Module 13

Module 13

 

This week, as America pauses to contemplate gratitude, we also pause in this class to provide an opportunity to catch up and to begin your Research Project. The specifics of that assignment are outlined below. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have questions about the assignment or would like my input while developing your ideas.

 

* Major Components: Written Paper & Recorded Presentation

* Length of Paper: 6-8 pages

 

* Paper Due: December 7, 11pm

* Presentation Due: December 9, 11pm

 

* Paper Format: email to pandrews@ndnu.edu

* Presentation Format: any recorded format that can be displayed in or linked to your blog

 

* Prompt: What are the crucial future challenges facing “parties,” “politics,” and “campaigns”? 

* Required Sections – Your paper must be divided into the 7 named sections outlined below – yes, you must literally include these sections by name in your paper: 

   -- Introduction

   -- Conversations. Have some conversations with people in their 30s or younger, and with people in their 60s or older, and ask them the question that forms the prompt for this paper. Collect and organize their responses. Summarize them in this first major section of your paper.

   -- Themes.  Note any themes or trends you detect in people’s responses. For example, do people in their 30s or younger have different concerns from those in their 60s or older? Discuss these themes and/or trends in this second major section of your paper.

   -- Futurology. Choose one thread from your conversations that you would like to explore in more thoughtful detail. Engage in some “futurology” – based on your observations, your conversations, and your own political / historical / futurological instincts, what might the future look like for parties, politics and campaigning in the US? This will form the third major section of your paper.

   -- Areas for Future Research and Study

   -- Conclusion

   -- References / Bibliography