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 ACROSS MEDIA 

Media and the ways we communicate arechanging almost daily. With CLAM, you’ll usestate-of the-art tools and learn valuable me-dia production and multi-media writing skillsthrough hands-on practice. Your class projectsand assignments are designed to result in realworld products that teach and inform othersabout your study abroad experience. You getto share your experiences in real-time across

various types of media and understand howthey function in the cultural context.

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CLAM, along with your study abroad program,gives you

• New cultural lenses• Experience with new literacies and media• 3 hours of credit (CAAH 201)• Cross-cultural awareness credit• Memories to last a lifetime CLAM is collaboratively supported by multipleofcesacrosscampus:CollegeofArchitecture,Arts, and Humanities; English Department; Of-ceofInternationalAffairs:StudyAbroad;andPearce Center for Professional Communication.

 What is CLAM? 

CLAM (Cultural Literacies Across Media) is a uniquecourse(CAAH201)specicallydesignedtosupple-ment and enrich your study abroad experience.

With CLAM, you’ll be immersed not only in theculture you are living and studying in while abroad,but also in a media-rich and hands-on 3-credit on-line course that helps you stay in touch with yourfriends and family back home, learn multi-mediaproduction skills, tell your study abroad story, andsatisfy Clemson’s cross-cultural awareness require-

ment!

LITERACIES

Most people think of “literacy” and being “liter-ate” as being able to read and write – well youcan certainly do that! But in today’s world,

 “literacy” has morphed into the many “litera-cies” made possible by digital technology.

You, no doubt, are moving in and using thedigital world constantly, but CLAM will enhanceyour digital literacy skills while you simultane-ously create and develop your cultural literacyby examining personal, professional, and localpolitical topics.

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CLAMCultural Literacies Across Media

Capturing a culture a world

away...

STUDY ABROAD

Nothing adds to your college experience likeliving and learning in a new and excitingenvironment. Don’t miss the chance to makestudy abroad part of your Clemson Experience.

ContacttheStudyAbroadOfcetondoutmore:

www.clemson.edu/caah/clamwww.clemson.edu/studyabroad

abroad-L@clemson.edu864.656.2457

CULTURE

Culture is a funny thing – a bit elusive and hardtodene.Itmightmeanonethingtoyouandperhaps have quite another meaning to someoneelse.Is“culture”justinmuseums?Orbooks?Orisitinourheads?Orinourhearts?Orisitsomeever-changingmixtureofmanyparts?Nomatterwhat it is, being in it, surrounded by it makes allthe difference.

It’sonethingtoreadaboutLondon’sWestminsterAbbeyorIndia’sTajMahal;it’squiteanothertostandinsidethemortalktoaLondoneroranIn-dian about what those buildings mean to them.

ThefamousMexicanauthorCarlosFuenteswrote“Culture consists of connections, not of separa-tions.” 

CLAM teaches you how to connect to the cultureyou are experiencing. You get to tell your storyof being in, experiencing, and learning something

new, fresh, and exciting. You get to network andexperience culture as only travelling abroad letsyou.

 It’s all about Culture, Literacies,and working Across Media: