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...Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History, first envisioned the festival several years ago when he began assigning students to make short films for his class on the history of medicine. He was immediately struck by students’ engagement in the project and found that students would spend more time making the movies than they would have writing term papers...
East Asian Studies Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama ’77 worked to incorporate more media assignments into his class, Culture and Belief 11, “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” after it became a Gen Ed course. Each week, students in the course create imovies or podcasts about the reading rather than writing response papers...
...catch is that the movie must be related to academic research and teaching. The goal of the festival emphasizes the creative translation of scholarly content into an interactive multimedia presentation. Sponsored by the Office for the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Harvard Shorts is the brainchild of Shigehisa Kuriyama, a professor of East Asian studies who is a strong proponent of incorporating media projects into teaching and course assignments (like swapping podcasts for papers). Through this contest, Kuriyama hopes to demonstrate the powerful ways that a film can convey a message to its audience, and how the use of images...
Inspired by the course trailer that East Asian Studies professor Shigehisa Kuriyama created for his class Culture and Belief 11: "Medicine and the Body in East Asia and Europe" over a year ago, Gen Ed administrators have encouraged professors to create videos to make their Gen Ed classes look new (even if they aren't). Gen Ed administrators Jay Harris and Stephanie Kenen could not be reached for comment...
...directed professors to the Provost Fund for Instructional Technology and the Bok Center to help give them guidance and funding, according to Kenen. A few Gen Ed classes are trying to draw students in with different pedagogical techniques, including a greater use of technology. East Asian Studies professor Shigehisa Kuriyama ’77 put a three-minute course trailer online for his offering Culture and Belief 11: “Medicine and the Body in East Asia and Europe” and required students last fall to create an iMovie every week to respond to the readings. Kuriyama says...