Final Project Fall

Final Project Fall 2021:
Exploring Multicultural Identity and Creativity
For your Final you are to research and investigate an aspect of multicultural creativity. Students are allowed to explore plays and topics from class or outside of class that they are interested in. Be sure to choose a topic that you feel you can really invest in and would enjoy writing or creating a presentation around. You are to choose ONE of these two options.
Written Final- Should be 2-3 Pages on a Word Document (.docx, .doc) or 8-12 Paragraphs submitted to Canvas. All written finals should have appropriate citations/footnotes as needed (at least 3). Written finals should include Images, Quotes, Videos or any additional materials you come across in your research that you feel are relevant. Paper should be articulate with correct spelling and grammar.
Video Presentation- Video Presentations should be 5-7 minutes long with Images , Music, Clear Audio, and relevant content. This video can be uploaded to YouTube (unlisted) or can uploaded via Canvas (size permitting). Narration or self shot videos are acceptable. A small essay (1-2 paragraphs) should be provided.
Possible Subjects and Ideas:
– Speak/Write about your own cultural identity, traditions, or any multicultural past from your family’s history. Where do these traditions come from? Do you travel back to a village, home, or have any rituals that you are apart of?
-Choose to do a set design or costume design for one of the plays from class, describe influences and reasons you’ve made the choices you have. Include images, genres, and concepts in your portfolio.
-Poetry reading and biography of writers like Langston Hughes, August Wilson, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolen Brooks or other influential multicultural poet. Look for authors whose work has some kind of performance aspect involved (either plays or musicals, or artists whose work is regularly referenced or adapted in the theater).
-Write in-depth about specific movements or cultural shifts that have happened in the United States (Civil Rights movement, Women’s Rights/Suffrage, Gay Rights, LGTBQ Movement or others) , discuss the theater (plays or musicals) that have come out this period or have been inspired by it.
-Pitch a theatrical production or any scripted work from a multicultural perspective. You could modernize or adapt a classical piece (Romeo and Juliet in Oakland 2019 for example) or a play from one of the playwrights we discussed in class but did not cover (the canon of August Wilson, Lynn Nottage, Luis Valdez, Eve Ensler, or others). If you choose this topic I will be able to guide you and ask additional questions.

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