Gordon State College Cultural Experiences Essay

Pick the topics for each set of your two reports from the four categories described below, which are listed A through D. For each set of reports, you must pick from two different categories. For instance, you may not submit two reports from category A (music) when submitting your first two reports; if one of your reports in that first set is from category A, the other must be from either category B, C, or D. Content for Your Cultural Experience Reports: Complete the following in the following order: 1. Type a title for your paper, your name, your class number and time, your professor’s name, and the number of words in your paper in the upper right-hand margin of the first page of your paper. 2. At the top of your page, under your name and above the text of your report, write the title (artist and work) of the two works you experienced. Provide as full a citation as possible for each work, noting where it is located, when it was made, who published or exhibited it, etc. You may use MLA or APA style if you wish. 3. Writing entirely in your own words, describe and evaluate the two works you experienced. In your descriptions, represent in detail, using the expert language appropriate to the medium you are experiencing, the content of what you read/heard/saw, etc. Include titles of works, subjects, colors, instrumentation, ideas, language, style, etc. If describing a novel, play, film, or opera, do not merely summarize the plot. Describe the whole experience of seeing live theater, reading a long novel, watching a classic film, or viewing an entire opera. What was it like to do that? How did the audience react? What qualities of the old film or opera that you watched stand out? The point of this section of the report is for you to give your reader as vivid a description as possible of the cultural experience you had. Use colorful language. Have fun with the description. 4. Write each evaluation in a separate paragraph immediately after the description (thus your portfolio should be organized as follows: description 1, evaluation 1, description 2, evaluation 2.). In your evaluation discuss in depth what this cultural experience means to you. What did you learn? Did you like it? Why or why not? What did you get out of it?  7 What questions do you have about it? What do you want to know more about it? Is it like other works of culture you have experienced? (cont. on next page) 5. After the above two reports write one more, final paragraph in which you compare and contrast your two cultural experiences and discuss what they have taught you about culture and values, the world and yourself. Requirements: • Length: minimum of five fully developed paragraphs, maximum of ten fully developed paragraphs (700 – 1500 words). • Format: typed, double-spaced, with 1” margins, 12 pt. Times font, left aligned. • Type your name, your class number, your professor’s name, the number of words in your paper, and the name of your culture experience (title of novel, name of architectural movement, name of artist, etc.) in the upper right-hand side of the first page of your assignment. • Clarity: grammar, punctuation, mechanics, style, and organization count. You are responsible for writing a thoughtful and well-organized assignment composed in Standard American English. • Construct properly focused paragraphs. Proofread carefully. • Do not plagiarize; do not copy text from websites. • Upload a file (MS Word format) containing the full, properly formatted text of your paper to the assignment dropbox in Desire2Learn by 11:59pm of this assignment’s due date. • Late portfolios will receive grade deductions of up to 10 points per day late. Approved Topics for Cultural Experience Reports:

Category A: music • Attend a concert at Gordon College (or elsewhere). • Listen to a full album by an artist or artistic group. • Listen to an hour-long show from the “New Sounds” online archive of contemporary global art music: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/ (click on the “archive” button on the right-hand side of the page; there are several years’ worth of shows on the archive so look at the offerings for multiple months and find a kind of new music that interests you). • Watch a full musical performance at https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/ • Listen to some music linked to in the D2L readings. • Do not simply write about one short song; write about enough in order to properly cover the range of an artist or group’s creative output.