Essays
Because this course is part of the First Year Composition programme at Florida State, it necessitates extensive work with conceptualising writing as a process. This means that the course will require work in drafting three distinct essays that are in line with the course's other objectives of reconceptualising race and thinking about representational methodologies in media. The work on these essays will be staggered out over the course of a fifteen week semester, with an emphasis on editing/revision, peer-review, and student-instructor conferencing as methods of consistently engaging with the process of composing a final draft that is both cogent and polished.
This course also features a research component, and will necessitate work on a fairly substantive (8-10 page) project that will require supplemental research. Students will become acquainted with useful and transferable strategies to compose humanities papers that demonstrate a familiarity with conventions of pop culture studies.
The essays will be composed in conjunction with the three thematic arcs of the class, and will be assigned draft deadlines that are in accordance with the elements under discussion.