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It is intended that the term project be an interesting and
engaging experience. It is hoped that it will provide an environment
for broad creative expression, intellectual development, and
language skill-building. It is hoped that most or all students
will use newer digital technologies and provide the opportunity
to take part in an on-going effort to document the language and
ideas of native speakers of Portuguese.
In short, toward the completion of the term project, students
will find a native speaker of Portuguese and, together with that
person, develop a series of questions to which the native informant
will respond. After achieving agreement about the nature of the
interview, the student will then arrange to conduct and film
the interview. The interview will then be prepared for presentation
and dissemination to the members of the class. It will also become
part of a growing archive of culturally authentic materials that
we will maintain at Macalester College for limited and non-commercial
use only.
Specific project requirements:
- Pairs of students will videotape an interview a native speaker
of Portuguese on a topic of significance and mutual interest.
- The movie should be carefully edited, and the interviewer's
voices should be present, although minimally so.
- The final product must be short (5-6 minutes) and must be
accompanied by a word-for-word transcription of the interview.
- The finished project should reflect attention to production
details. It should reflect careful editing, it should include
a title and credits, it should preferably include appropriate
music, images, etc., and it should also reflect the esthetic
tastes of the students. This level of production is most easily
and effectively accomplished by digitizing the project with facilities
available in the Humanities Resource Center and working with
a program such as iMovie. Alternately, there are more
sophisticated resources available for video editing in the Department
of Media Services.
- It is a project that will be completed in the following five
phases.
- Phase
1, due February 14, 2003: Name of interviewee, topic(s)
chosen, question(s) to be asked, and one paragraph of written
rationale in Portuguese that states why the problem/issue is
important and/or interesting.
- Phase
2.a, due March 7, 2003: A 2-3 page report, written
in Portuguese, on the issues surrounding the topic. This report
must include at least 3 outside references (minimum sources:
1 web source, 1 popular media source, 1 scholarly source). Phase
2.b (continued), due March 7 2003: A 7-10 minute presentation/discussion
of the topic in class.
- Phase
3, due March 31, 2003: The initial recording of the
interview must be finished by this date. A paragraph, written
in Portuguese, that describes and accurately describes the phase
of completion must be turned in on this date.
- Phase
4, due April 23, 2003. The edited version of the movie
must be for all practical purposes completed by this date. A
written transcription of the interview in Portuguese must be
submitted at this time. Although there will be time for further
refinement, subtitles, credits, transitions, musical overlays,
visual artwork, etc. should be in place by this date.
- Phase
5, due May 2. The finished projects are due. During
this week a CD that contains all the interviews will then be
produced and distributed to all students in the course. The work
of each student will be placed in a folder and contain (1) the
digitized interview, and (2) a corrected transcription
of the interview.
- Phase
6, due on the day scheduled for the final exam. The
finished projects will be presented to and discussed by the class.
- Specific criteria for grading this project.
- All phase deadlines must be observed. Failure to do
so will result in a lowered grade (e.g. an A will become a B,
etc.).
- The transcription should be exact, with correct spelling
and grammar. Failure to do so will result in a lowered grade
(e.g. an A will become a B, etc.).
- If one meets all deadlines, and if all required work is of
acceptable quality, it is likely that some kind of B will be
assigned.
- If all of the above conditions are met and there is clear
and effective attention paid to the art and technique of film
production, it is likely that some kind of A will be assigned.
Grading
The final grade will be computed on the basis of the following
breakdown. For more specific grading criteria on individual categories
of assessment, follow the links below.
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