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Proposals are intended to be well developed plans for your experience. However, experiences are exploratory in nature, and we are flexible with changes throughout the experience. If your experience changes after receiving approval on your proposal, contact your honors advisor to verify the changes still satisfy the requirements of an honors experience.

Basic Information Full Name: Erik Klose

Title of Project: Photographic and Videographic Road Trip

Thematic Area(s): Creativity, Global Studies

Expected Start Date: 4/30/2017

Expected End Date: 5/7/2017

GUIDELINES

1. Proposal submission timeline: Proposals should be submitted at least one month prior to the expected start date of the experience. International experiences require at least two months’ notice. Contact your honors advisor immediately for any exceptions.

2. Proposal length: While the quality of the proposal is most important, strong proposals are typically 3-4 pages single-spaced.

3. Proposal format: Please maintain the proposal format (e.g. headers, layout) 4. Time commitment: Experiences should consist of at least 75-90 hours of preparation, execution, and

reflection. This is approximately equivalent to the commitment of honors seminars and pre-approved experiences.

REQUIREMENTS FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL

All self-designed international travel experiences require two months’ notice and must be at least one week in length. You will need to provide a detailed itinerary (dates, locations and activities). If participating in independent travel (not with UC faculty, staff or student group), you must also fill out a Worldwide: Honors Experience application via UC International.

Additionally, the Student Travel Policy restricts UC-sponsored travel to countries under a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning. Those who wish to visit a country with a travel warning must seek an exemption through UC International. Students traveling without a faculty or staff leader must individually request an exemption. We cannot allow you to count this travel as an honors experience nor can we give you a grant without an approved exemption.

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1. Abstract

Briefly describe the experience. What makes this experience personally meaningful? What goals do you have for this experience? What is your timeline for this experience?*If you are proposing an international experience, provide an itinerary. **If you are developing this experience from an existing opportunity (class with a study tour, campus organization, co-op, etc.) that is not already an honors seminar or pre-approved experience, how will you differentiate your experience from what is already required of other students?

The idea for this experience began with a joking, non-serious idea among myself and three other friends to visit a friend in graduate school at the University of Wyoming. I realized that I was never able to fulfill my goal of travelling to several National Parks and practicing photography that I set for my Mock Self-Designed Proposal in Gateway to University Honors, so this joke has expanded into a serious attempt to visit three or four major National Parks and exploring the Great Plains and American West, a first for all of us that would be on the trip. Not only would this be a trip for me to explore parts of the nation that I have no experienced yet, but it is also a chance to finish what I started with my Mock Self-Designed Proposal, albeit in a slightly different way. In addition to cross-country travel, the experience would include a significant amount of photography stops, since the West is well known for beautiful landscapes and opportunities for artistic endeavors. One of the learning outcomes would be to develop my skills at photography, an artistic medium that I have wanted to explore more. A lot of my work has been focused on taking photographs of people or objects, so the trip would give me the chance to practice photography of landscapes and the editing skills necessary to produce a final photograph. Another learning outcome would be to explore videography and video editing at the same time, via a camera mounted to the car’s dashboard and a camcorder we would take on out-of-vehicle adventures with us.

This experience is personally meaningful to me, because I am trying to visit all fifty states in some capacity before the age of thirty. At the moment, I have crossed twenty-five off of my list, and this trip would cross nine states off of that list: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. It would also be the first trip that I would plan completely, including the logistics and emergency plans, as well as how to keep the trip entertaining despite twelve-hour days of driving through Iowa and Nebraska. This would give me the opportunity to learn from my mistakes and plan for every situation, which are lessons that would be useful at any point in life.

Loose trip itinerary:D1 (4/30): Depart from Cincinnati, OH, for Chicago, IL, exploring the city and visiting one trip member’s family,

then move on to Davenport, IA, for the nightD2 (5/1): Depart Davenport, IA, for East Laramie, WY, stopping along the way at roadside attractions that seem

interesting in the moment and exploring small towns along the highwayD3 (5/2): Depart East Laramie, WY, for Arches and/or Canyonlands National Parks, UT, and explore the park(s),

overnighting in Moab, UT, or nearbyD4 (5/3): Depart Moab, UT, for Zion National Park, UT, and explore the park, overnighting in Springdale, UT, or

nearbyD5 (5/4): Depart Springdale, UT, for the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, and explore the park,

overnighting in a lodge or hotel within the parkD6 (5/5): Wake up early for sunrise at Grand Canyon National Park, then depart for Sedona, AZ, to explore the town

and surrounding state parks, and finally depart for Albuquerque, NM, to explore the city and spend the nightD7 (5/6): Explore Albuquerque, NM, in the morning, and depart for Springfield, MO, to spend the nightD8 (5/7): Depart Springfield, MO, for Cincinnati, OH, aiming for arrival in Clifton by 5pm.

