Final Exam Prep

Don’t panic!

• Look at how much each section is worth, and divide your studying time accordingly

• READ THE QUESTIONS CAREFULLY!

• Eat and sleep properly the day of

• Once you’re in the exam, allot time to each section according to what it is worth

• EXAMPLES, EXAMPLES, EXAMPLES

• Refer back to the question you are answering constantly-are you addressing what is being asked of you?

• Thesis statements are IMPORTANT for the essay question-are you being asked to take a position on an issue? Are you being asked to make an argument?

• Make sure you are being CLEAR and FOCUSED when you are writing!

• Don’t forget about the flip side of the coin; are you comparing post-modernity to modernity, asked how things have changed?

Missisauga Town Hall

Cindy Sherman

Venturi House

Nation-State

• Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities• The modern nation-state is an imagined

political community, imagined as both limited (with borders) and sovereign (self-governing)

• It’s imagined because even in the smallest nation, you’ll never know most of your fellow citizens

• Media like newspapers aid with these feelings of community

Structuralism vs. Post-Structuralism

• Structuralism: set of theories that emphasize the things that structure human behaviours and systems of meaning

• Cultural activity analyzed scientifically• Binary oppositions• Post-structuralism: theories that followed and

criticized structuralism. Examines practices left out of a structuralist view of society, moves beyond the closed system of structuralist logic