MBAF 501
Assignment #6: (20%)
Length: 2,000-word (Recommendation Report) excluding cover page and references
Format: APA
Value: 20%
Book chapters: Chapters 10 and 11
RECOMMENDATION REPORT + COVER LETTER
Write a 2,000-word Report that provides a list of action plans and solutions to your key problem. Write a letter of transmittal (cover letter).
There are two documents required to complete Assignment #6, which has two parts:
Part One:
Keep in mind that all reports are intended to solve problems. A recommendation report tends to be longer than a proposal and must include recommendations that are based on evidence presented and interpreted in the document. A recommendation report could be prepared in an academic environment as the outcome of research or it could be used on the job by decision makers as the basis or even justification for decisions that would affect business.
Format: Recommendation reports have a particular structure that you will need to follow:
· Title page APA style
· Table of contents
· Abstract or summary (one short paragraph)
· Introduction that provides background and context
· Problem statement/question
· Three research questions you are investigating
· Body or middle section that summarizes your research
· Conclusion with recommendations for further action and preferred solutions to problem
· Graphics, visuals, illustrations, and/ or appendices (at least three of these)
· Headings
· Numbered lists or bullets (at least one)
· APA style in-text citations
· List of at least 10 references at the end (APA style)
Part Two: Cover letter
The letter of transmittal is a cover letter addressed to the intended reader of the report. In this case, the recipient of the letter will be your instructor.
The letter should present the report.
Format:
1. Begin with a short paragraph of one or two sentences that set up the context for the attached document.
2. Next write a brief paragraph that highlights the main contents of the report.
3. Then write a brief paragraph acknowledging any others who have assisted you or sources that have been helpful.
4. Conclude with a request for action such as the opportunity to discuss the recommendations.
This assignment is worth 20% of your final grade in the course.
Getting Started:
Your first step will be to locate a topic. The topic should be researchable, problem based, and directed toward workable (fact-based) solutions to issues and concerns in the workplace. You will need a main idea (like a thesis statement for an essay).
Suggested topics might include but are not restricted to:
a) harassment, sexual discrimination, ageism, or racism at work (descriptions of situations, definitions of terms and problems, and ways to deal with and prevent occurrences);
b) shrinkage in retail outlets (definitions, examples, systems to track it, ways to prevent it)
c) motivating employees in challenging workplaces (ways to handle potential downsizing, closures, firings, unfair promotions, ...
1. MBAF 501
Assignment #6: (20%)
Length: 2,000-word (Recommendation Report) excluding cover
page and references
Format: APA
Value: 20%
Book chapters: Chapters 10 and 11
RECOMMENDATION REPORT + COVER LETTER
Write a 2,000-word Report that provides a list of action plans
and solutions to your key problem. Write a letter of transmittal
(cover letter).
There are two documents required to complete Assignment #6,
which has two parts:
Part One:
Keep in mind that all reports are intended to solve problems. A
recommendation report tends to be longer than a proposal and
must include recommendations that are based on evidence
presented and interpreted in the document. A recommendation
report could be prepared in an academic environment as the
outcome of research or it could be used on the job by decision
makers as the basis or even justification for decisions that
would affect business.
Format: Recommendation reports have a particular structure
that you will need to follow:
· Title page APA style
· Table of contents
· Abstract or summary (one short paragraph)
· Introduction that provides background and context
· Problem statement/question
· Three research questions you are investigating
· Body or middle section that summarizes your research
· Conclusion with recommendations for further action and
preferred solutions to problem
· Graphics, visuals, illustrations, and/ or appendices (at least
2. three of these)
· Headings
· Numbered lists or bullets (at least one)
· APA style in-text citations
· List of at least 10 references at the end (APA style)
Part Two: Cover letter
The letter of transmittal is a cover letter addressed to the
intended reader of the report. In this case, the recipient of the
letter will be your instructor.
The letter should present the report.
Format:
1. Begin with a short paragraph of one or two sentences that set
up the context for the attached document.
2. Next write a brief paragraph that highlights the main contents
of the report.
3. Then write a brief paragraph acknowledging any others who
have assisted you or sources that have been helpful.