A more detailed itinerary has been prepared, broken down to the half-hour, and color-coded so we could better estimate driving times and the time that would be available to explore locations and destinations. I have made the attempt to attach it with the Self-Designed Experience proposal, but if that doesn’t work, I can email it upon request. The schedule also shows that there are no hard deadlines, except for arriving in Cincinnati by 5pm on 5/7, which allows for a lot of freedom and opportunity for choice of activities while on the road. The only pre-set goals we have are to visit one member’s family in Chicago, visit the friend at the University of Wyoming, and spend a significant amount of time exploring and photographing the national parks.

I will be able to separate this experience from other road trips by focusing on the art, through photography and videography, and making sure that the trip is more than just driving, it’s stimulating. The collective goal is to have an adventure and grow closer as friends, while my personal goals expand upon this by incorporating the development of my artistic skills and learning how to plan an exciting, stimulating, and successful trip.

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Advisor FeedbackMust Include:

Brief description of the experience

Personal connection to the experience

Identified goals for the experience

Timeline from start to finish

*Itinerary (international experiences only)

**Explanation of differentiated experience from what is required of other students

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2. Experience Advisor

Identify an experience advisor and provide their contact information. Explain why you chose this person and how you plan to utilize your advisor for this experience.Note: Advisor(s) should have knowledge or expertise in an area related to the experience. Honors advisors, undergraduate students, and family members cannot be experience advisors.

Heather Thieken740.418.5539hthieken@uwyo.edu

Heather was one of the first friends I made at UC, and she is currently a graduate student at the University of Wyoming. She has made the trip from Jackson, Ohio, to East Laramie, Wyoming, numerous times and has been willing to share with me her methods for keeping her solo twenty-one-hour drive interesting. She has also made countless cross-country trips with the United States Army as part of an Engineer unit, and they often take 1000+ mile trips. Her experience on the road has certainly fostered numerous methods to stay stimulated and productive.

I’m looking for an official advisor for more towards the travel portion of the Learning Outcomes, because one of the people who will be on the trip with us will be a DAAP graduate and is willing to help me learn about videography and more about photography while on the road. She is somewhat like a built-in resource. Heather, however, will be able to help in the planning and execution of the trip, and we plan on visiting her about halfway through, where she can evaluate our progress as a group.

I plan on consulting Heather before the Experience commences on how to maintain mental focus and stay stimulated while being able to stay productive and on track. This entire Learning Outcome (“Develop practical travel skills that promote safe, stimulating, and productive travel throughout your life”) is extremely vague, and I don’t have the best plan of execution for it before the trip begins. Heather will be able to help me in narrowing down where I focus the objective and how to make the most out of the road trip, from both a professionally educational point of view and from the point of view as a friend.

Advisor FeedbackMust Include:

Experience advisor name and contact information

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Description of why advisor was selected

Specific plans to engage with advisor

3. Connection to Learning Outcomes List 3 learning outcomes from any thematic area(s). Provide specific activities you plan to engage in to help you make progress towards the chosen learning outcomes. Describe how you expect each activity to help your progress. Include an estimated time commitment for those activities.

1. Develop practical travel skills that promote safe, stimulating, and productive travel throughout your lifeNaturally, this is a difficult outcome to expand upon. I originally leaned towards interpreting this

as a learning outcome focused around the planning and logistics of travel. That is, as I have learned, not entirely the case. There is so much more to developing traveling skills than making decent plans. We need to make sure that we have thought about safety, staying intellectually and physically stimulated, and staying productive throughout the duration of the trip.

