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拍下你的大一新生活：毌需文字的故事
「相機是一種工具，可以教人們如何不用鏡頭去看世界。」Dorothea Lange
「就這樣去想，看見明顯的事物會使你看見平常不注意的事，而如此一來會讓你看見那些甚至看不見的事。」Norman MacLean，電影---《大河戀》
從中學和家庭的保護下進到大學和一個嶄新的生活環境裡，這個轉變可說是一段迷人又有趣的時光，而到麻省理工來則又更具挑戰性和趣味性。除了透過一系列的快照來記錄新學期之外，這門大一新鮮人的研習課程還會試著去教授攝影，使之成為一種看待事物的方式，以及更深入了解周遭新環境的工具。在這個學期的課程末了，學生將藉由一連串的作業完成整套的攝影作品，然後在期末整合報告時，試著去描述新環境的情境與感觸。
作品要完全是數位格式的。期末報告的作品必須是在整個學期的課程裡，由學生自行建構出來的網站。事前的數位攝影經驗並非必要的，但對每個學生來說，有一台數位相機會比較好。（特別的情況下，沒有自己的相機但是有興趣的學生，可以借用班級裡的相機。）每個學生要負責三件主要的作業和一份期末的報告，還有一次關於某著名攝影師作品的陳述報告。技術課程會討論需要使用的必備軟體，有Adobe Photoshop、Macromedia Dreamweaver，或許還會有Macromedia FlashTM （如果時間允許而大家又有興趣的話），以及基本的數位攝影、印表及網頁的呈現。
我也要提一下，個人十分感激前一任老師給我的恩惠。整個研習課程的內容，是直接延續自Anne Spern的課，"11.309J目擊現場：以攝影作為探查手法"我非常感激她願意讓我調整她的課變成現在的樣子。同樣也要感謝我們的評鑑委員會，感謝他們寶貴的意見：麻省理工學院教授Jan Wampler，Bill Hubbard及Les Norford。除了Anne以外，我也欠了很多的感恩，給那些曾教過我攝影，及鼓勵我繼續鑽研的人：Reiner Leist，Barbara Broughel， Zachariah Kramer及William McCluskey。
指導員介紹
Keith McCluskey 是負責麻省理工開放式課程和建築與城市規劃的Liaison學院之教職員。他在2002年取得了麻省理工的建築碩士學位。而再之前，他則是位麻省理工的大學生、圖書館員、助教及宿舍舍監。不過他對市面上每天都在發行的設計刊物，都保持著高度的興趣，而兼之是位滿腔熱血的攝影師。
Photographing the First Year: Stories Without Words
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera." Dorothea Lange.
"All there is to thinking, is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible." Norman MacLean, A River Runs Through It.
The transition from high school and home to college and a new living environment can be a fascinating and interesting time, made all the more challenging and interesting by being at MIT. More than recording the first semester through a series of snapshots, this freshman seminar will attempt to teach photography as a method of seeing and a tool for better understanding new surroundings. Over the course of the semester, students will develop a body of work through a series of assignments, and then attempt to describe the conditions and emotions of their new environment in a cohesive final presentation.
Work will be done entirely in digital format. The product for the final review will be a Web site developed by the student throughout the course of the semester. Prior experience with digital photography isn't necessary, but it would be good for each student to have a digital camera. (In limited cases, cameras can be made available to students with interest in the class who don't have their own.) Each student will be responsible for the three major assignments and the final project, as well as a presentation on the work of one prominent photographer. Technical sessions will cover all the necessary techniques in Adobe® Photoshop®, Macromedia® Dreamweaver® and perhaps Macromedia® FlashTM (as time and interest warrant), as well as the basics of digital photography, digital printing, and Web presentation.
I should mention as well a great debt of gratitude to my former instructors. The entire content of this seminar arises directly from Anne Spirn's class, "11.309J Sites in Sight: Photography as Inquiry". I very much appreciate her willingness to let me adapt that class to this purpose. Thanks are also due to our final jury, for their valuable insights: MIT Professors Jan Wampler, Bill Hubbard, and Les Norford. And along with Anne, I owe a great deal of thanks to those people who taught me about photography and inspired me to pursue it: Reiner Leist, Barbara Broughel, Zachariah Kramer, and William McCluskey.
About the Instructor
Keith McCluskey is a Faculty Liaison for MIT OpenCourseWare to the School of Architecture and Planning. He received a Master of Architecture degree from MIT in 2002. Before that he was an undergraduate student, a library employee, a Teaching Assistant, and a Resident Advisor at MIT. He remains very interested in issues of design in the everyday world, and is an avid photographer.