4. Conclude with a request for action such as the opportunity to
discuss the recommendations.
This assignment is worth 20% of your final grade in the course.
Getting Started:
Your first step will be to locate a topic. The topic should be
researchable, problem based, and directed toward workable
(fact-based) solutions to issues and concerns in the workplace.
You will need a main idea (like a thesis statement for an
essay).
Suggested topics might include but are not restricted to:
a) harassment, sexual discrimination, ageism, or racism at
work (descriptions of situations, definitions of terms and
problems, and ways to deal with and prevent occurrences);
b) shrinkage in retail outlets (definitions, examples, systems
to track it, ways to prevent it)
c) motivating employees in challenging workplaces (ways to
handle potential downsizing, closures, firings, unfair
promotions, negative attitudes, and depression/discouragement
in workers)
3. d) weight watchers or recovery groups at work: a good idea?
e) community violence as it impacts workplace (for example,
employees being attacked en route to places of employment)
f) bad weather conditions and jobs that require driving or
flying ( how to deal with situations of lost revenue or
vehicle/aircraft mechanical failure)
g) secrets of the best customer service (is this a lost cause?
Have businesses forgotten the need for courtesy?)
h) marketing and catering to millennials (recruitment or
clientele)
i) overcoming conflict/differences/problems with
colleagues or management
Please remember some of these topics are quite large, so you
need to narrow the scope/focus.
As with any research task, you will need to start with a few
basic research questions relating to the topic and then search for
information that will help you to answer these questions.
Describing situations and then analyzing problems will be your
focus in this task. Make best use of both academic and practical
research skills. Your own experience is also relevant.
Grading Rubric for Recommendation Report
Certain required elements of this recommendation report are as
follows:
· Title page APA style
· Table of contents
· Abstract or executive summary (one short paragraph)
· Introduction that provides background and context
· Problem statement
· Three research questions you are investigating
· Body or middle section that summarizes your research
· Conclusion with recommendations for further action and
preferred solutions to problem
· Graphics, visuals, illustrations, or appendices (5-10)
4. · Headings
· Numbered lists or bullets (at least one)
· APA style in-text citations
· List of references at the end (APA style)
Your report will be assessed overall, and comments will be
given on the following:
1. What works in this report
2. What does not work in this report
3. Areas for improvement and suggestions on how to improve
report writing for the future
4. Grammar and writing style (must be strong!)
5. Strength of letter of transmittal
Black Studies 161
Winter Quarter, 2021.
‘THIRD WORLD’ CINEMA
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Jude G. Akudinobi
Lectures: Online, Tues. & Thurs., 8:00am-9:15am, PST/Calif.
Time, as scheduled on GOLD.
Location: Virtual classroom, through ZOOM, using valid link,
ID or access code to participate.
Film Lab: Virtual, screening on Wednesdays, through
GauchoCast, before Thursday lectures.
Office Hours: Online, Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00am - 12:
30pm, PST/California Time and,
when practical, by special arrangements.
OUTLINE:
5. As a generic term, the ‘Third World’ includes Africa, the
Middle East, the Caribbean, Latin
America and Asia (excluding Japan and, depending on your
yardstick, China). Despite their
differences, these societies, cultures, peoples are, in dominant
‘understanding’, homogeneously
marked as backward, exotic, chaotic, and even, dangerous.
Interestingly, these cliches about the
Third World not only constitute the preponderant elements of its
Western filmic representations
but, more importantly, foster rigid frameworks which define
dominant spectatorial expectations
and interpretations. This course will, therefore, explore the
social constructions of ‘Third World’
‘realities’ from their own (Third World) perspectives, the
relationship of ‘Third World Cinema’
to dominant (Hollywood) cinema, globalized popular culture,
new media technologies, post-
colonial diasporas, and so forth.
FORMAT:
Instruction and communications will be synchronous, through
ZOOM, engendering a real-time
presence, connections with each other, comments, and feedback
that approximates face-to-face
communications, and recreates the classroom experience,
virtually, in ways that foster vibrant
atmospheres for pedagogical rapport, instantaneous thinking and
effective learning.
