You will search, read, analyze and write about articles from reputable mainstream news sources about various political, environmental, economic or cultural
topics in at least three of the eleven major regions we explored in this course. Note these important guidelines:
A total of three articles should be considered for this paper, each one dealing with one of the major regions.
The articles selected should have been published no more than a month before the course began. Ideally, you should identify interconnections between events,
as well as highlight some of the regional characteristics you read about from the course content that can be hinted from the articles.
- Identify spatial interrelationships. Highlight how those events occurring in a particular place and time might be influencing other
spaces/regions/landscapes/peoples, not necessarily from the other articles but in general. How is one event occurring in one place affecting other places?
This is a good exercise to learn to identify the interconnections between locales.
- Demonstrate how the information we learned through the course material helps to expand what we get out of the articles – does that information help put the
articles in a wider context? Does the course material lead you to question some of the statements or assumptions in the articles or to see them in a more
organized way?
- Explain how the articles add to what we learned in this course– does it add detail? Does it show how generalizations about the whole region may or may not
apply to specific places within it?