The following is a list of possible topics for your final papers. You are also welcome to pursue a topic of your own choosing (subject to approval by December 1):
- Compare pictorial representations of a particular episode by Dante’s Divine Comedy’s various illustrators (e.g. Botticelli, Blake, Dorè, Dalì)
- Compare the moral systems that emerge in two of the authors/texts read for this class
- Compare two female characters in Boccaccio’s tales
- Assess Machiavelli’s debt to Dante in The Prince
- Your own topic
Instructions:
Your paper will be around 1000 word long and will be posted in our blog (category: Final paper, tags and images of your choice). Please draft your paper in a Word document before posting it and send it to me by December 22.
Make sure your paper contains:
- Title.
- Brief introduction to your topic.
- Two or three paragraph that compare, analyze, make an argument (use quotations and use secondary source to support your argument).
- A conclusion that summarizes without repeating the exact same sentences you have used in your introduction. Your conclusion might even ask more questions.
