BeyondBorderstheYucatan

ART109: Photographic Vision and Digital Discovery

Professor Robert Rainey

(This course is cross listed with PHO109.) This course is designed for non-art majors. Utilizing the digital camera and related computer imaging software, students will learn the basics of photographic technique and explore how to visualize the 3-dimensional world as a 2-dimensional photographic image.
Meeting Augusta onsite Friday mornings 9-11:30am
with online assignments
 [3 credits] 

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HUM 389: Beyond Borders: The Yucatan

Professor Greg Dorr

This course explores the Yucatan with multiple lenses, including the study of geography and natural resources, settlement of the Americas, the Mayan calendar and concept of time, Maya city states, architecture, writing, spirituality, and the collapse of a civilization. Emphasis will be placed on how the modern Maya have emerged from the ancient, and how travel informs our scholarship.  The course includes a week of study, based in Valladolid, Mexico.

Prerequisite: ENG 101.  Meeting Friday afternoons 1-3:45

[3 credits] 

 

ENG 375:  Contemporary Latin American Literature

Professor Ellen Taylor

This course will study selections of Latin American literature with particular attention to culture and social change.  We will discuss a variety of styles and genres, including magic realism, testimonio, creative non-fiction, novels, poetry, and song. Emphasis will include issues of identity, race, class, gender, and historical representation. As part of our Yucatan travel, we will read travel writing, as well as create our own travel text.

Prerequisite: ENG 101.  Hybrid online and four Friday mornings

[3 credits] 

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