April is an odd month of the year to drive through the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, because there is no telling what the weather could be. It may be snowing when we drive through, or it could be sixty degrees and sunny. Because of this, we decided to do the northern leg of the loop first out of interest for safety, so we can turn back and return to Cincinnati in case there is an overwhelming snow storm. On the other hand, portions of the southern leg of the loop will be in the American Southwest. The desert will be drastically different than the possibly snowy Rockies, and we must pack for both and prepare for emergencies in both. I have a pair of warm wool emergency blankets in my trunk already, and some added firestarter to my considerably large automotive first aid kit would allow for that extra source of warmth. Safe travel in the desert starts with hydration. Our budget accommodates the four of us drinking, on average, a gallon and a half of water per day. From my experiences driving in Arizona in the past, the water disappears quickly. I would want to make sure there are at least a dozen gallons of water each day that we drive through the desert just in case something happens.

Another portion to safety is maintenance of personal health and hygiene. I factored plenty of time to sleep and eat into our half-hourly itinerary, allowing for us to all be rested before driving the next day and getting nutritional food to maintain a healthy diet. One thing I wanted to try on the road was avoiding fast food and chain restaurants, focusing more towards local restaurants that we can’t find in Cincinnati. These establishments tend to have healthier food options and use fresher ingredients, plus they can showcase some of the local culture. It may be difficult finding these places with a GPS, but pulling off the main road into a town could be rather effective. Some hole-in-the-wall restaurants turn out to be great finds.

Stimulating travel is another worry of mine. I have a feeling that driving through the Great Plains could get rather boring, so I’m planning on using music, discussion, and games to keep everyone mentally awake. The four of us spend a considerable portion of our time in the UC Bearcat Bands, so we have a wide array of music interests. The considerable amount of driving time means that there are countless hours to fill up, so there will be plenty of opportunities for each of us to share our music. The difficult part is that the car we have available only takes CDs, so we should meticulously think about how to use each disc to its fullest potential and managing who gets to play their discs at what point. Discussions could also have to fill the time, and we could make a card game based on discussion (drawing a red three means you must discuss XYZ). The trip gives me the opportunity to explore many opportunities to prevent boredom, and I could start narrowing down the possibilities to the most effective methods by the end of the trip. We don’t want to be sitting in silence for the duration of the trip, so there needs to be at least some way that we keep busy and make sure the trip focuses on having fun and learning.

Productive travel is another item that will be very dependent on what happens on the trip. Naturally, we have a list of waypoints to reach in a reasonable amount of time, so we should stick to the schedule while still making sure we get the most out of each stop. I will personally be focusing on my Honors Experience Learning Outcomes for the duration of the trip, making sure I work on my

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photography and videography skills, in addition to improving my travel skills. Another way to maintain productive travel is to respect each other’s opinions, even if they are opposites. Arguments must be settled as civilly as possible, because we need to all return to Cincinnati in one piece. Everyone has their own goals of what they want to get out of the trip, so one of my goals of overall trip productivity is to help everyone else achieve their goals. Whether this turns out to be bonding with each other, exploring every nook and cranny of the country, or improving on an artistic medium, I want to make sure everyone else can reach their goals for the trip so that I can reach my goal as well.

The biggest part about productive travel is getting the most out of the trip. My biggest overall goal is to explore parts of the country that I haven’t been to before, in addition to the Honors Experience goals. I would be more than willing to go off the beaten path or make an unscheduled stop if it meant I could explore someplace new. The spontaneous side-trips and decisions often turn out to be the memorable experiences, so I will make sure to push for getting the most out of the week on the road.

2. Explore a new creative competency / medium or seek new ways to engage an existing competency / mediumThe first creative medium that I want to explore more is photography. While I already know how

to use a higher-end camera and understand the art behind photography, there is so much room to improve. My issues always come down to an image being too blurry, having a grain to it, or not being composed properly. Spending a trip working on this would help me make gigantic leaps in my photography skills, especially because I could easily take a hundred good photographs a day.

My plan is to focus the trip on landscape photography and candid photography, two drastically different themes. Landscapes could be anywhere, especially in the American West. I have not spent enough time out there, so I could easily stand in a field for several hours and take photos. Time was built into our schedule to take random brakes for artistic endeavors (such as photography) while on the road if an interesting landmark, National Monument, or another intriguing subject comes near our path. I would take the extra time and try different angles and camera settings to get the “right” photograph of a subject. The National Parks would have plenty of subjects to capture and angles to work with. While I have been to the Grand Canyon, there is still so much to explore and so many different methods I could apply to my personal photography. Zion, Arches, and Canyonlands are so distinct that there seems to be an infinite number of possible photographs to take. My landscape photography would, as I said, focus on composition and clarity, though, so I would have to make sure to direct my effort there.

