Welcome to World Problems and Advocacy Section Two

Hello everyone. Here is where we will be doing our Current events blog. A central component of this course is to learn about current global social problems.

Each student will develop expertise on a particular global social problem by following current events on that particular problem throughout the trimester. Each week you will write an entry (about 300 words) on a newsworthy topic in your problem area. This story should be GLOBAL in nature, not the U.S.A. Your goal is to become an expert on the problem. Each week you will find at least one event in the news from that week and write a summary and a brief analysis of the significance of the event(s) and tie it to something or things that we have been talking about in class or from your readings. You will provide a citation (web link) to your source(s) for that week. Please include your name, the date and time of the post, and the topic of the title of the blog. List the source as a web link (URL) at the end of your blog.

You will need regular access to a serious news source. Many online news sources, including online news databases (such as LexisNexis) and major national newspapers can be found through http://news.google.com . Watch that your source is reputable. Your current events log will be posted each Tuesday by 9 p.m. EST. You will also be expected to comment on at least one other person’s blog each week.