A Seminar paper should be an analytical and critical engagement with the materials. You can do this as a research paper, or as a personal essay. Whatever form you choose, your paper must include 1) a research component confirming your arguments; 2) research that is counter to your own position, and 3) critical and analytical engagement with the material.In Seminar papers, students should strive to develop and support arguments and draw conclusions beyond those that occur immediately or that are generally obvious about the text. The goal is to demonstrate analytical creativity and imagination, intellectual risk-taking, as well as the ability to engage in such activities in writing. All Seminar papers should articulatean original and defensible argument and point-of-view, engage with the materials of the course (appropriately attributed and cited), demonstrate a distinctive voice (in dialogue with other voices and opinions), and move toward a reasoned conclusion.

    Find a subject you care about — modernism and modernity likely interact with almost any subject we can come up with
    Make it thoughtful; demonstrate serious consideration
    Work in postmodernism
  Your paper will do more than simply restating or summarizing other works. What original interpretation or analysis are you bringing?