Course Assignments
All assignments
are to be typed, and handed in on the
due dates.
You will receive a final grade upon the completion of all the
assignments.
1.
2. Synthesize
and
Summarize arguments to support your position on the topic (50% of your grade)
3.
I. Attendance and class participation: 25% of your grade
·
brief overview of the major point(s) of the assigned
reading;
·
a critique of
the reading (i.e., what according to you should students take away from the
reading); and
·
any points of contention with the reading
II. Synthesize and Summarize arguments
to support your position on the 2 topics, communicate ideas and make
presentation (50%
of your grade):
1.
“What is Globalization” – Drawing from the class discussions, and your
readings from the text as well as outside sources that you think are relevant,
develop a careful definition of the term “globalization”. Then describe
how you see it applying to cultural, economic, and or political processes in the world today. Argue and defend your
position as (i) Globalists, (ii) skeptics or (iii) transformationailsts.
2.
Locating
your self in your own art practice do you think, that
a global culture is in the making? If you are asserting that culture is becoming
global, what specific ideas, beliefs, values and norms are becoming
global/universal (following the argument of homogenization or more
hybridization)? Is
it producing convergence or divergence? Does it undermine the authority of
dominant art practice? Is there loss of identity and loss of culture or even cultural “colonialization?” Is Globality different from Modernity?
III. Research Paper 25%
of your grade
Research and make your arguments on
a final paper on:
And Is the
“global village” indeed open to all? Using the trope of “network society”