Each student will develop and complete a 1250-1500 paper addressing a particular interdisciplinary question informed by the readings and material presented in the course.
The final paper should reflect your ability to clearly articulate and logically analyze the question from two or more disciplinary perspectives. You should reference relevant scholarly literature to support your observations, assertions, and claims. These references should include assigned material from two of the three modules on race, gender/sexuality, and class. Other material may be referenced, but it must be from primary or secondary peer-reviewed sources (academic/scholarly sources).
Students must adhere to proper standards of scholarly citation as well as correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Your paper must be double-spaced using a 12-point font with one-inch margins.
Your essays will be graded on content, clarity, logical organization, and strength of argument.
Remember, interdisciplinary research questions have the following characteristics:
(1) The problem is complex
(2) Two or more disciplines offer important insights into the problem
(3) No single discipline has been able to address the problem comprehensively
(4) The problem is at the interfaces of disciplines (disciplines share a point of common interest in the problem)
(5) The problem is an unresolved societal need or issue, thus the pursuit of research will lead to some new, novel, or unique answer or solution.
