What I want for this first project check in are three possible ideas for your final project.

For Example: If my book was Frankenstein and I’m most interested in how it’s the space of education that allows Victor to go to monstrous extremes and create and abandon a creature that has no place in the world.  I’m interested in the ways in which Frankenstein speaks to western society’s ongoing investment  in the individual and the ways in which education and institution of education regulate the energies of the adolescent into narrow pursuits for individual accomplishment, progress and innovation at the cost of communal relation and accommodating difference.

So perhaps my group proposes the following three ideas for a final project:

1-create a short film which juxtaposes scenes of Victor’s monstrous education with images of grad students work in stem-cell labs and  images of  Aurora, CO and Will James Holmes, the grad student responsible for opening fire during the 2012 Batman premiere.

2-craft a workshop or a lesson plan that uses a combination of contemporary statistics about the consequence of loneliness and isolation on college campuses, scenes from Frankenstein, a mini-overview of various enlightenment ideas about the individual, independent rationale man (the relative newness of which animates Frankenstein and the legacy of which grounds our contemporary ideas of development, freedom, and success) to lead students in a discussion in which they reflect about the emphasis on individual success that we so often take for granted and asks them to think about alternatives ways of acting education.

3-design poster campaign based on Frankenstein that we put up all over Baruch and some other education institutions that in their visual recalling of Victor Frankenstein in various contemporary settings ask people to think about the connections between the ways we currently view being a student and educational advancement and the flaws apparent in Victor’s academic pursuits.