SOAN 349: Frontiers & Borders
MW 2:45-4:00, Alumni 108
Colgate University
 Spring 2005 Professor Thomas Hall
 NEW Office:  B3 Alumni, x7042, email:  tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
 OFFICE HOURS:  M 4-5, TU 2-3, W 11-12, & by appointment
Case Prospectus
Last Updated 1-13-05
DUE NO Later than Wednesday March 23;
But Sooner is Better!

Your case prospectus should be between 5 and 10 pages long. You need only include specific bibliographic items to which you refer.  The goals of this exercise are to:

• keep you on schedule
• get you to think about how your case fits into the course
• to highlight any problems you are having
• to get you to plan your presentation

Your prospectus should include the following: 

• 1. A general, brief description of the case including:
• Description of the parties on the frontier
• How it fits into our typology of frontiers
• A time-line for the history of this frontier
• How you are going to organize your paper[s]:
  One, large group paper, or
  A brief summary paper, supplemented by individual papers, or
  Separate papers on the same conflict.
• 2. The last part of 1 should segue, fade into, a discussion of how you see your case fitting into the general discussion, analysis, and understanding of frontiers. 
• 3. A BRIEF description of the case, including its history, how it was formed, how it has changed [if it has], and what it might be like in the future. 
• 4. How you plan to analyze the case.
• 5. Any problems you are encountering.

Send comments or questions to tdhall@mail.colgate.edu
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