Writers Den

CRITERIA FOR RESEARCH PAPER

LIST OF TOPICS FOR SOC 215

Mexican Immigration

History and current Affirmative Action

Racial Inequalities in Education

Race Segregation in Prisons

Sport Logos and Racism

Asian Americans and Racism in the US

Islamophobia

Palestine, Israel, and America

Race and Media (movies)

Unauthorized Immigration (undocumented immigration)

Racial Inequalities within the Voting System

Racial Inequalities within the Political System

Racial Conflict during Economic
Downturns

Racial Scapegoating

Racism: Different in Brazil and Cuba than the US?

Racism in the Health Care System

How Nazis Influenced Public Opinion about Jews

Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System

Structural Racism: Laws and Social Norms

The Problems with Color Blind Ideology White privilege

CRITERIA FOR RESEARCH PAPER

1. Choose a topic for your research paper from the list that has
been provided in Bb Learn under Course Content: All Instructions.

2. Papers must be a MINIMUM of ten pages
long (8 full pages of text, one page for references and one cover page). No
headings should be repeated on the eight pages of text – they belong on the
cover page. Write a minimum of eight pages of text on
that research topic.

3. Include a minimum of eight scholarly references (social science journals, law
books; and/or websites that are sponsored by academics and/or professionals)
and include a bibliography at the end of the paper using ASA formatting. One of those
references can be from ONE of our texts; the other references must come from
separate academic journal articles NOT news articles or random
websites.

4. Do not include Wikipedia or other
encyclopedia/dictionary usages among the ten references.

5. USE ASA WRITING STYLE ONLY; AN ASA FORMATTING GUIDE CAN BE
FOUND IN Bb LEARN UNDER COURSE CONTENT: ALL INSTRUCTIONS OR ONLINE.

6. Double-Space, use 12 point normal font (Times New Roman only)
and margins no greater than 1.25” on all sides.DO NOT MANIPULATE FONTS AND/OR FORMATTING TO SATISFY THE LENGTH
CRITERIA (SHORT PAPERS WILL NOT EARN CREDIT). DO NOT INCLUDE LONG QUOTES OVER
FORTY WORDS; LIMIT SHORT QUOTES TO ONLY 3-4

7. Papers will only be accepted in Bb Learn under “Assessments” as
an attached file as either rich text format or Word document (do not save your
documents as .pdf, .lnk, .wps, pages, or .odt – some of these will not open in
Bb Learn). DO NOT SUBMIT IN Bb LEARN MESSAGES, NAU EMAIL, OR HARD COPY.

BUT PLEASE, DO ENJOY YOUR RESEARCH PROJECTS!