In the upcoming Spring Quarter, WRD undergrads have the opportunity to learn about a new way to write — with photos. Taught by Dr. Lisa Dush — as an online hybrid. WRD 286 combines writing and language with pictures, where students will learn how to mix the two with ease. No prior photography experience is required, all you need is access to a camera or camera phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked about the photography process, Dr. Dush says she \u201cteaches a bit about how to take good photos and how to edit them in Lightroom<\/a>, with the idea that persuasive use of photographs requires some knowledge of photography.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Students accomplish two major projects that Dr. Dush describes as \u201ca photoessay, which engages with both personal archival photos and photos in public archives, and one online photoessay that is documentary in approach\u2026to be published in Exposure or Medium.\u201d Typically, the class visits the DePaul Museum of Art, which Dr. Dush hopes to do remotely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n These two projects will \u201cexplore a memory from your own past, which has been documented by a photograph or photographs, and to connect this personal memory to a larger cultural theme or narrative using photographs from public archives\u2026and document an individual or cultural group and must feature photographs of both people and their environment\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n