Exercise 1: Brainstorm Ideas (50 Points): As you have learned, Ethnic Studies is

Exercise 1: Brainstorm Ideas (50 Points):
As you have learned, Ethnic Studies is

Exercise 1: Brainstorm Ideas (50 Points):
As you have learned, Ethnic Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that explores issues in the Black/African American, Asian American, Chicanx/Latinx, and Native American/Indigenous communities. As such, for this assignment you will choose an academic discipline within Ethnic Studies and pick a subtopic within the chosen group that you are interested in.
For example, if you are interested in becoming a teacher you might want to choose the subtopic: Education. If you are an artist, you might choose the subtopic: Art.
For this assignment you will submit a document with your brainstorm notes that includes your final choice for a topic.
Some examples for a final topic could be (but you do not have to choose these): Native American religious practices, African American Higher Education, Chicanx/Latinx Mental Health, or Asian American .
Exercise 2: Academic Article (75 Points):
Now that you have chosen your topic and subtopic, you will search for an academic article (via Google Scholar or SMC library search page) about the topic you chose for Exercise 1.
Here is a video from YouTube that explains how to use Google Scholar :
Exercise 3: Research Paper (125 Points):
This assignment will build off of what you chose for exercise 1 and 2. After you choose an academic article, you will write a a 3-5 page research paper highlighting they key topics within the article. For this paper you can use other academic sources besides the article you chose if you would like. Within your paper you will will summarize the article and analyze the information from your own perspective. You can choose with format to use for citations (ex. MLA, APA, etc.)