World Problems and Advocacy Fall 2017 In Class
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Welcome
Hello
everyone. Here is where we will be doing our Current events blog. A central
component of this course is to learn about current global social problems.
Each
student will develop expertise on a particular global social problem by
following current events on that particular problem throughout the trimester.
Each week you will write an entry on a newsworthy topic in
your problem area. This story should be GLOBAL in nature, not the U.S.A. Your
goal is to become an expert on the problem. Each week you will find at least
one event in the news from that week and write a summary and a brief analysis
of the significance of the event(s) and tie it to something or things that we
have been talking about in class or from your readings. You will provide a
citation (web link) to your source(s) for that week. Please include your name,
the date and time of the post, and the topic of the title of the blog. List the
source as a web link (URL) at the end of your blog.
You will need regular access to a serious news source. Many online news sources, including online news databases (such as LexisNexis) and major national newspapers can be found through http://news.google.com . Watch that your source is reputable. Your current events log will be posted each Wednesday by 11 p.m. EST. You will also be expected to comment on at least one other person’s blog each week by Friday 11pm in the same week.
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