How Will We Get Around?

As you know, we will have two class vehicles with which your instructors will often transport you. But there will be times your projects take you somewhere it makes more sense to use public transportation to get to--like in any major city! Here's the transit map from the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority. Click here to get it electronically!

Learning Resources Center gets in on the New Orleans Program!

Steve Liska, Ai Minnesota Librarian, has put together a great resources list for students in the New Orleans Travel & Study Program! All of these videos, dvds, books, etc. are available in the Learning Resources Center at Ai Minnesota:

DVD
American Experience: New Orleans
Doc about NOLA as told by locals and scholars with archival photos and footage spared by the flood.

Best of Nature: 25 years
Includes segment on the Katrina animal rescue in New Orleans

Down By Law
Two lowlifes, framed for a crime they didn't commit, escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.

J.F.K.
Orleans Parish DA, Jim Garrison investigates Kennedy assassination. Footage of French Quarter and downtown NO.

Louisiana Story
WW II –era melodrama about “big oil” disrupting life in south LA bayou

New Orleans: City on the Bend in the River
Documentary exploring the interplay of geography, history and culture on New Orleans cuisine.

Ray
Ray Charles bio filmed in and around New Orleans.

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Spike Lee documentary examining events prior to, during and following hurricane Katrina.

VHS
Angel Heart
A journey of violence and murder that canvasses the streets of Harlem, the jazz clubs of New Orleans, and voodoo rituals in the swamps of Louisiana.

Dead Man Walking
Story of convicted killer Matthew Poncelet and Sister Helen Prejean, his spiritual advisor.

Easy Rider
Two motorcyclists travel across the U.S. in search of the real America. Footage of south LA, Mardi Gras and a crazy scene in a graveyard in NOLA.

Panic in the Streets
Classic crime melodrama about a twisted killer who harbors pneumonic plague that could wipe out an entire city (New Orleans).

A Streetcar Named Desire
An uncensored version of the story of a repressed widow who visits her sister in New Orleans and is abused and eventually driven mad by her brother-in-law.

BOOKS
Fiction
All the Kings Men – Robert Penn Warren
Cajun and Creole Folktales
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
The Moviegoer – Walker Percy
Music for Chameleons – Truman Capote
Short stories “Dazzle” and “Hidden Gardens”
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren

Non-Fiction
Art and Architecture
Blue Dog Man – George Rodrigue
Cajun Mardi Gras Masks
Degas and New Orleans: A French Impressionist in America
French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide to New Orleans’ Vieux Carre
The French Quarter of New Orleans
Light of the Spirit: Portraits of Southern Outsider Artists
Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940
The Majesty of the French Quarter
New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence
Outsider Art of the South – Kathy Moses
Paradise Garden: A Trip through Howard Finster’s Visionary World
Vestiges of Grandeur: The Plantations of Louisiana’s River Road

Culinary
Commanders Palace: Pictorial Guide to the Famed Restaurant and its Cuisine
Cajun Men Cook: Recipes, Stories and Food Experiences from Louisiana Cajun Country
Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen
Emeril’s Delmonico: A Restaurant with a Past
Emeril’s New New Orleans Cooking
Emeril’s New Orleans Cooking
Louisiana Real and Rustic
The Louisiana New Garde
New Orleans Seafood Cookbook

Music
American Roots Music
Chapter on cajun and zydeco : the musics of French
southwest Louisiana
Louis Armstrong – Philip Paquet
Graphic novel which borrows heavily from Satch’s
autobiography.

Photography
Haunter of Ruins: The Photography of Clarence John Laughlin
Land I’m Bound To – Jack Leigh

Social Sciences /Sociology
Dead Man Walking – Helen Prejean