There are two options for this assignment. Choose either Option 1 or Option 2.

Option 1

Choose a film or dramatic work. Start your essay by situating yourself in the first person as an individual witnessing the film/drama. (Try to make this brief but interesting! Draw the reader into the imagined audience space with you.) Then change the register of your essay to provide a synopsis of the story (about 750 words). This should be in the third person. Finally, provide a critique any underlying ideological or humanist intentions you feel are intended by the auteur/author. Again, in this part of the essay avoid the first person.

In short: be aware of your reader while you write.

Option 2

Create a work of art: a sculpture, painting, drawing, musical work, short story or audio/video work. Because of the size of this assignment, it probably won't be a lengthy or large work. Design your work to be directly modelled on the style/techniques of someone else who is in the public 'imagination' ('imagination' here just means someone who is known by a number of people).

Thereafter write a 300-500 word description of your work that outlines 1) who inspired your work, 2) what techniques were used in the creation of the work (also how did your model use those same techniques), and 3) any statement about your underlying intentions in creating the work.

Submission for option 2 is your summary statement but to this you may wish to add digital files or website addresses where the work can be viewed/heard. If you write a short story - obviously this will be very short, but yes, you may go beyond the word limit. However, as an exercise: try to limit yourself to 3000 words maximum.

Identify your discipline area by summarizing:

1) at least three (more is good) major academic journals in your discipline.

2) at least one (more is good) major reference tool (bibliographic survey, encyclopedia, dictionary, etc...) in your discipline.

3) an early book that may have helped define your 'discipline' but may now be slightly outdated.

4) a recent book within the last 12 years (the more recent the better - could be a single author book or a mult-author monograph) that has shifted the discipline in a new direction or challenged older thinking.

5) Choose two works (journal articles or book chapters) for the class identifying its author/s and the key ideas within it. Provide the rest of the class with these articles/chapters the week before your presentation so that they can form the basis of discussion.

Submit a bibliograpy of the sources you have discussed - no need to submit anything else.

Select a subject, phenomenon or 'text' - (it need not be in your specific discipline). Ensure it is somewhat bounded such that it may be fairly clearly described and/or identified. It may be a historical event from some time ago, an event from the recent past that you have witnessed, an event from the recent past that has been covered by the media in a number of locations, a series of documents, a performance, or a 'text' of any kind. Analyze and interpret your subject within the framework of two differing theories. Illustrate how different perspectives emphasize different aspects of the one phenomenon.

Your essay should illustrate your grasp of the theories you have chosen to use as the framework for your two analyses. The choice of your subject may be determined by the fact that it is easy to examine from two different vantage points - that's OK.