POLS101 I002 Winter 2023
This is the foundation of your final presentation. The purpose is to begin forming and researching ideas, so the final presentation isn’t a rush job in four weeks. To review how to construct an outline in Chicago/Turabian format, visit this link. https://www.bibliography.com/chicago/preparing-a-chicago-author-date-essay-outline/
You will need a title, and then you’ll need to make some decisions about an ideal political system based on what we’ve already studied and some independent research. Here are some of the decisions you’ll need to make:
- What is the foundational ideology?
- A. Why?
- B. What is an advantage of this ideology?
- C. What is a disadvantage of it?
- What is the form of government?
- A. Why?
- B. What is an advantage of this system?
- C. What is a disadvantage of it?
III. Political participation
- A. Party system?
- B. Civil rights?
- C. Interest group influence?
Your completed outline will be more detailed, but consider these three main pillars of the presentation to get started on your research. Don’t overthink it, either. You can change your mind and reasoning for the final presentation later in the course. In fact, after learning and researching more, it would be surprising if nobody did have some second thoughts on the initial ideas in the outline. The Topic and Outline rubric has more details on expectations and scoring.
