“The Cultural Other”
- Research the history and traditions of a culture that is of special interest to you. You may research the arts, musical traditions, literature, significant historical events, and religions of your chosen culture.
- Armed with this background, create a portfolio of an invented person from that culture. The result will be a case study.
- Decide on the age, gender, socioeconomic class, family situation, and community role of the individual, as well as a personal crisis the individual has involving culture.
- Write up the case study. Include a key historical event that has some influence on the case.
Attached is the rubric
“The Cultural Other”
· Research the history and traditions of a culture that is of special interest to you. You may research the arts, musical traditions, literature, significant historical events, and religions of your chosen culture.
· Armed with this background, create a portfolio of an invented person from that culture. The result will be a case study.
· Decide on the age, gender, socioeconomic class, family situation, and community role of the individual, as well as a personal crisis the individual has involving culture.
· Write up the case study. Include a key historical event that has some influence on the case.
Here is the grading rubric for this assignment:
| Grading Rubric for APPLIED FINAL PROJECT: “THE CULTURAL OTHER” | ||||||||
| 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Weight | Total | |
| CONTENT | ||||||||
| 1. All topics are discussed in clear detail and are relevant to the assignment and course | X5 | |||||||
| 2. Author supports assertions correctly | X2 | |||||||
| 3. Ideas are interrelated coherently and logically | X3 | |||||||
| 4. Author creatively enhances the topic | X3 | |||||||
| Professional Presentation | ||||||||
| 5. Project contains an appropriate degree of formality where required | X1 | |||||||
| 6. Text develops and elaborates on main ideas | X2 | |||||||
| 7. Final product is neat and attractive | X1 | |||||||
| WRITING MECHANICS AND STYLE | ||||||||
| 8. Paper is free of mechanical errors (e.g., misspellings, typos, punctuation errors) | X1 | |||||||
| 9. Paper is grammatically sound (with proper sentence structure) | X1 | |||||||
| 10. Paper is submitted per instructions, on time, and in appropriate format | X1 |
| Points awarded | Behaviors demonstrated |
| 5 | Paper contains no errors in this area. |
| 4 | Paper contains limited errors in this area; however, the overall presentation of the material is readable and appropriate. |
| 3 | Paper contains multiple errors in this area; however, the overall presentation of the material is acceptable. |
| 2 | Paper contains a number of errors in this area and the overall presentation is difficult to read. |
| 1 | Paper contains numerous errors in this area, which detracts from the presentation. |
| 0 | Not present. |


