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Dr. TyAnna Herrington, 404.894.6207, Skiles 23, off hrs TT 9-10:30 tyanna.herrington@lcc.gatech.edu
| The European University at St. Petersburg | | Volgograd State University | | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
The Global Classroom Project is designed to provide a forum for cross-cultural, digital communication and collaborative project development with colleagues in St. Petersburg and Volgograd Russia and Karlskrona, Sweden. This forum for experiential learning demands a high level of person-to-person communication and interaction that centers on the challenges of real-life contextual communication.
The course focuses on analysis of cross-cultural, digital communication. Both in subject area study and experientially, you will explore issues in this area, analyze them, and report the results of your research, experience, and analysis.
This semester, the overall goal of your class project is to provide effective, clear, well-designed analyses of the differences and similarietes in affective, artistic expressions produced from Russian and American sources. Your exploration of these expressions will provide a means for examining cultural, historcial, political, and other differences and similaties in your nation's characters. For instance, you may compare the artwork of Kandinsky and Pollack, the music of Prokoviev and Gershwin, or the architecture of Asadov and Meier, examining their separate influences, inspirations, and/or outside limitations as a means to understand the cultures within which these creators produce(d) their work. Your other major class assignments will support the work in the analyses and serve as your introduction of qualifications (resume), plans of action (proposals) for the production of your proposed analytical documents.
Much of this class will be virtual in nature, conducted both on the World Wide Web through WebBoard conferencing software and through e-mail, to allow you to work with your classmates in Russia at the European University at St. Petersburg and Volgograd State University, and Sweden, at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona. As such, you must plan to devote time to your online discussions, just as you would to sessions in more traditional face-to-face class environments.
the global classroom project