Create an essay and/or project that takes into account the research you’ve done

Create an essay and/or project that takes into account the research you’ve done into the UCSD student newspapers and your own experiences as a UCSD student in 2024. The structure of this project is open-ended, meaning you could write an essay, create an art piece, or create an interactive digital element—a timeline, map, audio or video clip, etc. There are two main goals: be creative and ground your work in historical analysis and context.
First, choose 2-3 items from the set of newspapers you’ve been researching and analyzing.2-3 articles you read/analyzed for Project Journal #2 or new pieces based on what you’d like to focus on for this project
Create your project (essay/video/timeline/etc.) and be sure to:Synthesizes the main issues in the papers (what they meant to past students)
Clearly analyzes why these papers/articles are relevant to your own experience as a student at UCSD
Other guidelines/information:
You may decide to focus on one of the six main themes that previous cohorts have identified, but you don’t have to!
Student Political Activism
Students versus Administration
Campus Social Life
International News
Campus Traditions
Anti-War Movement(s)
Incorporate the any other secondary source research you’ve done for your second Project Journal if it is relevant. If you’re citing an outside source, be sure to include a link if one is available. (If not, include the details of the article, book, book chapter, etc., in a clearly labeled works cited/bibliography.)
Make sure you provide links to the newspapers you are analyzing.
There’s no firm word count here, but if you’re writing an essay, a good ballpark would be about 750-1,000 words (roughly 3-4 double-spaced pages). If it is a little longer or shorter that is fine
https://library.ucsd.edu/historyofucsd/index.html#newspapers just find any newspaper from this website