum": who are the "many"? And what is the "one"?
Classics
Clara Hardy and Chico Zimmerman
Redesign Classics 110, gateway course, to create digital collection of “objects” for classics students to analyze. Consult with Heidi Eyestone (ARTH), Heather Tompkins (LIBR) or Iris Jastram (LIBR); hire student expert to create catalog.Course: CLAS 110: Introduction to Classics
Clara Hardy and Ruth Weiner (Theater)
Research and develop materials for the production of the Oresteia and associated course development work.Course: CLAS 224: The Oresteia Project: Visualizing Greek Tragedy
Exhibition: The Oresteia
Performance: The Oresteia
Christopher Polt
Develop an Ancient Roman Theater database and create tools for the visual analysis of the data. Collaborate with Troy Samuels (a senior Classics major), Wei-Hsin Fu (ENTS), and Carly Born (ITS).
Kathryn Steed
Collect and construct visual resources for use in Roman history courses; consult with student worker in using Google SketchUp to build a 3D model of the Roman forum; consult with Carly Born (ITS), and Heather Tompkins (LIBR), GIS Staff, and student workers.Course: CLAS 228: The Roman Republic
Cross-Cultural Studies
Éva Pósfay
Develop new visual components for CCST 275: I’m a Stranger Here Myself, including an exhibition of the students’ autobiographical, visual projects in the White Spaces.
Dance
Judith Howard
Redesign “Cultures of Dance” (Winter 2011) with particular emphasis on Kabuki, Bugaku and Butoh forms, to coincide with the gallery exhibit “The Art of Sight, Sound, and Heart: Visualizing Japanese Theater” (Winter 2011). Consult with Laurel Bradley (Perlman Teaching Museum), Noboru Tomonari (JAPN), Katie Ryor (ARTH), and Matt Bailey (LIBR).
Economics
Michael Hemesath
Develop a four-part exercise for the OCS Cambridge program: 1)Economic Naturalism, 2)Visualizing, 3)Sharing the visualization, and 4)Ethical reflection.Course: ECON 222-224: Economics in Cambridge Program
Aaron Swoboda
- Use the Climate Action Plan as a term-long case study in ECON 268 (Economics of Cost-Benefit Analysis) and thereby integrate visual analysis of carbon neutrality data.
- Create a series of modular videos to supplement the textbooks for microeconomics, environmental economics, and cost-benefit analysis.
English
Arnab Chakladar
Create new assignments incorporating visual materials for ENGL 245: Bollywood Nation (Spring 2012). Visual materials include posters, photographic stills, and film montages. Partner with film production class and consult with PEPS to create effective visual material.Course: ENGL 245: Bollywood Nation
Report: Viz Grant for Bollywood Nation
Adriana Estill
Viz Summer Faculty-Student Collaboration grant, 2010, in cooperation with the Carleton Humanities Center. Adriana Estill (English) and Sally Larkins: a study of how colonial and imperial histories and geographies inform the development of a 20th century “ideal” Latina body, as illustrated in the late nineteenth century Hispanic American novelist María Amparo Ruiz de Burton.
Pierre Hecker
Incorporate visual and curatorial assignments into ENGL 310: Shakespeare II (Spring 2011), in preparation for an exhibition on The Tempest in Fall 2011.Course: ENGL 100: Shakespeare on Film and ENGL 110: Shakespeare II
Exhibition: Brave New Worlds: William Shakespeare's The Tempest
Environmental Studies
David Hougen-Eitzman
Develop new visual components for the 2011 ENTS Winter Break fieldtrip to China, to create assignments that require students to present information visually in poster form, through internet based media, blogging, and photographic images.Course: ENTS 260: Comparative Agroecology
Course: ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology
French
Stephanie Cox
Invite guest artist/speaker David Garneau, and exhibit Métis/sage:Visually Translating the Métis Experience in Canada in Gould Library. Develop a label-writing assignment for FREN 362: Transnational Writers of Quebec (Spring 2011) in conjunction with the exhibit.Course: FREN 362: Transnational Writers in Quebec
Exhibition: Métis/sage: Visually Translating the Métis Experience in Canada
Chérif Keïta
Digitize 1962-63 footage of the life story of Cherif's father, developed in connection with a visit of the Carleton Mali program to the village of Nana-Kenieba; public screening in Djoliba.
Christine Lac
Curate an exhibition in the Perlman Teaching Museum that will be directly linked to introductory French courses.Course: FREN 101: Elementary French
Exhibition: People, Places, Things: La culture en deçà des clichès
Geology
Bereket Haileab
Develop visual assignments linked to the thin section database (a collection of photo-micrographs of minerals) for both GEOL 250: Mineralogy and GEOL 255: Petrology.
