Sample Student Projects

• Read All About It in the Zarathustra! (PDF)
  A collaboratively written, mock-Nietzschean newsletter. Here is a shortened version of the assignment.
• Fear of the Known (PDF)
  A look at banning Catcher in the Rye -- fear the main character, not the four-letter words...
• J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter (PPT)
  Students use a PowerPoint presentation to support the argument that we should ban the banning of books
• Thomas Aquinas, the Luke Skywalker of a century, far, far away . . . (PPT)
  See the original assignment.
• The Bride of Frankenstein, the Theories of Freud (PDF)
  Why this marriage can’t be saved, as one FFC student explains it
• Civil War Begins in Spain (PDF)
  One student’s "you-are-there" newspaper article on the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War
• FFC's "The Real World..."
  A reality-TV treatment of The Immoralist’s Michel (by Andre Gide) and Into the Wild’s Alexander Supertramp (by Jon Krakauer) as they struggle to divest themselves of civilization.