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Literature Review (20%):


- Each student will be responsible for completing a literature review of at least 1500 words, on a topic selected in consultation with the Professor and/or Associate Instructor. The literature review should describe the relationship between the sources under consideration, and explain what that the similarities and differences tell the reader about the issue.

Students will be expected to consult at least two scholarly sources that do not appear on the course syllabus, as well as one that does appear on the syllabus, and to summarize the various views of the issue contained within the literature on the topic:


(1) Marxism (Political Economy):

- Syllabus Source: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

- Additional Sources (Select 2): Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Book 1, chpts 1-4; Book 4, chpts 1-3; Book 5, chpt 1, parts 1-3 [excluding 2d and 3d], chpts 2-3); Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (Part VI, Section I); John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (Book II, Chpts 1-5, 7, and 9); Aristotle, Politics(Book I and Book IV, Part II).

* Sources available online and in NYU Library system

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Literature Review (20%): - Each student will be responsible for completing a literature review of at least 1500 words, on a topic selected in consultation with the Professor and/or Associate Instructor. The literature review should describe the relationship between the sources under consideration, and explain what that the similarities and differences tell the reader about the issue. Students will be expected to consult at least two scholarly sources that do not appear on the course syllabus, as well as one that does appear on the syllabus, and to summarize the various views of the issue contained within the literature on the topic: (1) Marxism (Political Economy): - Syllabus Source: Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto - Additional Sources (Select 2): Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Book 1, chpts 1-4; Book 4, chpts 1-3; Book 5, chpt 1, parts 1-3 [excluding 2d and 3d], chpts 2-3); Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (Part VI, Section I); John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (Book II, Chpts 1-5, 7, and 9); Aristotle, Politics (Book I and Book IV, Part II). * Sources available online and in NYU Library system (2) Nationalism: - Syllabus Source: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities - Additional Sources (Select 2): Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed (Intro and Chpt 1); Anthony Smith, The Ethnic Origins of Nationalism (Intro and Chpt 1); Rana Khalid AlMutawa, “National Dress in the UAE: Constructions of Authenticity” * Sources available on Google Drive (3) History and Narrative: ** This topic is very challenging! - Syllabus Source: Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past - Additional Sources (Select 2) Hayden White, The Content of the Form; Saul Friedlander, Probing the Limits of Representation (Introduction and article by Hayden White) * Sources available in NYU Library system (4) Intersex: - Syllabus Source: Elizabeth Reis, Bodies in Doubt - Additional Sources (Select 2): Alice Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex; Paula Sanders, “Gendering the Ungendered Body.” * Dreger’s book is available in NYU Library system and the Sanders reading is available on Google Drive. A rough draft of at least 1500 words is due two weeks before the deadline. See the grading rubric for assessment criteria. Before you begin preparing this assignment, I would ask that you to review the following questions: (1) Have you understood the purpose of this assignment? A literature review is a way of mapping out the broad contours of a scholarly debate or reviewing novel contributions to the field, and evaluating the utility of these sources. It is not a research essay. It should adopt a narrow focus, use peer-reviewed sources, and, in most of your cases, use books published by university presses. Its author should identify central works in the field that have informed the way that scholars think about a subject (i.e. a literature review that focuses on themes in nationalism studies would probably describe a book like Imagined Communities, whereas one interested in historic representations of the Middle East by Europeans would probably use Edward Said's Orientalism). If you are confused as to what a literature review should look like, please review the example that I have uploaded by James Robertson: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B_zAmV2uB3HSWhEdjBrMGRwSnc * Please note that often a reader that examines a broad topic like "contemporary debates in feminism" will have excerpts from books that you can review. A reader of this sort is a great place to begin a research project, as it will survey the landscape of a field for you, and offer suggestions for readings. (2) Have you searched for sources on the library catalog website (http://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/research/library.html)? The NYUAD Library has an incredible selection of books (and e-books) that are available to you. If you have searched for sources on Google rather than on the library catalog, I would strongly encourage you to do the following as soon as possible: 1. visit the library's website, type in the broad theme that you're investigating (i.e. nationalism, orientalism, the Holocaust, genocide, feminism, mental illness etc) and see what sources are available in the NYUAD Library. If you don't find many books, broaden the search parameters to include all NYU libraries (materials requested from NY will often arrive within a week); 2. go to the library and review the other books that have similar call numbers to the books that interest you; 3. sign out 5-6 books and review the book reviews that you should be able to find on EBSCO (https://arch.library.nyu.edu/nyuad/), JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/), or, if all else fails, on Google or Amazon. (3) Are you comfortable with the three sources that you've selected? If you have opted to include sources that are not listed above or on the syllabus, please consult one of your instructors for feedback. (4) Do you understand the criteria that will be used to evaluate this assignment? If not, please consult the grading rubric immediately.
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