Making Memes
The Meme Assignment was developed by Dr. Shawna Brandle for her American Goverment class at Kingsborough Community College. The assignment was included and referenced in the 2022 Transformative Learning in […]
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Creating Commodities
While doing a sequence of readings on capitalism and its discontents, this assignments tasks students with considering how things became commodities (like water, land, animals’ bodies, etc). To familiarize students […]
Read moreIssues in New Media Manifesto
This manifesto project explores an ethical dilemma or matter of social injustice created, or made worse by technology or new media. The final manifesto must draw on at least four […]
Read moreMake the Familiar Strange
Students write a 1-page description of a common human practice as if they have never seen or heard of it before. Students are told to pretend they are an alien […]
Read moreEthnography of a Medical Controversy
In this fieldwork assignment, students locate a recent topic related to health and use the frameworks of medical anthropology to “read like an anthropologist”. The paper requires students to cite […]
Read moreIllness Narrative
Students conduct an ethnographic interview with someone they know who has experienced “illness” in their life. The illness narratives are used to support student learning about the methods of ethnography. […]
Read moreDocumentary Analysis
Students select a documentary, television episode, or audiovisual resource that was covered in class and write a response paper connecting the multimedia resource to three of concepts/topics discussed in class. […]
Read morePsychological Disorders Presentation
In groups, students create a short 4-5 slide presentation about a psychological disorder of their choice. Student must research the disorder to provide information about the DSM definition of the […]
Read moreAll about the Pitch
Students develop and give a 20-minute “business pitch” in front of a group of imaginary investors . As part of the presentation, each group provides the PDF/brochure that lays out […]
Read moreResistance Case Study
Students choose an example (event, person, place, etc.) they consider to be an important example of ‘resistance.’ The primary purpose of the assignment is to communicate to the reader what,how […]
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