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The Departments of History and Art History & Art Conservation are jointly offering a new, immersive course available to undergraduate students in the 2023 Summer Term: From Confinement to Cultural Heritage: Digital Preservation and the History of Kingston Penitentiary.

Course codes: ARTH 202 – Topics in Art and Visual Cultures / HIST 241 – Issues in History

Type: 200 level lecture
Units: 3.00
Term Summer: 2023
Instructor(s): ARTH: Norman Vorano / HIST: Amitava Chowdhury
Delivery mode: In-person

Course description:

Offered jointly by the Departments of Art History and Art Conservation & History, this interdisciplinary course offers students a rare opportunity to learn how to use specialized 3D laser imaging technology to digitally document a National Historic Site, the Kingston Penitentiary.  Students will critically examine the history of Kingston ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s prisons, study the period architecture, and trace how Canada ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s oldest—and most notorious—prison is now transforming itself into a tourist site. The course will have lecture components held on the Queen ¹ú²ú´«Ã½ ’s campus, as well as mandatory field components held at the Kingston Penitentiary, during which time students will gain first-hand experience conducting documentary photography and 3-D laser scanning for the purposes of cultural heritage preservation.