Topic For Research Paper
LIST OF TOPICS FOR SOC 215
Mexican Immigration
History and current Affirmative Action
Racial Inequalities in Education
Race Segregation in Prisons
Sport Logos and Racism
Asian Americans and Racism in the US
Islamophobia
Palestine, Israel, and America
Race and Media (movies)
Unauthorized Immigration
(undocumented immigration)
Racial Inequalities within the Voting
System
Racial Inequalities within the Political
System
Racial Conflict during Economic Downturns
Racial Scapegoating
Racism: Different in Brazil and Cuba
than the US?
Racism in the Health Care System
How Nazis Influenced Public Opinion
about Jews
Racial Inequality in the Criminal
Justice System
Structural Racism: Laws and Social
Norms
The Problems with Color Blind
Ideology
Topic For Research Paper
White privilege
CRITERIA FOR RESEARCH PAPER
1. Choose a topic for your research paper from the list that has been provided in Bb
Learn under Course Content: All Instructions.
2. Papers must be a MINIMUM of ten pages long (8 full pages of text, one page
for references and one cover page). No headings should be repeated on the eight
pages of text they belong on the cover page. Write a minimum of eight pages of
text on that research topic.
3. Include a minimum of eight scholarly references (social science journals, law
books; and/or websites that are sponsored by academics and/or professionals) and
include a bibliography at the end of the paper using ASA formatting. One of those
references can be from ONE of our texts; the other references must come from
separate academic journal articles NOT news articles or random websites.
4. Do not include Wikipedia or other encyclopedia/dictionary usages among the
ten references.
5. USE ASA WRITING STYLE ONLY; AN ASA FORMATTING GUIDE CAN
BE FOUND IN Bb LEARN UNDER COURSE CONTENT: ALL
INSTRUCTIONS OR ONLINE.
6. DoubleSpace, use 12 point normal font (Times New Roman only) and margins
no greater than 1.25” on all sides. DO NOT MANIPULATE FONTS AND/OR
FORMATTING TO SATISFY THE LENGTH CRITERIA (SHORT PAPERS
WILL NOT EARN CREDIT). DO NOT INCLUDE LONG QUOTES OVER
FORTY WORDS; LIMIT SHORT QUOTES TO ONLY 3-4
7. Papers will only be accepted in Bb Learn under “Assessments” as an attached
file as either rich text format or Word document (do not save your documents as
.pdf, .lnk, .wps, pages, or .odt – some of these will not open in Bb Learn). DO
NOT SUBMIT IN Bb LEARN MESSAGES, NAU EMAIL, OR HARD
COPY.
BUT PLEASE, DO ENJOY YOUR RESEARCH PROJECTS!
