Course Syllabus

**Note to Instructors: This final assignment (key assessment) in this course is a modified Research Proposal (Introduction, Research Questions, and Literature Review-only) and cannot be changed. All assignments and discussions in this course are scaffolded to assist students in achieving each component of a research proposal separately, before putting it all together in Week 15.

Grading System: (Out of 1000 points)

Module Discussions (12 x 12.5pts)= 150pts

Scholarly Article Critiques (2 x 50pts)= 100pts

Module Assignments= (3)= 250pts

Module Activities=100pts

Midterm: Annotated Bibliography= 150pts

Final: Research Proposal= 200pts