As a final project, you must create a website dedicated to the decade in Ukrainian current history or the Ukrainian city of your expertise.
Here is a tip: choose a cultural production from the same decade or the same city for preliminary projects such as presentations and reviews. You should include those assignments in your final project.
Your website should have such rubrics as:
- Introduction (addressing the decade or the city of expertise and the intersection of cultural production and political subjectivity. Selected bibliography is required)
- The famous public figure (s) (could be a brief essay about the person(s) you did your presentation(s). Selected bibliography is required)
- Two reviews on the books or films (you may use those reviews you wrote previously)
- Practical fun: you may add a brief dictionary of helpful phrases, some recipes of the traditional cuisine, or just links to some music or information about tourist sights.
- Information about yourself.
The tip here: write your Introduction at the end and address your site’s content.
Criteria for the assessment: your site should be informative and address our course’s core concepts: the political and cultural history of the decade you have chosen or the city you write about. Your site should be easy to navigate and approachable to the users. You can choose the genre and audience for your website, but all content and design should follow your preferred style. For example, you cannot write an academic Introduction and then have a review in hip-hop style, including recipes writing them in cheesy style.
Tips here: first and foremost: find your voice. Think about your audience. Who are your readers? Think about visual design. Think about how you want to introduce yourself = what your readers should know about your personality.