courses /spring 07 /danm 203 /projects

assignments

1. weekly presentations to take place during weeks 2-6; you will select and discuss a specific passage in one of the readings for that week (besides Wilson) and put it in dialogue (or use it to pose a question about) an artwork, artist, cultural/social/political movement or event. Your presentation should be no more than 15 minutes; and it should initiate discussion for after those 15 minutes.

2. 6-8 page paper due in week 4 about a particular cultural (including artistic), social, political categorization/network with which your work is in dialoguequestion.

3. a curriculum for a 4-week critical-practice mini-course based on your first paper, related to your own work and areas of interest, and pointing to your final paper. Your curriculum will include

• a syllabus with weekly schedule and goals of course
• 2 readings per week: you will also need to select readings from these 8 for the rest of our class to read; the readings for our course will be drawn from your syllabi.
• outline of lesson plans
• 2 assignments/exercises
• lists of or examples of slides, screenings, sites you would show in the course

4. 15-20 page final paper that is a polished draft of the written portion of your thesis (as you conceive of it at that point, anyway) that explains your work and situates it within the material from your first paper. It can, and should, draw upon material from your first paper and be related to the material in your mini-course curriculum (i.e., your readings for your course should also be sources for and discussed in your paper). The goal is to be able to explain your own work (conceptually and technically) and situate it within a larger context of dialoguesquestions.