I'm back on here to re-introduce myself and my ideas for a pre-senior thesis. Or as I just found out, an analysis of a ceramics blog, which is what I want to do when i'm a sad 25 year old. You may be asking, why does Caroline, a literal communications major, want to go into ceramics?? Well I've found my passion, and i'm tired of pretending to be content avoiding anything that has to do with art in school.
Communications is a great supporting system that should keep my future business afloat, and the connections that i'll be able to make with Communication Studies as a degree will be a helluva lot more beneficial than simply knowing how to make stuff with squishy dirt. As for someone I can look to with a blog in ceramics... I really don't want to use a famous ceramicist to base my writings on. I wish the local artists that I've found at ClayFest were bloggers... Found one! David Hendley is a local potter with a home built kiln. He has an extensive website and information on a plethora of his hand-made ceramic pieces, which I see fit to classify as an unkept blog.
His knowledge comes with age, and the philosophy of the information he wrote about his work is very deep and detailed. I appreciate the commitment and story-written method that he uses to walk a reader through his process, and its more encapsulating than people's blogs that are based in other careers such as marketing, graphic design, or being a communications professor.
So, it seems that when I become a local ceramic artist, I'm going to have the best blog out of every other ceramicist, because I'll be the only one with a blog! And of course, I'll have invigorating knowledge from my experiences at TLU. I might even be a professional speaker (on top of my pottery career) who uses rhetorical analyses and has a really cool social media presence as well!
Back to the "now". I'm developing my senior thesis based on food insecurity and how it can affect college students, and whether or not students even know they could be food insecure (and more). I have 2 scholarly articles as well as a website organization that I'm going to be using, each of which contrasts from the other so I don't end up recycling information. I plan to use a questionnaire around different campuses when my time comes so I can gather a lot of anonymous information that makes trends easier to determine. I need a lot of effort to develop this questionnaire, and structure it so that it gathers aspects of food insecurity like accessibility, income, and tuition; Otherwise, it wouldn't be detailed enough to gather significant data. This topic is well known, but not by its label. People go through food insecurity without even knowing what it is, and people witness it with the same lack of knowledge. Attaching a name to this issue and giving it the strength it needs to be impactful is a big jump, but at least I'd be broadcasting even if it's on a small scale.
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