Weekly Assignment No.1: Conducting a General Survey of Books in the Library and Online

DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Bayero University, Kano
POL 2204: Foundation of Political Economy
POL 3314: Politics of Development and Underdevelopment
POL 4313: Peace and Conflict Resolution
Weekly Assignment No.1: Conducting a General Survey of Books in the Library and Online
The aim is usually to increase students’ capacity to master use of library and Internet in acquiring knowledge independently. That is why the assignment is on conducting a general survey of books on the subject matter of the course.
The assignment is this: after my discussion with you on the subject matter of the course and having studied the course outline with the recommended reading materials.
Students should reach any library and search of only one article or book which they found relevant to the subject matter of the course and is not on the recommended reading list.
While presenting the report students are to give the following information on the text: from which library did you source the text; what is the class mark of the text in library; the author; the title; the date of publications; the content; the blurb; and the preface.
Then you are to give reason why you think the text is relevant and under which of the topics on the outline it will fall. Finally, write a review of it.
Secondly, each student is to source only material from Internet (see the paper on how to use internet to source reading materials) and provide all the available information mentioned above on the material from Internet. Each student is advised to source his/her own directly from Internet instead of photocopying from colleagues. Where so many students came up with the same material, all of them will be penalized.
M.M. Yusif
August, 2007