PHIL 101 | Creative Projects

Your creative projects are meant to represent your response to your reading of each Platonic dialogue. The projects are due when you submit your essays. The only rules are: no contaminated or illegal substances and no live or dead animals.

You will not be doing a "show-and-tell" presentation to the class. You'll just submit the "project" to me. Period. If your project is a live performance of some sort, just make the video or recording and submit that. Also, please type up the lyrics of any song your submit for me so that I can follow along.

The creative project has three components:

1) The "project" itself. For instance, a drawing, a board game, or a CD you burn.

2) A description of the "project". This is a sentence explaining exactly what it is that you are turning in. For example, "My project is a recording of the Juggaknot's latest CD Use Your Confusion."

3) Explain how the "project" relates to some aspect of or element in the dialogue. You may instead want to have the project reflect your experience reading the dialogue. For this part of the project you'd write something like this: "The song's title "Use Your Confusion" relates to the confusion and frustration Euthyphro experienced as he was talking with Socrates. Every time Euthyphro answered Socrates' questions, Socrates would criticize Euthyphro's answers and find some problem with them. This led to Euthyphro's nearly constant state of confusion. Socrates probably would want Euthyphro to use the confusion he experienced as a signal that he ought to rethink his decision to prosecute his father."

Note that #2 and #3 can be very brief. The important thing is that you write enough to make it clear exactly what your project is and how the project relates to the dialogue. (Please type everything!) Please, pretty please put your name on everything! We'll have lots of artwork, CDs, and stuff and I want to return them to you. Items #2 and #3 can be on the same piece of paper. If it is more than one page you must staple the pages. Make sure your name is on each page, though, as papers do tend to get separated.

K? Aaight.