Humanities
Part 1: Selection of Topic.
This part of the final project is your choice of topic.
Choose one of the following subjects or propose one of your own.
• A particular emotion or state of mind such as love, anger, jealousy, fear, gratitude, confusion, etc.
• A specific fairy tale, myth, fable, or classic story
• A religious or spiritual lesson or belief such as humility, hope, enlightenment, faith in reincarnation, the Trinity etc.
• A political or social theme such as social justice and injustice, social inequality, social progress, political conflict, etc.
• Representations of gender, race, ethnicity, or class.
• A specific fictional character or public personality
• Natural forces or elements of the natural world, like weather, animals, landscapes, etc.
Explain two reasons for your choice in a short paragraph of 4-5 sentences. Be sure to include the significance of your choice to your own thinking about the world and/or its cultural significance.
Due Date for Part 1: This submission is due during Week 3, with the final day of submission being the Sunday of the third week (11:30pm ET). Please see the Course Schedule for the exact final due date for this submission. The submission should be carefully edited and proofed for standard use of English.
Part 2: Development of your Topic.
This part of the final project is a summary of your ongoing work on the final paper; it should include three paragraphs, one covering each selected work. You should also make sure to re-state what your subject is.
Identify how the subject you chose in Part 1 appears in three different works, each from a different Humanities discipline (visual art, music, dance, poetry, prose, theater, film, religion). For instance, you could choose a poem, a painting and a scene from a film, all of which express and represent the theme of anger. Or, to be even more specific, if you choose the emotion of \”love,\” the final paper could analyze and discuss love as it is expressed in Shakespeare\’s Sonnet 147 (literature), Boticelli\’s Birth of Venus (visual art), and in the ballet Swan Lake (dance).
Write one short paragraph (3-5 sentences) about each of your selections in which you:
1. Choose reliable and appropriate examples (a good-quality image, recording, video, etc.).
2. Identify and cite the source, including the artist, creator etc as well as where you found the example.
3. Explain why you find the example relevant for this assignment and mention one tool from the class materials and discussions you might be able to use to talk about it.
Due Date for Part 2: This submission is due during Week 6, with the final day of submission being the Sunday of the sixth week (11:30pm ET). Please see the Course Schedule for the exact final due date for this submission. The submission should be carefully edited and proofed for standard use of English.
Part 3: Paper.
This part of the final project is the paper that presents your description and analysis of your selected works.
In a 750 or more word essay:
1. Explain the subject you chose and why it’s worth exploring in the Humanities
2. Describe each of your selected examples, including its historical or cultural context and its creator, and provide either a link to the example or an embedded image
3. Use at least one specific interpretative tool from the course to explain each of your selected examples. You should use a different tool for each example, so you should use at least three different tools in your paper.
4. Assess the effectiveness of each example and compare and contrast at least two of your examples to each other. In other words, how well did each example present your chosen subject? Does one of your examples present the chosen subject better than another? What specific elements of the example lead you to your conclusions? For example, you might explain how a the colors in a painting represent the subject of love better than the tempo of a piece of music.
5. Provide a correctly formatted paper, complete and proper citations for any references you consult, using MLA or APA format
Documentation Style: The paper is to be formatted and documented in the MLA or APA. For general assistance, see the links below to the UMUC Library.
• MLA Citation: http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_tutorial.cfm
• MLA Citation Examples: http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/mla_examples.cfm
• APA Citations: http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/apa_tutorial.cfm?noprint=true
• APA Citation Examples: http://sites.umuc.edu/library/libhow/apa_examples.cfm
Part 1: Selection of Topic.
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