Also, these papers are not meant to be vehicles for expression of your political views. While they may creep into the discussion, as they almost always do, you are to address arguments in a social scientific, rather than polemical, manner. I do not expect you to do outside research, though you may, and feel free to bring in materials you have heard or studied in other classes. This class is a culmination, a capstone, and therefore should incorporate themes with which you have dealt in some detail before. You must then append a bibliography, though it need not be its own page.
Papers are due one week after finishing the book in question.
Lastly, we will most likely discuss our papers on the date they are due, so be prepared to tell us a bit about your arguments and debate your conclusions with your peers. We don't have one.