Assignment Overview:
The Winter term curation assignment follows the same format and requirements as before. The idea of “curation” refers to the process of putting together a collection of things into a list, display, or presentation (like in a museum or a gallery).
For the purposes of this assignment, we take this idea of curation towards popular culture. Your objective in this assignment is to come up with a “curated” list of examples from popular culture that demonstrate (or otherwise speak to) one of the main ideas from the second term of the course.
Topic chosen: Pop culture & the embodied performance of race (Module 17).
After you have chosen your topic, you will then come up with an annotated list of 5 examples from popular culture (past or present) that relate to it. The annotation for each of the 5 items on your list should feature a brief commentary explaining what the item is, and how you think it relates to the main idea on which you’re focusing the assignment. See below for further details on what kinds of things you might include in your list, and what your annotations should feature.
This is once again a brainstorming exercise of sorts in which you’re thinking about the different ways these tropes might be expressed in popular culture. It gives you a chance to think about pop culture cases from your own interests, knowledge, and experience.