On the other hand, candid photography is something I have struggled with. I personally prefer to leave my camera on Manual Focus (which explains why there are numerous blurry images, especially since I wear glasses) and take one well-composed photograph instead of several average ones (and hoping one is more than decent), so I would force myself to turn my camera to Auto Focus and increase the number of exposures per shutter press, giving myself the ability to capture things in-the-moment. A lot of my images of people are staged or take an awkwardly long amount of time, so this would allow me to take candid, natural images, which I find more aesthetically pleasing and more human.

The primary focus of this trip is on photography, so a time estimate is extremely difficult to estimate. I plan on carrying my camera to most places I go, be it on the trail in a National Park or to a restaurant off the highway, in case I come across something or someone that could make a pleasing photograph. There will, naturally, be a lot of time spent editing the images. I estimate there to be about two minutes allocated for each photograph, but there could be anywhere from one hundred to six hundred exposures over the duration of the week. Due to the unknown variables, I find it best to not put a time estimate on this goal. However, just so a number is in place, I estimate this time commitment to be around one hundred and twenty hours.

3. Explore a new creative competency / medium or seek new ways to engage an existing competency / mediumThere is a lot to learn from continuing my engagement with photography. However, that is not

the only artistic medium that I want to explore on this Experience. I have not been able to do much with artistic videography. I have some limited experience from final projects in my AP European History and AP Biology classes, but those served a different purpose and had little artistic content to them. My goals for the experiential learning of artistic videography can be broken down into three segments: a time lapse, “adventure” videos, and editing.

I thought a time lapse video from the point of view of the car’s dashboard would be cool. If sped up enough, it can condense 4500 miles of driving into only a few minutes. It would also show the drastically changing landscape of the country, from the grasslands of Iowa and Nebraska to the mountains of Wyoming and Colorado to the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Instead of taking a video, I would program the camera (likely a Go-Pro) to take a picture every thirty seconds to a minute. These, strung

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together with the proper video editing software at 30-40 images per second, would produce a time lapse without having to condense hundreds of hours of video or using up excessive memory card space. This would be more of a passive exploration, with most of the work coming down to roughly eight or twelve hours of video editing after the Experience.

At the same time, it would be fun to document some of the places we visited and activities in which we took part, to be edited together in a fun video to look back on the trip. This would involve having to plan (in the moment) what the clips would consist of, if there was to be audio, or if it should be a video with us in it or of the landscape and people around us. I expect there to be somewhere around an hour or two of total video clips to use, which will be condensed into a video totaling around five or so minutes. This video, combined with the time lapse, will be part of the final product of the experience, used to share what we learned.

Lastly, I will need to find and learn how to use video editing software. My past experiences have been with iMovie on an Apple computer, but I now have a Windows-based PC, so I must find something else. Finding and learning how to use an editing program will likely take two hours, and I believe editing the two videos (the time lapse and “adventure” video) will end up somewhere around sixteen hours of work for a final product. While this is all happening, I will be learning how to take more artistic videos while on the spot and learning a new method of putting them together that enhances the artistic motive, so it’s more than just a video of my friends and I being ourselves in different National Parks. It’ll have an important artistic element to it.

Advisor FeedbackMust Include:

3 learning outcomes explicitly identified from any thematic area(s)

Examples of activities and explanation of how each will assist the progress towards the chosen learning outcome

Estimated time commitment for each activity

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4. Academic Resources Connected to the Learning Outcomes List 2-3 academic resources you plan to use. For each, describe how it connects to your learning outcomes and how you hope that it will contribute to your learning during this experience. You must have at least one resource connected to each learning outcome; a resource can satisfy multiple outcomes. Please include the title and author/creator for each resource. Note: Academic resources are professional/academic works that can be used to assist your understanding of the topic. Some examples are books, research journals, documentaries, or videos.

