Finishing Our Seminar:
Your Portfolio and Final Exam

 

Portfolio

Your portfolio is due on Tuesday.  If you are not done with your work at this time, you can receive an incomplete.  However, you must discuss this with us no later than Tuesday and you must hand in a portfolio with the work that you have completed. 

Your portfolio should contain:

1. At least six event proofs and reactions (If you have more than six, they can be use to make up absences.)
2. 4 graded exams
3. Graded  ARP’s (clearly labeled with appropriate numbers)
4. Make-up ARP’s (clearly labeled with appropriate numbers)

Final Exam

The final will exam will have four essay questions – two philosophy questions and two questions representing other disciplines in the humanities.   Every essay should have a thesis, and you should provide specific and concrete evidence for your claims.  Use these essays to display your knowledge.

The humanities question will be drawn from the following list:

1. Construct a thesis about the representation of imperialism and race in Western art.  Compare at six appropriate works of art, literature, and/or philosophy.
   
    

2.      Many thinkers in the western tradition have viewed the developments from the Renaissance to the present as a progressive history –that is, with the idea that western civilization and culture have continually improved over this time towards some form of perfection. Discussing art, literature, science, and philosophy (using examples of particular works) respond to this claim. Note that you should define what you are counting as “progressive.”

 

3. “Despite their differences in time and in religious orientation, Milton’s Paradise Lost and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness have at their core a similar understanding of the nature of evil.”  Defend or attack this claim.