Guidelines for ALL of my 2012 Classes (including Independent Study)
Spring 2012
Econ 3351 & 4389
ECON 4198, 4298, 4398 Special Problems (Independent Study)
DUE DATE FOR ALL PAPERS the SAME As shown on
Syllabus for THE SCHEDULED CLASSES - Final paper before 4 PM, Monday, April 23,
2012 with progressively increasing penalties for late papers.
There are a limited number of topics on which students will do their papers. On
the 1st day of class, I will post a modified list of paper topics that fit the
reading assignments. For group presentations, students taking 4198, 4298 or
4398 may join your group. Those enrolled in 3351 or 4389 may also enroll in
4198 and do a 10 + paper on their group class presentation. Students who are
taking 4398 will be required to do a 25 page report in addition to their
participation in the class presentation. Those simply doing the class
presentation without a required report, please make your powerpoints
and any other material that you have available to those who have to write reports.
Topics for 3351 are:
·
Trends in Global Poverty
and Hunger since 1950.
·
Trends in Global
Life Expectancy since 1950.
·
Trends in Global
Population scince 1950.
·
Trends in Global
Infant and Child Mortality Since 1960.
·
Neglected
Tropical Diseases (there is an online journal covering that topic among other
sources).
Topics for 4389 are:
·
Trends in Global Poverty
and Hunger since 1950.
·
Trends in Food
Safety over the last 100 years or so.
·
Trends in
Technology in Food Production, Preservation, Preparation and Nutrition over the
last 100 years or so.
·
Biotechnology in
Agriculture - Yields, Safety (in production and consumption), Environmental
Impact and Benefits (ex. Vitamin A enhanced rice).
·
Myths about Food
and Agriculture (http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/1317223013001)
Many more details on each
topic will be provided later.
CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN ONLY TO THOSE WHO ENROLL IN THE SPRING 2010 SEMESTER.
Please do not come up to me after the enrollment period is over and say
that you need an extra hour or two and did not know that it was possible to do
4198 & 4298 and therefore could you do the work this semester and be given
credit in a later term? The answer in advance is No.
Anything that I agree to verbally must be confirmed by an exchange of emails
whether it be combining two topics and papers into one, doing a 1, 2 or 3 hour
independent study or receiving an "I" (which will be rarely given and
must be accompanied by a verifiable reason why the course could not be
completed on time) with the due date being the 1st day of the next semester.
Simply submit an email to what we have verbally agreed to and I will return it
to with nothing more than "OK" on it. Print-out and attach to the
appropriate paper.
Revised guidelines for your papers - these are in addition to those in the
syllabus.
All papers must now have a cover sheet with your full name, paper topic and the
course number and whether it is your 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th paper. Combined
topics and papers must clearly be noted with the permission email attached at
the end.
Rules about citations including requirement for citing an assigned source in in
every paragraph will be strictly enforced except for possible introductory
opening paragraph and closing concluding paragraph. Do not try to meet this
requirement by having excessively long paragraphs.
Citations will be of the form (1st author's name - no coma - date of
publication - coma - page number). If you cite the same source more than once
in a paragraph, you may cite at the end of the paragraph with the page numbers
listed in order of the citations. If you are using someone else's facts
or ideas, you cite them. If you are using their words, you put them in
quotation marks and cite them. If you are citing an online source, give the URL
in your reference list. Lacking page numbers, give other indications for the
location in the online text to which your citation refers.
References must be entered on your reference page as follows - some examples:
DeGregori, Thomas R. 2002. The Zero
Risk Fiction. American Council on Science and Health, Health Facts And Fears.com, 12 April.
Diez-Gonzalez,
Francisco; Todd R. Callaway, Menas G. Kizoulis, James B. Russell. 1998. Grain Feeding and
the Dissemination of Acid-Resistant Escherichia coli from Cattle. Science
281(5383):1666-1668, 11 September.
DeGregori, Thomas R. Origins of the Organic
Agriculture Debate. Ames IA: Iowa State Press: A Blackwell
Scientific Publisher, now a subsidiary of John Wiley), 2003.
Double space with the same spacing between paragraphs as
between sentences with an indentation for the 1st line indicating a new
paragraph. For longer quotes, you may indent but then for all
indentations, you single pace.
Use 12 point type or similar with not more than one inch margins.
You may or may not number your pages as you wish but you must count them.
Your reference page then must have the number of pages in the text as the number for it. Thus if you have 9 pages of
text, your reference page will be 9a. You then add a second copy making it 9b
to which you then attach any email permissions. I will tear off the second copy
of the reference page and any other attachment.