ENG251culture

Here is the article Maegan has selected. Please have it read and be prepared to discuss it tomorrow (in addition to the Hebdige and Radway pieces).

April 5th: revision of prospectus due

April 17th: “rough” draft of “final” paper due

April 24th: revision of essay #1 (video/song/album/movie) due

The Second Annual English Department Symposium

Thursday, March 29, 2007
Standish Rooms 3 & 4

9:25-10:15
Tempests: Shakespeare and Césaire Performance and Commentary
10:15-11:05
Life after Saint Rose and the English Major
11:15-12:05
Writing Fiction Class Readings
12:05-12:55
Senior Seminar Panel: Shakespeare Now and Then
1:05-2:20
Faculty Reading: Dan Nester, Kate Laity, Barbara Ungar, Hollis Seamon, Doug Butler
Lunch served.
2:40-3:20
Playwriting Sketches and Monologues
3:20-4:10
Student Reading
Transcendentalism: Heirs and Precursors Presentation
4:15-5:05
Much Needed Break!
5:05-5:55
Graduate Student/Faculty Reading
6:00-7:30
Reception in Saint Joseph Hall
7:30–
Frequency North: Patricia Smith
Saint Joseph Hall

Attend any of these events/sessions and blog about them for extra credit. Remember include lots of details, as well as your thoughts.

Please view this video for Helen’s discussion starter.

Here is one discussion starter for Tuesday. There will be a second article, which I will post as soon as I receive it.

Discussion starter article for Thursday 3/22.

due: posted to your group wikispace by 3/20 at noon–this is a collaboratively written text

3 – 5 (750 – 1250 words) pages in length (not including bibliography)

Your prospectus should be a foward-looking, foward-thinking piece that begins to formulate your thinking on your topic but also shows what you already know about it.

Introduction: Overview of your topic; what you already know about it; any hypotheses you have about it; potential arguments you want to make about your topic.

Description:  Your plan-of-action.  You have already been given the framework or method of cultural analysis with/in which you’ll be working–that is the circuit of culture, as laid out in your Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the SONY Walkman book: representation, regulation, identity, production, and consumption. In this section you should begin to formulate your thinking about your topic in terms of each of these five cultural processes. How is your object represented? What social identities get associated with it? How does your object get produced? In what ways does it get consumed? How does its distribution and use get regulated?

Your research plan: What do you still need to know or find out about your topic? What are your plans for attaining this information? What kind of resources will you be using?

Include a bibliography that includes the sources you plan to use for this project.

For other information on writing a prospectus check out this and/or this.

Shannon S’s chosen article is here.

Click here to read Shannon M’s discussion starter article.