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Film Representation of Gender
Film Representation of Gender
Choose a current film or television program and discuss in depth the representation of gender in your chosen media text.
Minimal expectation:
5 to 8 pages (double spaced)
Summarize how gender diversity is depicted generally in your chosen text through numbers and percentages of representation of both major and supporting characters.
List the main characters and identify their gender expression.
Use symbolic signifiers including clothing, naming and other signifiers that are used to express gender.
List the supporting characters and identify their gender expression, using the symbolic signifiers of clothing, naming, and other signifiers as appropriate.
How does the “male gaze” privilege or minimize gendered characters in your chosen text?
Reference the assigned readings from your text as well as lectures given to date.
Provide “works cited” at end.
Management issues facing organizations
In lieu of the final exam, each student will write an assessment of a federal, state, or local level public agency or organization (a paper on the government in another foreign country is also accepted). The study will identify key management issues facing the chosen agency or organization, assess its current approach to the issues and make recommendations for change if possible. It is required that your writing relates to the learnings from the course, but you can also extend beyond the course materials.
Your manuscript should follow the following format: minimum of 4 and maximum page of 6 (excluding references and appendixes), double spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-Times New Roman font, Microsoft Word (.docx) format. Do not feel pressured to simply write long; the evaluation will be grounded upon the strength of the contents, not the length of the manuscript. Write your manuscript as if it is a real report that is scheduled to be addressed to a person in a responsible position at the chosen agency or organization. Late submissions will result in penalties. Make sure you submit it on time so you don’t fail this course.
At a minimum, the case study should include the following sections (the listed questions for each section are only for the purpose of illustration, and you are free to come up with your own list):
• Identify an Issue(s). What are the most important management issues facing the organization? Why are these the most important and how did these issues emerge?
• Assess the Current State. What is the current approach to the issues that the organization or the agency is taking? What are strengths and weaknesses of it?
• Recommendations for Change. What steps do you recommend be taken to improve the issues you have identified? What are the expected obstacles that interrupt the implementation of the recommendations? What are the possible strategies to overcome those obstacles? Assuming they are successfully applied, how would you assure that the changes sustain and become institutionalized?
The evaluation of your work will be based on whether or not (1) you lay out your arguments in a clear, concise, and coherent manner, (2) you support your argument with relevant logical reasonings or substantive evidence, (3) your argument ties to the learnings from the course, and (4) your answers are equipped with appropriate structural formats such as grammar or citations/references.
Writing Business Plan
Writing Business Plan
• Coursework 2 requires you to write a full business plan based on the business idea you proposed for CW1.
The following must be included in your business plan:
• Your Proposed Future Business. – What is the product/service (i.e., provide a clear description)? What does it do? What innovations does your idea bring to the market? Appropriate intellectual property rights (IPR) in order to protect your business idea/enterprise, if applicable (10 %)
• Customers – identify your target customers. B2B or B2C? Who are the end-users? Who will buy your product/service? What is the USP (Unique selling proposition) of product/service? What customer needs does the product/service meet? The underpinning research for the target market and an evaluation of the businesses’ position in the market (10%)
• Competitors – who are your competitors for the product/service? What market share do your competitors have? Why might your customers buy your product/service rather than that of the competitors? (15 %)
• Skills analysis – what skills do you have for developing and taking your business idea forward? What skills do you need? How will you address any skills gaps that you might have? (10%)
• Projected 2-year profit and loss account and proposed 2 years cash flow forecasts including break even (15%)
• Finding, evaluating and selecting suitable sources of funding to grow the business opportunity (10%)
• Your plans for obtaining your resources, both tangible and intangible between now and either 1-2 year ahead. This should include a breakdown of your start-up costs. (10%)
• The type of organisation and the management information systems required to effectively control the business (10%)
• Vision for your Business Idea – what future does your business have? (5%)
The remaining 5% will go into assignment parameters such as structure, synthesis, references etc.
You are required to produce a 1500-word Business Growth Plan
You are allowed a 10% plus or Minus dispensation of the word limit