These are group projects that you will be presenting in the last two weeks of the quarter. They will not receive a letter grade, but they will form part of your section participation grade.

Here are the ground rules.

• Groups of 3 or 4. Unless, of course, the numbers don't work out! Form your own groups, and tell me who is in the group by the time we meet on Monday, October 15.
• As a group, CREATE YOUR OWN UTOPIA. Through readings, lectures, and discussions throughout the quarter, you will be engaging with all sorts of different utopian visions, and some dystopian results. Keep track of what you find interesting, stimulating, appealing, repugnant, etc. Do you want to include or exclude these factors?
• QUESTIONS you might want to ask yourselves in beginning to create your utopias:
  -- what is the organizing principle?
  -- what are your ideals and/or goals?
  -- what does it look like?
  -- where or when is it located?
  -- who is it for?
  -- what is the role of technology?
• BE CREATIVE! Don't feel hemmed in by these questions. This is your chance to take the material wherever you want to go.
• Find a way to PRESENT your utopia to the class. Will it be spoken, acted, chanted, sung, animated, painted, written, screened? Because of time constraints, your presentation is limited to TEN MINUTES. This rule will be strictly enforced!
• As part of the presentation, your group will DISCUSS your utopia with the class. We will all have questions for you, so be prepared to answer them. Discussion will last approximately 5 minutes.
• Each group should turn in a brief written proposal for your utopia (1-2 pages), outlining your utopia’s essential characteristics and some ideas for your presentation, will be due on Monday, November 5.
• Finally, you will each be handing in a 1-2 page reflection on your "utopic experience" when you make your presentation. This should include two things: a reflection on the experience of constructing a utopia (What did you learn about utopias from this experience? What was the most difficult aspect of this project?); and an assessment of how well the collaboration worked (Did people put in the same amount of work? Was it difficult to agree? Were you happy with your work?).