General CEA guidelines/overview:
Choose a local Tampa Bay community and one of its issues to explore with the motivation to engage with these in a positive civic way. Issues include: housing, food insecurity/food deserts, education, health, gender equality, access to work and resources, language, inclusivity and diversity, poverty, reduced inequality, immigration, criminal justice/policing, sustainable cities and communities, and historical monuments/memory.
The essay should have 3 parts: 1) a focused description and exploration of the community issue and the student’s mode of engagement; 2) the exploration and interpretation of the community issue in a literary text; 3) a synthesis of thoughts and findings from 1) and 2). This product should be 5-7 pages total, double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12, with 1-inch margins and pages numbered.
Your assignment should articulate your values and your understanding of their origins, as well as the values discovered in the community and in accompanying cultural texts. Use your writing to show how you 1) understand value systems critically and comparatively, acknowledging competing value systems; 2) discover ethical relationships in themselves and others; 3) and make syntheses and/or break down overly simplistic constructs of race and ethnicity. For a 3000-level course, students’ writing will be evaluated in terms of focus, detail, coherence, higher levels of thought, such as syntheses, problem solving, and ethics, and empathy.
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