The Matrix in First-Year Composition

Objectives
Assignment
Activities


Objectives

This assignment seeks to:

  • Allow students to critically engage popular culture
  • Get students to look critically at a movie they are used to watching for entertainment
  • To show students how popular culture "works" on us
  • Sharpen critical thinking skills by discussing the movie in all its myriad facets, thereby gaining a fuller understanding of the larger issues that the movie engages
  • Have students then put into words what they have thought about

 

S. Jenkins // University of South Florida