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Four credits - Pass/No Pass only.This seminar is designed to take advantage of your residency in the unique urban environment of Greater Vancouver.  The seminar will be composed of three interrelated parts:A general study of the architecture and urban design of Vancouver, and a more in-depth study of the history and urban structure of Granville Island, with an emphasis on the on-going urban design and land use planning study.

Six quarter credits; pass/no pass only.The architectural design project will be a civic building immediately adjacent to the Basilica Palladiana in the center of Vicenza, challenging students to design a new structure in a strong historical context. The project will require the examination of precedents in the region, analysis of the spatial structure of the city and the formulation of a design proposal that shapes both the building and the surrounding public space. Evaluations will be in the form of desk critiques, studio pin-ups, midterm and final reviews.

The urban core of central and northern Italian cities will be the laboratory for this course, studying spatial characteristics of the town as a whole, and places of importance within. The focus of the course will be the study of the piazza. The course will consist of three components:Classes, readings and field outings with media assignments focused on excursion sitesIndividual media assignments, notebooks and essaysTeam projects in which students will investigate the piazza 

This is an intensive hands-on digital filmmaking course held in and around Dún Laoghaire, a beautiful coastal town just outside of Dublin and home to IADT, the National Film School of Ireland. Filmmaking in Ireland will give you the opportunity to directly experience how cinematographers and filmmakers practice the language of visual storytelling. Ireland is a country and a people with a rich and complex history. But it is also a potential cinematic canvas to be created out of graphic elements of light and shadow, past and present, moods and textures.

This courses explores cultural and historical expressions of Englishness from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.  Notions of Englishness are always embedded in specific contexts: there is no ahistorical core to English identity.  Yet some themes have been remarkably pervasive through the centuries, even while being reiterated in new circumstances: we will return again and again to questions of language, gender, and relations with non-English communities in the British Isles and beyond.

Three quarter credits.In Preservation Field Practicum: Restoration and Revitalization Efforts of Traditional Stone Environments
 you will work alongside University of Oregon faculty and local professionals of traditional practice to begin various phases of a rural revitalization project for the island of Brač, just off the Dalmatian Coast in the Adriatic Sea. The course will cover the fundamentals of masonry and wood construction in a hands-on format: from methods of dressing and laying stone, to wood preservation techniques in the context of traditional Croatian practices.



Three quarter credits.Discussion groups and application models, directed by the academic instructors, will focus on heritage conservation issues, heritage protection policies, and architectural documentation requirements—comparing practices in the US with those in Croatia. The history of urban growth and the changes in town form within the region will provide a framework for policy and preservation practice discussions led by professionals from the Trogir Ministry of Culture, professors of Ethnography from the University of Zagreb, and University of Oregon faculty.

This course is designed to develop, improve, and professionalize students’ reporting, story development and storytelling skills -- from the discovery of subject matter and characters to the creation of a well-told news story.

Students study interview techniques in the classroom and engage in field work with news-making interviewees. Guests with specific types of interviewing experiences may join the class during the term. Guest lecturers who use the interview in their work periodically may speak to the class. Three interviews are assigned, as is a fourth feature story final project.

Students will study and practice photojournalism and documentary filmmaking/storytelling in and around London and on excursions throughout Britain.