H301 Paper Topics: Spring 2012
 

Proposal Critique Parnters: Critiques due 22 February

Include on Your Critiques:

Evaluation of Question and Primary Sources, to what extent do the sources answer the question? Are they annotated coherenlty?

Is the method clear?

Do the Secondary Book Sources reflect the topic question in such a way that they will be helpful? Did the scholar look up book reviews and table of contents? Is it a well selected list of books? Are the annotations sufficient?

Is the hypotehesis thoughtful? Clear? Honest? Is it enough?

What Grade would you give this Proposal?

Military, Politics, & Power

Political Leadership: Steven Kerr & Devon Bloore & Kathleen Barr (Caesar & Henry VIII & Lincoln)

Military Leadership: Callie McCormack & Jonathan Trop (Lee & Chamberlain)

Corporate Capitalism & Autonomy: Juan Toledo & Alvin Blackshear (Tweed & Garvey)

Communism v. Capitalism: Emmanuel Medina & Hovig Malin & Jesus Salgado (Stalin & Stalin & Mao)

Communism & Corruption in Lat Am: Irving Aguilar & Marlene Buenrostro (Castro & Bordaberry)

Cold War Fifties: Kevin Guay & Glenn Coppola (Truman & JFK)

Era of Deinstitutionalization: Caryn Saul-Mark Jokel (Ronald Reagan & Mikhail Gorbachev)

Political Economy

Economic Manipulations: Ben Yakobi & Hector Cruz (Rockefeller & Taft)

Folk Outlaws

Patrick Shanahan & Moises Amaya (Billy the Kid & Bobby Seale)

Ideas, Culture & Science

Maria McGarr & Jeanette Beaulieu & William Caprine (Kant/ Coleridge & Alfred Kroeber & John Muir)

Rebecca Kukurudz & Rosa Madrigal (Mengele & Rudolph)