This section explains the instructions of three topics. Read the instructions carefully and choose one topic from below.

Topic A. Lonely Planet: Analyze the cover pages of Lonely Planet. 

Instruction: 

(1) Explain the features of Orientalism referring to the Week 1 PPT file (Week1-CSe-2025-Orientalism.pptx). (80 words to 120words) *If you refer to other sources, you are required to quote properly following the academic writing mentioned above. 

(2) Analyze the four cover pages in terms of Orientalism. (80 words to 120 words)

(3) Choose one cover page, identify major signs, and analyze what meanings the combination of the signs generates in terms of Orientalism.  (80 words to 120 words)

Topic B. Encoding of the news article “Trump administration bars foreign students from Harvard”

Instruction: 

(1) Explain the concept of the institutional structures of broadcasting referring to the ppt file (Week4-CSe-2025.pptx) and the reading material (Proctor 2003). Then, identify the institutional structures of broadcasting in this news article “Trump administration bars foreign students from Harvard”. (80-120 words)

 (2) Explain the concept of the journalistic discourse referring to the ppt file (Week4-CSe-2025.pptx) and the reading material (Proctor 2003) and identify the journalistic discourse(s) on which this article was produced. (80-120 words)

(3) Analyze this article in terms of the institutional structures of broadcasting and the journalistic discourse(s) that you mentioned above. (80-120 words)

Topic C. Comparative analysis of detergent advertisements:

Instruction:

(1) Explain the story of the detergent advertisement Atack Neo antibacterial detergent. (You don’t need to explain the narration and conversation in Japanese.) (80 to 120 words)

(2) Explain the story of the detergent advertisement of Mr. Clean. (80 to 120 words)

 (3) Compare the two advertisements and discuss them from the viewpoint of gender norms in gender (sexual) division of labor. (80 to 120 words)

Choose one topic.