ANT 101 Week 4 Discussion 1

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Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses. Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.

 Urban Legends and Cultural Divides [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 1, 4, 5]

Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the following Required Resources:

• Chapters 7 and 8 of the textbook

• What Makes an Urban Legend? (Links to an external site.)

• ‘Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Modern Family’: 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide (Links to an external site.)

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Choose one of the following two options to address in this discussion. Be sure that your initial post meets the full length requirement of 300 words, and that you incorporate at least two of this week’s required resources in your post, one of which should be the textbook. Include citations and a full reference to your chosen sources. (See the Required Resources page for all references in APA format).

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Option 1: Read What Makes an Urban Legend? (Links to an external site.) and address the following:

• In what ways have urban legends adapted over time, both in terms of the content of urban legends and the way in which the spread over time?

• What urban legends, folklore, or scary supernatural tales do you remember hearing about as a child?

• What kinds of urban legends have you encountered as an adult?

• How many counterintuitive elements exist in the urban legends and other tales that you have encountered?

• What strong emotions are evoked by these tales?

• Are there elements to these stories that deal with death and survival or both?

• What do you think urban legends will look like in the future?

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Option 2: According to the maps in 'Duck Dynasty’ vs. ‘Modern Family’: 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide (Links to an external site.) Scroll to the end of the article and enter your zip code, then address the following:

• What kind of television is most popular where you live?

o Which shows are most and least popular where you live?

 Do your own preferences line up with what is popular in your area?

o On the list of 50 shows, are there any shows that you are unfamiliar with, and if so, why might this be?

o What do our television preferences say about us as individuals and also about our regional cultures?

o What cultural divides are illustrated in the maps in this article?

o How does our consumption of media today differ from the 1960s and 70s, when television was “the great unifier”?

o What benefits and drawbacks are there to the wide variety of television shows and diverse casts that we have available today?

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Guided Response: Review several of your peers’ posts and respond to at least two peers by Day 7. Respond to at least one student who chose a different option than you. Choose a student who has not received peer feedback if at all possible. If your instructor responds to your post, please respond to him or her. Each response to a peer should be a minimum of 75 words. Be sure to relate your discussion back to the course materials and move the conversation forward by asking a question, raising a new point, or elaborating more thoroughly upon a point already raised. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Day 7, and respond with robust dialogue to anyone who replies to your initial post.