Question Description
HUMA 1301
Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of humanities by choosing two (2) writing prompts to serve as a basis for two (2) short essays and three (3) multimedia examples to demonstrate their view on the prompt.
Writing Prompts:
- Humans throughout history have demonstrated their creativity in many different ways. Describe the scope and variety of artistic and/or intellectual accomplishments made between pre-history and the Gothic period.
- Describe how a given work expresses the values of the individual and society within a historical and social context.
- Analyze a work of art (painting, sculpture, literature, philosophy etc.) discussing the experience that the work creates in the viewer/reader. Was this the creators intention or has perception of this work changed over time? If so, how and why.
- Describe how literature, philosophy, and the arts influence knowledge and understanding on cultural experiences, and give an example.
- Discuss why humans create and how.
Components of the Portfolio:
Title Page (will include Title of Portfolio, Students Name, and Date Turned In
Essay #1
Essay #2
Multimedia Example #1
Multimedia Example #2
Multimedia Example #3
Works Cited (properly MLA formatted which includes the sources used in your essays and multimedia examples)
Essay Criteria:
- Each essay will be between 500 to 750 words
- The essays will use the MLA Writing Style
- The essays must also be properly cited using in-text parenthetical citations.
Essay layout:
- Introduction paragraph
- State your thesis
- Introduce the writing prompt
- Lay out the structure of your argument
- Body (Minimum 3 Paragraphs)
- Make your argument
- Be sure to support your argument with facts and references
- Conclusion
- Briefly restate your argument
- State your fact-based conclusion clearly
Multimedia Examples Criteria:
- Students can use pictures, audio recordings, video, etc
- Multimedia examples MUST be included with the portfolio. If the example is an audio recording, you could use a picture that represents the audio recording.
- Multimedia examples should relate to the 1 of the 2 chosen writing prompts.
- Each multimedia example MUST be accompanied by a short passage explaining the significance of the example in regards to the writing prompt. This passage should be longer than 100 words for each example.
