Topic: The Crazy Horse Monument (final)
Course Outcomes
In this project, you wil
Topic: The Crazy Horse Monument (final)
Course Outcomes
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following outcomes:
Using evidence from cultural artifacts and systems, develop questions about fundamental aspects of human culture that inform personal assumptions, beliefs, and values.
Investigate significant developments in the humanities to inform critical questions related to human culture and endeavors.
Determine fundamental approaches to studying the humanities in addressing questions about how cultural artifacts and the culture they are created in have influenced each other.
Articulate the humanities” value in terms of their impact on contemporary issues, focusing on how humans generate unique meanings.
Overview
The enduring relevance of the humanities is that they encourage us to consider the”big ideas.” From wondering what culture is to how we study it and the relationship between objects of cultural and historical significance and the culture in which they are created, the study of the humanities is all-encompassing. The relationship between the creators of works of cultural and historical importance, the things they make, and how human meaning is generated through cultural works are part of the themes we will explore in this assignment. Humans seem driven to express and create in our search to understand and be understood.
Scenario
For this assignment, imagine you are a researcher of human cultures and an anthropologist looking back to the future and our world today. In this position, you develop a natural curiosity about cultural works and how they represent a particular culture. You are also curious about how cultural works influence the environment in which they exist. You are new at your job, and your first project is to thoroughly analyze today’s culture via cultural work, looking to understand how it represents the culture and reflects its cultural environment. The results of your analysis will be used to craft the copy for a brochure accompanying a museum exhibit about cultural works of the current year.
Directions
Analysis of a Cultural Work
As an anthropologist, you will start your task by analyzing the work of human creative expression that you selected in Module Four. With this work in mind, respond to the questions below. Remember, the insights you gain here will be used to write the copy in the museum exhibit brochure.
Answer the following questions:
Describe the work in detail. Consider the following:
Where did you see the work?
What elements or characteristics stand out to you?
Describe the purpose of the work. Consider the following:
What do you think the creator intended to express?
Were they successful?
Use the work to explore how acts of creative expression impact and are impacted by the people and situations surrounding them. Consider the following:
What contributions does the work selected make to continuing dialogue about that culture and the importance of its works?
State questions you have after thinking deeply about this work. What else do you want to know regarding the following?
The relationship between culture and expression: What is the relationship between the possible intent of the creator and your interpretation of its meaning?
Explain how your values have shaped and are shaped by your expression and that of others.
Explain how you would approach answering these questions:
What would you study about this work that might address your stated questions?
Where would you find information to address the questions?
Next, conclude how the work you selected relates to the humanities:
Please explain why you believe humans must express themselves through created works of cultural and historical significance.
Describe a culture shift or event related to the work you selected. This could be a cultural shift that influenced the creation of the work, or it could be a cultural shift that came about because of it.
Explain how a concept or resource you encountered in this course has informed your explanation. Be sure to cite any sources used.
Please explain how you think the act of human creative expression impacts and is impacted by the culture in which it was created.
Explain the relationship between human creative expression and the culture in which the work you selected was created using the insights you gained from studying it.
Explain how a concept or resource you encountered in this course has informed your explanation. Be sure to cite any sources used.
Please explain how you believe human creative expression can impact issues we deal with in the present day (contemporary to your coursework, not the future scenario posed above). Be sure to be specific about the issues you are addressing.
Use your insights from studying your selected work to explain how creative expression can impact today’s issues.
Explain how a person or concept encountered in your humanities study has informed your explanation. Be sure to cite any sources used.
What to Submit
Your submission should be a three- to four-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Two sources are required, one of which must be academic. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Consult the Shapiro Library APA Style Guide for more information on citations.