HW 30 - Illness & Dying - Culminating Experiential Project

Plan and carry-out a project that combines a key text, some internet research, and real world interactions to gather insight on a particular aspect of the dominant social practices around illness & dying. I expect each step (thinking, research, acting, writing, preparing presentation) to require 1-3 hours.

Given the possible canceled day Wednesday, we'll make the due date for your post Sunday at noon, January 16.

Your post should address the following elements:

• What aspect of the dominant social practices around illness & dying did you decide to explore?
• What resource(s) or insight(s) from the unit (if any) connect to this aspect?
• What information did you gather from the internet related to this aspect? Please cite sources.
  
• How did you explore? What did you do in the real world? Did you enjoy it, contribute to another, see something new? Give us some flavor, show don't tell.
• What did you learn?
• What does this show about dominant social practices of illness & dying in our culture?
• Why does that matter?

Your presentations on Monday and Tuesday will be 2 minute "elevator speeches" that share the most interesting aspect of what you did and what you learned. The elevator speeches will serve as an additional grade for the project - you should view them as "best of" rather than "narratives (sequences of actions)" - interested folks with look to your blog for more insight. You should have a single prop (photo, quick handout, or souvenir of your experience) and practice the speech several times before hand (timed).

You should email to ask your T/W teams to contribute comments to your post as soon as you've published it Sunday (proofread and revise first!). "HW 31 - Comments 3" should be up by Tuesday, January 18 at 9pm using the same format as before ("best of" for above/below mentors, other aspect from classmates - then a dashed line and your comments for others in your T/W teams).