1. Deep Travel – Connecting on the Road and in Life (Judith Fein at TEDxSanMiguelDeAllende, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GErjagMyrYk)

This TED talk by Judith Fein focuses on the interpersonal interactions that occur during travel. One of her main points is that authentic interaction is the best way to travel, and that there can be meaningful, memorable, and unique travel experiences if you focus on that authentic interaction. At the same time, she speaks about looking up from electronics and not worrying about what happens on social media so that one’s attention can be focused on the trip and not elsewhere in the world.

I hope that this resource will contribute to my first learning outcome by giving ideas for how to make travel as stimulating and productive as possible. The idea of putting down your phone and focusing on the people around you is one I strongly support, and I would like to try to implement it on this trip. There is almost a direct connection between this talk and the first learning outcome, because it focuses about connecting with those

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around you, focusing on the trip, and getting the most out of an experience. To me, it was a no-brainer to include this TED talk.

2. Making a Photograph: An Introduction to Photography (Ansel Adams, 1935) and Camera and Lens: The Creative Approach (Ansel Adams, 1948)

Ansel Adams was a widely acclaimed American photographer best known for his black and white landscape photographs of the American West, especially Yosemite National Park. Two of his books, Making a Photograph and Camera and Lens, contain many of the ideas that I want to focus the photography portion of the trip around. His books include many example photographs of the American West, and Camera and Lens look directly at the artistic side of photography and how to compose the best exposure. Despite being older books and leaning towards film-based photography, the principles behind the composition of an image and necessary lighting are still applicable to digital photography today. Making a Photograph won’t be used as much, but I still plan on consulting it to obtain Adams’ opinion on how to improve photography skills.

I hope these two books make a significant impact on my photography skills. Composition is one of the parts of photography that I currently struggle with, with many of my images end up looking similar to each other or show a common theme. What I learn from Adams would hopefully help me diversify the photographs I take, help me explore new angles and lighting to use outdoors, and overall help me improve my landscape photography.

3. How to Make a Travel Video (Robert Reid, http://www.adventuretravelnews.com/how-to-make-a-travel-video)This post by Lonely Planet writer Robert Reid provides a beginner’s approach to shooting video that

documents travel. The post is exactly what I’m looking for, because it provides a nice, more or less step-by-step instruction on how to create a decent travel video while avoiding the shortcomings of the everyday traveler’s video. Reid does a great job of explaining what is and is not necessary for a decent video and how to make it both look and sound good. He goes on to create a considerable list of things to avoid doing as well, which I additionally find helpful.

I’m not trying to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay or Best Editing with this video. I’m just trying to document the trip and share the adventures we went on with each other. As a result, Reid’s how-to for DIY travel videos will hopefully give me the lessons I need to create a decent, shareable video that I can use to complete my third learning outcome for this Experience.

Advisor FeedbackMust Include:

1-2 academic resources connected to the learning outcomes

Title and author of each resource

Description of how resources will help make progress towards learning outcomes and execution of experience

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5. On-going Reflection

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The on-going reflection should help you process the experience and progress toward your chosen learning outcomes. Describe your method for reflecting throughout the experience. Indicate specific reflection questions/topics you plan to use to guide your reflective process. Note: A variety of methods can be used for on-going reflection. Some examples are videos, drawings, blogs, songs, and journals. Reflection topics to consider include your ideas/insights about the experience, connection to other areas of involvement, and your progress towards the learning outcomes.

My method of reflection during the experience will be blog posts on my Honors Portfolio website. I find blog posts to be the best option, because I can compose a post during the day while we’re on the road (I would not be driving, of course) and edit it throughout the day, then finally post it on the website when we arrive back at the hotel and I can connect to the Internet. I feel much more confident in my writing and reflection skills than I do my speaking skills in front of a camera, so a blog seems like the best method to get the most information across.

I want to establish a set list of questions for me to respond to in the daily blog post so there can be a rough method to my madness. Of course, there will be the standard questions on my progress towards my established learning outcomes, but I also wanted to include some questions on morale, logistical issues that we came across, personal issues that we dealt with, and a few other things.

1. What did you photograph today? Did you use any new techniques or equipment? What makes this different from what you have done in the past?

2. What video clips have been added to the collection? How do you think these can be incorporated into the final video documenting the trip? Do you have any ideas for the general theme of the video (reminiscent, adventurous, etc)?

