Extra Credit Possibilities for Fall 2017

Oral Reports

You can earn 5 points for presenting an oral report on class projects.  These include the field observation, life history interview, cyber field observation, photo field observation, photo inventory, photo interview, and the altered states project.

Museums

You can visit up to three museum exhibitions and write up a 1-2 page description of what you learned for 10 points for each exhibition.  Possible museums include:

 

Gene Autry Museum

 

The California Science Center

 

LA County Museum of Art

 

Fowler Museum at UCLA  

 

Bowers Museum of Orange County

 

Museum of Tolerance

 

Skirball Cultural Center

 

Natural History Museum

 

Getty Museum

 

Museum of Death

 

Psychiatry: An Industry of Death Museum

Additional Class Project

You can do an additional class project for 35 points once you have completed the required two projects.

Kinship Chart (10 points)

Using symbols discussed in class create a kinship chart of at least three generations of your family (grandparents, parents along with aunts and uncles, your generation along with siblings and cousins, and your own children along with nieces and nephews).  Be sure to include a legend that explains your unique use of symbols and terms.  Under each family member, include their first name and kin-name in relationship to you, the EGO of the chart.  You can also include pets and fictive kin.  Finally shade in everyone’s symbol who is related by blood to you.