1) Urban Development 2) Poetics and Culture 3) Social Issues (Gender/Race Inequality) or 4) War/Revolution (Example: Holy Defense Cinema). You may propose ideas other than these as long as they fit the theme of our class and at least one of our 3 main areas of study: Urbanism, Middle East, or Film.
- Which of the three main focuses of the class does your paper fall under? Urbanism, Middle East, OR Film
- What is the topic you are going to work on? Social Issues (Gender/Race Inequality)
- What is your main spatial focus? (This can be a specific building, monument, neighborhood, city, country, or region. For instance: Turkish baths, Tahrir Square, Beirut City, Iraq and Iran, Persian-Gulf region, Middle East, ME Immigrant Homes in the US.)
- Articulate a tentative title for your paper:
- Who do you anticipate would be the main audience(s) for this project? Who would benefit from what you produce?
- Briefly explain what it is you want to express or argue in this project and how you aim to communicate that message through your work.
- Why do you think it is important to undertake this project? What impact do you anticipate this project to have?
- Write a line or two on why you should undertake this topic and present it in this particular medium.