ASSIGNMENT ON TOPIC FORMULATION

GROUP:

PARTICIPATING GROUP MEMBERS (List only members who participated in the discussion)

NON-PARTICIPATING GROUP MEMBERS (List group members who could not participate for one reason
or the other)

INSTRUCTION: Fill all the sections

S/NO SECTIONS
1. TOPIC (state the group’s topic here):

2. INDEPENDENT VARIABLE:

3. DEPENDENT VARIABLE:
4. THEME FROM WHICH TOPIC WAS DEVELOPED:
5. WHAT SPECIFIC TOPIC/COURSE WITHIN YOUR DISCIPLINE INFORMED THIS TOPIC:
6. TEST OF RELEVANCE (How relevant is this topic to your discipline):

7. THE PROBLEM (What problem motivated this topic):

8. LITERATURE SCAN (Briefly discuss the state of the debate in the literature scanned):
9 PERIODIZATION (Discuss the periodization with particular emphasis on what informed the
choice of study period):

10 LOCATION JUSTIFICATION (Discuss reason for the study area)

11 REFERENCES (List all the sources consulted by group members at the point of literature scan):