Mary Savina
Develop a video assignment as part of the coursework for the Geology in New Zealand off-campus seminar (Winter 2012); collaborate with student worker in learning film-making and editing techniques; consult with Tucker MacNeill (PEPS).
German
Kai Herklotz
Developed visual course assignments for GERM 295 (Berlin—The German Metropolis) with the internet platform Hypercities.
History
Clifford Clark
Develop new units on Civil War photographs and Civil War maps for HIST: American Civil War (Winter 2012) to show how Americans attempted to visualize and understand their war experience. Develop a visual assignment that will culminate in a public exhibition of students' posters.Course: HIST 214: Rethinking the American Civil War
Amna Khalid
Develop visual assignments for HIST 167: History of Modern South Asia (Spring 2012), and base some of those assignments on Tehreema Mitha Dance Company’s visit to Carleton.Course: HIST 167: History of Modern South Asia, 1947 onward
William North
Revise the syllabus of HIST 137: Early Medieval Worlds and develop a major visual and public history component in the form of a library exhibition. Consult with Margaret Pezalla-Granlund (LIBR), Tucker MacNeill (ITS), Kristi Wermager (LIBR), Terry Kissner (LIBR), and Aisling Quigley (VIZ).Course: HIST 137: Early Medieval Worlds
Exhibition: If You Give a Monk a Manuscript...
Report: Viz Grant for HIST 137 Exhibition on Early Medieval Scribal Culture
David Tompkins
Develop an A&I seminar on “Visualizing Friends and Enemies in the Soviet World,” and incorporate material from the Soviet bloc and China into an exhibition in the Perlman Teaching Museum. Engage students in the A&I seminar with the exhibition as part of a multi-stage assignment.
Course: HIST 100: Visualizing Friends and Enemies in the Socialist World
Exhibition: Art Treasures/Curricular Resources
John Thabiti Willis
- Develop visual materials for assignments and exhibits pertaining to HIST 282. PEPS provided the equipment for the project, Paul Carpenter (a senior CAMS major) accompanied Professor Willis to Nigeria as a photographer, and Rachel Raimist, an assistant professor in the Telecommunication and Film Department and in Gender and Race Studies at the University of Alabama also accompanied as an expert on film.
Exhibition: Masquerading Politics: Gender, Culture, and Power in Southwestern Nigeria
- Gather further visual material and resources for "Mask as Source of African History" course, and accompanying exhibition (Fall 2011).
Course: HIST 282: Masquerades in Africa
Exhibition: Masquerades in Africa (Version 2.0)
Japanese
Noboru Tomonari
Revise JAPN 230, “Topics in Pre-modern Japanese Literature” to include classic texts from Kabuki and Noh (Winter or Spring 2011), to coincide with the gallery exhibit “The Art of Sight, Sound, and Heart: Visualizing Japanese Theater” (Winter 2011). Consult with Laurel Bradley (Perlman Teaching Museum), Judith Howard (DANC), Katie Ryor (ARTH), Matt Bailey (LIBR).
Linguistics
Mike Flynn
Collaborate with fellow faculty from the Linguistics department and develop assignments and a syllabus for a new course tentatively entitled Linguistic Theory: The Movie.Report: Viz Grant for Linguistics Movie
Mathematics
Helen Wong
Develop educational materials describing and depicting topological concepts for MATH 354 (Topology) and other courses. Hire student experts in math and Studio Art to help design materials.Course: MATH 395: Surfaces
Exhibition: Quilting, Copper, and Yarn: Math with Models
Music
Andrew Flory
Revise a video analysis assignment for MUSC 132: The Golden Age of R&B and MUSC 136: The History of Rock.Course: MUSC 132: The Golden Age of R&B and MUSC 136: The History of Rock
Melinda Russell
Developed a set of “listening maps” or guides for students, and expanded techniques for creating such guides.Course: MUSC 245: Music of Africa
Philosophy
Anna Moltchanova
Develop a new course, “Chaos and Cosmos: Philosophical Visions” that incorporates several different types of visual assignments.
Political Science
Barbara Allen
- Develop assignments and acquire permissions for material to be displayed in an exhibition in the Fall. Both POSC 204: Media and Electoral Politics: The 2012 Elections and POSC 100: Political Communication and Elections (Fall 2012), will incorporate visual assignments.
- Viz Summer Faculty-Student Collaboration grant, 2010, in cooperation with the Carleton Humanities Center. Barbara Allen and Julia Larson '12: a comparison of British and American political campaign ads, with particular focus on negativity, gender and race stereotypes, and issue content.
