Students will write a 2 pages research paper on a contemporary social issue. First tracing the issue to a historical precedent such as colonialism. Then discuss the issue in its contemporary context. Students are required to use three sources and prepare a powerpoint presentation. See the below list of sample research topics:
Education
Gentrification
Housing
Wage Gap
Over-policing
Healthcare
Unemployment
Mass Incarceration
Mortgage Crisis
Nutrition
Gun Control
Homelessness
Income Inequality
Gender Inequality
Immigration
Digital Divide
Workplace diversity
Discrimination
Mortgage Crisis
Media Coverage/Bias
Climate Change
Corporation monopolies
Generational Wealth
1. The assigned paper is 2 pages
2. This paper should be heavily based on research using academic level resources such as peer-reviewed journal articles, essays, and books written by scholars. For example, see publishing companies like Harvard University Press. Do not use novels, googled web pages, social media articles or videos. These may be used as additions to your research but not as the academic sources themselves.
3. Students will use a minimum of three academic sources.
4. The paper is to use a professional citation method such as Chicago or MLA style. I will post a shorthand quick guide of how to do this. Please include a bibliography at the end of the paper using a professional citation style.
8. Please have a thesis statement, written clearly and succinctly in the first paragraph of your paper. Please support this statement throughout each succeeding paragraph.
10. Remember to somehow connect the modern issue of your choosing to its historical precedent, colonialism!
