A brief welcome message from Don Grusin:
The dream I had to develop a course of research and audio and video
production in a strong university community came true during the fall semester 2008!
We produced dvd's with a compelling social relevance and I'd like to invite you see
some of them by going to this URL
www.dongrusin.com/cuatlas
where you can see the videos from Fall 2008 semester.
Here are the majors, areas of expertise that we were involved with
last semester.
- Economic Development and Environmental Economics,
- Music performance, production and/or technology,
- Broadcast Journalism,
- Film production and technology,
- Art and Design, Art History, Fine Arts,
- Digital Media,
- Photography,
- Marketing.
Now for this coming Fall Semester 2009 I am seeking Student who have
strong interest, working knowledge, and some applied experience in an even wider array
of fields and backgrounds including but not limited to these majors:
- Sociology,
- Engineering,
- Medicine,
- Chemistry,
- Architecture,
- Math,
- Physics,
- Marketing
We will again virtually join forces with our music and art friends around the
world who are also working with or developing organizations promoting positive
social change. We will document and assist international social change projects
existing in Australia, Peru, Japan, Brasil, Africa, by creating original
contemporary world music videos to deliver the message surrounding their
economic and social needs.
Our music and art collaborateurs in these regions will provide audio,
pics, ideas, descriptions, goals and missions for our class videos, and we will
provide the same to them. We will produce music and video DVD’s that bring
these projects to life through the appropriate and creative use of music and
video.
The final products will be disseminated to viable social action networks
involved in community development with the assistance of my fellow
international collaborators as well as new associates to be identified from
networking and study by the students.
My aim is to have a heightened awareness develop in each of the students
from the cross-fertilization of interdisciplinary work and discussions that are
enhanced from this kind of hybridization of otherwise independent fields.
There will be ~ 5 students on each team, each from different disciplines.
And by this kind of interchange, new perspectives create new ways of
looking,thinking and dealing withthe world of social change.
Students will network by email and other communication media amongthemselves (intra-CU by means of the wiki sites, Facebook, and/or dedicated
ATLAS portals)and globally with the individuals and organizations involved in
music and thesocial action reality and development opportunities.