Skills: The purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills that are essential to your success in this course, in art history, at DePauw, and in professional life:
- Develop a research topic, assessing the availability of research materials relevant to that topic
- Dilate your attention to visual and auditory information, especially details that are not immediately apparent
- Sort and prioritize your observations; generate vivid language to describe them
- Conduct scholarly research using academic sources as well as popular press materials
- Situate cultural material in socio-historical context
- Generate an annotated bibliography that demonstrates organized, strategic research
- Engage with scholarly sources in a thoughtful way in your own writing, using paraphrase, summaries, and quotations appropriately
- Synthesize your observations in an organized analytic essay
- Use evidence to support an original thesis, effectively communicating your point of view to a diverse audience