Welcome to Module 3! We are coming full circle toward the beginning of the class now, moving away from fiction (somewhat) and back toward reality (now, through research). To start, refresh your memory on our earliest conversations about Sean Blanda's "The Other Side" as we read Fran Peavey's "Us and Them," and consider how Leo Braudy's "Where Our Monsters Come From" relates, in many ways, to both Joseph Campbell's "Four Functions of Myth" and Jonathan Gottschall's "Why Fiction is Good For You."

Project 3 will give you the option to revisit Prompt 1 or 2 through a research lens AND/OR it provides the option to jump into a new project of your own (as long as it meets the research requirements and connects in some way to our class content). These three videos below will welcome you more directly to the work we'll be doing until the last day of class. Feel free to peruse the content at your leisure this week.

Overview of Module 3 (click below to review your assignments through the end of the semester):

Essay 3 instructions (click below for a prompt overview -- you may want to revisit this as you get further into the module):

Library Orientation (click below for info on how to access the library and how to navigate the library databases to find sources for Essay 3):

One more thing to add to the library orientation. For your papers, you'll need to open the PDF and view the actual article, which will give you page numbers because, in most cases, you'll be reading a scan of an actual journal, magazine, or newspaper article. You might also find the Works Cited pages of the scholarly (journal/peer-reviewed) articles useful, as they'll be a place to "mine" for additional helpful terms and articles on the subject.