To investigate dominant social practices, hidden in plain sight, that infuse/inflect/define our lives - especially those around food, illness & dying, birth, the care of the dead, and prom - so that we can live more wisely.

Monday, March 28, 2011

HW 42 - Pregnancy & birth culminating project

Transform your understanding from interviews, speakers, class discussion, books, independent research, and film into an active project that meaningfully contributes to our collective social practices.

Choice 1: Organize a personal experience around this topic and write a narrative/make a film of your experience. Post it on your blog - ideally with uploads of photos and/or video.

Choice 2: Create an advocacy campaign, either alone or working with an existing group (or one you form), that creates change in dominant social practices around pregnancy & birth. Identify your desired change, stakeholders in that issue, means of communicating persuasive ideas/stories/information, do the change effort, and evaluate, using at least 2 follow-up surveys or interviews the success of your effort. Post a short summary of your work and its effects on your blog (1-2 paragraph, ideally with uploads of flyers, letter, etc.).

Choice 3: Write a 2-5 page essay that assembles powerful evidence to analyze a particular aspect of the dominant social practices around pregnancy & birth. Post it on your blog with an MLA works cited section.

Due Wednesday, April 6 at 8pm.

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