Your final paper should present a case study on a topic relevant to any of the issues we’ve discussed this semester in class. A case study uses a specific example to describe and discuss a larger issue or trend. For example, if you want to talk about violence in children’s media, you could use the book series “The Hunger Games” as your case. If you want to talk about prosocial messages in children’s media, you could use the series “Doc McStuffins” as your case.

Your paper should provide a summary of the larger issue (ex. violence in kids’ media), a summary of the case you’re presenting (ex. the book series), and then provide an analysis of your own. You should talk about why you feel your case is relevant to the larger issue, what it says about children’s media in general, and what its possible effect on its audience could be. The bulk of your paper should be your own original analysis, but you should show that you’ve done research on both the larger issue and your case example and summarize each efficiently.

Your paper should be approximately five pages in length (double spaced, not including the references page). Your text book should be used as one source of information, and you should cite at least two peer-reviewed sources such as articles from academic journals. If you have any questions about how to find or use peer-reviewed articles, I’m happy to help. Use APA formatting for your in-text citations and references page.