Assignment
Zine Workshop
This workshop introduces zines to a First Year Women's and Gender Studies class including what they are, general history and culture in the United States, and the process of making zines. This workshop supported a class assignment where students make zines featuring class readings and a reflective essay including original creative works. In the sessions, students recieve "handout" zines for note-taking and reflective work, a short lecture on zines, and work with databases to find pieces for their zine topics or ideas. The instructor can find example zines for the interactive exercise on Internet Archive and other collections.
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 Lesson Plan outline for Zine Workshop including time allotmentdisplayed 856 times | 19.15 KB |
 Powerpoint overview of select zine culture and history in US contextdisplayed 6537 times | 5.92 MB |
 Handout as a zine to reflectively consider zine and topicsdisplayed 841 times | 1.1 MB |
- Students will know the basics of zines as cultural and reflective documents in order to determine social value
- Students will analyze zines for cultural and social impact and themes in order to recreate zines with their topics
- Students will employ database searches in order to find and evaluate pieces for zine assignment
Information Literacy concepts:
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The course assignment for this workshop focused on the creation of the zine specifically incorporating previous course readings, essays, creative works, and organizational research. In support of this, the library workshop on zines introduced to idea of zines, showed examples with partner question work, and research time to explore subject databases for relevant articles and images.
Time! Consider shortening zine handout to provide more time to create or work on individual zines. Perhaps even make a blank version with minimal illustration.
