Each student is obligated to research and compose a term paper for this course. The paper must be submitted by November 13. Papers which are submitted late will be accepted, but with a grade reduction penalty.
Plagiarism: When detected, plagiarism will severely injure your grade. The college defines plagiarism as engaging in any form of academic dishonesty, as follows: the term “academic dishonesty ” includes, but is not limited to, cheating on an examination; plagiarizing, that is, the taking and passing off as one ‘s own work the ideas, writings, or work of another, without citing the source; submitting work from another course unless receiving advance approval to do so by the instructor; stealing or possessing stolen examinations or course materials; posing as another person or allowing another person to pose as oneself; falsifying academic records; receiving help from others in work to be submitted, if contrary to stated course rules.
Structure: The paper must be between ten and twelve pages in length, double-spaced with standard margins. Citations and a bibliography are mandatory. Be attentive to all aspects of English language mechanics.
Subject: You are to choose your own subject, but it must lie within the parameters of the scope of the course, chronologically, topically, and geographically. Specifically, your paper must deal with the world since 1945, excluding the United States, except insofar as the US impinges upon the rest of the world. (For example, you cannot write about the Space Race without mentioning the United States, but your focus would have to be on the USSR, not the USA.) Your paper should seek to answer a question, not merely explore someones life and times or discuss an important event. Examples:
-Not Mao Zedongs rise to power, but rather Why did the
Communists win the Chinse Civil War?
-Not The Fall of Communism, but rather What factors contributed to
the collapse of the Soviet Union?
-Not The economies of post-war Europe, but rather How did the
western European countries recover from World War Two?
-Not The end of Imperialism in Africa, but rather What contemporary
African problems have their roots in European imperialism?
-Not Women in Japan, but rather, How and in what ways have
womens roles in Japan changed since 1945?
In considering your topic, make every effort somehow to connect it to an area of life in which you have a personal interest. Nothing is less edifying than research which bores you; nothing is more edifying than research which interests you. If you are interested in music, start thinking about Stravinsky or the Beatles; if you are interested in athletics, start thinking about the Olympic Games since 1945 or the British soccer riots; if you are interested in science, then the Soviet space program or the French nuclear power industry; if fashion, then Carnaby Street or the rise of Milan as the center of the fashion industry; if theater, John Osborne or Andrew Lloyd Weber; if automobiles, then the post-war story of BMW or Peugeot; etc., etc., etc.
Sources: You must use a minimum of five sources in your research. They may include, but should not be not limited to, web sites. (If you use websites, be very careful to make certain that they are reliable. Remember, anything and everything ends up on the web.) Note that you may consult encyclopedias for background information, but you should not list them in your bibliography nor cite from them in your paper. In like manner, you should consult your textbook for ideas and for background, but you may not list it as a source.
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