3. What did you do to make the trip more than your standard road trip? How have you made it stimulating and productive so far?

4. What was the general morale for the day (positive or negative)? Are there any notable trends? Any suggestions to improve morale and create a more positive atmosphere?

5. What logistical issues were faced today? How were they handled?6. Were there any personal issues that came up? If so, how did the four of us take care of it?7. Are there any cultural differences you noticed between where you were today and Ohio and / or

Massachusetts?8. Has the excitement for adventure present before the trip maintained itself up to this point?9. Have you found a Greater Meaning to this experience?Posting daily would force me to maintain my focus on this Honors Experience while still having fun with my

friends, and it allows me to maintain a schedule. During downtime in the car, I would write, then edit towards the end of the day and post as soon as I can connect to the Internet. Having the reflection on my Portfolio allows others to track the progress of the trip (I may include a map of where we drove along with stopping points along the way) and the progress of the Experience, and it’ll be extremely interesting to look back on in the future, towards the end of college.

Advisor FeedbackMust Include:

Method for ongoing reflection

Reflection questions/topics clearly specified

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6. Sharing Your Learning Describe how you plan to actively share what you’ve taken away from this experience with a targeted audience. Consider signing up for the UHP Impact Forum held each April. Explain why you chose this specific audience.Note: While social media can be an effective platform for sharing, only posting on your personal learning portfolio or social media account(s) does not reach a targeted audience.

I plan on two main methods to share what I learned: a coffee table book and a pair of videos. The book will feature some of my best photography from the trip, displaying what I could learn to improve the artistic quality of my photographs, and including a short bit of writing describing the exploration of photography and what different methods

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were attempted, along with some of the “failed” attempts at images, if there are any. The basic idea is to share my improvements at photography through a professionally printed book, which will then be given to the University Honors Program office to share on the bookshelves. I will additionally post a PDF of the book’s contents on my Portfolio and social media pages.

The second method is to assemble the video clips we have from the experience and make two videos: a time-lapse of landscape shots from the car’s dashboard, and a video of some of the activities we did and other clips we had while editing (or a blooper reel, showing the funny, human side to the trip). These will be more difficult to share, since they will likely be uploaded to YouTube. A link could be printed along with the coffee table book and posted on my Portfolio and social media, but I may also include a DVD with the book when I give it to the UHP office.

Lastly, there will likely be a written final reflection to go with the blog, which could also serve as its own method of sharing what I learned. The final blog post would summarize how I felt about the trip and what I believed went right or wrong, roughly following the nine questions I established in Section #5. These blog posts could possibly be added to the coffee table book as well.

Overall, the general idea is to produce a physical book (with electronic copies) and a video about the experience and what I learned with the public. It would especially include examples of photography from the trip, displaying what I learned and my improvements. From there, though, the final product is still open to interpretation. What exactly ends up in that final book depends on the results of the trip, the length of the blog posts, and how many pictures I end up taking, among many other variables.

Advisor FeedbackMust Include:

At least one method to actively share take-aways/learning from the experience

A specific audience and why the audience was selected

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7. Budget (if applicable) Provide an itemized budget and indicate your source for cost information. *If you are engaged in an unpaid internship or research, please indicate the number of weeks and hours per week you plan to participate.

Road Trip BudgetItem Units Unit

CostCost Cost

EachNotes

Gasoline 250 gal $2.35 $587.50 $146.88 Based on 18 mi/gal avg in Honda Pilot and national average cost of gasoline

Meals 52 meals $15 $900 $225 Based on 2 meals a day (excluding breakfast in hotels, dinner on 4/30, and dinner on 5/7), with the estimated average price of a meal in a restaurant being roughly $15 (national average being $12.75)

Water 48 gal $2 $96 $24 Based on drinking 1.5 gal/day each, especially in higher altitudes and in desert climates. Another option could be using reusable water bottles, filling up in hotels or on the road

USGS America the Beautiful Pass

1 (covers 4 adults)

$80 $80 $20 Pass that allows access to National Parks at a reduced rate, covers one vehicle with up to four adults

Hampton Inn, Davenport, IA 1 night $98 $98 $24.50 Price via Hotels.com on 4/5/2017

