You are to create a revised version of your “Health and the Animal” Article Draft
How you revise your article is up to you.
Whereas your draft was in the 300-400 word range, I expect your revised article in the 500-750 word range. Remember, as stated in the original instructions: “your article should take the form of a . . . smart and polished . . . post that you would read on your newsfeed.”
And if you’re feeling inspired, you can make use of any creative medium (a short video, a new artwork, or . . .) that further helps express your thinking about animality and matters of health, illness, and disability addressed in your article. Include this creative aspect of your work along with your final exam submission, if you so choose.
Your article will be assessed as follows:
Basic Elements (50%)
a thoughtful, relevant title;
a topic clearly motivated by some aspect of course readings and content;
a source that allows you to dig deeply into the beliefs, values, and attitudes that shape your understanding of how animals shape your thinking about health, illness, and/or disability;
intentionally developed and evolved from your originally submitted “Draft”; note, as indicated in the original instructions, you may not select a new source at this point. Please include your original draft again at the end of your document so I can assess your revisions;
thoroughly referenced (both text and any images used in the article, as appropriate)
approximately 500-750 words.
Presentation Style (20%)
Appearance
original, thoughtfully presented (in other words: presentation matters)
Aesthetics (images, colour; avoid tacky clip art!)
Clear communication
3) General Alignment with Course Learning Objectives
Describe how arts- and humanities-based perspectives derived from critical animal studies can inform the interdisciplinary study of health, illness, and disability using a diverse range of questions, methods, and examples;
Demonstrate engagement with the major debates and concerns of animal-human relationships as they pertain to the humanistic study of health and illness, through assignments aimed at building critical vocabularies and practical skills in close reading, visual and textual literacy, narrative competence, the ethics of representation, reflective and critical writing;
Develop enhanced critical capacity in primarily written forms of expression, and apply that enhanced analytical rigour to the ethical and existential issues at the basis of animal-human relations as they concern the humanistic study of health, illness, disability, and related subthemes.
