artist: Barbara Kruger
Due December 8, 2024 at midnight, submit via email
The Portfolio (30 percent)
You will compose a digital portfolio (format to be decided by you: canva, a zine, website, pdf) which highlight “the work” you did this semester. The portfolio should curate key concepts and insights you take away from the seminar, why and how they spoke to you, and how they might inform the future. These do not need to take solely a written form. You can use audio, video, gifs, photographs, doodles, drawings and so on to make your portfolio. You can do your portfolio in groups of 2 or 3, please just let me know ahead of time (and, the portfolio itself is expected to be longer and could be in dialogue with each other’s learning).
The portfolio should include:
- An introduction that describes your portfolio and the key conceptual idea(s) connecting its different parts (here you might have a theme, or different ones in conversation. Length: up to 500-600 words
- The work done: your portfolio will incorporate the readings (meaningful quotes or insights), your presentation, and the discussion entries in the blog or any other further reflections / connections. The expectation is that you curate these sections, meaning that what is included or how it is included keeps coherence or establishes a dialogue with the overall concept of your portfolio.
- The not so obvious that can be included: those notes or ideas jotted down when reading or during discussions in class, while thinking, during conversations you had about class topics with family and friends, stories or objects that came into conversation with the course materials and helped you connect to the theme of gender, peace and security and different topics in the class. You may want to make connections across themes, or draw up a manifest or guidelines that you will carry forward, or a feminist toolbox.
- A closing section which offers concluding reflections and may put forth future directions (200-300 words).
- A bibliography on the works cited.
Evaluation:
Content (Conceptual, Reflexive and Analytical) (60%);
Writing (20%);
Design/visuals/Audio (20%)
Other consideration in evaluation of project is:
Clarity of ideas
Originality of ideas/vision
Coherence content/image/vision (for creative projects)
Balance and integration of readings/ideas from course