Cultural Experience Report #1Hide Assignment InformationInstructionsCultural Experience Field Report #1For this assignment, you will visit a cultural venue from the instructions below, talk with someone at the venue, and write a short 500-800 word report about your visit. PurposeThe purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the process of engaging with the cultural venues and communities in your locality. This will inform you personally of art in your area and groups that support it.SkillsThis assignment will help you practice the following skills that will be useful to you in your professional and personal life beyond school.Identify local cultural venues and inform you with deeper knowledge about the art form chosen.Organize reflections about engaging with a cultural experience and communityUse concepts and skills learned in class to describe and interpret cultural experiences and communitiesUse appropriate and proper grammar, organization, and academic-style formatting in order to communicateKnowledgeThis assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in the Humanities.Available local cultural venues and communitiesMethods of interpretation within the HumanitiesInstructionsFor your report, attend one venue from this list.art museum or sculpture gardensignificant or notable architectural site (if there is explanatory material there to help you understand it)music concertdance performanceother displays, museums, or performances may be acceptable. Check with your instructor for approval beforehand.Restrictions: The experience should be done in person during the current semester. If this is impossible, contact the instructor to arrange for alternatives. You may not report on a cultural experience from prior to this class.Write a report after your attendance at the event or visit to a site.Your report should include the following information. Include photos or links that help convey the information. As always, be sure to document all sources you consult in preparing your work. This includes brochures from the site or websites that informed you about the particular venue you visited.Name and location of the museum, site, or performance event. If there is on-line information about the site or performance, be sure to include a link to it within the text of your essay in an appropriate place. Type of museum, site or event. For example is it a portrait or sculpture museum, a music concert, or dance performance? If you attended a performance, name the performer or the piece. Be specific about what you attended, when, and where.Name and/or general description of the person you spoke with at the venue, and their answer to this specific question, “How did you become involved with this place/event/organization etc.?”Briefly describe the general setting by talking a bit about the location, the number of people there, the general overall "vibe" of the place. Describe at least one aspect of the experience that you found especially interesting. For example, you might write about a particular work of art, cultural artifact, song, dance section, costumes or lighting, a particular vocalist, etc. Explain what impressed or affected you, and why. Your reaction can be positive or negative, as long as you offer an explanation.Identify and use at least two tools that you have learned about in this class to talk about your visit. For example, if you visit a museum, you might point out how color works in one of the paintings, or if you go to a concert, how rhythm works in one of the songs. Make sure you are explicit in identifying the tools you are using and the learning resources your tools come from. Make sure to inform the reader about the tool through a quote or paraphrase from the learning resource. Then, make sure to tell the reader how you interpret some elements of your visit with the tools. Be sure to cite the learning resources you have used in MLA format. Please see http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfmReflect on the relevance--if any--of your experience to your everyday life. How did the experience engage your feelings or emotions, if at all? What does this tell you about human culture, and/or about yourself?STOP: Before you hand in your assignment, ask yourself the following questions: Have I provided the name and location of the museum, site, or performance event and URL, if available, identified the type of museum, site or event, and provided a general description of the setting?Have I identified and explained an especially interesting aspect of the experience and used examples to illustrate reflections and to explain why this aspect was interesting?Have I identified the person I spoke with and provided their answer to the required question?Have I identified and applied two tools of interpretation from learning resources to two different examples from visit?Have I used examples to clearly explain the relevance of my visit to at least one of the following: 1) emotion 2) human culture 3) self-identity 4) cultural identity?Have I provided a list of resources and do all of my citations conform to MLA 8th edition guidelines?Have I proofread this assignment for grammatical, structural, and spelling errors? This assignment is due by the end of the fourth week of class on Sunday by 11:30PM ET.Cultural Experience Field Report #2For this assignment, you will visit a cultural venue from the instructions below, talk with someone at the venue, and write a short 500-800 word report about your visit. PurposeThe purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to the process of engaging with the cultural venues and communities in your locality.SkillsThis assignment will help you practice the following skills that will be useful to you in your professional and personal life beyond school.Identify local cultural venuesOrganize reflections about engaging with a cultural experience and communityUse concepts and skills learned in class to describe and interpret cultural experiences and communitiesUse appropriate and proper grammar, organization, and academic-style formatting in order to communicateKnowledgeThis assignment will help you become familiar with the following important content knowledge in the Humanities.Available local cultural venues and communities Methods of interpretation within the HumanitiesInstructionsFor your report, attend one venue from this list.theater playpoetry reading, author event, or spoken word performanceFilm festival or presentation of a film by an