Report 1

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A final research paper due on Wednesday October 11, 2021 will additionally

be assigned as part of your graded material, and must be submitted

electronically in our course shell in the appropriate dropbox folder. As with

other course content, a list of paper topics will be uploaded to our

course shell during the first week of class, providing you the remainder of the

semester to draft your individual reports. As a side note concerning paper

topics, you are free to choose an alternate one so long as it is approved by

the instructor a minimum of two weeks ahead of the paper due date. Topics

will relate to homeland security issues broadly, and require you to collect

and synthesize extant, empirical research on your selected topic, as well as

articulate a viewpoint regarding the research you accumulate. Papers are to

be a minimum of 9 and a maximum of 10 pages of actual content-based text

you drafted, meaning cover, references and other ancillary pages will not

contribute towards the final page count. This will be your opportunity to

demonstrate written communication abilities that are central to success both

within and outside academic settings.

In addition to the final research paper, you will be asked to create a narrated

power point presentation that overviews the seminal findings of your paper.

For each section, such as the introduction, thesis/main argument, and

conclusion, create a separate power point slide that bullet points the main

themes. Then, briefly narrate over top of the slide what is contained within it.

Power point presentations should not exceed approximately 6 slides,

including a cover page slide, followed by individual ones for the introduction,

thesis/main argument, conclusion, and finally, references. Your presentations

should not exceed approximately 5 minutes in length, and will afford you an

opportunity to practice public delivery of information, though in a digital

format. As mentioned, detailed grading rubrics and instructions on how to

successfully compose your papers and presentations will be uploaded to our