Explains and applies a specific interpretative tool

Chosen Topic: Love

Explain the subject you chose and why it’s worth exploring in the Humanities.

Identify how the subject you chose in appears in THREE different works, each from a different Humanities discipline (visual art, music, dance, poetry, prose, theater, film, religion). For example, you could choose a poem, a painting and a scene from a film, all of which express and represent the theme of anger. Or, if you choose the emotion of “love,” the final paper could analyze and discuss love as it is expressed in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 (literature), Boticelli’s Birth of Venus (visual art), and in the ballet Swan Lake (dance).

Describe each of your selected examples, including

1) information about its creator

2) its historical or cultural context (how it fits into a historical period’s or a specific culture’s attitudes, events etc. Think about what else was going on in the culture and history when the piece was created)

3) link to the example or an embedded image with a citation in the paper where you write about each example.

Use at least one specific interpretative tool (any humanities vocabulary) from the course to explain each of your selected examples; at least three total.

Assess the effectiveness or impact of each representation. In other words, how well did the representation present the subject? How effective was it? What impact did this representation have? What specific elements of the representation lead you to your conclusions?

*Have I:

Included a paragraph that provides one to two logical, concrete, well-stated reasons that this subject is worth exploring within the Humanities?

Have I included least two to three sentences for each example that clearly and concretely provide information about its creator, cultural/historical context, and where I found it-an image or link?

Have I included at least one to three sentences that explains and applies a specific interpretative tool that is from the course’s learning resources or discussions to each example?

Have I included at least one to three sentences that contains an assessment of the effectiveness of each example in representing the chosen subject?*