4-2 Project Draft: Creative Works

Overview

As we have seen throughout this course, creative works allow us to make sense of our own identities as well as the world around us. They can serve as an entry point for understanding complicated topics. For this assignment, you will analyze the two creative works you have chosen that represent your project topic. You will describe how diverse perspectives represented in the works add value and how the humanities shape the relationship between self and society regarding your topic.

You will also be revisiting the idea of biases and assumptions that you worked on in the Module Three Short Answer Assignment. This time, rather than thinking about your own biases and assumptions, you’ll be thinking about the biases and assumptions that the creator brings into the work.

Before working on this assignment, consult the Project Guidelines and Rubric in the Supporting Materials section below.

The Project Resources webpage is also linked in the Supporting Materials section below. You selected your creative works from this list in Module Two; however, you may find it helpful to review the list of works.

Directions

You will continue to use the Project Template that you began in Module Two for this assignment. For your Module Two project proposal, you drafted the first two components of Part One of your project on questions 1 and 2 of the template. Now, for this assignment, you will draft the rest of Part One along with all of Part Two of the template.

Specifically, you must address the following:

Part One: Choose the Creative Works

In this section, you will use the two creative works you chose for the Module Two project proposal to compare various subject areas of the humanities in relation to your chosen topic. Address the following criteria in Part One:

1. Already drafted in your Module Two project proposal.
2. Already drafted in your Module Two project proposal.
3. Value of the Diverse Perspectives: Describe the value of the diverse perspectives demonstrated in the chosen creative works.
   1. What are examples of diverse perspectives represented in the creative works?
   2. What do these diverse perspectives add to the work?
4. Biases and Assumptions: Describe potential biases and assumptions present in the creative works in relation to the topic.
   1. In what ways does the work challenge the audience’s assumptions or provoke deeper reflection about the cultural issue it addresses?
   2. How does the work present multiple perspectives, contradictions, or ambiguities that invite interpretation and discussion?

Part Two: Self and Society

In this section, you will use the two creative works you chose to demonstrate how the humanities shape the relationship between self and society regarding your topic. Address the following criteria in Part Two:

1. Create Meaning: Describe how the creative works create meaning surrounding the topic.
   1. How do the creative works help the audience to make sense of the topic?
   2. How do the creative works help the audience to make sense of society in relation to the topic?
2. Society’s Perception: Describe how the creative works have impacted society’s perception of the topic.
3. Different Groups: Describe how the creative works might be perceived by different groups of people.
   1. How might different generations or cultures perceive the creative works differently?
4. Development of Empathy: Explain how the creative works influence the development of empathy regarding the topic.
   1. How does the work invite the audience to see the world from another person’s perspective, especially someone with issues they may not have encountered personally?
   2. What specific emotions or experiences in your works help the audience feel a deeper connection to people or issues they might not have encountered personally?
5. Critical Thinking: Explain how the creative works encourage critical thinking regarding the topic.
   1. How do the works challenge an audience to more deeply consider their assumptions or examine their own cultural perspectives?
   2. How can you describe the artistic choices in the work, such as color in a visual work or the sound of the music in a song, in an objective way? How do your personal reactions to those choices add a subjective layer to your analysis?