Due: November 27
Your finished project will be a 7-10 page script for a 10-15 minute podcast that follows up on a theme, idea, or research area prompted by this class. It should be a specific, in-depth examination of a question that connects with the issue of historical remembrance. The typed script must rely on information and quotations from reliable outside sources and it must be properly documented using MLA style. Specific requirements and project steps are detailed below.
TOPICS
You will choose your own topic, but here are a few ideas to get you started:
- What are the formal features of street memorials like those we see painted on the sides of buildings around New York City?
- What is an appropriate way to remember the people who were tortured and killed under the rule of Rafael Trujillo, the former President of the Dominican Republic?
- How should the genocide of Native American people be memorialized?
- What kinds of memorials are appropriate for victims of traffic fatalities?
- What is the best way to honor soldiers killed in wartime?
- Why might some people be unhappy with New York City’s 9/11 memorial?
REQUIREMENTS
- Length–7-10 pages (approximately 1,750-2,500 words)
- Use quotations to illustrate your ideas
- Must connect in some way to the designated theme of the Learning Community
- Must use one assigned course reading
- Must use at least one interview with an expert
- Must use one print book
- Must use one periodical (magazine, newspaper, journal)
- Must use one websource
- All sources above must be at the college-level
- Must use at least one additional source: e.g., an interview, a book chapter, a documentary, a podcast, a TED talk, an essay, a poem, a short story, a performance, a work of art, or an episode of a television show
- Use as many additional sources as you like
- Credit sources by using quotation marks, in-text citations, and a list of Works Cited (MLA style)
- Typewrite and use MLA format (double-space; one-inch margins)
- Hand in document printed in black ink on one side only – no electronic documents
- You may supplement your script with charts, graphs, paraphrasing, and visual illustration to help demonstrate your point