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Hotel Moab Downtown, Moab, UT

1 night $179 $179 $44.75 Price via Hotels.com on 4/5/2017

Terrace Brook Lodge, Springdale, UT

1 night $129 $129 $32.25 Price via Hotels.com on 4/5/2017

Yavapai Lodge, Grand Canyon Village, AZ

1 night $217.10 $217.10 $54.28 Price via Yavapai Lodge reservation site, 4/5/2017

LaQuinta, Albuquerque, NM 1 night $57 $57 $14.25 Price via Hotels.com on 4/5/2017Baymont Inn & Suites, Springfield, MO

1 night $84 $84 $21 Price via Hotels.com on 4/5/2017

Total cost:

$2417.60

Total cost, each:

$606.90 Costs could be subject to change due to prices being different across the country

Estimated Individual Cost for Travel: $606.90Please see the end of the document for screenshots of hotel prices

Photobook / Coffee Table Book BudgetItem Units Unit Cost Total

CostNotes

Professionally Printed Page, Color, Photo Quality

35 $2 each $70 Number of printed pages is an estimate, but could change depending on number of photographs from the trip, decision to print blog posts, and the overall results of the tripUnit cost is based off an estimation from friends in DAAP who have printed within DAAP and at FedEx-Kinkos

Binding 1 $5 $5 Using the whole puncher, binding, and binding machine found in the UC Bearcat Bands Music Library, where I would pay back the Band Office for the use of their equipment and supplies.

Blank DVD 1 $2 $2 Rough estimation to obtain a single blank DVD from the band office, on which to burn the videos from the Experience.

Advisor FeedbackNotes:

Detailed budget of expenditures with sources to justify budget estimates

*Indicates the number of hours per week and number of weeks of participation

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THEMATIC AREA LEARNING OUTCOMES

Learning Outcomes for the Community Engagement Thematic Area:

By engaging in this thematic area, you will make progress towards learning how to…

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Identify and differentiate multiple ways to contribute towards the development or achievement of the community’s goals.

Develop a thorough understanding of the world view, beliefs, experiences, self-consciousness, or history of community members through collaboration.

Articulate the purpose of service on a social issue or public policy and how service mutually enhances individual growth and the common good.

Explain how education, advocacy, mobilization, or public policy can influence social issues and transform communities.

Learning Outcomes for the Creativity Thematic Area:

By engaging in this thematic area, you will make progress towards learning how to… Discover new techniques to gain knowledge, consider options, make new connections,

and ask questions. Explore a new creative competency/medium or seek new ways to engage an existing

competency/medium. Understand and optimize the use of people, technology, physical resources or community

in a creative process. Articulate the broader significance of a creative project and the value of its contributions.

Learning Outcomes for the Global Studies Thematic Area:

By engaging in this thematic area, you will make progress towards learning how to… Develop practical travel skills that promote safe, stimulating, and productive travel

throughout your life. Summarize the interconnectedness of geography, history, cultural traits and world

issues. Articulate the interdependence of professional fields to address current and impending

global issues such as technology, the environment, human rights, or politics. Demonstrate an understanding of cultural diversity by acknowledging the impact of their

own identity and the experience of social norms, customs, or beliefs that are different from their own.

Demonstrate a sense of empathy, respect, and appreciation for others to build meaningful cross-cultural collaborations toward mutual growth and prosperity.

Learning Outcomes for the Leadership Thematic Area:

By engaging in this thematic area, you will make progress towards learning how to… Formulate and manage a shared vision and develop goals towards its achievement. Motivate and collaborate effectively with others towards completion of shared projects or

goals. Develop strategies to identify and respond to challenges and obstacles. Identify personal strengths and areas of growth and evaluate opportunities to maximize

skills and abilities. Synthesize the current trends related to a specific issue or field and evaluate how

thought-leaders are currently addressing them.

Learning Outcomes for the Research Thematic Area:

By engaging in this thematic area, you will make progress towards learning how to… Demonstrate the ability to locate, interpret, and critically evaluate primary sources

appropriate to field. Identify and apply appropriate methods to collect and organize data for analysis. Analyze and interpret the meaning of results. Produce dissemination appropriate to the field in order to share the results or impact of

the research.

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Articulate the broader significance of the research project and its relationship to other fields, research and ideas.

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