Al Montero
- Support for the creation and development of a series of seven podcasts designed to explain in a visual manner statistical application in the social sciences in multiple courses, including POSC 120 Comparative Political Regimes, POSC 263 European Political Economy, POSC 265 Politics of Global Economic Relations, POSC 233 Corruption, Authoritarianism, and Democracy, and POSC 322 Latin American political economy.
- Develop podcasts that instruct and visually demonstrate statistical techniques for POSC 120, 364, and 263.
Kim Smith
Photojournalism project; exhibition of photos from New Orleans; Paul Hager (CAMS) conducted two classes: a basic primer on photojournalism before the trip and instructions of Photoshop and print production after the trip; consulted and collaborated with Margaret Pezalla-Granlund (LIBR) and Aisling Quigley (Viz) to create a library exhibition.Course: POSC 212: Environmental Justice
Psychology
Sharon Akimoto
Develop course in Cross Cultural Psychology (Fall 2010), ending with development of a class website. Consult with Trish Ferrett (CHEM), Carly Born (ITS), Fiona MacNeil (ITS), Doug Bratland (Web Services), and Ann Zawistowski (Gould Library).
Neil Lutsky
Collaborate with Northfield schools on a project similar to Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers whereby students discover means of representing important quantities in visually striking ways; involves Northfield Middle School teacher training and collaborating with Adrienne Falcon (SOAN), and Nathan Grawe (DOC).Course: IDSC 100: Measured Thinking
Exhibition: Imagining Numbers
Religion
Kristin Bloomer
Develop visual materials, assignments, and curriculum for a new course, RELG 238: The Sacred Body (Spring 2012). The visual assignments are connected to the visit of a hula halau (hula school/troupe), the Social Body exhibition in the Perlman teaching museum, and the visit of the Tehreema Mitha Dance Company.Course: RELG 238: The Sacred Body
Shana Sippy
Revise the syllabus and develop new assignments for RELG 289: Global Religions in Minnesota; to coordinate the technical aspects of structuring a public website that is the platform for the students’ work.
Sociology/Anthropology
Liz Coville
Viz Summer Faculty-Student Collaboration Grant, 2010, in Cooperation with the Carleton Humanities Center. Liz Coville and Rachel Feinberg '13: a project involving language use in popular film and specific ideas of contemporary linguistic anthropology (e.g. indexicality, reflexivity, reported speech, metacommunication, and metasemantics).
Adrienne Falcón
Develop new readings and assignments for a unit of SOAN 285: Ethics of Civic Engagement that encourages students to think about the ethics of representation.Course: SOAN 285: The Ethics of Civic Engagement
Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
Support curricular development for SOAN 256: Ethnography of Africa, to mount a related exhibition of Cameroonian photography and invite an expert in the visual anthropology of African portrait photography.Course: SOAN 256: Transformations in African Ethnography
Exhibition: Staging Selves: Cameroonian Portrait Photography
Spanish
Palmar Álvarez-Blanco
Bring the graphic artist Miguel Brieva to campus to give a workshop for students in SPAN 320: New Voices in Contemporary Spain.
Linda Burdell
Develop images and video for exercises in Spanish language courses; creating a library of materials.Course: SPAN 102: Elementary Spanish
Workshop: "Recycling Bins:" Animating Language Learning, Learning to Look-Ethically, December 2011
Diane Pearsall
Develop two virtual art museum assignments for SPAN 103, one dealing with Latin American art, and the other one on Spain. These virtual assignments utilize the Moodle Quiz module and the Moodle Audio Recording module.Course: SPAN 103: Intermediate Spanish
Studio Art
Kelly Connole
Create databases of student artwork at Carleton for ceramics courses (ARTS 230 and ARTS 232): teach students to document artwork in a professional manner, submit images to database, and create oral presentation. Redesign assignments to use and develop resource. Consult with Andrea Nixon (DOC), Heidi Eyestone (ARTH); hire student expert.Course: ARTS 230 or 232: Ceramics
Database Upload Form: Studio Art Student Work Archive Submission Form
Fred Hagstrom
Design and create a digital catalog for the artist's book collection; design an exhibit and workshop to showcase the artists’ books collection and the new digital catalog as a curricular resource. Hire student expert to create digital catalog.
Linda Rossi
- Redesign photo courses to connect digital and film techniques, emphasize interdisciplinary links with photographs (consult with faculty in Physics, ENTS, English, Humanities and Philosophy); attend Digital Imaging workshop.
- Develop a course that integrates both wet (darkroom) and dry (digital) photography processes; develop new printing capabilities.
Women's and Gender Studies
Meera Sehgal
- Develop “Women’s Health Activism” (Spring 2011) to build on Politics of Women’s Health course and collaborate with the exhibition “Every Body! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009” by exploring how an exhibition functions in education and activism. Consult with Laurel Bradley (Perlman Teaching Museum), Annette Igra (HIST, WGST).