LEARNING ANALYSIS for Women, Art, and Culture [click the title link to download a copy of this assignment]
This is a synthetic reflection on the course and your place in it. Think 6-8 pgs printed out; and compact is good! REDRAFTED AND EDITED VERSION TURNED IN AT THE END OF CLASS Tuesday, 9 DECEMBER. Logbook 4 + hardcopy in class; electronic copies emailed to TA as well. Credit given only with presence in class on the last, so be sure to be in class, no matter what!
SUMMARY OF GRADED MATERIALS:
#1 Museums & #2 Event,
Group Definition Feminism in flyer and event = 1/3 grade#3 Intersectional Art Project = 1/3 grade
#4 Learning Analysis, Info Sheet, and Logbooks 1-4 = 1/3 grade BUT NOTE! NO FINAL GRADE FOR CLASS WITHOUT FINAL LOGBOOK #4
The learning analysis gives you an
opportunity to talk about what the course has meant to you. It includes:
(1) your description of the story of the
course.
Examine the syllabus (course descriptions
and requirements, the reading and writing assignments), websites and blog
spaces, notes from class, any freewrites, lists and preps for class, imagining
this information as elements in a story about women, art, and culture. How did
the course begin? What questions did we start off with? How is the class
constructed and what sorts of learning are fostered? How is the course divided
into experiences? How would you name these? What does each set of experiences
contribute to a story about Women, Art and Culture? You will be trying to
analyze how the course was constructed, and why it was put together in this
particular way. Pay special attention to titles for days in the Reading and
Writing Assignment outline. Imagine them as titles in a Table of Contents to
parts of a book and try to understand the story of the "book" of the
course.
(2) put yourself into this story.
What have we created together in our
class, in participations in our large collective seminar, our smaller Thursday
seminars, in project teams and partnerships? How are you a part of the story of
the course as you understand it? What was happening with you at different
points in the unfolding and building of this argument? Use freewrites and other
notes to remind yourself what you were thinking at different points. Remember
these are the time capsules your earlier self was saving for the you that
exists now. How did everything change for you? What changed them? What were
your contributions to the class? What effects did you have on the course, on
your partners? How did your responses to other people's work include you in the
argument of the class? What worked especially well for you? Be sure to account
for your absences from class, and talk about what you did to keep up and how
you know that you got the stuff you missed. Make sure to include your
experience in your Thursday seminar group, and to compare what you did and made
happen yourself in that group and in the larger class.
(3) discuss from the course three readings
and a web site in addition to the class website, that especially connect you
into the story of the class.
Choose
readings which meant a lot to you, and web sites of substance that helped you
think and connect. Demonstrate that you've kept up with the reading by
showing how widely you've read in the course materials. Pick whole books as
well as shorter pieces. Make a point of going beyond the same readings you used
in the other assignments. How do these readings connect you to the story of
the class? How did they affect you? What was meaningful and important about
them? What did you learn from them? How did they change your relationship to
the course, to ideas, issues, politics, feelings? You can talk about how your
life was connected to these ideas and feelings. You can suggest relationships
with other readings, other courses, other experiences.
This is an exercise in
synthesizing--putting things together in new relationships, making a whole
shape. It requires imagination. Have fun with it. Good luck!
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