Instructions: After reading the assigned articles, students will compose a 250-500 word short paper. The short paper is not a summary of the readings, but it should be clear from the paper that the course materials were read. Each 250-500 word short paper should (1) include a thesis statement in the first paragraph, (2) analyze the argument, evidence, methods or implications of at least one other reading, a current event, or political phenomenon. As you write, think about the implications for you, your community, the general society as it relates to a democracy.
Required Format: Complete sentences, 12-point font, one-inch margins (top, bottom, sides), correct spelling and grammar.
Module 3 – Resources
Topic: The Homeland & Abroad
Required:
1) Does elite rhetoric undermine democratic norms? Working paper by Katherine Clayton, Nicholas Davis, Brendan Nyhan, Ethan Porter, Timothy Ryan, and Thomas Wood (2021). https://iriss.stanford.edu/news/does-elite-rhetoric-undermine-democratic-norms
2) Democracy Is Still Not Safe in the United States. Foreign Policy article by Malka Older (November 30, 2020).
3) The Military, Police, and the Rise of Domestic Terrorism in the United States. Center for Strategic & International Studies a CSIS brief by Seth G. Jones, Catrina Doxsee, Grace Hwang, and Jared Thompson (April 2021) a
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/210412_Jones_Military_Police_Rise_of_Terrorism_United_States_1.pdf?
Last Completed Projects
| topic title | academic level | Writer | delivered |
|---|