Please read ALL of these instructions carefully These instructions set out the t

Please read ALL of these instructions carefully
These instructions set out the terms of the final exam for this course. The nature of this exam is unusual for a Psychology course; therefore, you should regard the ideas below as the requirements for successfully completing the exam.
The title of the final exam for this course is: A Psychological Analysis of the Film Zootopia
Here′s how it works…
The film Zootopia is one of the most interesting and well-crafted films ever made (it won an Academy Award in 2017). It deals with the lives and relationships of animals in a city called Zootopia in ways that are a metaphor of how humans experience them in an urban environment. In addition to being very entertaining, the film′s plot also has elements of the thoughts and behavior of these animals that resemble the same kind of thoughts and behavior humans display.
You are expected to write a paper – which should be between 12 and 15 pages (or as long as necessary to completely address all the elements of your analysis) – about the film Zootopia. You are to compose your paper as a Microsoft WORD file (NOT a PDF, text, or Google Docs file), and submit it as an attachment to the “Final Exam″ assignment in Moodle.
The link for viewing the film Zootopia is in the Week 14 (Dec 2) module on Moodle. This link will not be live (available) for you to use until Dec 2. If you are asked to sign in, make sure you use your Augsburg email address: If you don’t you will not get into the site to see the film (I suggest you try this early–on Dec. 2–so you don′t get caught late with access problems). If you have problems I suggest you contact the university IT Help Desk (techdesk@augsburg.edu or 612-330-1400. You can access the film as many times as you would like.
You have just two weeks to complete this exam… the short time frame is to create conditions that suggest the importance of this being an actual exam: You ought to work quickly, yet effectively, and will undoubtedly view the film multiple times during this period. Budget your time wisely.
Your paper must be submitted to the Final Exam assignment on or before midnight on December 15th (Moodle time stamps your paper automatically when you submit it). I will mark your grade down by 10% each 24-hour period that the paper is late after December 15th. The grace period window for the exam will close on December 18th at 5:00 pm, and no papers will be accepted after that date. The file name must have your last name first and then the words ″Final Exam″, e.g. ˂ Watts Final Exam.doc or docx ˃.
Consult the Important Notes on Grading page for a detailed explanation of the standards for your paper. I would strongly suggest you adhere to the meanings of the terms ″analyze, evaluate and create″ I have provided below:
To “analyze” this film is to provide a detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation: describe the process of separating something into its constituent elements; and, in the final step, when everything has been considered, suggest that analysis statements express the basic truth about the complexity of ideas in the film.
To “evaluate” this film is to form an idea of the amount, number, or value of pieces of the film you did in your analysis. To evaluate these parts of the film and its characters, you need to make decisions about what is important and valid about the psychological elements of the film and what is not. The expectation is that you will clearly draw conclusions about the facts in your analysis.
To “create” or “synthesize” information in this film is to combine ideas you have found in the analysis and the evaluation to form a theory or a system of understanding about the material. The emphasis here is on developing, and stating clearly, the new information you have found about human psychology as a result of watching, analyzing and evaluating the psychological content of the film.
With regard to these steps, I expect that your paper will fully and directly explain how you have analyzed, evaluated, and created new knowledge for yourself in terms of the larger implications of your work for understanding human psychology better.
From that point of view, it is possible for you to provide a psychological analysis of the film and its characters that will reveal your understanding of the material we have covered in this course. I expect you will provide an analysis of the characters and the situations in the film that utilizes your knowledge, understanding, evaluation and creativity (synthesis) of major principles of psychology we have studied in the entire course. Using psychological terms, theories, principles, research findings, and narrative language you have learned throughout the course will usually result in a higher grade.
I expect that you will cover a few of the areas we have worked on in the course to analyze the film. In that respect then, you might cover any of the following major themes in the film that parallel the work we have done regarding human thought and behavior in the class:
Nature and Nurture
Mind and Body
Consciousness and Altered States
Relationships
Life and Death
Change and Constancy
Love and Hate
Isolation and Connection
Mental Illness
Personality Disorders
Treatment and Recovery
How you organize your paper will be up to you. It would be acceptable to organize it according to the above topics, but you could also have a flowing narrative that brings in all the elements in a wide discussion of each theme. If you watch it on a computer, it would even be possible for you to provide screen shots of a scene that you feel represents a particularly important point you want to make in your analysis.
I do not want you to just write a plot summary: I will mark down papers significantly that ONLY provide a desсrіption of the action or talk in general terms as if you were providing a review of the movie for someone to watch. I have watched the film… I do not need a synopsis of it. A true psychological analysis of the film will briefly mention elements of the plot and how the characters interact but will only have those things as background to illuminate and support the psychological processes that are happening throughout the film.
There are hundreds of reviews and commentaries on the internet about this film. I STRONGLY urge you to avoid using any content from the internet or other review sources of this film for your paper. In fact, it would be best if you DID NOT go to a review page of the film before you write your own paper so as to not influence your personal thoughts and feelings about the film. You should know that it is remarkably easy to determine whether your written work is your own or that of another person: Anti-plagiarizing checking tools are available to me and may be used to verify the originality of your work. Any resemblance in your paper of the literal or paraphrased content from any other writer or provider – internet, term paper mills, published commentaries, the work of other students, or other forms not mentioned in this paragraph – without having a true source for the item will be considered as having been plagiarized. If it is determined that any part of your work is plagiarized, you will receive a zero (0) as a grade for the exam.
In that same regard, you must watch this film alone, not discuss your ideas with any other student, and write your paper without any help from anyone either in or outside of this course. Any suggestion, either obtained by me directly through a comparison of your work to that of others or learning through any other source that you have not complied with this paragraph, will result in an automatic and irreversible grade of zero (0) for the exam.
Your paper ought to be a scholarly work that uses the themes of this course and psychological language you have learned from the text and readings. It is not a paper aimed at a general audience: Rather, it is aimed at providing evidence that you watched the film and that you understand the psychological implications of how the characters manifest thoughts and behaviors like those humans might have in similar situations.
Therefore, I am not interested in your UNINFORMED opinion. I am interested in your INFORMED opinion, i.e., I want to learn not only what you analyze about the themes you see in the movie, but also support your evaluation of that analysis with references to either the text, readings, videos, or lectures that you have experienced in your work throughout the course. You must use APA Format for presenting citations within the body of the work as well as for the reference page of sources at the end of the paper. NOTE: Do not include an Abstract page or Reference page as a part of your total number of pages for this assignment.
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