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HUM 111
Assignm
ents and Rubrics 1146 (1071 5
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2014) Final
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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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