*Always consult Cougar Courses for full research assignment guidelines.
In 250-300 words:
Please indicate your intentions for your final project in this class:
- Describe WHO and/or WHAT you are interested in researching.
- Of course, this interest must grow from the key terms, concepts, and frameworks of ETST
- Individual or open to small group?
- Method: HOW will you be collecting your data? (Archival? Secondary sources, interview, site visit, etc.?)
- Choose ONE option for the MEDIUM of your proposed project:
- Zine
- In-class presentation
- Creative project: song, video, podcast, visual art, performance, etc.
- WHY are you choosing this topic and media?
A) ENGAGE ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
What is the story you seek to recover for our collective memory? Why is this story important for our activist memory?
What is the knowledge produced by this activist/movement? What is their vision of the world as it should be?
How does this activist/movement confront the structures of power we have been studying? (white supremacy, racial capitalism, imperialism, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, etc.)
B) NEXT STEPS
For Zines:
- Submit draft ideas for each page of your zine, including front and back cover
- Describe images, words, layout
- 3 Possible Sources -- that you plan on engaging and referencing
For Creative Projects:
- Submit detailed description of your intended creative project (150-300 words) -- materials, subject matter, medium, how the art engages the research, etc.
- 3 Possible Sources -- that you plan on engaging and referencing
For Interviews:
- Submit 5 draft questions re: Background
- Submit 5 draft questions re: Life
- Submit 5 draft questions re: Future
- 3 Possible Sources -- that you plan on engaging and referencing
For Presentations:
- Submit draft ideas, preliminary outline for each slide of your presentation (make sure to plan for 10 min max)
- 3 Possible Sources -- that you plan on engaging and referencing
