LITR 5439 Literary & Historical Utopias
Model Assignments

Final Exam Samples 2019
Assignment


 

Links alphabetically list names of students, followed by titles of three final exam essays

 

Melissa Bray: Analyzing the Texts; Teaching Utopia; Utopia in Secondary Education

 

Cynthia Cleveland: Utopias Blended; Utopias and Western Civilization: An Idea by Any Other Name; Apathy and Utopia

 

Bill Clouse: Imperfection is Good for Utopias; Utopia and Pedagogy; Utopia for Homework

 

Jesus Garcia: Speculation in Utopian/Dystopian Literature; Utopian/Dystopian Literature in the Graduate Classroom; Dystopias in Opposition to Utopian Vision

 

Patrick Graham: Utopian Fiction: Better Said Than Read; “How Can I Reach These Kids?” Attracting Outsiders to Utopian Fiction; Utopia: A Weak Goal But a Strong Method

 

Joan Gray: Dystopia and Utopia as Multi-Layered Genres; Dystopia and Utopia’s in Modern Day Education; Utopia and Dystopia’s as Social Commentary

 

Austin Green: Literature Club: No Genre Allowed: Holding onto Humanity in a Virtual Utopia; Exploring the Final Frontier

 

Robin Hall, Forcing Conversations: The Complex Morality of Ustopias; Ah, the Good Old Days: Utopia as Nostalgia for the Past; Weeding the Garden

 

Arnecia Harris: Analyzing the Course Readings; Utopia as Literature and Personal/Professional interests;  Web Highlights

 

Grant Law: Old vs. New: The New Utopian Mold; Critical Utopian Theory 101; Utopian Conventions Within the Genre

 

Clark Omo: Dismantling the Divide: Literary vs. Genre Fiction in the Utopian Genre; The Rhetorical Dualism: Diverging Values in Utopias; Picturesque Visions: The Dualism and Uncertainty of Utopia

 

Angela Pennington: Literary Utopias: Why Reading Atwood and Le Guin Isn’t Always Easy; Reaching Utopia in a Forty-Five-Minute Class Period; Where is Utopia in Education?

 

Lauren Rayne: Breaking the Rules of Genre; More Utopia!; The Merging of Ideas

 

John Sissons: In Search of Literary Ustopia; “[F]ind the story compelling and plausible enough to go along for the ride"; The Art of Storytelling

 

Sara J. Stevens: Genre?; Doomsday Preppers Revisited; Learning from my Peers: How to Teach Utopias and Dystopias

 

Jenna Wood: Mutating the Genetics of Utopian Fiction; Multicultural Utopias in Western Civilization; More's Law vs. Murphy's Law: Making Utopias Entertaining