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Paideia 112 Research Unit

A step-by-step guide to the Research Paper Unit in Paideia 112.

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Paideia OwlWelcome to the Paideia Research Guide

On this website you'll find strategies by which you can produce a successful research paper, as well as worksheet assignments that your instructor might assign.  Please consult your individual section's research syllabus for assignments and due dates.

Below you'll find links to Guides with topic-specific resource suggestions for each section.

Spring 2025 Research Topics

Section 1: North America as Reflected in the Arts, 1850-1950

Instructor: Kathy Reed
Librarian: Andi Beckendorf
 

Section 2: The Cold War: Competing Visions of the True, the Noble, and the Good

Instructor: Todd Pedlar
Librarian: Ryan Gjerde
 

Section 3: South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

Instructor: Martin Klammer
Librarian: Emily Mineart

 

Section 4: Social Justice

Instructor: Scott Hurley
Librarian: Ryan Gjerde
 

Section 5: Media and Identity: Representation in Global Film

Instructor: Christy Vrtis
Librarian: Emily Mineart

 
Section 6: Weimar Germany

Instructor: Jonathon Struve
​Librarian: Andi Beckendorf
 

Section 7: Memory

Instructor: Mark Guerci
​Librarian: Germano Streese
 

Section 8: Medical Advances, Medical Ethics

Instructor: Stephanie Travers
Librarian: Kay Bronshteyn
 

Section 9: South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid

Instructor: Martin Klammer
Librarian: Emily Mineart
 

Section 10: Asian America

Instructor: Brian Caton
Librarian: Kay Bronshteyn
 

Section 11: The History of your Major

Instructor: Amy Weldon
Librarian: Emily Mineart
 

Section 12: Bias

Instructor: David Thompson
Librarian: Kay Bronshteyn
 

Section 13: North America as Reflected in the Arts, 1850-1950

Instructor: Kathy Reed
Librarian: Andi Beckendorf

 
Section 14: The Sixties

Instructor: Novian Whitsitt
Librarian: Ryan Gjerde

 
Section 15: Weimar Germany

Instructor: Jonathon Struve
​Librarian: Andi Beckendorf
 

Section 16: Luther College History

Instructor: Anna Peterson
Librarian: Hayley Jackson
 

Section 17: Transhumanism

Instructor: Gereon Kopf
​Librarian: Germano Streese​

 
Section 18: The Black Death and Pandemic Disease

Instructor: Robert Christman
Librarian: Germano Streese

 
Section 19: Looking at Life Magazine

Instructor: Marie Drews
​Librarian: Andi Beckendorf
 

Section 20: Disability Studies

Instructor: Lindsey Row-Heyveld
Librarian: Germano Streese
 

Section 22: The Sixties

Instructor: Novian Whitsitt
Librarian: Ryan Gjerde

 
Section 23: The Iberian Conquest of the New World

Intructor & Librarian: Germano Streese

 

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