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What is the First-Year Photo Project?
The First-Year Photo Project serves as a way for first-year students to intentionally document their personal transition to Texas A&M University through guided photography, internal reflection and communication with others. This project will challenge its participants to examine personal identity, their future hopes and dreams, their uncertainties, and what Texas A&M means to them.
Adapted from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities
if you would like to participate, please click here to download an application.
History:
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
During the 2004-2005 school year at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, fourteen first-year students participated in a project called "Picture Your First Year". These students documented their personal transitions to the University through guided photography and journaling projects that reflected their own personal identity, their future hopes and dreams, their uncertainties, and what the U of M meant to them.
Over the course of the project, the students collectively took over 500 photographs that told their stories. During the winter break, students put together a final art piece that was a final expression of what their first semester was about. These photographs were exhibited during the spring semester in the Coffman Union Gallery, in collaboration with the Visual Arts Committee of MPAC.
Texas A&M University
In the fall of 2007, New Student Programs (NSP) staff happened upon the First-Year Photo Project. It did not take long for the NSP staff to recognize that the program had remarkable potential for the students, faculty, and staff at Texas A&M University. The program was researched over the course of the fall semester; Bill O’Connor at the U of M was instrumental in the developmental process of the program at Texas A&M University. NSP staff implemented a pilot program in the spring of 2008 with a potential full launch for the fall of 2008.
For questions or additional information:
Office of New Student Programs
Cain Hall; C-Wing, Room 202
1257 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-1257
(979)845-5826
nsp@studentlife.tamu.edu |
