TCP 00
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Please be careful to get the subject line correct since, at the end of the term I am logging in a large number of essays from three class at nearly the same time and have no time to write you and ask where your essay is and assess very severe late penalties if the submission is late or missing (usually an "F"). This might seem odd but every semester I have one or two students who simply choose not to submit anything to me. Expect an acknowledgment from me 24 hours after the deadline or within 48 hours if you submitted early.
TCP 00 - Overview (go to that page)
TCP 01 - Work related to Initial Presentation (go to that page)
- Choose countries (team work)
- Report choice to me
- Choose mood-genre & theme (team work)
- Report choice to me
- Select hypothetical films
- Present in class hypothetical NDTs
TCP 02 - Work related to NDT Report (Progress Report 01) (go to that page)
- Select films (team work)
- View films
- Develop NDT (individual work)
- Report NDT to me (individual work)
- Decide NDT (team work)
- Present in class NDT
- Revise and resubmit NDT
- Report revised NDT to me
TCP 03 - Work related to IE Report (Progress Report 02) (go to that page)
- Research for your IE (individual work)
- Before, and to be used in, your in-class presentation: Submit at the same time: 1) a PPT slide that has your films, NDT, bibliography, and current working thesis or direction of your IE; 2) the script you will read for your presentation (individual work)
- Present briefly in class on the current state of your IE, and field questions / comments from me
TCP 04 - Work related to IE file-sharing and submission (go to that page)
- Finish writing your IE (individual work)
- Submit your IE (individual work)
- Team IE's: Release and access (team work)
TCP 05 - Work related to the JCS, the final TCP submission (go to that page)
- Meet to jointly write the JCS
- Submit to me and wait for a receipt acknowledgment (indicates you are finished with the course)
TCP — Overview
The Team Comparative Project (TCP)
Process, overview. Teams compare an aspect of two or more films from two or three East Asian countries. The aspect is arrived at by deciding the general atmosphere (mood-genre) of the works, then deciding on a theme, then deciding on a Narrowly Defined Topic (NDT). These are team decisions and all team members analyze the same films with exactly, to the word, the same NDT. Your comparison is first carried out blind to other team members, through independent research and writing which produces an Independent Essay (IE), then through a process of comparing the team IEs with one another in a all-members-present, face-to-face meeting(s). At that time you also consider the IEs of others in the class. Working as a team, you write the final, Joint Comparative Statement (JCS). This process from its very beginning early in the semester to its end as the term wraps ups is called, overall, the Team Comparative Project (TCP). In previous classes it was called the JES (Joint Essay Set) so you might see that term now and then.
Goal. The TCP goal is either to *relate the romantic narratives of your films to traditional worldviews and values and/or compare the assumptions that seem to underpin the films, or both.
Product. The components of the TCP are
- progress reports (material submitted to me and in-class presentations) along the way,
- multiple team meetings where discussions occur (and the record of these on the timesheets),
- independent research resulting in a short essay (the "IE", 1600 words), and
- a final joint report (the "JCS", again about 1600 words but might be somewhat less than this) based on an extensive, lively meeting(s) that tracks emergences, convergences and divergences among the four reports.
Deadlines. This is an ongoing process beginning now and going all the way to the end of the semester, with various deadlines along the way.