HUMANITIES
FACES OF CONSUMPTION
1st Semester, 2012
Our team partnered with the Ruben H. Fleet Science Center to exhibit art that exposed our personal over consumption habits, as well as our plans to decrease our environmental footprints. The exhibit also included an interactive kiosk where visitors could discover the truth about the impacts of their own over consumption. The exhibit was open to the public from December 19th, 2012 to February 10th, 2013. Prior to creating our museum pieces, we each wrote research papers about our personal consumption and how it is affecting the world around us.
PHILOSOPHY
1st Semester, 2012
We studied three different philosophies during the first semester; Utilitarianism, Libertarianism and Egalitarianism. We read exerts from Michael Sandel's Justice about each philosophy and then discussed each one in a series of Socratic seminars. We wrote numerous essays about these three philosophies and later applied them to our Faces of Consumption project. We wrote our final papers on which philosophy would be the best in terms of decreasing over consumption as a whole.
HEROES AND VILLAINS OF LATIN AMERICA
2nd Semester, 2013
This project was a collaboration between humanities and Spanish. In pairs, our team researched and wrote plays about different Latin American countries during the Cold War. We also wrote individual research papers about our assigned countries. Four plays (two from each class) were chosen to be produced and performed on exhibition night. My partner and I wrote a play about Chile in the mid 70's and we were fortunate enough to have our play picked by the teachers for production.