Problem:
Poverty in the Public Eye Presentation Students will explore poverty through a cultural and societal lens with the goal of examining the question: What is poverty? This project aims to explore the diverse understandings and views of poverty in our "everyday culture" outside of academia and how they influence our own understanding of poverty.
Students are to use everyday media sources, and other cultural or societal sources (general public messages and communication) to locate images or quotes that directly depict or reference poverty. These images should not come from a simple internet search for poverty images, but rather from general public communication spaces and sources. Students must identify how the message of the quote or image is being shared-for example, song lyrics, public statements, or memes.
For each image or quote, the students must pick one word (adjective or noun) to address the question: What is poverty? Students must identify a total of six (6) images/quotes and choose one word for each image/quote.
For example, a well-known actor may tweet "Poverty is a great shame to the United States...we need to do something"! The students may use this quote and summarize it with the noun "calling" or the adjective "ashamed".
Students will then:
1) Explain the significance of this quote or image in their understanding of poverty (in other words, why this image/quote was selected) Need Assignment Help?
2) Demonstrate how the image or quote relates to something from the course material. Is the public message consistent with what was studied, or does it reinforce a myth about poverty? Students must integrate material from each course textbook, their selected reading book, and the service-learning project at least once in the presentation.
Students must provide information on the sources of each image or quote. Where or how is the message displayed in our society? (i.e.: social media, popular music, movie, advertising, public announcement)
A visual presentation (such as PowerPoint or other slides) will be submitted that may include audio or written.