• THE ANALYTIC INTRODUCTION (may be individual or collaborative)
This is an analytic essay (around 10 pages long PER PERSON, printed out) in which you come up with a conceptual map for where you see power located in your own everyday life. Your analysis should ultimately interconnect with the second part, your creative representation of everyday life.
...HOW THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE PROJECT: Each person should start off with their own analysis. However, as you share and edit your work with each other, you may want to alternate parts of each person's analysis, or put them together in some other kind of creative pattern in the final collaborative essay. You and your partner will function as a small writing group, helping each other come up with ideas for this analysis, reading each other's drafts, and editing and proof-reading the final product.
• THE COLLABORATIVE CREATIVE REPRESENTATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE
The conceptual map for where you see power located in everyday life should be crafted to interconnect with this second part, your creative representation of everyday life. This means you and your partner have to choose structures of power you can compare and contrast in both lives and both analyses. These should be evident as sections in both individual essays.
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What concerning Assignment 3 are you most proud of?
What did you learn the most from?
What does Assignment 3 tell you about the argument or story of the course?
Name 3 things you learned over the time you put together your analytic introduction.
Why did you choose the creative project you did?
Name something fun that happened when you and your partner worked on it together.
How did you and your partner help each other?
How did your ideas about Women, Art and Culture change from when you first started Assignment 3 to when you finished it?
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Chelsea Steiner of the Stanford Spoken Word Collective performs a spoken word poem at Stanford University. The poem mocks conservative gender politics and the silencing of feminist voices.
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Trecho do filme "Les Glaneurs et La Glaneuse" (2004) de Agnes Varda
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25 Docs You Must See Before You Die
Shot entirely on hand-held digital camera, legendary 72-year-old director Agnès Varda observes the historic custom of gleaning in an eye-opening journey. This magically inspiring documentary provides a unique social critique of human behaviour. (Her website.)
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U-Md. Officials Approve Minor in Latino StudiesBy Valerie Strauss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 19, 2008; B04
Undergraduates at the University of Maryland at College Park can now graduate with a minor in U.S. Latino studies after school officials yesterday approved the first such minor at a major university in the Washington region.
Students and faculty members, some of whom have been promoting U.S. Latino studies at Maryland's flagship public university for a decade, said they were delighted by the move but said more needs to be done to meet the needs of historically underserved Latino students.
"This is a great first step in a series of bigger steps that need to happen," said Angel David Nieves, an assistant professor who has been working for years on creating a full U.S. Latino studies program at the university. "We need to move on and . . . develop the funding necessary to bring the major and the graduate certificate on line."
Latino studies focuses on the history, culture, literature and the social fabric of Latino communities in the United States. No college or university in the mid-Atlantic region has a U.S. Latino studies program, in part because of historical obstacles that include a lack of funding and debate about whether such content studies constitute legitimate scholarship.
Latinos represent 15 percent of the U.S. population and are projected to reach 25 percent by 2050. In Maryland, they account for about 6 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census, but they are 14 percent of the population in Montgomery County and 12 percent in Prince George's County. At the College Park campus, Latinos make up about 5 percent of 25,000 undergraduate students and about 3 percent of faculty.
The minor will become official in the fall, but two seniors who have fulfilled the requirements will be permitted to graduate this spring with minors in U.S. Latino studies.
"Wow!" said Evelyn Lopez, 21, who attended Northwestern High School in Prince George's County and who will be the first Latina to graduate with the minor. "I will be leaving a real footprint here. I'm so happy."
The minor in U.S. Latino studies will be the first at a major university in the greater Washington area. Loyola College in Maryland in Baltimore also has one. No school in the mid-Atlantic region has a full Latino studies program.
Lopez said she was with dozens of students and some faculty members outside a building where a University Senate committee was meeting to decide whether to approve the minor. When a school administrator walked out and announced the decision, there were shouts and applause.
"You don't know what this means to us," Lopez said.
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