academic author or cinema expertreligious service, ceremony or ritual for a religion very different from yours, if you practice (for instance, if you are Christian, you may not go to another Christian denomination's service)other displays or performances may be acceptable. Check with your instructor for approval beforehand.Restrictions: The experience should be done in person during the current semester. If this is impossible, contact the instructor to arrange for alternatives. You may not report on a cultural experience from prior to this class or be on the same type of experience that you wrote on in Cultural Experience One.Your report should include the following information. Include photos or links that help convey the information. As always, be sure to document all sources you consult in preparing your work. This includes brochures from the site or websites that informed you about the particular venue you visited. Name and location of the museum, site, or performance event. If there is on-line information about the site or performance, be sure to include a link to it within the text of your essay in an appropriate place. Type of museum, site or event. For example, is it a film festival, a poetry slam, an outdoor Shakespeare festival performance? If you attended a performance, name the performer or the piece. Be specific about what you attended, when, and where.Name and/or general description of the person you spoke with at the venue, and their answer to this specific question, “How did you become involved with this place/event/organization etc.?”Briefly (2-4 sentences) describe the general setting by talking a bit about the location, the number of people there, the general overall "vibe" of the place. Describe at least one aspect of the experience that you found especially interesting. For example, you might write about a particular scene in a play, costumes or lighting, a particular character in a film or play, in a religious service you might note differences in the tone of the service or interactions between leaders and regular members, etc. Explain what impressed or affected you, and why. Your reaction can be positive or negative, as long as you offer an explanation.Identify and use at least two tools that you have learned about in this class to talk about your visit. For example, if you visit a museum, you might point out how color works in one of the paintings, or if you go to a concert, how rhythm works in one of the songs. Make sure you are explicit in identifying the tools you are using and the learning resources your tools come from. Make sure to inform the reader about the tool through a quote or paraphrase from the learning resource. Then, make sure to tell the reader how you interpret some elements of your visit with the tools. Speak to a person at the performance or religious service, etc. Ask them how they became to be involved in this cultural community and the thing about it they like the best. Identify them specifically by first name and what position they were fulfilling at the event/service.Be sure to cite the learning resources you have used in MLA format. Please see http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfmReflect on the relevance--if any--of your experience to your everyday life. How did the experience engage your feelings or emotions, if at all? What does this tell you about human culture, or about yourself?STOP: Before you hand in your assignment, ask yourself the following questions: Have I provided the name and location of the museum, site, or performance event and URL, if available, identified the type of museum, site or event, and provided a general description of the setting?Have I identified and explained an especially interesting aspect of the experience and used examples to illustrate reflections and to explain why this aspect was interesting?Have I identified the person I spoke with and their answer to the required question?Have I identified and applied two tools of interpretation from learning resources to two different examples from visit?Have I used examples to clearly explain the relevance of my visit to at least one of the following: 1) emotion 2) human culture 3) self-identity 4) cultural identity?Have I provided a list of resources and do all of my citations conform to MLA 8th edition guidelines?Have I proofread this assignment for grammatical, structural, and spelling errors? This assignment is due by the end of the seventh week of class on Sunday by 11:30PM ET.

NO PLAGIARISMTouchstones are projects that illustrate your comprehension of the course material, help you refine skills, and demonstrate application of knowledge. You can work on a Touchstone anytime, but you can't submit it until you have completed the unit’s Challenges. Once you've submitted a Touchstone, it will be graded and counted toward your final course score.Touchstone 3.1: Construct a Rogerian ArgumentASSIGNMENT: As you learned in this unit, a Rogerian argument is one that presents two sides of a debate and argues for a solution that will satisfy both sides. Given two articles presenting opposing sides of an issue (mandatory uniforms in schools), construct your own 2-3 page Rogerian argument essay in which you attempt to arrive at a workable solution or "middle ground."In order to foster learning and growth, all essays you submit must be newly written specifically for this course. Any recycled work will be sent back with a 0, and you will be given one attempt to redo the Touchstone.Article 1: "School Dress Codes and Uniform Policies"Article 2: "Dressing Diversity: Politics of Difference and the Case of School Uniforms"Sample TouchstoneA. Assignment GuidelinesDIRECTIONS: Refer to the list below throughout the writing process. Do not submit your Touchstone until it meets these guidelines.1. Summary of Positions❒ Have you briefly introduced the author and publication context (year, journal, etc.) of Article 1?❒ Have you included a summary of the stance presented in Article 1?❒ Have you briefly introduced the author and publication context (year, journal, etc.) of Article 2?❒ Have you included a summary of the stance presented Article 2?2. Thesis/Claim❒ Does you claim address both sides of the issue, including specific points raised in the articles?❒ Does your claim present a clear, workable solution that could be viewed as a "middle ground" between the two sides?3. Analysis❒ Have you backed up your claim using facts from both sides of the argument?