In this panoramic survey, we will, through lectures and
discussions, not only examine the
representational territories of the ‘Third World’ but also
establish links between it and the larger
history/cultural politics of the West. As such, sample films from
the regions indicated above,
6. articulating the Third World ‘realities’, will be scrutinized to
illuminate the social relations the
films (in)form, their internal logic and the distinct forces which
constitute them. In tandem with
social, cultural and aesthetic analyses, the class will
contemplate the complex dynamics through
the ‘Third World’ constructs notions of society, identity and
representation, as well as theoretical
developments in the analyses of ‘Third World Cinema’.
REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance of all lectures, viewing scheduled films, familiarity
with assigned materials before
class meetings, and conscientious class participation. Other
requirements include (1) mid-term
(2) final examination (3) term paper of about 8 pages which
must be finely edited, using brief
quotations used to support the thesis, include full
bibliographical annotations, using the MLA
format, show originality and demonstrate mastery of pertinent
issues on a specified or, approved,
chosen topic.
GRADING:
Evaluations will be according to the following percentages:
consistent attendance, informed and
thoughtful class participation 25%, mid-term 25%, final exam
25%, and term paper 25%. All
categories are weighed equally. Penalty will be exacted for
irregular class attendance and
missed exams, except in the event of a natural disaster,
religious obligation, ill-health (doctor-
certified), proven extenuating circumstances or unforeseen
personal calamity.
7. REQUIRED TEXT:
Course Reader. Santa Barbara, CA: SB Printer, UCEN, 2021.
Course Reader. @ SB Printers, Santa Barbara, CA, and
available for purchase through
https://sbprinter.myshopify.com/products/bl-st-161-akudinobi
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS:
Armes, Roy. Roots of New Arab Film (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana Univ. Press, 2018).
Devasundaram, A. I. Indian Cinema Beyond Bollywood (NY &
London: Routledge, 2020).
Langford, Rachel. Film Genres and African Cinema (London &
New York: Bloomsbury
Academic, 2020).
Tierney, Doroles. New Transnationalisms in Latin American
Cinema (Edinburgh, UK:
Edinburgh University Press, 2019).
SAMPLE SUGGESTED READING:
Armes, Roy. New Voices in Arab Cinema (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana Univ. Press, 2015).
Armes, Roy. Third World Film Making and the West (Berkeley:
U. Of Calif. Press, 1987).
Armes, Roy and Lizbeth Malkmus. Arab and African
Filmmaking (London and New Jersey:
Zed Books, 1991).
Barlet, Olivier. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze
(London: Zed Books, 2000).
Braziel, Jana and Anita Mannur. Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2003).
Ciecko, Anne Tereska. Contemporary Asian Cinema (Oxford &
New York: Berg, 2006).
Chakravarty, S. S, National identity in Indian Popular Cinema
(Austin,TX: University of
Texas Press, 1993).
8. Bonetti, Mahen and Prerana Reddy (eds.) Through African
Eyes: Dialogues with Directors
(New York: African Film Festival, 2003).
Cham, Mbye ed., Ex-iles: Essays on Caribbean Cinema
(Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press,
Inc., 1992).
Chanan, Michael. Chilean Cinema (London: British Film
Institute, 1976).
Dabashi, Hamid. Close Up: Iranian Cinema Past, Present and
Future (London: Verso, 2001).
De la Mora, Sergio. Cinemachismo: Masculinities and Sexuality
in Mexican Film (Austin,
TX: University of Texas Press, 2006).
Devasundaram, A. I. India’s New Independent Cinema (NY &
London: Routledge, 2016).
Downing, John D. H. Film and Politics in the Third World (New
York: Autonomedia, 1986).
Dwyer, Rachel. Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema
(London: Routledge, 2006).
Esfandiary, Shahab. Iranian Cinema and Globalization:
National, Transnational and
Islamic Dimensions (Chicago & London: Intellect Books, 2012).
Garritano, Carmela. African Video Movies and Global Desires:
A Ghanaian History (Athens,
OH: Ohio Univ. Press, 2013).
