If a student desires to do a presentation on a topic which is not on the topic list, permission from the Instructor is required. At the same time the topic list is passed out, an outline for the presentation analysis will be distributed and explained. As the semester progresses, we will discuss how the presentations work in greater detail. This summary is expected to be informal and not polished. Summaries must include the title of the article, the news source the article is from, and the article's proper citation including date.
Students refer to their summaries during the in class discussion.
The summary is to be handed in at the end of the class period. A 3x5 Index Card with the title of the article and the proper citation, a one or two sentence synopsis of the article's content and the student's name. The index cards are collected at the beginning of the class. Please note that your grade for Current Events is based both on the completeness and quality of your summaries and on the quality of your participation in the discussion that goes on in class. All of these newspapers and journals can be found in Meredith's library, and one of them, the Christian Science Monitor , is available in the History and Politics Reading Room in Joyner Hall.