final projects

Final Project

Your final project can be a development of any literary work or idea which has engaged you during the first seven weeks of the course, or it can be a new departure.  In other words, your Final Project can be a revision of your color, sound, or dynamic/organic piece(s); or a fourth piece.

The Final Project is related to the three creative projects (color, sound, living relationship) in that it also is focused on the Library space and the context of language, reading, learning from the work of others.

You will have six weeks to develop this project, as opposed to two, for previous projects.  Though you will also imagine and complete Assignment 3 (organics / dynamics / living relationship), and read The Present Order and Lines in this time, you will nevertheless have a more extended time for consideration, discussion, reflection, consultation, making, and revision.

The Library is already gently flowering with works, just as the cherry blossoms bloom.  I would like the Final projects to strengthen and validate this work, even if a culture of unobstrusiveness and inquiry is maintained.  I would like if your work makes this a space people want to come into, even more than they already do -- a space which invites exploration, offering many reminders of the excitement of learning and experience, whether on individual or community bases.

Schedule of deadlines

week 6 w 4/4 + f 4/6: written proposal for final project (1-2 printed paragraphs)

week 7 w 4/11 + f 4/13: final project guidelines distributed (1 printed sheet)

    • whole class review of final project guidelines, proposals, and schedule
week 8 w 4/18 + f 4/20: final project 
    • in-class writing + small groups
week 9 w 4/25 + f 4/27: final project 
    • in-class writing + whole class
week 10 w 5/2 + f 5/4:  final project
    • in-class writing + small groups
week 11 w 5/9 + f 5/11: final projects: installation + performance

week 12 w 5/16 + f 5/18: final projects: critique + discussion
    • course review + evaluation
Assignments are weighted as follows:
10 in-class writings on assigned texts, 100
3 creative writing assignments, 100
research paper, 100
final project, 100
documentation + presentation, 100
bonus: whole or part grade increase for collaborative work, leadership in community events, e.g., blog and exhibition of final projects, and significant contribution to class content, discussion, and / or critique.
All work must be documented / revised as appropriate and presented in a portfolio for final evaluation.