Givanni, June (ed.) African Cinema: Symbolic Narratives
(London: BFI, 2000).
Gokulsing, K. Moti, & Wimal Dissanayake (eds.). Routledge
Handbook of Indian Cinemas
(New York and London: Routledge, 2013).
Guneratne, Anthony (ed.) Rethinking Third Cinema (London:
Routledge, 2003).
Hillauer, Rebecca. Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers
9. (Cairo: American U. Press,
2005).
Kaur, Raminder and Ajay J. Smith. Bollyworld: Popular Indian
Cinema Through a
Transactional Lens (Thousand Oaks and London: SAGE
Publications, 2005).
King, John. Magical reels: A History of Cinema in Latin
America (London: Verso, 2000).
Krings, Matthias, & Onookome Okome (eds.). Global
Nollywood: The Transnational
Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry (Bloomington,
IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 2013).
Lal, Vinay and Ashis Nandy.(Oxford and New York: Oxford
University Press, 2006).
Manjunath, Pendakur and John Lent. Indian Popular Cinema:
Industry, Ideology, and
Consciousness (Hampton Press, 2003).
Mirbakhtyar, Shahla. Iranian Cinema and the Islamic
Revolution (Jefferson, NC: McFarland
and Company, 2006).
Nagib, Lucia. The New Brazilian Cinema (London and New
York: I.B. Tauris, 2003).
Naficy, Hamid. An Accented Cinema: Exile and Diasporic
Filmmaking (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2001).
Noble, Andrea. Mexican National Cinema (London & New
York: Routledge, 2005).
Pfaff, Francoise. Focus on African Films. (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana Univ. Press, 2004).
Pines, Jim & Paul Willemen, Questions of Third Cinema
(London: BFI Publishing, 1989).
Shohat, Ella, Israeli Cinema: East-West & the Politics of
Representation (Austin,TX:
University of Texas Press, 1989).
Rego, Calcida. M, & Carolina Rocha (eds.). New Trends in
Argentine and Brazilian Cinema
10. (Chicago & London: Intellect Books, 2011).
Shohat, Ella & Robert Stam, Unthinking Eurocentrism (London
& New York: Routledge,
1994).
Smith, Paul J. Mexican Screen Fiction (Cambridge, UK: Polity,
2014).
Tapper, Richard. The New Iranian Cinema: Politics,
Representation and Identity (London:
I.B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2002).
Teo, Stephen. Asian Cinema Experience (New York and
London: Routledge, 2014).
Tsika, Noah A. Nollywood Stars (Bloomington, IN: Indiana
Univ. Press, 2015).
Ukadike, Nwachukwu F., Black African Cinema (Berkeley:
Univ. of California Press, 1994).
Vasudevan, Ravi (ed.) Making Meaning in Indian Cinema
(Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2000).
Viola, Shafik. Arab Cinema: History of Cultural Identity (Cairo:
American U. Press, 1999).
Warner, Keith Q. On Location: Cinema and Film in the
Anglophone Caribbean (London:
Macmillan Education, 2000).
Wayne, Mike. Political Film: The Dialectics of Third Cinema
(London: Pluto Press, 2001).
Witt, Emily. Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire (New
York, NY: Columbia Global
Reports, 2017).
*** Other articles on specific films/issues may be given weekly
or placed on GauchoSpace.
FILM SCHEDULE AND ASSIGNED READING:
WEEK 1/ Jan. 06: THE SECOND MOTHER (Anna Muylaert,
2015, Brazil)
Read: Rego, pgs. 204-211; Dennison, pgs. 131-144 pgs; Pinho,
12. Read: Ganjavie, pgs. 11-20; Reichle, pgs. 64-76; Rugo, pgs.
173-187.
WEEK 9/Mar. 03: MASAAN (Neeraj Ghaywan, 2015, India)
Read: Kumar, pgs. 1-14; Ray, pgs. 23-43; Chatterjee, pgs. 195-
221.
WEEK 10/Mar. 10: THE GREAT KILAPY (Zeze Gamboa, 2012,
Angola)
Read: Apa 253-266; Stewart, pgs. 255-269; Buchsbaum, pgs.
