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Source for exploring visual/verbal & media literacy needs in education.
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The Arts and Technology program is Texas' first comprehensive degree designed to explore and foster the convergence of computer science and engineering with creative arts and the humanities.A joint creation of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Arts and Humanities, the Arts and Technology (ATEC) program is a collaborative effort that transcends existing disciplines and academic units.
The Emerging Media and Communication program prepares students not only to produce the media of the future, but to reflect on the impacts these digital networked technologies have on our culture. While conventional degree programs in media emphasize established media formats, EMAC integrates this traditional approach with the creation, applications and implications of emerging media. In short, the major requires both practice and theory. We are concerned not with training and teaching students about the media of yesterday, or even today, but rather how to critically think about and operate in a rapidly evolving and emerging media landscape, to be prepared for the media jobs that do not yet exist.
Last year the Dallas Museum of Art and Preservation Link Inc.(PLI), partnered together to display the efforts of five schools in the South Dallas/ Fair Park area of photographs that the children themselves had taken. These photographs displayed what the children deemed to be beautiful about the community that they lived in. The beautiful things that they perceived was pointedly about their community, themselves, and their culture. I commend the efforts of PLI and the insightful look that has developed in the lives of the children that have taken part in this program. Their partnership with area schools began in 2004 through a program called Point of View. This program allows the voice, that is not often heard to shine through the mainstream single minded ideas about the community as ugly and wasted area. Instead, you are allowed a glimpse of the rose growing out of the concrete. It reminds us that beauty lives everywhere...you just have to open your eyes to see it. |