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Midterm Essay Guidelines
HIS376 Film as History
Midterm Essay Guidelines
Purpose
The midterm essay is designed to assess your learning in the following areas:
Use correct terms and dates to put the films in their appropriate historical context.
Use films as a source of information about past events and the arguments made about them.
Connect films to historical interpretations of Japanese colonialism.
Support your argument with concrete examples from assigned films and readings.
Task
Write a well-organized essay. Your essay should be concise and coherent. It should demonstrate a familiarity with the readings, films, and lectures, and an ability to analyze and synthesize them in the course of articulating a cogent answer. Your essay should be typed, properly cited, double-spaced, and 5-pages long. (Use MLA or Chicago Manual for citations.) Make sure you edit your essay before submission. Late submissions may be accepted but will be penalized a full grade point per day.
Essay Question
Choose a film that you think best represents the historical complexity of Japanese colonialism. Explain your choice by elaborating what it reveals about Japanese colonialism and what its strength as a source is by comparing it to other films as well as bringing assigned readings into discussion.
Criteria
Your essay will be graded based on
Contextualization of films and readings
Germane use of examples from both films and readings
Clarity of explanationMidterm Essay Guidelines
HIS376 Film as History
Midterm Essay Guidelines
Purpose
The midterm essay is designed to assess your learning in the following areas:
Use correct terms and dates to put the films in their appropriate historical context.
Use films as a source of information about past events and the arguments made about them.
Connect films to historical interpretations of Japanese colonialism.
Support your argument with concrete examples from assigned films and readings.
Task
Write a well-organized essay. Your essay should be concise and coherent. It should demonstrate a familiarity with the readings, films, and lectures, and an ability to analyze and synthesize them in the course of articulating a cogent answer. Your essay should be typed, properly cited, double-spaced, and 5-pages long. (Use MLA or Chicago Manual for citations.) Make sure you edit your essay before submission. Late submissions may be accepted but will be penalized a full grade point per day.
Essay Question
Choose a film that you think best represents the historical complexity of Japanese colonialism. Explain your choice by elaborating what it reveals about Japanese colonialism and what its strength as a source is by comparing it to other films as well as bringing assigned readings into discussion.
Criteria
Your essay will be graded based on
Contextualization of films and readings
Germane use of examples from both films and readings
Clarity of explanationMidterm Essay Guidelines
HIS376 Film as History
Midterm Essay Guidelines
Purpose
The midterm essay is designed to assess your learning in the following areas:
Use correct terms and dates to put the films in their appropriate historical context.
Use films as a source of information about past events and the arguments made about them.
Connect films to historical interpretations of Japanese colonialism.
Support your argument with concrete examples from assigned films and readings.
Task
Write a well-organized essay. Your essay should be concise and coherent. It should demonstrate a familiarity with the readings, films, and lectures, and an ability to analyze and synthesize them in the course of articulating a cogent answer. Your essay should be typed, properly cited, double-spaced, and 5-pages long. (Use MLA or Chicago Manual for citations.) Make sure you edit your essay before submission. Late submissions may be accepted but will be penalized a full grade point per day.
Essay Question
Choose a film that you think best represents the historical complexity of Japanese colonialism. Explain your choice by elaborating what it reveals about Japanese colonialism and what its strength as a source is by comparing it to other films as well as bringing assigned readings into discussion.
Criteria
Your essay will be graded based on
Contextualization of films and readings
Germane use of examples from both films and readings
Clarity of explanation
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