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041973

National parks, museums, and zoos represent mosaics of national heritage, universally shared human experiences, compelling stories of identity, recreation, and vast experiential learning environments. Many of the sites also signify systematic human violence, displacement, subjugation, inequity, dispossession, and environmental destruction. Reconciling these paradoxes with their own personal identity, students in this class will explore the historic, scientific, social, symbolic, recreational, natural, environmental, artistic, and cultural heritage and values that make these places unique \"classrooms\" for place-based teaching and learning. Students will critically analyze the significance of heritage sites from multiple perspectives by pairing documentary film analysis and production with visitor use trends and connection building techniques used by national parks, museums, and zoos to engage visitors. Throughout this process students will learn basic tenets of film design, including research, theory, audience, agenda, scriptwriting, provocation, viewpoint, visual storytelling, interviewing, multitrack video compilation, peer-review, copyright, and societal impact to produce mini-documentary films of their findings.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

GEED - BC (Gen Ed: Building Connections)