Soaps Coursework Evaluation
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Religion and the soaps

For this part of the coursework you must be able to:
DESCRIBE   EXPLAIN   ANALYSE   &   EVALUATE
How soap operas deal with religious and moral issues. You should be able to say:
What is a soap opera? Description
What issue(s) are being addressed? Description
How is the issue being addressed? Explanation
Why do soap operas deal with these Religious/Moral
 issues?
Analysis
How well do they deal with them? Evaluation
You could take one religious or moral issue that has recently been dealt with in a soap and then say:
What was the issue? Description
Which characters were involved? Description
How did the issue end? Explanation
Why did the soap deal with this issue? Analysis
In what other ways could the issue have been dealt
   with?
Evaluation
How would you have dealt with the issue and why? Evaluation