The final project consists of a research report performed as a multi-media presentation. Students will write an original script and perform the narration for the presentation, or speak extemporaneously while referring to notes and slides. Students will choose one civil war/independence movement of modern history (1900-2022) to study in detail. You can focus on one of the topics covered in class and go into it in more detail, or you can choose a topic not covered by the teacher.

The presentations will be done in the last class or the last two classes of the semester. Students should finish their first drafts by December 16th so that the teacher can give feedback before the final presentation.

Possible Themes

sovereignty of indigenous people
post-colonial struggles
post-independence struggles against neo-colonialism
settlers vs. indigenous people vs. metropolitan government
struggles based on ideology
internal revolts, insurgencies, revolutions (not based always on the goal of regional independence)

How to submit files to the teacher

To send me homework by e-mail, send it in an MSWord file as an attached file. Other formats, such as Powerpoint (.pptx), are possible, but .docx is the most common one for documents. Please give a file name with this format, with the hyphens:

your <last name-your first name-year-month-day.docx>

for example: tanaka-saburo-2022-12-21.docx

The date should be the date you send the attachment. If you send another draft later, use a new date so it will be easy for me to see which file is the most recent one.