153-166.
IMPORTANT ADVISORY:
1) To facilitate participation and collaborative learning, the
class may be divided into caucuses
or break-out rooms. Each member must belong to a caucus. All
caucuses must, either
collectively or through a spokesperson of their choice, present a
‘position paper’ each week
covering the assigned film, readings and other pertinent issues
they want to raise or share with
the class. Non-membership in a caucus, or perfunctory
participation in caucus or class affairs
will earn the erring member grade point deductions.
2) The caucus presentations are opportunities for you to apply
or critically engage all assigned
materials, including films, and, preferably, initiate debate. As
such, aim for discernment and be
prepared to take questions afterwards (as the class is expected
to critique or evaluate your
presentation). You may, also, illustrate certain critical issues or
apply materials pertinent to the
class, in skits, for example, to stimulate further critical
reflection. Overall, your presentations
would be judged on content, perceptiveness, and contributions
13. to prevailing issues or materials
3) Your term-paper must be organized around the concerns of
the syllabus. In analyzing a film or
group of films, for instance, pay attention to how the narrative
unfolds - structure, thematic
concerns, stylistic devices, dramatic shifts, gender roles,
characterizations, etc. - substantive
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issues raised in the film(s) and demonstrate sophisticated
understandings of the historical,
cultural, political and aesthetic considerations which frame the
film(s). Studies of distinguished
directors, specific national cinemas, as well as the interactions
and exchanges between the
disparate film cultures that constitute ‘Third World Cinema’
are, especially pertinent. As such,
‘Third world’ films not in the current roster are encouraged for
term-papers. Since this is not a
‘film appreciation’ class, whether you like or dislike a
particular film, director or country, for
example, is peripheral.
4) Your paper should embody perspectives that are original; in
other words, be capable of
engendering fresh understandings. Hence, while ideas from the
class, readings and/or other
sources may be used as premises or supporting materials for the
paper, premium should be
placed on exploring the not-so obvious. The library has a trove
of online research resources,
scholarly journals, and databases like Google Scholar, Project
Muse, Art Full Text, MLA,
14. JSTOR, Proquest, Academic Search Complete, International
Index to Film Periodicals (FIAF),
etc.
5) The term paper fulfils the university’s writing requirement.
So, please, acknowledge and
reference all materials derived elsewhere (other than own
original ideas). Copying or using other
people’s ideas, works, sentences, even phrases, without proper
acknowledgment is plagiarism.
Further, your term paper must derive from individual effort and
cannot be jointly-authored.
Passing off someone else’s work as yours, whether bought from
online term-paper mills,
obtained for free or traded as a favor constitutes cheating and
carries very serious penalties.
Hence, any work, plagiarized or proven not to have been an
original endeavor of the student
would receive an automatic failing grade as well as be reported
to the appropriate administrative
quarters for further disciplinary sanctions. Referencing and
properly citing all appropriated
works, in writing a paper, is a valued feature of discerning
scholarship.
6) Papers and take-home assignments (if given) are due on the
specified dates and by email. In
other words, any work received via other means or portal,
irrespective of reasons, will NOT be
accepted or graded.
7) Your papers, whether term-paper or responses to take-home
exams (when applicable), must
be typed in 12-point Times New Roman fonts and double-
15. spaced, with one inch margins. All
term-papers must have titles. In each instance, your papers must
be paginated, collated and
stapled, with your name on the cover page (at least).
8) For very practical purposes, particularly of keeping up with
assigned materials, all are advised
to keep their copies of the syllabus, securely; more so, as
subsequent requests, given the current
circumstances, would be denied.
9) It is each student’s responsibility to view all assigned films
prior to class meetings. As the
syllabus shows, each film’s screening is virtual and as
scheduled. A second screening may, at
the instructor’s discretion, be arranged as a courtesy to help
consolidate issues raised in class but
NOT as an option for the initial, Wednesday evening, screening
of which commitment is
required, especially for class, the next day. The Film Studies
and Black Studies Departments do
not consider requests for extra screening or videos (if any) from
their libraries. So, please, utilize
all scheduled, virtual, screening.
