McDonald

CAPSTONE PROJECT PROPOSAL

GUIDELINES

As you draft your Capstone Project proposal, be sure to include the following elements:

  1. Basic information:
    1. Name:

Rebecca C. Serrano

  1. Date:

02 Sep 2017

 

  1. Working title of the project:

The Relationship Between Books and Their  Visual Representation

 

  1. Faculty Mentor who has agreed to serve as a resource and reader for your project (if any).

LtCol Ticen

 

  1. Background and rationale: In one paragraph, explain your motivations for undertaking
    the project you’ve chosen and how it grows out of previous coursework in ERHS (e.g., by reimagining and expanding a previous work completed in a course; deepening your study of a figure, work, concept, period, or movement you’ve studied in an earlier course; investigating productive intersections in your coursework by drawing ideas from different classes together to form a project).

This idea arrived when I was in my Language and Style class with Maj Iddings. In this class, my last paper I looked at a screenplay from the original Star Trek television series. This perked my interest in how much the text to the actual visual show.  In British Literature, we also looked at Frankenstein and with this we looked and the visual representation as used in moves and propaganda.

 

  1. Project Overview: In one paragraph, describe your project in as much detail as possible.

 

In this project I would like to look at Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its visual interpretation by Disney Studios in the form of a movie. I want to look at the discrepancies between the two are. Still looking at what could make a great thesis.

 

  1. Methodology: In one paragraph, describe how you will conduct your research, writing, or other relevant activities during the process (e.g., locate archival materials, analyze primary literary works).

 

Working with my advisor I plan to look at the articles on the subject and evaluating what will make a good research and narrowing it down to a more narrow topic.

 

  1. Significance and Context: In one paragraph, describe significance and the context of your research and writing, including the exigence, audience, and purpose of your project.

 

 

  1. Preliminary bibliography:
    1. MLA-formatted citations for 2-3 possible “primary” sources (e.g. novels, poems, philosophical texts, archival materials, artworks).
    2. MLA-formatted citations for 3-5 possible “secondary” sources (e.g. scholarly, peer-reviewed articles).
    3. MLA-formatted citations for any additional miscellaneous sources (e.g. popular press articles).