'Something About Those People' - A JTerm Abroad — Presentation Detail — Celebration of Scholars

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Student presentations must have a faculty sponsor.

Abstracts must include a title and a description of the research, scholarship, or creative work. The description should be 150-225 words in length and constructed in a format or style appropriate for the presenter’s discipline.

The following points should be addressed within the selected format or style for the abstract:

A clear statement of the problem or question you pursued, or the scholarly goal or creative theme achieved in your work.
A brief comment about the significance or uniqueness of the work.
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A statement of the conclusions, results, outcomes, or recommendations, or if the work is still in progress, the results you expect to report at the event.

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Additional Information

More information is available at carthage.edu/celebration-scholars/. The following are members of the Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Committee who are eager to listen to ideas and answer questions:

Jun Wang
Kim Instenes
John Kirk
Nora Nickels
Andrew Pustina
James Ripley

'Something About Those People' - A JTerm Abroad

Name: Nick Cottrell
Major: Public Relations
Hometown: Lemont, IL
Faculty Sponsor:
Other Sponsors: Borden, Matthew; Chilsen, Paul
Type of research: Course project

Abstract

Something About Those People- A J-Term in The Dominican Republic

Introduction: During the second semester of 2012-2013, a group of Carthaginian students met with Professors Paul Chilsen, and Matthew Borden, to begin planning the second part of a series of filming expeditions to the Caribbean. 15 students, and 3 Professors would make up the team that would be heading to the Dominican Republic to film the culture of the nation for 15 days in January, 2014.

Filming/Production: For the first 3 days, the team met on campus and learned the basics of Final Cut Pro (our Film Production Software), learned to manage the cameras, and learned proper documenting procedure so that post-filming would be much easier to manage.

Once on location, we traveled to 6 cities and did everything from experiencing new foods to swimming in waterfalls and venturing in weekend markets. We filmed everything so we all had the perfect footage we needed.

Upon returning to campus, we had 4 days to put together our short films in which we presented to each other, and uploaded to social media sites to share our experience.

Conclusion: The experience helped me develop my spanish speaking skills and helped the entire class further explore our desires of travel, international communication, and for most, the chance to use film as a medium to develop another professional life skill in media arts. As I said in the film, my personal journey helped me realize , "The more I see, the less I know."

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