This reflections will include your name and a sub-heading for each reading. For each reading you will write at least one paragraph (you are welcome to write more if you wish), in which you will answer the following questions:
- What did you not understand or find new and challenging from the reading?
- What questions for class discussion did it raise?
- What did you find most useful in the reading?
- What new terms and concepts were contained in the reading?
Note that these reading questions/reflections should not be a summary of the readings. The purpose is: 1) that you demonstrate you have done the reading and given thought to it – WE WILL LOOK VERY CAREFUL THAT YOU DEMONSTRATE YOU ACTUALLY DID THE READINGS; 2) to identify what you think is important to discuss in class in relation to the course.
More requirements:
3-4 double spaced pages or 1-2 single spaced discussing your thoughts on the readings and the documentary. You should NOT summarize the readings but rather discuss them in a way that shows you have done the readings and thought about them.
This is not a paper and it need NOT be formal academic writing. You may write your reflection as if you are talking to us, with a loose style and even stream of consciousness.
Read:
Read:Green, The State and the Military, Robinson,
“Polyarchy: Coercion’s New Face in Latin America� (in reading packet),
“Currency of Death: Unraveling the Political Economy of the Drug Wars symposium (all in reading packet),
“The Second Implosion of Central America� (available here: https://nacla.org/news/2019/01/28/second-implosion-central-america)