IMAGE AND SPECTACLE

Final Project Schedule and Requirements

Final Project Schedule and Requirements

Your final project will consist of a five-page paper and a 10 - 20 image slide presentation. Your presentation will take place on May 4^th. Your paper must be submitted by 5pm on May 5^th. (Microsoft Word documents only, please.)

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Part 1:            Declare your final project topic and three reasons you are interested in that topic. (100 – 150 words)

Part 2:            Use Roland Barthes essay The Rhetoric of the Image to help you analyze an image related to your final project. Page numbers are all that is needed for citations (they start on the second page.) 300 words

Part 3: Responding to your classmates’ image analysis.

In your response, please try to add to your classmates’ analysis. Please respond thoughtfully to all of your classmates (help each other make new connections).

Ongoing  Final Project Journal

Over the next several weeks you will be keeping a journal (commonplace book) about your final project topic.

Journal requirements are outlined for each topic. In addition to the listed requirements, your journal should include any related ideas or references to your topic that you come across in your daily life.

Your journal can take any digital format that you can share with the class via the internet. It can be an instagram or twitter hashtag, a blog, a pintrest page, or any publicly accessible format that you are comfortable with. (Notes and quotes can be written out and photographed – or posted in comments.)

4/13 In-class lecture and discussion of The Society of the Spectacle

Lectures focused on Museum Visits: Landscape and Environmental Art, Magdalena Compos-Pons, and Ai Wei Wei

Discussion of The Society of the Spectacle – Instructions for this reading are at the top of the document. Please read and take notes on this chapter BEFORE coming to class.

4/20 Final Project Meetings

We will meet by topic so we can benefit from each other’s research. Group Ai Weiwei will meet from 6 to 7pm. Group Make America Great Again will meet from 7:15 to 8:15pm

4/27 Online Discussion of Museum Visit

5/4 Final Presentations