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HUM 111 – Assignments and Rubrics © 201 4 Strayer University. All Rights Reserved. This document contains Strayer University Confidential and Proprietary information and ma y not be copied, further distributed, or otherwise disclosed in whole or in part, without the expressed written permission of Strayer University. HUM 111 Assignm ents and Rubrics 1146 (1071 5 30 2014) Final Page 4 of 10 Assignment 2: Project Paper Due Week 8 and worth 200 points The Project Paper focuses on a suggested topic related to art, architecture, history, music, or literatur e. The project will reflect your views and interpretation of the topic. This project is designed to help you stretch your mind and your abilities to be the creative, innovative, and critical thinker you already are! Choose one (1) of the topics from the list of topic choices below. Read the topic carefully. Write a three to four (3 4) page paper (750 1,000 words) that responds to each of the items described in the topic. Note: Your instructor may require you to submit your topic choice for approval bef ore the end of Week 5. For the topic you choose : 1. Support your ideas with specific, illustrative examples. If there are questions or points associated with your chosen topic, be sure to answer all of the listed questions and address all of the items in tha t topic. If your topic requires you to do several things related to the topic, be sure to do each of the things listed. 2. While some of the topics tend to lend themselves toward particular writing genres, you are not restricted to the specific format suggest ed for the individual topic. For example, you may do an “interview,” a “proposal,” a “letter,” a “short story,” a “blog,” an “essay,” an “article,” or any other written genre for almost any of the topics. The project is intended to be fun as well as inform ative, so feel free to be creative with the delivery of your information. 3. Use at least three (3) good quality academic sources, with one (1) source being the class text. Note: Wikipedia and othe r similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources. You a re highly encouraged to use the Resource Center tab at the top of your Blackboard page. Topic Choices  Self Portraits. Journal. The Renaissance artists Titian, Rembrandt, and Durer have each painted self portraits. Imagine yourself as one of these artis ts (or another artist of your choice that has painted a self portrait) and write a journal expressing your thoughts on “your” art (in other words, the journal entries the artist would probably write.) (1) Explain “your” primary reason for painting a self p ortrait. (2) Describe “your” artistic choices in composition: use of color, space, etc. (3) Explain what the portrait represents about “you” (as the artist.) (4) Explain “your” choices of subject with regard to at least three (3) other specific pieces “you ” have painted.  Ladies and Gentlemen. Survey and Report. Some may believe that being “gentleman” or a “lady” in today’s society is an outdated notion , but others may disagree. (1) Briefly summarize the main characteristics of a well rou nded person, “l’uom o universal,” refer ring to specific sections within the excerpt from The Courtier which identifies these characteristics. (2) Create a “survey” based on the identified characteristics and “poll” at least ten people to find out whether or not the characteri stics are relevant for a “gentleman” or “lady” of today. (3) Tabulate and discuss the responses in terms of gender, age, vocation, etc. of your survey participants, making note of any interesting or surprising results which show up in your poll answers. (4 ) Finally, e xplain whether or not you agree with the characteristics expressed by Castiglione in The Courtier .  Bayeux Tapestry Experience. Letter . Imagine yourself as one of the figures in the battle depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry ; in a letter home, you describe your experience to your family. (1) W rite a first person account of this historical event from the perspective of one (1) of the figures in tapestry . (2) Use your senses to describe your i mpression of the event. (3) D escribe specific elements of t he scene such as uniforms, weaponry, fighting styles, etc. (4) Explain why you
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