Article Write-Up and Discussion

Each student will identify a relevant scholarly journal article that examines an aspect of activism for the class to read. The student will then compose a one-page handout over the article and lead a corresponding class discussion for approximately 10 minutes. Handouts and discussions should address the following questions:

• What is the article's thesis statement (or main assertion)?
• What research question does the thesis answer?
• What evidence supports its thesis?
• What are some of the article's limitations?
• What other sources are addressing similar topics (what are some works the article is in conversation with or some of its peers)?

To locate articles, students are encouraged to the use library databases or a search engine such as Google Scholar. The library's inter-library loan service can obtain any article the library does not have in its catalog, often in only a few hours. The class will need access all articles students select. Students can provide electronic versions if the articles are not accessible through the library or available online. 

Our Topics:

• Bandyopadhyay, "Volunteer Tourism and 'The White Man's Burden'"Preview the document (Ogoke handout)
• Banyard et al., "Bystander Education" (Miller handout)
• Bovill et al, "How Does Student Activism Drive Cultural Campus Change in the UK and US Regarding Sexual Violence on Campus?" (Barnhardt handout)
• Broad, "Effective Animal Advocacy" (Healy handout)
• Gallego-Álvarez, Segura, & Martínez-Ferrero, "Carbon Emission Reduction" (Lynk handout)
• Henry, "Understanding Food Insecurity Among College Students" (Holcomb handout)
• Hitchcock, "Social Media Rhetoric of the Transnational Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement" (Friedman handout)
• Johnson, "Chronic Poverty" (Frazier handout)
• Lavén, "Consumers' Food Waste Behaviour in Restaurants" (Smith handout)
• Mallett, “The School-to-Prison Pipeline” (McRae handout)
• Maruyama et al., "The Modernization of Fresh Food Retailing in China" (Eley handout)
• Murray et al., "The Enigma of Male Eating Disorders" (Schoenhoff handout)
• Pinfold et al., "Working with Young People" (Troutman handout)
• Sappington et al., "'Arrogant, Ungrateful, Anti-American Degenerates'" (Corak handout)
• Shen, "Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain" (Fowler handout)
• Shlafer et al., "Reproductive Justice for Incarcerated Mothers and Advocacy for Their Infants and Young Children" (Bouteloupt handout)
• Waldner & Dobratz, "Graffiti as a Form of Contentious Political Participation" (Player handout)
• Wentling et al., "Teaching Transgender" (Richards handout)
• Yoder et al., "When Declaring 'I am a Feminist' Matters" (Tripp handout)
• Ziems et al., "Racism is a Virus" (Cloninger handout)