College of Architecture, Art, and Humanities

Susanna Ashton
Project seeks to annotate and edit South Carolina slave narratives for professional publications.

Alton Brant
An intensive look at appropriate word selection for provocative signs in American Sign Language.

Mark Charney and Carrie Ann Collins
This creative inquiry project connects ten students from Clemson with Charter Theatre, a professional theatre in Washington, D.C. Students will not only increase their base of knowledge by working directly with a company AMERICAN THEATRE calls one of the best eight in the country developing new plays, but also find themselves infinitely more hirable when they graduate.

Mark Charney and Rick Goodstein
In this two-year CI class, we will begin by studying intensely art mentor/collector Ambroise Vollard’s relationships with artists such as Picasso, Seraut, and Cezanne. We will also study his business practices; his publication of bronze casts, prints, and livres, the wealth of previously
unpublished material now available from his archives; the cultural environment of the times; and the dispersal of his collection after his death in 1939. Then we will create a theatrical museum piece encompassing the drama, music, and art implicit within these artistic collaborations.

Linda Dzuris
Students will delve into the world of sound design by researching various approaches to selecting/composing music to appropriately accompany several types of media projects. By analyzing current media examples and successful film scores, students will discover for themselves how various professionals in the field of sound design incorporate techniques detailed in reference books. Once they build this foundation, students will formulate and execute their own music in a specific media project.

Teddi Fishman & Barbara Ramirez
Investigating how non-traditional spaces can be used for education and communication purposes.

Nathan Guss
We will study the new wave of Francophone music.

Will Hiott
Ongoing examination of the Historical and Cultural Resources of the Clemson Experimental Forrest.

Martin Jacobi
This project will look at theoretical statements about how the relationships among literature, ethics, and society operate, about what the extent of the effects might be, and about how these effects could be best understood as well as avoided and/or managed. We will use texts and principles in the areas of literary theory and criticism as well as in rhetoric; we will also study particular literary texts, primarily in the area of dramatic literature.

Michael LeMahieu
Not accepting new students for 2007-2008 academic year.

Linda Li-Bleuel
This project will involve in-depth study of the works of Beethoven and performance of his works.

Pam Mack
Students will investigate the history and effectiveness of the NASA program that sent seeds into space and distributed them for schoolchildren to experiment with.

Keith Morris
Students will plan and organize the 1st annual Clemson Literary Festival and earn hands-on skills in editing and publishing, while studying and reading contemporary literature.

Constancio Nakuma
Language students are excited about the challenge that creative inquiry offers them to discover through guided research answers to questions that they formulate about world cultures, languages, and works of literature and art. Come join in that excitement by signing up for a creative inquiry project within your language of emphasis.

Hala Nassar and Robert Hewitt
Clemson planning and landscape architecture students are helping to preserve humanity’s distant past in Luxor, Egypt, through a trail-blazing Creative Inquiry project. As part of an ambitious push to restore and rejuvenate the Luxor and Karnak temples, as well as the Avenue of Sphinxes and the surrounding city of Luxor, government officials in 2006 invited the Clemson students to join students from Ain Shams University in Cairo to collaborate on a master plan for the city of Luxor. Organized around the idea of “parallel studios,” the Egyptian and Clemson students worked together over the course of a year to develop the plan. In between visits abroad, the students shared ideas and critiques “virtually,” through email attachments and Web site postings. In July 2007, representatives from both studios presented their joint recommendations and master plan to the governor of Luxor. The plan will be presented to Egypt’s prime minister and scrutinized by UNESCO and other interested parties around the world. Aside from the tremendous honor to be invited to participate in the plan itself, the Luxor project is important in that it represents a unique Creative Inquiry studio — engaging undergraduate students along with graduate students and faculty in an intensive, discovery-oriented approach to learning.

Thomas Oberdan
The project seeks to explore the intellectual and technological foundations of the transition from the Scientific Revolution to the Industrial Revolution.

Kelly Smith
Students pursuing topics in applied ethics with an eye towards professional presentations and publications.

Charles Starkey
In this course, students perform advanced research on issues in ethics and public policy; Develop position papers and debate issues with other students; Compete in national competition.

Graciela Tissera 
This project will analyze social, political, and economic issues in the Hispanic world through videos and visual materials (such as actual footage, film adaptations of novels, and movies based on real events) by world renowned authors and film directors.

John Warner
Students will create a campus humor publication from the ground up, modeled on the Harvard Lampoon, only better, because they're not that special.

Sean Williams
In this project, students have the opportunity to learn about documentary film-making, including videography, interviewing, editing and historical research. Students also work with film and video professionals at Clemson, at ETV, and Discovery Communications. Students also have the opportunity to mentor middle school children on videography.

Umit Yilmaz
This Creative Inquiry project compares the walking habits of residents living in four distinct communities in South Carolina and focuses on the physical environment and physical activity. To explore the relationship between these two factors, four distinct neighborhoods representing different stages in the continuum from suburban to urban were identified as Clemson (small campus town); Pendleton (historic small town); Charleston (historic urban town); and I-On, Mt. Pleasant (a model new urbanist town).