Queer
Theory/Queer Lives
Fall
2004
Biography/Research
project and presentation
Topic: Biography of a person you choose
or description of a major idea, event, movement, etc., and your response
Due: At the beginning of class on
your chosen date
Outline
length: 1-3 pages
(must be typed)
Creative
response: varies,
but must engage us with the energetic and content equivalent of a 5-7 page
paper
The purpose of this project is for you to become familiar with, and to share with the class, pertinent background information and your critical response to an important writer, theorist, artist, idea, event, movement, etc.
For a biography:
* Provide a BRIEF personal biography
of the person you picked, including educational, professional and activist
history.
* How and why is their work:
1) important to you? 2) relevant to class content covered so far?
* What stuck out for you in
their work as thought-provoking, resonant with your experience, and/or problematic?
* What has the person written
or produced, and what has been written about them?
* Any other fascinating or curious
facts.
* Your presentation is 5 minutes
* You are encouraged to enliven
your presentation with pertinent visuals, video, audio, handouts, and/or treats
for the class.
* Send us your outline electronically
as an email attachment so we can add it to the course website.
Foran
event/movement/book etc:
* Provide a BRIEF description
of the topic you picked, including public responses to it.
* How and why is it:
1)important to you? 2) relevant to class content covered so far?
* What stuck out for you as
thought-provoking, resonant with your experience, and/or problematic?
* What has been said about your
topic, in writing or in the media?
* Any other fascinating or curious
facts.
* Your presentation is 5 minutes
* You are encouraged to enliven
your presentation with pertinent visuals, video, audio, handouts, and/or treats
for the class.
* Send us your outline electronically
as an email attachment so we can add it to the course website.
Creative
response:
Create
a piece of writing, art, video, film, poetry, performance or other form of expression
in response to your chosen person/topic.
You can either respond to the entire piece/event, or choose one
particular moment/thought to respond to.
You can also comment on public reception/reaction to the work or events,
including media coverage. Please engage issues covered in the readings or
discussed in class. The guidelines
and format are flexible, but we envision the creative response as roughly the
equivalent of a 5-7 page paper.
The presentation,
write-up and creative response will be graded on the following criteria:
* Outline is typed and handed
in on time (10% grade deduction for every calendar day the project is late)
* Presentation and creative
response are delivered on the date specified
* Organization and inclusion
of all elements described above
* Quality of research
* Quality and clarity of writing/production
* Citations and bibliography
Zimmerman
Library http://elibrary.unm.edu/subjects
The Internet
(http://www.google.com/ is a good search
engine)