Discussion Borad – Europe History
It is very important for you to comprehend the importance of each discussion to your grade. Discussions are 50% of the course grade. Not meeting minimum words for your essay and responses will result in a substantially lower grade. Not submitting essays and responses that meet the discussion criteria, as per instructions, will also result in a lower grade.
Module # 1 Discussion (scroll to the bottom of this page for complete information)
Critical Thinking in an Online Discussion – Students will:
- have a meaningful dialogue.
- develop academic writing skills.
- develop critical thinking.
- learn from one another.
Students will be required to participate in all 8 discussions in this course. Your grade will be determined by the standards set in each module.You must post your own analysis essay first before you will be able to read essays posted by others.In this assignment you are asked to write an essay of no less than 300 words and participate in a discussion. Your essay should be referenced by at least two citations from two different sources. You may use the Utube video as a third source.
- Read the information I provided in the document ” Proper Example of Essay Presentation.” If you quote something, a number or author’s name must be placed in parenthesis after the quote, then noted at the bottom of the essay in yourbibliography. Same for something you paraphrase anything from another author. If you miss these important instructions, your grade will be lowered. Read as many essays written by others as possible in order see some of the better essays posted by others. Ask yourself, did I forget to include something, overlook any requirements, what can I do to make my essay worth total credit due? No WIKI and no encyclopedias allowed for discussion board essay. Use only scholarly references.
- Please do not wait until the end of the discussion to participate. Use the college library for scholarly references. You may use GOOGLE for more information for original sources. No WIKI or encyclopedia sources allowed. Do not use either as a source of information.
- Failure to meet minimum words requirement for an essay or response will result in a grade of zero for that post.
- FEEDBACK TO LEARNER APPEARS WITH YOUR DISCUSSION BOARD GRADE. READ IT.
In every discussion essay for this course, supply your sources. After a sentence or paragraph that you have “borrowed” from any author, use ( page number and author’s name). Then, at the bottom of your essay list your references in a bibliography. You should attempt to use original course for primary information, not WIKI. Using WIKI as you primary source will result in a lower grade. This policy applies to all discussion board postings for your analysis essay.
TOPIC FOR THIS ANALYSIS ESSAY:
- “Choose one of the topics found in the list of Mini-Lectures. Name the video and complete your analysis essay on that topic.
WORD COUNT: Right click on word count, then open in new window” and check the number of words in your analysis essay. Place that number at the top of your essay and responses.
Mini-Lectures
- Mini-Lecture A – The Berlin Crisis (1961 crisis comes when the USSR seals off the city to allies)
- Mini-Lecture B – The 1960s Define a Generation (Some call it a cultural revolution in the western world)
- Mini-Lecture C – The New Global Community (What is it to be a global citizen)
- Mini-Lecture E – The Cuban Missile Crisis (The world held it’s breath in 1961 when the US confronts USSR over missiles in Cuba)
- Mini-Lecture F – President Kennedy in Berlin (President Kennedy visits Berlin and proclaims “I am a Berliner”)
- Min-Lecture G – The Marshall Plan (1948 Congress approves this $16 billion plan to help Europeans recover from the war and stabilize the governments against Communism)
- Mini-Lecture H – The Truman Doctrine (President Truman announces economic assistance and aid against terrorists)
- Mini-Lecture I – The Womens Lib Movement (presentation of the 1960s and 70s womens liberation movement)
- Mini-Lecture J – Origins of The Arab-Israeli Conflict (A presentation of the issues surrounding this conflict)
- Mini-Lecture K – The US Post-War Boom (The US experiences a post-war boom and the largest economy in the world)
- Mini-Lecture L – The Cuban Missile Crisis (Soviet missiles are discovered in Cuba and the US responds)
- Mini-Lecture M – The Polio Story (The vaccine that changed the world)
- Mini-Lecture N – The Story of Ghandi (A video presentation of the man who led the independence movement in India against British rule)
- Mini-Lecture 0 – Europe and The Third World (Professor Eugen Weber takes us on a jourrney about post-war Europe and the Third World nations)
- Mini-Lecture P – Martin Luther King Jr.(The life of a man and his dream to end discrimination and segregation through peaceful resistance)