❒ When using direct quotations, have you supplemented them with your own explanation of their relevance?4. Reflection❒ Have you answered all reflection questions thoughtfully and included insights, observations, and/or examples in all responses?❒ Are your answers included on a separate page below the main assignment?B. ReflectionDIRECTIONS: Below your assignment, include answers to all of the following reflection questions.How does the Rogerian model of argument help you better understand the topic that’s being discussed? Why is it a good practice to acknowledge both sides of the argument? (3-4 sentences)Will you use the Rogerian Approach in your own argumentative essay? Why or why not? (2-3 sentences)C. Rubric Advanced (90-100%)Proficient (80-89%)Acceptable (70-79%)Needs Improvement (50-69%)Non-Performance (0-49%)Summary of PositionsIntroduce the two sources and summarize each side of the argument.Effectively introduces both authors and provides a complete and concise summary of both positions presented in the articles.Introduces both authors and provides a concise summary of both positions presented in the articles.Provides a brief overview of the authors and positions, but key details of the positions may be missing.Introduces both authors, but does not provide a complete summary of positions presented in the articles.Does not introduce both authors and/or does not provide a summary of each position presented in the articles.Thesis/ClaimPresent a thesis that advocates for a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument.Provides a thesis that clearly and effectively advocates for a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument.Provides a thesis that clearly advocates for a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument.Provides a clear thesis; however, it does not suggest a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument.Provides a thesis, but it is unclear and/or does not advocate for a solution to satisfy both sides of the argument.No clear thesis has been presented.OrganizationExhibit competent organization and writing techniques.Includes all of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper, including an engaging introduction with source summaries and a claim, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a conclusion with a concluding statement.Includes all of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper, including an introduction with source summaries and a claim, body paragraphs with topic sentences, and a conclusion with a concluding statement.Includes nearly all of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper; however, one component is missing.Includes most of the required components of a Rogerian argument paper, but is lacking two components. Sequences ideas and paragraphs such that the connections between ideas (within and between paragraphs) are sometimes unclear and the reader may have difficulty following the progression of the argument.Lacks several or all of the components of a Rogerian argument paper. Sequences ideas and paragraphs such that the connections between ideas (within and between paragraphs) are often unclear and the reader has difficulty following the progression of the argument.StyleEstablish a consistent, informative tone and make thoughtful stylistic choices.Demonstrates thoughtful and effective word choices, avoids redundancy and imprecise language, and uses a wide variety of sentence structures.Demonstrates effective word choices, primarily avoids redundancy and imprecise language, and uses a variety of sentence structures.Demonstrates generally effective style choices, but may include occasional redundancies, imprecise language, poor word choice, and/or repetitive sentence structures.Frequently includes poor word choices, redundancies, imprecise language, and/or repetitive sentence structures.Consistently demonstrates poor word choices, redundancies, imprecise language, and/or repetitive sentence structures.ConventionsFollow conventions for standard English.There are only a few, if any, negligible errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.There are occasional minor errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.There are some significant errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.There are frequent significant errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.There are consistent significant errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, formatting, and usage.ReflectionReflect on progression and development throughout the course.Demonstrates thoughtful reflection; consistently includes insights, observations, and/or examples in all responses, following or exceeding response length guidelines.Demonstrates thoughtful reflection; includes multiple insights, observations, and/or examples, following response length guidelines.Primarily demonstrates thoughtful reflection, but some responses are lacking in detail or insight; primarily follows response length guidelines.Shows limited reflection; the majority of responses are lacking in detail or insight, with some questions left unanswered or falling short of response length guidelines.No reflection responses are present.D. RequirementsThe following requirements must be met for your submission to be graded:Composition must be 2-3 pages (approximately 500-750 words).Double-space the composition and use one-inch margins.Use a readable 12-point font.All writing must be appropriate for an academic context.Composition must be original and written for this assignment.Plagiarism of any kind is strictly prohibited.Submission must include your name, the name of the course, the date, and the title of your composition.Include all of the assignment components in a single file.Acceptable file formats include .doc and .docx.E. Additional ResourcesThe following resources will be helpful to you as you work on this assignment:Purdue Online Writing Lab's APA Formatting and Style GuideThis site includes a comprehensive overview of APA style, as well as individual pages with guidelines for specific citation types.Frequently Asked Questions About APA StyleThis page on the official APA website addresses common questions related to APA formatting. The "References," "Punctuation," and "Grammar and Writing Style" sections will be the most useful to your work in this course.APA Style: Quick Answers—ReferencesThis page on the official APA Style website provides numerous examples of reference list formatting for various source types.