I will expect to see a further progress report, with a more exact topic and tile, larger bibliography, and more complete outline by March 10. However, it must be submitted no later than the class meeting of March 31. No extensions of that deadline will be given under any circumstances. Once I have returned your paper to you, you may either accept the grade I have given it as it stands or revise and resubmit the paper in response to my comments and suggestions. I will accept revised and resubmitted papers up to April 28.
Many topics are also adaptable for expansion into a paper.
Note, however, that paper topics must reflect the theme of the course. That is, your papers ought to explore some issue associated with the benefits and pressures which contact with the West placed on traditional, non-industrial societies outside Western Europe, or in some other way be weighing the pluses and minuses of global Westernization. Such papers will be very interesting to do, but the topics must be carefully chosen with an eye to available source material. Choosing a paper topic therefore requires some investigation into what is available, and a conference with the instructor, before you commit yourself. So, the first thing you ought to do is look at the attached outline, and start reading assignments or resources in areas that might particularly interest you, thinking in terms of whether you could do a report or a paper in that area.