Task: To create a website on Voices that brings into focus a cultural topic related to diversity, intersectionality, or othering that you think is relevant and meaningful. Your topic can be related to the themes explored in class or something completely different. Your topic can focus on: a specific cultural space, an identity, a political movement, a way of understanding, an artistic or cultural artifact, or a professional association.
Purpose: To open a critical window onto a topic related to diversity, intersectionality, and/or otherness that you believe merits more visibility.
Required Components of the Website: 1) A narrative about the topic that contains a critical frame and that is informed and supported by academic sources; 2) visual content that engages your audience and enhances the written content (still images, reels, videos); 3) discussion of the visual content (analysis, not description); 4) a bibliography of academic sources (in MLA format); 5) One academic source in PDF format that has been read and marked up by the student using the reading tools by Acrobat (underlining, highlighting, comments).
Final Product: Your website should exhibit coherence, cohesion, and effective communication on a defined topic. Overall, it should be inviting to viewers.
Support for the project will be provided during class on November 17 and November 21. A prospectus of the project is due on November 24. During the week of December 1 (the last week of class), students will spend class time working on the project and provide progress reports to each other. In addition to working on your own site, you will be expected to lend your expertise to the other students in an effort to help them as they develop their projects. Each student will formally present their website on the scheduled day and time of the final exam (December 10 at 4pm). Each presentation will last a maximum of fifteen minutes.
Banner Photo by Rafael Cárdenas (2020)