Final Project Assignment Guide
What: Students are encouraged to utilize multi-media approaches to researching, depicting and analyzing a human rights dilemma that is framed in the core concepts, ideas and debates presented in the course. Students can prepare a digital poster with narration, a short-doc, a narrated slide-show or write a paper that explores the breadth and depth of the issue Students may also innovate a project based on their own ideas, however it must be approved by the professor.
Due: Monday, May 6, 2019
How:
- Choose a topic that is of interest to you (i.e. Child Rights, Right to Freedom of Movement, Refugees, Religion and Human Rights),
- Identify which UNDHR articles this issue concerns
- Research the issue using 7-10 sources
- Select the format in which you wish to present your research findings/issues/controversies, etc.
- Ensure in your presentation format, that you answer the question: How is this issue of human rights political? Remember that the context in which the issue arises is the source of this information – so be thorough in your research.
- Your final product must have a title page/slide/etc., headings for slides, and sub-titles in your essay.
- Essays are to be 5-7 pages, using Times New Roman 12 PT font, double-spaced.
- Use either MLA or APA format consistently. Proper referencing is expected in a 4000-level course.
- Slides must be between 12-15 in number.
- If students are completing a digital poster, they must include a 3-page write-up of their issue.
- Please submit your project abstract by 4/15 in class
- Questions – please raise them in class, or email me (kdejesus@jwu.edu), or visit during office hours.