Paris as Text
Students participating in the Paris as Text trip during June 2008 completed 3 one-hour courses during the Spring 2008 semester.
Paris as a Text Prerequisite Courses
HUM 4990/MLNG 4990 Cultural Perceptions
Co-requisites: HUM4990 (Humanities & Technology) and HUM4990/MLNG4990 (Paris: Culture & History)
The purpose of this course is to learn what influences our cultural perceptions (global influences) and how this affects intercultural communication. With this base we will define culture, communication and their nexus and learn methods for interpreting culture & communication in terms of historical influences and their impact on identity to the goal of reading expressions of that identity (culture) dialectically: non-verbal codes, cultural space, marginality, popular culture, conflict & coalition building.
Outcomes:
- Define culture, isolate, collect & group artifacts
- How to observe and obtain cultural observations and collect evidence from those encounters
- How to analyze and understand that evidence and relay the relevant cultural context to the interpretation
- Account for influences that shape(d) culture and thereby its artifacts.
HUM 4990/MLNG 4990 Paris: Culture & History
Co-requisites: HUM4990 (Humanities & Technology) and HUM4990/MLNG4990 (Cultural Perceptions)
This course will provide a general background to the history (political, social, economic) of Paris and its culture. The goals of this course include a general background knowledge to contextualize cultural artifacts that will be encountered in Paris in the course of Paris as a text (HUM 4990/ FREN 4990/ FREN 3990).
HUM 4990 Humanities & Technology
Co-requisites: HUM4990/MLNG4990 (Paris: Culture & History) and HUM4990/MLNG4990 (Cultural Perceptions)
This course is designed to explore the visualization and documentation of culture and cultural images using visual, video and audio technology. Student will learn approaches to make digital videos and to practice various visual interpretation and documentation, multimedia production techniques, storytelling, storyboarding.
Outcomes:
- Identify cultural signs and symbols
- Create and capture cultural images and sounds (audio)
- Create a multimedia production to tell a compelling story of cultural signs and symbols.
See an example of what we'll do from the 2006 Paris trip schedule (pdf) and 2008 Paris trip calendar (pdf).
UTC Students in Paris 2006
Student Movie Productions
View movies on via YouTube or watch high-resolution movies in QuickTime (.mov). Download QuickTime.
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: NotreDame-web.mov Video footage, narration and still images provided by: Laura L. (posted June 27, 2006) |
Ste. Chapelle: The chapel designed to house artifacts from the crucifixion. Download the high resolution quicktime movie: sainte-chapelle.mov
Video footage, narration and still images provided by: Laura L. (posted June 27, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: StDenis-web.mov Video footage, narration and still images provided by: Jonathan. (posted June 27, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: Ile_de_la_Cité-web.mov Video footage, narration and still images provided by: John. (posted June 27, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: haussman-deancy-web.mov Video footage, narration and still images provided by: Deancy. (posted June 28, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: louvre-jean-web.mov Video footage, narration and still images provided by: Jean. (posted June 28, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: CatacombesWEB.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Corey & Sean. (posted July 5, 2006) |
Haussman's Influence on Paris/France Download the high resolution quicktime movie: Parker_web.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Jonathan. (posted July 20, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: LesGargouillesweb.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Nikki. (posted July 27, 2006) |
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Download the high resolution quicktime movie: ashleyQTweb.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Ashley (posted August 28, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: Versailles-web.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Stephanie (posted October 31, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: l'operaGarnier-web.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Annie (posted November 1, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: CatacombesWEB.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: David (posted November 6, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: 3rd_Reichweb.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Nic (posted November 6, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: LaFemmeduBainweb.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Regina (posted November 6, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: CrypteArcheologiqueweb.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Laura (posted November 7, 2006) |
Download the high resolution quicktime movie: impressionism2web.mov Video production, footage, narration and still images provided by: Cassie (posted November 8, 2006) |
The history of Notre-Dame through the eyes of Victor Hugo. 
St. Denis -- Cathedral where many French aristocrats/kings are buried.
Ile de la Cité: Home of Notre-Dame and the center of Paris today, the island sits in the middle of the Seine.
Haussmann et la ville de Paris: The impact Haussmann had on the city of Paris. Laying out the boulevards.
Louvre as a Royal Palace (vs. as a museum)
The Catacombs
Les Gargouilles: Protecting Cathedrals throughout France
L'Impressionism
Les Jardins de Le Nôtre
L'Opera Garnier 
Les Catacombes
The 3rd Reich
La Femme du Bain 
Crypte Archeologique
Impressionism