Part 1: The Practical Skills Assessment is a group project that tackles a particular academic question in a creative and engaging way. This can take many forms: it can be the result of a mini-ethnographic project, or an assemblage of images, or it can result from an installation of a flipchart in your student accommodation with an image or a question that you ask passers-by to engage with. It can also be a photographic or a audio/video-based project. These are just ideas and by no means exhaust the array of possibilities. You are encouraged to use your creativity to interrogate the world around you (or far away), through a race/gender lens in a creative and personal way. The assessment of the PR will be based on how you interpret the academic scholarship and theories of the course in producing creative projects. We will not assess your submission as an aesthetic art piece. If your artwork is three-dimensional, please make sure to document it from all sides through photos and/or video recordings. Make sure that the title of your reflection piece matches the title of the artwork, or that you mention the artwork prominently in the reflection piece. Marking of the reflection piece is anonymous, so we don’t see your names. Part 2: While the practical skills assessment is evaluated as a group (every member of the group receives the same mark), the 1000 word reflection piece (Assignment 2) in which you reflect on and engage with the themes presented through a discussion of academic literature, is marked individually. Think of it as a conventional academic piece in terms of style and referencing. The group project and the essay should be integrated: the reflection piece must address how the art-project was carried out and how the former visualises or expresses your question and what you have learnt in the process. There will be a workshop in the tutorials for week 5 to help you conceptualise and visualise your project. To summarise, these are the steps: 1) Identify and spell out your question together (can be, but not strictly limited to, the weekly topics of the course). The following is weekly topics of the course: 1. Introduction: Gendering “Race” and Racialising Gender 2. Race after the Genome: Technoscience and Indigeneity 3. Breathing the Human into the Algorithm: Gender and “Race” in a Post-Human World 4. Exgender: Being, Learning and Floating in a Gender Diverse Universe 5. The Politics of Pleasure: Gender and “Race” in Sex Work 6. Researching/Searching Vulnerability Vulnerably: Analysing Sex Work Ethnographies from India 7. Sexing Difference: Pornography and the Frenzy of the Visual 8. Gender, Race & Colonialism 9. Black (and Other) Lives Matter? International solidarity, (in)visibility and intersectional struggles 2) Refer to academic literature to elaborate on your question. Please let me Know which topic the writer have chosen, so that I can upload the relevant literature). 3) Reflect and elaborate on how the art-project visualises the question you are addressing. Engage with academic debates and with academic literature on the topic (the workshop will help with this). 4) Quote academic references in the usual manner for the reflection piece (it doesn’t matter which style you choose as long as you keep it consistent). 5) Writing in a “conventional academic” style does not preclude you from using “I” or from elaborating on your positionality in the reflection piece!
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