THE AHIV PROJECT

In this post you can find out all about the AHIV group project.



As part of your continuous assessment for this course - you are required to submit a group project. This project is like a test. It will count as part of your mark/grade for this course. It is mandatory - that means you MUST do it.

What is a group project?
It is a piece of research, the research is shared and put together into a presentation by all members of the group. The group is made up of members of your class. Organise yourself into groups of at least 5-10 members - you may not have more than 10 members in your group. Each group must provide the names of the members and their student numbers on the list provided - to me (Mrs Austin), no later than Tuesday the 23rd of March 2010. Please sign up your group on the list pasted on the wall, next to my office (710, 5th Floor, Arts).



All members in the group MUST contribute to the project. At the back of the project, all members must outline or indicate what they have contributed, what research they provided and what they did in the overall composition or presentation of the project.



The project will be assessed in the following manner -


• The group will submit their project -


• There will be a panel of "judges" who view the project.


• The group will be called in for an interview based on their project.


• Each member in the group will be interviewed on the group project.


• The mark for the project will be awarded according to:


o the actual project submitted.


o how all the group members perform in the individual interview.


• Groups are encouraged to ensure that all their members are adequately knowledgeable in what their project is about as their collective mark is dependent on how well other members in the group perform.


THE AHIV PROJECT QUESTION


Karl Marx said: “Religion is the opiate of the masses”. He sees religion or some cultural beliefs as an ideology that controls the minds of people, in such a way that it has a negative impact on their lives and yet that they are satisfied with their disempowerment and may even think that it is a good thing or the right way to be.


In your project, amongst one of the following:


• religion,


• a traditional belief or cultural practice,


• event in history,


find your own example to demonstrate that one of the above may work like an ideology.


(For example – I used the Jonestown tragedy, Hindu beliefs, Islamic beliefs etc- as an example, now you come up with your own examples – )

Format of the project


While you are free to be creative and design a thought provoking, exciting project, the project itself must contain a written analysis of the example you have chosen.
 However, in addition, you may supplement your analysis with extra material – pictures, music, or videos, you can turn it into a chart, you may make a PowerPoint show, write, enact and film a screenplay. If you do use extra material, it must prove your case, illustrate your point or be used a case study (e.g. Jonestown Tragedy).



You must also “acknowledge” your sources – that means you have to say where your information, images or media comes from. Be warned not to “lift” or merely copy and paste text from websites, books or movies – you have to be original. You will not get a mark for something someone else has written. This will be checked using the anti-plagiarism (anti-copying) software “Turnitin”.