Problem: Current Event Summary
Take a current event, cite it, summarize it, and offer thoughts on how the course material might approach and or explain the event in question. Students should offer questions for further discussion at the end of the brief paper. The summary should be 3 to 5 pages of text with reference page citing all materials. Current event summaries are meant to enhance class discussion versus being exhaustive research papers.
Textbook: Goodwin and Jasper. The Social Movement Reader- Cases and Concepts. 2nd ed* Nash, Kate. Contemporary Political Sociology. 2nd * Neilemann & Halperin. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin and the Race of a Lifetime Stanley. How Fascism Works.
The response must include a reference list. One-inch margins, double-space, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font and APA style of writing and citations.