1999 ~FASTTex projects
Speech Communication

Title:
"World@Rap: Hip-Hop and the Re-Invention of the Spoken Word"

Faculty Adviser:
Jurgen Streeck

Student:
David Shultze

Project Description: The project is the creation of an expanded and revised "Director" version of a multimedia "textbook" for an upper-division undergraduate class in African American Studies (AFR374) and Speech Communication (SPE367), "Language and Culture: World at Rap:" The goal is to develop interactive exercises for each chapter (analyses of dialog patterns, poetic devices, metaphors, mechanisms of slang, markers of social identity in speech, oral traditions, speech genres, etc…) This innovative class, first taught in Fall 1998, introduces students to the relationships between language, music, culture, and society through the analysis of African-American speech genres, in particular rap (hip-hop). Rap highlights many aspects of language and its roles in culture and social life: relationships between forms of speaking and social and cultural identity, community, and consciousness, and between creative performance and langurage evolution. While rap started out as a form of poetic competition amoung African_American teenagers in New York City, it has since become a world-wide idiom of youth culture and self-expression.

Title:
Multimedia Case Studies in Communication Disorders

Faculty Adviser:
Thomas Marquardt

Student:
LaVae Hoffman

Project Description:
Faculty in Communication Sciences and Disorders typically present case studies in lectures using a combitnation of videotape, slides and copied text. Limitations of this approach include the difficulties related to setting up and using a variety of media in classroom situations and lack of student access outside the classroom. CD-ROM based case studies makes available multiple aspects of highly diverse disorders from text, videofluoroscopy, nasendoscopy, neuroimaging, and audiovideo. The CD-ROMs will allow students to access the case studies for repetitive viewing for description and problem-solving. Following development of the case studies, clinical problem-solving and assessment strategies can be intergrated into the portfolios for interactive configuration with a course web page.