-Choose one sport, team, or athlete and apply a cultural studies perspective to look at how
they have been confronted with struggles around, and issues related to, race and/or ethnicity.
-Must be between 1500-2000 words
– Formatting requirements: Double-spaced, 12-point font, Times New Roman/Arial/Cambria.
Citations should be formatted in APA citation style (either 6th or 7th edition), with a bibliography or works cited section at the end of their submission.
-Students must cite or refer to at least five (5) academic sources, of which no more than two (2) can be from the course assigned readings. (Course assigned readings do not have to be used; all five academic sources can be from outside of the course.) An academic source can include an article from a peer-reviewed journal, a chapter from a text published by a university or scholarly press, etc. Non-academic sources like newspaper articles or blog entries can also be used but will not count towards the minimum number of academic sources that must be included in the paper.
-Submissions should include a cover page that includes student name, number, and course
information, along with an appropriate title (e.g.,“Netflix and Chill, Eh?: Video Streaming Platforms and the Future of Canadian Content Regulations”).
-please try and use in-text citations if possible.
-Absolutely no plaigarism please!
-Will be marked on:
persuasiveness and rigour in arguing for a particular position or perspective
in relation to the chosen theme from the course, as illustrated through references to contemporary examples, issues, and debates related to that theme;
relevance, use, and explication of academic sources, that is, how judiciously they
choose and faithfully they reconstruct the scholarly literature on the chosen theme from
the course, demonstrating that they have undertaken a studied engagement of the
course material and/or external scholarship through quotes, paraphrases, etc.;
quality of writing, as reflected both in the attention to proofreading, editing, citations, etc., to limit typographical, grammatical, and other errors, and in the observance of the assignment’s formal and technical requirements, e.g., citation style, spacing and margins, etc.
