We have, broadly, four goals for the rest of the semester:
- Reflect on your American Studies education by building a “life syllabus” that reflects the themes, questions, readings, and experiences that have shaped your UR education and you want to carry with you as you move forward.
- Dig deeper into a topic that interests you and create an online, public facing photo essay/storymap about it. This is an opportunity to bring your “American Studies” lens to tobacco while also learning how to translate academic ideas into accessible prose and format.
- Learn how to create a virtual exhibition that is immersive, engaging, and compelling. This virtual exhibition could both draw people to the URD exhibition and stand alone. This will be an opportunity to work collaboratively, create independent public-facing essays, and bring together the research and design elements we have been working on together. It will be an opportunity to continue the skills-based work all of you have been developing–editing, communications, writing, curation–as well as some new ones: WordPress and Storymaps.
- Prepare remotely what we can in advance for the URD exhibition: The writing for our online exhibition will be, in many cases, the same as for the exhibition we will open in September. The Communications team will also take the lead in setting us up to open that exhibition.