Students will have the opportunity to work intensively on their advanced French language skills through an investigation of digital storytelling forms that combine still and moving images with text and sound. The course is organized as a workshop, asking students to adopt the dual perspective of a scholar-practitioner. In an active learning classroom environment, students will read widely in digital humanities; read, discuss and analyze digital audiovisual projects; write and produce an original digital story; comment on their peers’ written and visual work; reflect, speak and write about how their scholarly and creative works shape and inform one another. Students should be willing to work in teams, have an interest in improving their oral, written, and visual communication skills, and be open to active engagement in class discussion, individual and group homework, peer critique, and workshop activities. No prior technical or visual skills are required. For questions, contact the instructor. alevine@virginia.edu
Prerequisite: FREN 3031, 3032