A group of eight students and two faculty advisers spent a week in Scotland touring three Scottish cities and researching various Scottish art and myths.
宾州中央谷. — Eight students in the course "World Mythologies and the Arts" at 十大网赌靠谱网址平台 (PSU-LV) had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn about some of the world’s most enduring myths during a weeklong trip to Scotland earlier this semester. 在旅途中, students conducted primary research for a capstone video project, the results of which were recently shared with the PSU-LV community.
伊丽莎白费海提, PSU-LV荣誉项目主任, 和Todd Retzlaff, 数学副教授, chaperoned the eight students whose travels took them to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness — three distinctly diverse Scottish cities. The students were charged with identifying a myth and doing primary research on that myth while in Scotland, in terms of how the arts have embodied it and if it’s still a part of Scottish culture. 从水妖到凯尔比, 尼斯湖水怪到克洛蒂井, the students chose a wide range of mythical beasts and beings for their projects.
The group had a truly immersive experience while abroad.
“We went to multiple castles and toured the castles to talk about Scottish and military history. 我们去了很多博物馆. We sampled local cuisine — just about everyone tried haggis. We had a full immersion of different experiences, which is part of the cool thing about the three cities. Each one was so categorically different,“费海提 said.
The group even traveled to the famous village of Loch Ness, but unfortunately had no sightings of the mythical Loch Ness monster.
杰克格里芬, PSU-LV荣誉项目的学生, presents his research on the mythical Scottish haggis during the recent Scotland Film Festival event.
Students presented their videos in front of a standing-room-only crowd, which was open to friends and family as well as the PSU-LV community. Some voting took place, and each student received constructive feedback on their project.
“Each of the videos was so unique — the students all took different perspectives,“费海提 said. “We had some documentary-type projects, others were more cinematic. The diversity of the techniques was really impressive.”
两个学生合作完成了他们的项目, reading a children’s book about the Kelpies [a shape-changing water beast] and incorporated green screen technology into their project.
“这些都是优等生, so there was a certain level of initiative I expected them to engage, and they did — I was not disappointed in any way, 形状或形式,“费海提. “The creative aspect was really important, because this was about art.”
除了教育方面, the students made memories on the Scotland trip that will last a lifetime. Flaherty herself said Scotland is one of her favorite countries to visit, but this last trip was particularly special: “I don’t know if it’s because the students were so engaging, 或者文化. … It was such an enlightening experience,” she said. “There is always some hesitation among students when they are traveling with other students they don’t necessarily know very well. They bonded as a group and worked very closely together in terms of supporting each other. We really became a big research team while we were abroad because of A.解析:选B.)我们所在的国家.在群体中形成的凝聚力. There was one student in particular who always wanted to go to Scotland, so she was excited anyway. When we got back, she said it exceeded her highest expectations.”
