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Similarly to PART I, you will start with a Pressure Cooker, when you will present your response to the brief in a (very) short presentation and publication on Thursday, December 7th. Not as a proposal for what you intend to do, but as a scaled-down version of the finished project. Of course, we will take into account that you only had two weeks, but it should be a finalized whole.

You will have 5 minutes to present in any way you see fit, with 10 minutes of questions. We will be very strict with regard to time, so make sure you rehearse adequately beforehand.

Your publication should also be finished on December 7th and should be distributed to the audience before/after your presentation (either a physical copy or a link to the digital one). Word count indicator for the pressure cooker publication: 1500 words.

A week later, you will receive feedback from your tutors. The publication can be the ground work for your portfolio (see below). The presentation and publication will also be assessed and count for 10% of your final grade.
After this, you'll have the rest of the minor to reconfigure, mend and expand the project as you see fit. You will receive guidance on this from your tutors and peers.

The learning goals of the RASL Minor PART II are:

1) You are able to select, map and frame a matter of concern from a specific angle, through undisciplinary research;

2) You are able to reflect on how you engage with, and position yourself in relation to your fellow students, the researched topic, your audience and the particular context in which you work;

3) You are able to demonstrate how the research relates to existing academic, artistic and/or societal practices;

4) You are able to work and do research in, and from, a particular societal context;

5) You are able to justify and take responsibility for the choices you make throughout the learning and research process.

Presentation deadline: February 5 (in class)

After the Pressure Cooker, you will spend the rest of the minor developing your work on the basis of the received feedback, and the continuing input of your tutors and peers. In the final assignments (presentation and portfolio), we encourage you to make this research process visible. We'd like the presentation NOT to provide a perfect and clean 'outcome', but to provide space for insights into the complicated journey of any research project, including errors, wrong turns, failures, and so on. Instead of erasing these, we ask you to show us how they influenced the ways in which you worked, collaborated, made decisions, and so on.

During the presentation, you show your project to the tutors and your fellow students. You have 20 minutes for the presentation, and 10 minutes for questions and feedback.

The presentation will also be assessed and count for 40% of your final grade.

Portfolio deadline: February 9 (sending via email)

The purpose of the portfolio is two-fold: to give insight into your research process, and to show how your work is situated in relation to other works, texts, practices, ideas and concepts.
In the portfolio (either digital or printed), you have more space to present your project, and you can choose a different audience.

– Research process
This part of the portfolio shows how you changed the relationship between your work and research in the second part of the minor. We'd like you to depart from the pressure cooker project and show us how this transformed into the final outcome, by giving insight into the challenging moments, discoveries and inspirations, as well as wrong turns, periods of 'doing nothing', mistakes, dead-ends, failures and so on, and demonstrating and reflecting on how this process shaped the final project.
How you do this and in what form is up to you, but we'd like to encourage you to be concise (so not too long) and create a coherent narrative that is accessible and understandable by the reader, inside and outside the Minor.

– Annotated bibliography
A traditional annotated bibliography takes the form of a list of scholarly works accompanied by a short summary and critical reflection on how the source relates to the primary work being presented. We'd like you to do something similar, but with any type of source (an artwork, image, non-academic book or text, an experience, and so on) that inspired/steered/supports your project, and describe and/or show us how this relates to your project. You can still do this in a list, but also in a map or other visualization, or in any other form that you find most suitable.

We'd like you to have a minimum of 10 sources.

The portfolio will also be assessed and count for 40% of your final grade.

Composition of final grade:

> Pressure Cooker (10%)
> Presentation (40%)
> Portfolio (40%)
> Professional Conduct (10%)

Questioning and disrupting existing (disciplinary) structures, finding new ways of working and collaborating with tutors, students and other partners from a range of different disciplines are both very valuable and challenging at the same time. We do not expect you to know how to do all of this, or even master it at the end of the minor, but we do ask for a committed attitude, an open mind and that you listen carefully and treat your fellow students, tutors and external partners with respect. In addition, the minor is an intensive programme and revolves around self-directed learning, which means that while we offer you help along the way, you are responsible for your own learning journey, and we ask you to take an active approach to what and how you want to learn.

Always inform us in advance when you will miss a session or meeting. Email both Fem (fem.windhorst@eur.nl) and your (visiting) tutor. Please notify us 24 hrs. in advance, and in case of a last-minute absence, email us 30 min. before the start of a session, with an explanation of the late notification.

It might be the case that you have to miss a session because of scheduled classes or other educational obligations. In that case, please email both your guiding tutor and Fem at least 24hrs and we will find a solution together. If you fail to inform us in advance, it will be counted as an absence without valid reason and will affect your professional behaviour.

All scheduled sessions on Mondays and Thursdays are mandatory. Missing more
then one Monday and Thursday session leads to losing your professional conduct (10%), according to Article 4.4 of the Erasmus University College Academic Rules and Regulations. Always inform us in advance when you will miss a session or meeting.