Migration
& Culture 2001
Prof Koptiuch / ASU West
Final Assignments
Due on Thursday December 6
NOTE TIME CHANGE
1:55-3:45 PM
(in accordance with the final exam schedule assigned for our
class)
We will use this time to check out everyone’s
portfolio
and wrap up the course.
1) Current
Events
Poster/Magazine Cover--accompanied by a one-page
explanation. I’m not sure if we definitively decided that
this poster
necessarily has to be magazine-cover size (8 X 11).
Rather, it should
be like a magazine-cover?but it could be any size you
want (you
might prefer to work in a larger format than 8 X 11). See the
Chavez article
from WEEK 8 for ideas. The theme/images/etc should be drawn from
media,
current events, etc?but you can retool these in light of our
study of many
aspects of migration. If you wish, the poster could be a
companion piece
to your case study topic?but it does not necessarily have to be
on this
topic if you wish to focus on something else.
2) Portfolio
Project. This should include the all of
following assignments
that
you have done for this course. Put them all into some sort of
folder/notebook/etc
so that they work as a package. Please correct
any typos
or minor errors, print out clean copies (don’t use the ones I
scribbled
on for your portfolio).
-
Family Migration Map
-
Short Essay
-
Report on BorderLinks
Trip to Nogales
(or
alternative assignment)
-
Case Study Ethnography
Report
-
Current Events
Poster/Magazine Cover(and
one-page explanation)
-
Wrap-Up
Essay(2-4
pp), reflecting on all your projects, key migration issues of
concern and
interest to you, what you learned in this course, etc. On the
syllabus
I suggest that you might consider writing this short piece as
an imagined
conversation between an INS [or Grupo Beta?] officer and an
un/documented
immigrant (see article by Kumar WEEK 2 for ideas). You do not
absolutely
need to adopt this idea, but I encourage you to come up with
some other
imaginative idea of your own that may make this final piece
more fun, creative,
and interesting to write (and to read!). I do believe that
using our imagination
to dramatize, make vivid, inspire, and get to the meaning of
what is at
stake [but for whom?] in the things we study, is a great way
to spark the
old synapses into making innovative, even unexpected
connections that can
enliven and make more insightful topics that might otherwise
seem unnecessarily
lifeless. (my Word program tells me this last sentence is "too
long"?tough!)
Make it come alive!
Finally, if you wish to revise earlier
assignments
to enhance your grade (e.g. the Short Essay), please do so. But include
the
original marked-up version with the portfolio, so that I can
see
what you’ve changed to improve it.
Please do not miss
this final
class! If you’re
not done with your
portfolio yet, come to class anyway and finish up later (bring
what you
have).
Return to base