Welcome to landing page for the Arkansas State University Japan Hub MDIA 4333: Special Topics Course for Travel and Tourism Photography. The course is taught by freelance photojournalist Terrance Armstard, a college instructor who teaches photography, photojournalism and desktop publishing and design courses in the School of Media and Journalism at Arkansas State University.
Although the Summer 2023 Japan Hub will host courses in social work and the health profession, this site is dedicated to the travel and tourism photography course.
I’m sure you will enjoy traveling and taking photos abroad. See below for a description of the course. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me at:
TERRANCE ARMSTARD
Arkansas State University
School of Media & Journalism
Education and Communications Building | Room 358
P. O. Box 1930 | State University, AR 72467
p: (870) 972-3212 | f: (870) 972-2997
Click here to sign up.
COURSE DATES:
Students enrolled in the course will leave for Tokyo, Japan on June 4, 2023 and return to the U.S.A. on June 23, 2023.
COURSE NAME:
MDIA 4333 : Special Topics Seminar: Travel and Tourism Photography
NOTE: A graduate course is offered and involves enrolling in a separate course number. Contact me for more info.
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Special Topics Seminar: Travel and Tourism Photography in Tokyo is an upper-level class for students who have foundational skills in photography and are looking to add a visual storytelling component to their portfolio. During the course, we will visually dissect Tokyo; breaking it down into its subcategories of people, places and icons. Students enrolled in this course visually investigate the idea of people as individuals and their involvement in situations through professional and social activities such as employment and enjoyment in an effort to capture with their camera the varying degrees of personalities that inhabit a metropolitan area. Students will gather images of places through landscape photography throughout the day and or night in order to grasp how a cities change visually as the light changes. Students will then search for icons, or those items that provide an identity to places within the varying Tokyo districts. More than tourist attractions, icons can be notable places to eat, a wall with graffiti or nighttime skateboarders and so on. Through a combination of lecture and practice, students will learn to be competent visually storytellers.
Note: Feature photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash