Your end of term project this semester is a Proposal for a Project, where you write a proposal for a project that, in your opinion, should be undertaken. The project must not currently exist; the documents you submit as Project 5 is your team’s persuasive case for green-lighting the project. The best projects will be tied to this here now: here, tied locally to WCU, the campus, and/or the region; now, responding to this moment in our culture and technology; and this, with demonstrable goals that are clear, significant and relevant to an audience. All proposals should consciously undertake the values, goals, and methods of the digital humanities.
Required Elements
Project 5 asks your team to build 3 components: (a) a written proposal, in response to an RFP below; (b) a slideshow presentation that overviews and advocates for your proposal; and (c) a web page that delivers both to an audience.
Project RFP (Request for Proposals)
The Digital Humanities Program at WCU invites you to submit a proposal for new projects. Proposals must impact human culture directly or indirectly and use digital technology prominently in the project. Proposals must be submitted no later than 12/15/2021 in a shared folder on google drive. Only complete proposals will be accepted. Proposals must include 3 submissions: (1) The proposal, a written document that proposes the project (detailed below); (2) A slideshow, overviewing and advocating for the strengths of the proposal; (3) a website that shares both of the above documents.
Project Requirements
Your project must adopt one or more of the goals of Digital Humanities; it must propose to conform to one or more of the values of Digital Humanities; and it must propose to use one or more of the tools or methods from Digital Humanities. The project you propose should have clear interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary strengths, and you should identify at least two disciplines that coordinate in your proposed project.
Your project will outline a research question or need, assess the significance of the project to its intended audience(s), and describe methodologies, tools, and peer projects that might be useful to consider for this research project. Your project proposal will be aware of previous and current similar work, attentive to the limitations of the methodologies proposed, and sensitive to the interpretive needs of the disciplines invoked.
Required Sections: Written Proposals
All proposals must be at least 500 words and no more than 1100 words and include
- Overview & Context, where you overview your project, describe a Research Question, and assess the significance of the proposed project (what and why),(250 words max)
- Project Goals, where you describe the intended goals of the project (100 words max)
- Project Values, where you describe the values that will inform your pursuit of this project (100 words max)
- Tools and Methodologies, where you outline significant tools and methodologies needed to undertake the project (100 words max)
- An identification of the Audience for your project (who will use and benefit from the project (100 words max)
- Disciplinary Perspectives(s) of the project’s audience and/or contributors (100 words max)
- Peer Projects, with at least 3 projects that inform your project (say how) and from which your project will deviate (how)(150 words max)
- Results, with expected results/outcomes/output of the proposed project. (100 words max)
- Project Team, where you identify the project team and the context for this proposal (100 words max)
Documentation
Within each section, use embedded hyperlinks to link to resources; do not include a references or works cited page.
Presentation
Your team will prepare a slideshow presenting their proposal and advocating for the project. The slide show should be between 5 and 10 slides. Teams should be aware that the presentation is used for advocacy and introduction, and the complete project proposal should occur only in the Written Proposal.
Webpage
Both the written proposal and the slideshow will live on a WordPress web page public to all
Project 5 Schedule
Project 5 is due at the end of the day 12/15. Here are the dates and deadlines for the project’s drafting phase:
- A proposal for the project, including the project’s name, goal and methods and 1 peer project, no later than 11/21
- A project building conference via Zoom 11/22-24
- An initial draft of the written proposal, 11/29 (all sections built, at least 2 sentences in each, minimum of 300 words total)
- An initial draft review conference 11/29-12/2
- A full draft (all sections complete, minimum of 500 words) by 12/5
- A final draft review conference, 12/6-12/8
- Draft of presentation, 5 slides minimum, by 12/8
- Peer review, 12/9-10
- Presentation conference 12/9 or 12/10
- Your final finished webpage, written proposal, and presentation must be live and ready to review by 12/15 at 11:59 pm. 90%
Grades
Your project will be graded according to the quality of its content (40%) and the presentation of its evidence via writing on the report (40%) and slides (10%) and the process (10%).