10) A $16 lab fee is required and must be paid by the drop
deadline, Monday, February 01,
2021. This one-time fee covers you for all film classes this
quarter. Missing the deadline,
however, would result in $16 charged to your account for each
film class.
11). Talking on cell phones, text messaging, or emailing on
16. laptops during class is expressly
prohibited. Similarly, NO recording (taping, filming, or
photographing) of class proceedings,
whether by camera, cell phone, or other means, without prior
and express permission, will be
allowed, as they may be distractive, infringe on privacy,
copyrights, and a conducive learning
atmosphere. Use of electronic devices during class is, therefore,
restricted.
12. This class satisfies the following GE requirements: Area F
(Arts), and World Culture.
13. All Black Studies courses must be taken for letter-grades.
As such, the P/NP option is
unavailable for this course, not even by petition.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Midterm: Thursday, February 04, 2021.
Paper topic due: Thursday, February 11, 2021.
Term-paper due, by email: Thursday, March 11, 2021.
Final Exam: 8:00am - 11:00am, Thursday, March 18, 2021.
PLEASE, STAY SAFE, HEALTHY, AND KEEP OUR
INTELLECTUAL
FLAG FLYING, GAUCHOS!
Paper #2: Macroeconomics Country Forecast-worth 20%
Forecasting the future is one of the most important things that
economists are asked to do.
17. Governments have a few macroeconomic tools that they can use
to indicate how a country’s
economy is doing. An important part of all macroeconomic
courses is to develop an
understanding of what these economic indicators are, as well as
how they are created so that we
can extrapolate into the future.
• All students must pick a country that is different from their
country of residence, and
cannot be from any of the following countries: Canada, United
States, and United
Kingdom.
• This is a major paper and should be a minimum of 1500
words.
• It is expected that the paper will be free of grammatical errors.
This paper will be submitted
through Turnitin to review for plagiarism. (DO NOT COPY
THE QUESTIONS IN THE
SUBMITTED PAPER)
• “Late submissions are not accepted under any circumstances,
since it is the last paper, so
please plan accordingly.”
Specifically, you have to locate the macro-economic variables
in your country of choice for
four years starting with 2016 through 2019 and fill in the table
below:
18. Variable/Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 4 year
average
Real GDP/Person
Growth rate of Real
GDP/Person
Inflation Rate
Unemployment Rate
Interest Rate
Variables:
1. Real GDP/Person (represented in the currency of the chosen
country )
2. The growth rate of Real GDP per person (% change per year)
3. The inflation rate (%)
4. The unemployment rate (%)
5. Interest rates (In this case it is asking for the Mortgage rate)
Include the following sections in your paper. The breakdown of
the marks will be:
1) Introduction (10%)
Explaining what you are going to write about.
2) Background and History, (10%)
19. What are the important key historic factors? (For example, did
the country recently receive
independence or become a member of the World Trade
Organization? What is the current economy
like? Was it going through some sort of economic crisis? Did a
war occur during that period? Or
any other related important information regarding that specific
period of 4 years)
3) General Definitions (15 %)
o Define each variable (1 through 5).
o Explain how they are determined.
o Explain why each variable is an important economic
indicator?
4) Four Year Average Representation (10%)
Using the data from the table and Excel or any other software,
create a diagram for each of the
five variables over a period of 4 years.
This is done to show the variable’s decline or growth. (Hand
drawn charts are not accepted)
5) Explanation behind the values (30%)
The most important part of the paper is your explanation. Use
your own words. You may wish to
use historical information from other resources, but make sure
to use proper APA citation.
o Carefully explain the reasons behind the growth or decline of
each of the variables in the
4 years period.
20. o Explain why these numbers are important to the people in that
country?
6) Conclusion and self reflection (15%)
The conclusion must be a minimum of one paragraph and must
include a self reflection of what
you have learned from writing this paper.
7) References (10%)
References must be current and from multiple sources
(Minimum of 2 references)
Be sure to use APA and reference any quotations or web
material that you use in your paper. The
various chartered banks and investment dealers also prepare
macroeconomic forecasts which
may be useful as a source of ideas.
